Archit Parnami

Archit Parnami

Ph.D Computer Science

The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

About me

I am currently working as a Quantitative Analytics Specialist in the Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning Center of Excellence at Wells Fargo. Prior to joining Wells Fargo, I spent 5 years in Academia and hold a Doctorate in Computer Science. My dissertation research focused on developing practical few-shot models for speech, images and privacy. I also have a 3 years of Software Engineering experience which has propelled me to design and implement models as a software system.

Interests

  • Machine Learning
  • Computer Vision
  • Artificial Intelligence

Education

  • Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2022

    The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, U.S

  • M.S in Computer Science, 2018

    The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, U.S

  • B.S in Computer Science, 2014

    Rajasthan Technical University, India

Skills

python

C

cplusplus

csharp

java

matlab

scala

mysql

bash

latex

R

haskell

docker

git

jupyter

numpy

opencv

pandas

pytorch

scikit

tensorflow

huggingface

Work Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Quantitative Analytics Specialist

Wells Fargo

Jul 2022 – Present Charlotte, NC
 
 
 
 
 

Quantitative Analytics Intern

Wells Fargo

Jun 2021 – Aug 2021 Charlotte, NC
I studied model compression for large natural language models based on transformers. We developed a new method for reducing model size up to 70% while still maintaining same performance and in some cases even improving the performance. Read our work here.
 
 
 
 
 

Research Intern

Siemens

May 2019 – Aug 2019 Charlotte, NC
Developed a machine learning model in PyTorch and Python for generating graph embeddings for faster link prediction in graphs. The model is targeted for performing recommendations in an environment that is constrained by data and computational capacity. Project involved working on Node Embedding methods such as node2vec, DeepWalk and Knowledge Graph Embedding methods like TransE, TransH, TransD, SimplE, DistMult & RESCAL. Read our work here.
 
 
 
 
 

Software Engineer

Aptean

Jun 2014 – Dec 2016 Bangalore, India
I worked on an ERP product. My development stack included C#, C++, VB.NET and SQL. I was responsible for an entire business module to remove design flaws and rebuild the module using object-oriented programming practices. We leveraged asynchronous programming to increase the performance and efficiency of the product. Worked on various uses cases, product enhancements, feature development using C# and MySQL and contributed to many successful releases. I also mentored junior developers for programming in C# and C++.

Teaching Experience

UNC Charlotte

 
 
 
 
 

Instructor

ITCS 4152/5152 - Computer Vision

Aug 2021 – May 2022
Responsible for fully managing a combined graduate and undergraduate course of ~70 students, including delivering the course material to students, coordinating the grading of assignments & tests with teaching assistants. Collaborated with 5 industry partners for students to work on real world computer vision projects.
 
 
 
 
 

Graduate Teaching Assistant

ITCS 4152/5152 - Computer Vision

Jan 2021 – May 2021 Dr. Min C. Shin
Responsible for teaching PyTorch and developing challenge assignments for the course.
 
 
 
 
 

Graduate Teaching Assistant

ITCS 4156 - Introduction to Machine Learning

Aug 2020 – Dec 2020 Dr. Minwoo Lee
Developing a bundle of machine learning programming assignments that can be easily distributed to students and can also be autograded. Engaging students in discussions and helping them understand the subject.
 
 
 
 
 

Graduate Teaching Assistant

ITCS 4152/5152 - Computer Vision

Aug 2018 – Dec 2018 Prof. Stephen Welch
Worked on implementation of Autolab - A course management platform for autograding assignments. I used Docker, Python and Shell Scripting for writing autograders for computer vision problems such as object classification, detection, and autonomous driving.
 
 
 
 
 

Graduate Teaching Assistant

ITCS 6156 - Machine Learning

Aug 2017 – Dec 2017 Dr. Xiuxia Du
Educated and Assisted graduate students on Principal Component Analysis, Linear Discriminant Analysis, Logistic Regression, Linear Regression, Neural Networks and Clustering.