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Awards

18Medals

Awards

Recognition for research and competition work

EURO Award for Best Paper 2025

Association of European Operational Research Societies

Awarded for the paper on fair ML in credit scoring.

  • ·Recognition of high-quality, impactful work
  • ·Published in the top-tier OR journal
  • ·Addresses critical issues in fair ML
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Kaggle Competitions Master

Kaggle: ML and data science community

Top-1% Kaggle user across all categories. Highest ranks:

  • ·Competitions Master: 289 out of >200K users
  • ·Notebooks Expert: 324 out of >50K users
  • ·Datasets Expert: 75 out of >8K users
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Certifications

Cloud and machine learning certifications and nanodegrees

AWS Certified Generative AI Developer – Professional

Amazon Web Services Training and Certification

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AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer – Associate

Amazon Web Services Training and Certification

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AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

Amazon Web Services Training and Certification

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AWS Certified Developer – Associate

Amazon Web Services Training and Certification

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AWS Certified AI Practitioner

Amazon Web Services Training and Certification

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AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Amazon Web Services Training and Certification

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AWS Certified Machine Learning Specialty

Amazon Web Services Training and Certification

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Machine Learning Engineer Nanodegree

Udacity

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Deep Learning Nanodegree

Udacity

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Competition medals

Top-ranked solutions in Kaggle competitions

Goldtop-1%

SIIM-ISIC Melanoma Classification

Trained CNNs for skin lesion classification

Blog post
Goldtop-1%

Cassava Leaf Disease Classification

Identified sick plants with deep learning

GitHub
Silvertop-2%

Google Analytics Customer Revenue Prediction

Predicted customer spendings

GitHub
Silvertop-3%

IEEE-CIS Fraud Detection

Detected fraudulent consumer transactions

GitHub
Silvertop-4%

Home Credit Default Risk

Classified risky applicants with gradient boosting

GitHub
Silvertop-4%

PetFinder.my Pawpularity Contest

Predicted pet adoption from image and tabular data

GitHub
Silvertop-5%

RANZCR CLiP Catheter and Line Position Challenge

Classified catheter and line placement on chest x-rays

GitHub
Silvertop-5%

PLAsTiCC Astronomical Classification

Identified astronomical objects by their signals

GitHub
Silvertop-5%

BMS Molecular Translation

Built CNN-LSTM for image-to-text translation

GitHub
Bronzetop-7%

SETI Breakthrough Listen

Searched deep-space data for extraterrestrial signals

GitHub
Bronzetop-9%

CommonLit Readability Prize

Predicted readability with transformers

GitHub
Bronzetop-9%

APTOS 2019 Blindness Detection

Identified retinopathy on retina photos

GitHubBlog post
Bronzetop-5%

Instant Gratification

Modeled synthetic data in a kernels-only contest

Bronzetop-6%

Prostate cANcer graDe Assessment (PANDA)

Graded prostate cancer severity from biopsy slides

Bronzetop-6%

OpenVaccine: COVID-19 mRNA Degradation

Predicted degradation rates of mRNA vaccines

Bronzetop-7%

Riiid Answer Correctness Prediction

Tracked student knowledge state to predict answers

Bronzetop-9%

Mechanisms of Action (MoA) Prediction

Classified drug mechanisms from biological activity

Bronzetop-13%

RSNA STR Pulmonary Embolism Detection

Detected pulmonary embolism in chest CT scans

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