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My academic journey, in broad strokes.
General Information
| Full Name | Saksham Jain |
| Date of Birth | 1st September 1996 |
| Languages | English, Hindi, French (Beginner), Japanese (Beginner) |
Education
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2027 (Expected) PhD, Statistics
University of Washington-Seattle, USA - One-step estimation and inference for conditional distributional kernel treatment effects. (Working Paper)
- A-optimal design of instruments for indirect online experimentation. (Working Paper)
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2022 Master of Science, ML
Duke University, USA - Evaluating pre-trial programs using interpretable ML matching methods for causal inference. (Master's Project)
- Closing the domain gap - blended synthetic imagery for climate object detection.
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2019 Bachelor of Engineering, Automation
University of Delhi, India - Synthetic data augmentation for surface defect detection and classification using deep learning. (Bachelor's Thesis)
(Select) Experience
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Jun'24 - Sep'24 Applied Scientist II Intern
Amazon Science - LLMs for demand forecasting
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Jan'20 - Aug'20 Research Assistant
Indian Institute of Science Bangalore - Training-data-free distillation
- Smart super-resolution for sattelite imagery
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Jun'19 - Jan'20 Machine Learning Engineer
Million Sparks Foundation - Recommendation systems
Academic Interests
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Causal Inference
- Distributional treatment effects
- Counterfactual sampling from generative models
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Online ML
- Experimental design
- Dynamic treatment regimes