Murtuza Dahodwala

I am an IBM Certified Senior Data Scientist with expertised understanding of Data Science specializing in diverse computing areas such as Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and NLP. Intellectual thoughts have helped me to work on diverse topics like Recommendation System | Face Recognition | Voice Synthesis | Speech Recognition | OCR | Conversational AI | Chatbots

Key Skills

Machine Learning
Deep Learning
NLP
Computer Vision
Python
Leadership

Professional Experience

Sep 2020
Present
Senior Data Scientist
Prayosha Food Services Pvt Ltd (Petpooja) Ahmedabad, IN
  • Powering A.I. for next-generation restaurant POS for every restaurants and their websites.
  • Customized Food Recommendations for best dining as well as online ordering experience.
  • Built in-house Voice Ordering with Custom Speech to Text Model for faster checkouts and shorter queues at fast serving restaurants and cafes.
  • Built Chatbot using Rasa for food ordering through self ordering kiosk and websites.
  • Built OCR engine using Custom Tesseract Model & Object Detection using Custom YoloV4 Model for automated invoice scanning/extracting information and export to Excel/Tally.
  • Built Language Models using Transformers like BERT & GPT to correct spellings of item names in a digital menu.
  • Built Face Recognition System using Dlib,Facenet & Opencv for repeat customers analytics and personalized recommendations.
  • Analyzed the Price Elasticity of food items for cost-cutting and attracting more customers.
  • Food items classification using state-of-the art Text Classification techniques for better menu arrangements & designs
  • Customized Menu Designing with A.I. to analyze perfect food items in a menu.
  • Restaurant Area Analytics to boost up sales based on the area of a restaurant.
  • Leading team for gathering best insights out of a restaurant and increase their sales efficiently
  • Built desktop and web apps for in house facilities & enhancements.
  • Built Web Automation & Scraping toolkit with Selenium & Beautiful soup for smoother data collection.
Nov 2019
Present
Data Science Mentor & Expert
UpGrad UpGrad, IN
Part Time
Mentoring and Guiding learners for the smooth transition of their career in Data Science. Preparing/Reviewing content for the Data Science courses.
Oct 2019
Present
Lead Teaching Assistant in Data Science & AI/ML
BITS Pilani Work Integrated Learning Programmes Ahmedabad, IN
Part Time
Mentoring and guiding students for a smooth transition of their career in Data Science. Solving queries related to Data Science on the institute's discussion forum
Feb 2018
Oct 2020
Data Scientist
Prayosha Food Services Pvt Ltd (Petpooja) Ahmedabad, IN
 
Dec 2017
Feb 2018
Data Science Intern
Prayosha Food Services Pvt Ltd (Petpooja) Ahmedabad, IN
 

Education

Feb 2017
Dec 2017
Post Graduation Program in Aegis School of Data Science
In association with IBM & NVIDIA
Jul 2011
May 2015
Bachelor's of Engineering in Electronics & Telecom in Gujarat Technological University
Jul 2007
Apr 2011
SSC & HSC in Divine Buds English Medium School

Certifications

2019
Executive Data Science Specialization
John Hopkins University
2015
GATE 2015
IIT, Kanpur

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