Kavya S A

Kavya S A

Data Scientist


About

I am a Data Professional with experience in data analytics, research, and machine learning, specializing in transforming complex datasets into meaningful insights. My work spans data engineering, automation, natural language processing (NLP), and business intelligence, with hands-on experience building scalable data pipelines, developing dashboards, and creating analytical solutions that support informed decision-making.

Skills
Python
Data Engineering
Data science
Deep learning
Experience

Data Research Intern

Virginia Tech

May 2023 to Aug 2023
  • Gained valuable experience in collecting, cleaning, and organizing large datasets.
  • Enhanced data handling and preprocessing skills, critical for data-driven research

AI/ML intern

SETV Global

Apr 2024 to Sept 2024
  • Specialized in chatbot development and model prediction.
  • Gained hands-on experience with Azure and Google Cloud services for chatbots, and tools like VectorDB and LangChain
  • for LLM projects.
  • Acquired substantial practical experience leveraging these technologies and platforms

Junior Research Associate

Manipal Institute of Technology

Dec 2024 to Aug 2025
  • Developed parallel corpora for Tamil to other Dravidian languages, creating NLP tools for linguistic data collection and
  • analysis across domains like health, agriculture, education, and tourism.
  • Learnt a lot about LLM and it’s limitations on Indian languages especially low resource languages.

Data Executive

Ashoka University

Aug 2025 to Aug 2026
  • Worked on diverse domains of data like ASI, PLFS, crime data, Mission Antyodaya and LGD codes contributing to the
  • development of interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary datasets for the institutional data lake.
  • Conducted large-scale web scraping, data cleaning, and data analysis to support research and decision-making processes.

Data Scientist

Learning Pathways

Sept 2026 to Present
  • Building scalable, multi-stage data pipelines to process large-scale job market data, integrating company-level information from Ministry of Company affairs, and extracting skills, salary, experience, and education attributes from job postings.
  • Developing NLP tools using fine-tuned BERT models and taxonomy-based matching techniques to identify, extract, standardize, and map job skills to structured skill taxonomies.
  • Developing and adapting a Salary Skill Criticality Network (SSCN) pipeline to model relationships between skills and estimate their market value.
  • Implementing data validation, intermediate processing stages, caching, and pipeline health monitoring to improve data quality, processing efficiency, and scalability.
Education

BS Data Science and Applications

Indian Institute of Technology Madras

Jan 2021 to Dec 2025

Bsc Statistics

University of Madras

Oct 2020 to May 2023
Certifications

DP-600 (Implementing Analytics Solutions Using Microsoft Fabric)

Microsoft

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