Atharva Harshavardhan Bhusari

+1 (848)-391-5780 | atharva.bhusari@rutgers.edu | https://www.linkedin.com/in/atharva-bhusari/ | https://github.com/atharva-bhusari

EDUCATION
Rutgers University New Brunswick, NJ
Master of Statistics in Data Science Sep 2022 - May 2024
Savitribai Phule Pune University Pune, India
Bachelor of Engineering in Information Technology Aug 2016 – Nov 2020
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Skills: Predictive Analysis, Statistical Analysis, Hypothesis testing, Data Visualization, Deep Learning, Data Modeling, ETL, NLP
Programming Languages: Python, R, SQL, C, C++, Java, HTML/CSS, JavaScript
Tools & Technologies: Git, AWS, MySQL, MongoDB, Informatica Power Center, Tableau, PowerBI
Libraries and Frameworks: Scikit-learn, PyTorch, Tensorflow, PySpark, Matplotlib, Flask, Django, Node.js
WORK EXPERIENCE
Rutgers Institute for Health New Brunswick, NJ
Summer Research Intern Jun 2023 – Oct 2023
• Optimized pipeline efficiency by 90% through parameter fine-tuning of Machine Learning algorithms
• Demonstrated development of Machine Learning pipeline which improved predictive analysis of bio-markers by over 80%

Rutgers Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation New Brunswick, NJ

Student Developer Feb 2023 – May 2023
• Led the research team in implementing data modeling and achieving a 90% reduction in background data points
• Developed a script that automatically took PCAP file as input and generated 100+ GIFs to simulate the empty timeframes

Cognizant Technology Solutions Pune, India

Programmer Analyst Nov 2020 – Aug 2022
• Reduced business impact by 30% by expediting immediately over workflow failures using PowerCenter Workflow Monitor
• Co-ordinated updating existing ETL workflows and mappings as per business requirements using PowerCenter Designer
• Moderated and optimized all Data Integration Services and Process Chains, ensuring 100% completion of processes
• Followed an Agile methodology and maintained documentation using ServiceNow, HP Application Lifecycle Management

ACADEMIC PROJECTS
Telecom Customer Churn Prediction Jan 2023 – May 2023
• Implemented Machine Learning Algorithms as Logistic Regression, SVM, KNeighbours and Neural Networks
• Achieved a Recall score of 91% to predict and gain valuable insights on the retention of customers
• Obtained 30% better results using ensemble methods like GradientBoosting, RandomForest, AdaBoost, XgBoost

RapidReads: TLDR Extraction from Reddit Threads with Neural Networks Sep 2023 – Dec 2023
• Implemented complex neural networks and pretrained models for summarizing over 179,000 Reddit threads
• Transitioned to abstractive summarization using sequence-to-sequence models, improving summary coherence by over 30%
compared to basic models
• Leveraged BART and T5 models, enhancing summary quality, achieving ROUGE-1 and ROUGE-2 scores above 50%

Twitter Search Application Jan 2023 – May 2023

• Designed efficient database schema to store over 15k Tweets data into a Relational Database and a NoSQL Database
• Led the design and implementation of Python pipeline to synchronize data flow between the two databases seamlessly
• Implemented LRU Cache using Python Dictionaries and Indexes to reduce wait time for retrieval of results to 0.01 seconds

Sherlock: An Ensemble Based Deep Learning Framework for Fake News Detection Sept 2018 – May 2020
• Improved news article falsity detection to 85% accuracy using ensemble models, bolstered by a 50% performance boost from
Word2Vec skip-gram modeling
• Implemented Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) and Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks, achieving an impressive
25% increase in predictive accuracy for a complex classification task, surpassing industry benchmarks

PUBLICATIONS
DeGroat, W., Mendhe, D., Bhusari, A., Abdelhalim, H., Zeeshan, S., Ahmed, Z., & IntelliGenes. (2023). "A novel machine learning
pipeline for biomarker discovery and predictive analysis using multi-genomic profiles." Bioinformatics.

Kulkarni, S., Samant, R. M., & Bhusari, A. (2020). Sherlock: An Ensemble based Deep Learning Framework for Fake News
Detection. International Journal of Computer Applications, 176(22), 37-42.