🚀 MSc. Research Grad.

Sayan Nath

Master’s student in Electrical & Software Engineering at the University of Calgary, researching Responsible AI with a focus on fairness-aware AutoML. Passionate about building scalable, ethical ML systems with real-world impact.

Available for collaborations · Calgary, 🇨🇦

Education

Master of Science (Thesis-based)

University of Calgary · Electrical & Computer Engineering

GPA: 4.0/4.0

Research: Responsible AI, LLM Research

Fall 2023 – Present

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech)

Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT)

GPA: 9.0/10

Major: Information Technology (IT)

Summer 2019 – Spring 2023

Recognition & Awards

  • ESE Graduate Research Award
    University of Calgary
    2× Winner

Experience

Driving innovation and developer experience across multiple organizations.

DISA Lab, University of Calgary

August 2023 – Present

Graduate Research Assistant

Calgary, Canada

Key Achievements:

  • Fairness and Accuracy in Machine Learning: Conducted in-depth research on balancing fairness and accuracy in machine learning models by implementing bias mitigation strategies. Focused on developing methodologies that enhance model fairness without compromising performance.
  • Collaborated with Dr. Shaina Reza from Vector Institute on Responsible AI initiatives, with a focus on large language models (LLMs). Contributing to the development of ethical and transparent AI systems by leveraging LLMs to understand and mitigate biases.
  • Acted as a Teaching Assistant (TA) for undergraduate and graduate courses, providing mentorship and guidance to students.

Scaler by InterviewBit

November 2022 – August 2023

Technical Content Reviewer and Problem Setter Intern

Remote (India)

Key Achievements:

  • Setting up problems/quiz for Scaler Topics on Keras & PyTorch.
  • Working to create an outline for technical content for Keras.
  • Writing different technical content as a blog post for Keras.

TensorFlow

November 2022 – August 2023

Google Summer of Code Student

Remote (India)

Key Achievements:

  • Implemented MobileViT in TensorFlow and Keras.
  • Used MobileViT's official Pytorch weights to port from Pytorch to TensorFlow.
  • Created two notebooks for tutorial purposes i.e Off-the-shelf classification and Fine-tuned notebook.
  • Publish all the models in TensorFlow Hub.

Blend

October 2021 – June 2022

Machine Learning Engineer Intern

Remote (India)

Key Achievements:

  • Responsible for creating Computer Vision Services to enhance the product.
  • Worked on on-device Deep Learning with TensorFlow Lite as well deploying Machine Learning Services in production with AWS Sagemaker.
  • Trained models on Google Cloud Platform, reproduced SOTA models from research. papers.

TensorFlow Organisation

May 2021 – August 2021

Google Summer of Code Student

Remote (India)

Key Achievements:

  • Understand the Tensorflow Lite Task Library.
  • Implemented CameraX and remove the usage of fragments with the existing Camera2 and Camera API in Object Detection App.
  • Implement Support Library with TensorFlow Lite Interpreter.
  • Implemented the Image to BitMap conversion and modify Support Library and Task Library.
  • Adding a Bounding Box Function in tflite-support Library.
  • Implemented Data Binding.

Technical Expertise

Languages
  • Python
  • Java
  • C/C++
  • SQL
  • Dart
Frameworks
  • PyTorch
  • TensorFlow
  • scikit-learn
  • HuggingFace
  • DSPy
Cloud & Tools
  • AWS
  • Google Cloud
  • Docker
  • GitHub Actions
  • REST APIs
Specializations
  • Responsible AI
  • Applied AI
  • Technical Writing
  • LLM Efficiency

Projects & Publications

Selected work across fairness-aware AutoML and Computer Vision. Code and manuscripts linked where available.

FairSpace

Fairness-aware AutoML pipeline that prunes the search space and integrates LLM-guided preprocessing to reach better fairness–accuracy trade-offs with modest overhead.

PythonAuto-SklearnSMACDSPyFairness

FairGA

A fairness-aware genetic algorithm framework that leverages AutoML run history to optimize hyperparameters for both accuracy and fairness.

AutoMLGenetic AlgorithmFairnessBias Mitigation

Blood Cell Detection

This project demonstrates the use of TFOD API to automatically detect blood cells in each image taken via microscopic image readings.

Object DetectionKerasTensorFlowMedicalDiagnosis

American Sign Language

American Sign Language Detection is a deep learning end to end project where we can detect American Sign Language.

Image ClassificationKerasTensorFlowLiteAndroid

Publications

2024

FTASD-A Fine Tuning Approach for Stable Diffusion Models

S. Nath, et al.15th International Conference on Computing Communication and Networking Technologies (ICCCNT)accepted

2022

Blood Cell Detection in Microscopic Images

S. Nath, et al.International Journal of Scientific Development and Researchaccepted

2022

Identical Image Retrieval using Deep Learning

S. Nath, et al.International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology, Volume 8 Issue 12accepted

Connect

Always excited to collaborate on research and impactful ML projects, speak at conferences, or help teams build fair and reliable AI systems.

Open to Collaborate On

Responsible AIFairness in MLLLM EfficiencyResearch ProjectsTechnical SpeakingOpen Source

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