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Name Madhura Pawar
Label ELLIS PhD Candidate, University of Amsterdam
Email m.m.pawar@uva.nl
Url https://madhu221b.github.io/
Summary My research focuses on fairness, cooperation, and collective action in evolving social networks, as part of the ERC-funded RE-LINK project. I develop computational models for responsible link recommendation algorithms that promote socially desirable outcomes while maintaining user engagement.

Work

  • 2023.09 - Present
    Teaching Assistant
    University of Amsterdam
    • Fundamentals of Data Science (Sept 2024, 2023) - Instructor: Prof. Fernando Santos
    • Fairness, Accountability, Confidentiality, and Transparency in AI (Jan 2025, 2024) - Supervised 8 student groups; 3 groups published their reproducibility studies in TMLR
    • Information Retrieval 1 (Feb 2024 - Apr 2024) - Instructor: Prof. Andrew Yates
    • Deep Learning 1 (Nov 2023 - Dec 2023) - Instructor: Prof. Yuki Asano
  • 2021.06 - 2022.07
    Software Engineer
    KlearStack
    AI-driven OCR and Intelligent Data Extraction Software
    • Developed a back-end module for extracting information from handwritten mandate forms to validate their authenticity. Witnessed a volume of 2000 forms per day being processed seamlessly.
    • Implemented heuristic generalized algorithms for template-less data extraction from invoices
    • Set up auto-language detection and translation pipeline to provide multi-lingual invoice support
  • 2019.06 - 2022.05
    Software Engineer
    Credit Suisse
    Full Stack Developer in the Group Chief Technology Officer
    • Built a web-app predicting the closing date of incoming service requests. Analyzed and trained a variety of predictive models post data cleaning and preprocessing.
    • Developed the client-side module using ReactJS, Java Spring Boot, and Flask Python & Impala for database querying where a service owner assesses his service based on pre-defined metrics
  • 2018.07 - 2019.05
    Student Intern
    BMC Software
    Sponsored Project by BMC Software, Inc
    • Designed and built an application that initiates Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery in case of organizational failure due to a natural disaster

Volunteer

  • 2017.04 - 2019.03
    Treasurer & Content Writer
    Student-volunteer body of PICT
    • Managed funding & expenditure of NSS activities; Raised funds towards Kerala flood relief
    • Started an online campaign Deed of the Week highlighting the kind acts of people
    • Ideated and led the Awareness drive on Malaria & Dengue in slums near Parvati hill, Pune

Education

  • 2024.09 - Present
    ELLIS PhD Candidate
    University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
    Socially Intelligent Artificial Systems Group
  • 2022.09 - 2024.06
    Master of Science, Cum Laude
    University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
    Artificial Intelligence
    • Machine Learning 1 and 2
    • Deep Learning 1 and 2
    • Fairness, Accountability, Confidentiality, and Transparency in AI
    • Human-in-the-Loop Machine Learning
    • Natural Language Processing 1 and 2
    • Multimedia Analytics
    • Software Modeling & Design
    • Design & Analysis of Algorithms
  • 2015.08 - 2019.06
    Bachelor of Engineering
    Pune Institute of Computer Technology (Pune University), Pune, India
    Computer Engineering

Awards

Publications

Skills

Programming Languages
Python
Java
ReactJS
JavaScript
HTML/CSS
PHP
Frameworks & Libraries
PyTorch
NumPy
Django
Flask
OpenCV
Scikit-learn
Databases
MongoDB
MySQL
Impala
Oracle

Languages

English
Full professional proficiency
Hindi & Marathi
Native or bilingual proficiency

Projects