Resume - Aniket Sharma

Experience

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Engineer

WowDAO

November 2023 - Present

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Contributed to research initiatives focused on aligning Large Language Models (LLMs) to human values, addressing safety, reliability, and interpretability challenges
Implemented evaluation frameworks to benchmark alignment methods for generative AI models
Participated in knowledge exchanges, synthesizing recent advances in LLM alignment and applying insights toward practical engineering solutions

Programming Languages:

- Python

Skills:

- Generative AI	- Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
- Cloud Deployment	- Prompt Engineering

Technologies:

- LangGraph	- Hugging Face Transformers
- FastAPI	- Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Researcher

University of Alberta

January 2024 - May 2025

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Developed a generalized algorithm for selective unlearning in neural networks, enabling efficient removal of any subset of training data
Designed a utility function to quantify and compare the influence of data subsets on neural network parameters
Formulated an orthogonal gradient descent approach to update models on specific data subsets while preserving the rest

Programming Languages:

- Python

Skills:

- Deep Learning	- Computer Vision
- Statistical Analysis	- Research Methodology

Technologies:

- PyTorch	- Optuna
- Numpy

Research Intern

University of Alberta

January 2023 - July 2023

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Implemented a novel technique to generate unbiased synthetic data across multiple protected attributes (MultiFairGAN)
Performed an extensive bibliographic search into bias mitigation techniques and prior works in AI in Education (AIEd) tools
Evaluated and compared fairness of Knowledge Tracing algorithm

Programming Languages:

- Python

Skills:

- Fairness in AI and ML	- Generative AI
- Attention Networks	- Adversarial Learning
- Bayesian methods

Technologies:

- Tensorflow

- PyTorch

Application Engineering Intern

Google

May 2022 - July 2022

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Engineered incremental data integration pipelines from Salesforce to a weakly consistent global file system
Programmed scripts to facilitate data curation and analysis across different Alphabet organizations
Constructed dashboards to provide key security and privacy insights about Salesforce footprints across Alphabet to the leadership and stakeholders

Programming Languages:

- Python

Skills:

- Data Analysis

- Problem Solving

Technologies:

- SQL

- Many Google internal tools

Undergraduate Student Researcher

Computational Intelligence and Data Mining Research Lab - IIIT Gwalior

August 2021 - June 2023

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Designed and implemented a simulation of human episodic memory (accepted in ICAAI 2022)
Devised a data-centric approach in order to improve the performance of machine learning models predicting HCV severity by approx. 16% (accepted in ISDA 2021)
Developed an open-source web crawler with quality features extractor for wikiHow (accepted in IATMSI 2022)

Programming Languages:

- Python

Skills:

- Research Methodology	- Artificial Intelligence
- Data Mining	- Deep Learning
- Machine Learning

Technologies:

- Tensorflow

Artificial Intelligence Intern

Kinematic Foodtech

May 2021 - September 2021 & December 2021 - January 2022

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Created a production-ready tool for solving Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Window and Multiple Depots (CVRPTWMD) with additional constraints which reduced logistics costs by 20%
Employed modified K-means clustering algorithm with automated elbow method for solving Dynamic Facility Location and Allocation Problem
Hosted the developed tool using serverless microservices on AWS

Programming Languages:

- Python

- JavaScript

Skills:

- Artificial Intelligence	- Operations Research
- Machine Learning	- DevOps

Technologies:

- Google OR Tools	- Openrouteservice
- AWS Fargate	- AWS Lambda
- Docker

Software Developer Intern

cppsecrets.com

September 2020 - November 2020

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Wrote 50+ blogs with cumulative 60,000+ views on the topic of AI/ML and Python
Created an Event Prediction Model using sentiment analysis of real-time tweets fetched using Twitter API
Contributed to Fingerprint Recognition System and Motion Detection System

Programming Languages:

- Python

Skills:

- Machine Learning

- Data Analysis

Technologies:

- OpenCV

Education

M. Sc. - Computing Science

University of Alberta

September 2023 - April 2025

GPA: 3.825/4.0

B. Tech. - Computer Science and Engineering

Indian Institute of Information Technology, Gwalior

August 2019 - June 2023

CGPA: 8.3 / 10

Publications

Conference Proceedings

A. Arora, A. Sharma and P. K. Singh, "Automated Quality Estimation of Collaboratively Created Content," 2022 IEEE Conference on Interdisciplinary Approaches in Technology and Management for Social Innovation (IATMSI), Gwalior, India, 2022, pp. 1-6, doi: cite.

Aniket Sharma, Pramod Kumar Singh, and Jay Prakash. 2023. An Effective Implementation of Detection and Retrieval Property of Episodic Memory. In 2022 The 6th International Conference on Advances in Artificial Intelligence (ICAAI2022). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 147–153. cite

Sharma, A., Arora, A., Gupta, A., Singh, P.K. (2022). Data-Centric Approach to Hepatitis C Virus Severity Prediction. In: Abraham, A., Gandhi, N., Hanne, T., Hong, TP., Nogueira Rios, T., Ding, W. (eds) Intelligent Systems Design and Applications. ISDA 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 418. Springer, Cham. cite