Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, May, 2019: Master of Science – Data Science
University of Massachusetts Amherst, Massachusetts, May, 2013: Bachelors Science - Electrical Engineering
Certifications: Deep Learning on AWS - 12/2018
Completed 20+ DataCamp, Udemy, LinkendLearning and Coursera courses in R and Python
Programming Languages:Python, R, SAS, MATLAB, SQL
Machine Learning:Scikit-learn, R
Deep Learning: TensorFlow, Keras, PyTorch, Transfer Learning, TensorFlow Model Zoo
Natural Language Processing: NLTK, Pattern3, Spacy, Gensim, pyLDAvis
Visualization: Tableau, Spotfire, ggplot2, Seaborn, Graphviz
Web Scrapping: BeautifulSoup, Selenium, Scrapy
Project Tracking Tools: Git, Confluence, Jira
Simhambhatla, Ramesh; Okiah, Kevin; Kuchkula, Shravan; and Slater, Robert (2019) "Self-Driving Cars: Evaluation of Deep Learning Techniques for Object Detection in Different Driving Conditions," SMU Data Science Review: Vol. 2 : No. 1 , Article 23. Available at "https://scholar.smu.edu/datasciencereview/vol2/iss1/23"
A.Shanmugam, K.Okiah, C.D.Salthouse, 'Lensless Fluorescence Imaging of Flowing Beads in Microfluidics', The Electrochemical Society, 2012
Swahili(Native Speaker)
Spanish (Basics)
Filipino(Basics)
This project explores application of different NLP technologies in classification of consumer complaint for various financial products. The data used for this analysis is obtained from CFPB, The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau a U.S. government agency that makes sure banks, lenders, and other financial companies treat consumers fairly.
Repository: https://github.com/kevin-okiah/CustomerComplaintsClassification-NLP
Modeled and build classifiers to predict the odds of a client being subscribed to a banking term deposit based on exploratoryvariables. Use SMOTE , RUS and ROS to impute data for minority class
Repository: https://github.com/kevin-okiah/Banking_Term_Deposit
Sentiment Analysis used to isolate Positive and Negative IMDB movie Reviews
Repository: https://github.com/kevin-okiah/NaturalLanguageProcessing-NLP/tree/master/SentimentAnalysis
LDA used to recommend Gutenberg Books that share the same Topic to my son
Repository: https://github.com/kevin-okiah/NaturalLanguageProcessing-NLP/tree/master/TopicModeling
Utility to select the best performing Classifier with hyperparameters based on Accuracy, Precision, Recall, f1_score and roc_auc_score
Repository:https://github.com/kevin-okiah/Death2GridSearch-Classification