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Hi, I am Abid

Abid Ali Awan

Data Science Copywriter & Editor at KDnuggets

I am a certified data scientist who enjoys building machine learning applications and writing blogs on data science. I am currently focusing on content creation, editing, and working with large language models.

Editing
Copy Writing
LLMs
Data Science
Graphic Design
ML/MLOps

Skills

Education

Msc. Technology Management
Award: Distinction with 3.7 out of 4
Taken Courses
Course NameTotal CreditObtained Credit
Strategic Planning and Systems Development44
Quality and Project Management for Technology43.5
Marketing Innovations44
Personal Development and Research Methods44
Extracurricular Activities
  • Organized Mega-event for Pakistan National Day.
  • Usher and Managed Tech Talks and Bridging gaps between Academics and Industry.
  • Photo Editing/ Video Editing for University Media Department.
B.Sc. in Electrical (Telecommunication) Engineering
CGPA: 3.09 out of 4
Taken Courses
Course NameTotal CreditObtained Credit
Microwave & Satellite Communication System43
Radars & Navigation Aids43.3
Signals & System44
Digital Communication System43.3
Extracurricular Activities
  • Got First Prize in all University Graphic Desinging Competition.
  • Participated in NAGS Lahore in Speed Wiring and Speed Programming.
  • Video Making and Editing.
A-Levels
Grades: A, B, C out of 3As
Extracurricular Activities
  • Deputy Head Prefect.
  • Silver medal in Table Tennis (Punjab Olympics).
O-Levels
Grades: 6Bs, C, D out of 8As

Experiences

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KDnuggets

Sep 2021 - Present, Global-Remote

KDnuggets™ is a leading site on AI, Analytics, Big Data, Data Mining, Data Science, and Machine Learning.

Assistant Editor

Apr 2022 - Present

  • Preparation of KDnugget technical posts and publishing it on the platform.
Staff Writer

Dec 2021 - Present

  • Writing blogs on Deep Learning, MLOps, Data Analytics and Career Advice (Contract Job).
Contributing Writer

Sep 2021 - Dec 2021

  • Wrote multiple beginner friendly blog that focuses on career path and data science tooling.

DataCamp

Dec 2021 - Present, Global-Remote

DataCamp offers interactive R, Python, Sheets, SQL and shell courses.

Data Science Editor

May 2022 - Present

  • Data Science Editing
  • Fact checking
  • Review the article and make suggestions to the author
Data Science Copywriter

Dec 2021 - Present

  • Writing blogs, articles, tutorials, guides and books on Data Science.
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SOTA
DAGsHub

Oct 2021 - Present, Global-Remote

DAGsHub is a web platform for data version control and collaboration for data scientists and machine learning engineers.

Responsibilities:
  • Blogs about DVC
  • State of the art projects
  • Hackathon Contribution.

Technical Writer
Towards Data Science

July 2021 - Present, Online

Towards Data Science Inc. is a corporation registered in Canada. Using Medium, we provide a platform for thousands of people to exchange ideas and to expand our understanding of data science.

Responsibilities:
  • Blogs about Machine learning
  • Career Advice
  • Natural language processing projects.
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Technical Writer
Analytics Vidhya

July 2021 - Present, Online

nalytics Vidhya provides a community based knowledge portal for Analytics and Data Science professionals.

Responsibilities:
  • Blogs about Machine learning
  • Blogs about NLP
  • Blogs about Analytics

Data Analyst
PEC-PITC

Apr 2021 - Sep 2021, ISB, Pakistan

PITC has two main functional streams; Innovation and Testing. It aims to engage diverse stakeholders and provide them a platform to collaborate for the purpose of creating, developing, elaborating, and prototyping products/ solutions to the prevailing challenges for long-term social impact.

Responsibilities:
  • Design and Analyse Engineering Data Available at PEC
  • Created WebApp.
  • Part of AI Testing Team.
  • Dashboarding on Tableau.
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Researcher / Event Organizer
CREDIT

Feb 2017 - July 2017, KL, Malaysia

The Center for Research and Development of IoT (CREDIT) was established on November 15, 2016. CREDIT aims to provide students and academic staff the opportunities to access IoT-related knowledge and know-how through various activities. It also acts as a hub to support commercialising potential solutions resulting from R&D projects.

Responsibilities:
  • Organized events, logo creation, marketing, managing events, and hosting event.
  • Worked on IoT Research Projects.
  • bridging gaps for academics and industries.
  • Designed the framework for Research organization.

Designer and Editor
Beyond Media

Jan 2016 - Mar 2017, KL, Malaysia

Beyond Media is the official media team at APU/APIIT. We are passionate and enthusiastic in expressing the lifestyle of students in APIIT Education Group.

Responsibilities:
  • Malaysia event coverage and providing all kinds of media services
  • Poster Designer
  • Bridging gaps for academics and industries.
  • Photo Editor
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Partner
Heal Pakistan

Apr 2014 - Jun 2015, ISB, Pakistan

NGO, working for the youth of Pakistan.

Responsibilities:
  • I have worked for the different project as the graphic designer and video editor.

Projects

CI/CD For Machine Learning
CI/CD For Machine Learning
Author Feb 2024

A beginners project on automating the training, evaluation, versioning, and deployment of models using GitHub Actions.

Maximizing Productivity with ChatGPT
Maximizing Productivity with ChatGPT
Author July 2023

Discover how Tabular data space is being transformed by Kaggle competitions, the open-source community, and generative AI.

The Journey of Tabular Data
The Journey of Tabular Data
Owner July 2023

Discover how Tabular data space is being transformed by Kaggle competitions, the open-source community, and generative AI.

Deep RL Class
Deep RL Class
Contributor July 2022

This repo contain the syllabus of the Hugging Face Deep Reinforcement Learning Class.

Rick & Morty ChatBot
Rick & Morty ChatBot
Owner June 2022

Participated in Gradio Block Competition and create an interactive chatbot trained on Rick and Morty’s conversation.

Unity3D MLAgents Pyramids
Unity3D MLAgents Pyramids
Owner July 2022

Trained Deep Reinforcement Learning model on Unity 3D Environment.

Automatic Speech Recognition (Urdu)
Automatic Speech Recognition (Urdu)
Owner March 2022

Urdu Automatic Speech Recognition is SOTA Solution is here and I am looking for opensource contribution to reach 20 WER by using text and audio processing.

SavtaDepth
SavtaDepth
Contributor Feb 2022

Open Source Data Science (OSDS) Monocular Depth Estimation, Turn 2d photos into 3d photos, show your grandma the awesome results.

Intro-to-AutoXGB
Intro-to-AutoXGB
Owner Feb 2022

Creating guide for AutoXGB which includes training and running web server.

Pneumonia Classification
Pneumonia Classification
Contributor Dec 2021

Classifying chest X-Ray images for Pneumonia

Automatic Speech Recognition (WOLOF)
Automatic Speech Recognition (WOLOF)
Owner June 2021

Audio preprocessing and finetuning using wav2vec2-large-xlsr model on AI4D Baamtu Datamation - automatic speech recognition in WOLOF data.

SQLLEX
SQLLEX
Contributor Jun 2021 - Present

SQLLEX is a python library for comfortable and safe working with databases.

MagNet Model the Geomagnetic Field
MagNet Model the Geomagnetic Field
Creator May 2021

I scored 40th rank in this DrivenData competition and my Jounery started with simple LSTM.

Vaccine Automated Update Dashboard
Vaccine Automated Update Dashboard
Creator June 2021

Automated System that collect data from web on Vaccine and created Data Analysis Dashboard.

mRNA Vaccine Degradation Prediction
mRNA Vaccine Degradation Prediction
Creator Jun 2021

We need to design the model that will predict likely degradation rates at each base of an RNA molecule.

Airline-Tweets-NLP
Airline-Tweets-NLP
Creator March 2021

This project is one of my machine learning and data-driven web apps made using Streamlit. The goal of this project is to visualize various sentiment and exploratory analysis on tweets about US airlines.

Story of Gufhtugu Publications
Story of Gufhtugu Publications
Creator Feb 2021

Exploratory Data Analysis and Machine learning techniques were used to process the Online book market.

Trip Advisor Data Analysis/ML
Trip Advisor Data Analysis/ML
Creator April 2021

In this project, we will be exploring the hotel reviews and the rating base on customer hotel experience. We will be also looking at feature engineering and designing a deep learning model to predict ratings based on reviews.

Machine Translation French to Fongbe and Ewe
Machine Translation French to Fongbe and Ewe
Creator May 2021

The objective of this challenge is to create a machine translation system capable of converting text from French into Fongbe or Ewe.

PEC Tableau Dashboard
PEC Tableau Dashboard
Creator June 2021

I have created Dashboard out of simple engineer data set, you can read more here.

Wind-dependent Variables Predict Wind Speeds of Tropical Storms
Wind-dependent Variables Predict Wind Speeds of Tropical Storms
Creator Feb 2021

The goal of this challenge is to estimate the wind speeds of storms at different points in time using satellite images captured throughout a storm’s life cycle and the temporal memory of the storm.

ORCHEST
ORCHEST
Contributor Aug 2021

Build data pipelines, the easy way. Orchest is a tool for building data pipelines that don’t require DAGs and frameworks. The environment is simple to navigate, and you can code Python, R, and Julia.

Goodreads Recommedations WebApp
Goodreads Recommedations WebApp
Creator Sep 2021

Discover your reading patterns and recommendations for a new book to read.

FastAPI ML Project
FastAPI ML Project
Creator Aug 2021

build an application programming interface (API) for your machine learning model and then deploy it with simple code.

OmdenaLore
OmdenaLore
Contributor Sep 2021

OmdenaLore is world’s biggest AI4Good library for real-world projects.

Image-Classification-FastAI.jl
Image-Classification-FastAI.jl
Researcher Sep 2021

Using FastAI.jl library to classify images from the Imagnet dataset.

Evolution of Digital Learning During COVID19
Evolution of Digital Learning During COVID19
Creator Sep 2021

We will use data analysis tools to figure out trends in digital learning and how it is effective towards improvised communities.

Covid19 Vaccine Epitope Prediction ML Pipeline Using Orchest
Covid19 Vaccine Epitope Prediction ML Pipeline Using Orchest
Creator Aug 2021

Designing machine learning pipeline with few lines of codes using Orchest. You will learn to preprocess the data, train the machine learning model, and evaluate the results.

DailoGPT-RickBot
DailoGPT-RickBot
Creator Aug 2021

Discord bot using DailoGPT pretrained model on Rick& Morty Dataset from Kaggle.

Annual Recycled Energy Saved in Singapore
Annual Recycled Energy Saved in Singapore
Creator Aug 2021

Learn how much Singapore is saving energy per years by recycling plastics, paper, glass, ferrous and non-ferrous metal.

Accomplishments

Nova Membership Certificate
Nova Talent March 2024

During the selection process you have demonstrated to possess the right mix of leadership potential, logical reasoning skills, personality traits and values all combined with a humble attitude and a sense of care for the greater good.

KaggleX Mentorship Program
KaggleX November 2023

During the mentorship program, I guided Sakshi, a CS student, in building a Hindi automatic speech recognition system.

Celebrating New Milestones at KDnuggets
KDnuggets October 2023

Our editorial work and strategy have made KDnuggets more popular than ever, resulting in a record high number of unique page views that we have maintained until now.

Data Scientist Professional Certificate
DataCamp July 2023 - July 2025

To get certified this candidate had to display that they have the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform a Data Scientist role. These included but were not limited to Data Management, Exploratory Analysis, Statistical Experimentation, Model Development, Coding for Production Environments, Communication, and Reporting.

Data Scientist Professional Certificate
DataCamp Aug 2021 - Aug 2023

To get certified this candidate had to display that they have the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform a Data Scientist role. These included but were not limited to Data Management, Exploratory Analysis, Statistical Experimentation, Model Development, Coding for Production Environments, Communication, and Reporting.

Analyze Data with R Skill Path
Codecademy Sep 2020 - Nov 2020

This course Helped my understand basics of R languages and taught me some of the basic of Data Analysis, with hand on working with real-life examples.

Analyze Data with SQL Skill Path
Codecademy Oct 2020 - Dec 2020

Learning Basics of SQL and using SQL query to analyze the data. This course has helped me learn more about the database and how to produce effective analysis.

Data Scientist with Python Track
DataCamp Sep 2020 - Nov 2020

This course was my way to career change, I have learned the basics of Programming, Data analysis, and Data Science which also include Machine Learning.

Competition MVP
Deepnote May 2021

I have published more than ten notebooks on the Deepnote platform and got MVP for publishing the highest number of notebooks on data analysis, Data Science, and Machine learning.

10 Rank in WiDS Datathon 2021
Kaggle March 2021

Top ten spots by weightage ensembling automl, cat boost, lightgbm, and Xgbm. I have also used feature engineering and hyperparameters optimization to get better results.

Registered Engineer
PEC Aug 2021

Became Lifetime Member of PEC.