Harshit Pandey

Harshit Pandey

CDB-FSE Programmer Analyst

Cognizant

Biography

I’m a Full Stack Engineer at Cognizant Technology Solutions.
I’ve graduated from Savitribai Phule Pune University. During my college years, I’ve worked on various research projects in the field of deep learning and specifically in the field of NLP. Currently, I am one of the lead developers for the Adversarial Deep Learning open source project. I am also a member of the Language Research Group (LRG).

Current and Past Affiliations
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Interests
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Adversarial Machine Learning
  • Information Retrieval
  • Chess
Education

  • BE in Computer Engineering,, 2021

    Savitribai Phule Pune University, 9.08/10 CGPA

Publications

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Multitask Prompted Training Enables Zero-Shot Task Generalization
Large language models have recently been shown to attain reasonable zero-shot generalization on a diverse set of tasks (Brown et al., …
Victor Sanh, Albert Webson, Colin Raffel, Stephen H. Bach, Lintang Sutawika, Zaid Alyafeai, Antoine Chaffin, Arnaud Stiegler, Teven Le Scao, Arun Raja, Manan Dey, M Saiful Bari, Canwen Xu, Urmish Thakker, Shanya Sharma Sharma, Eliza Szczechla, Taewoon Kim, Gunjan Chhablani, Nihal Nayak, Debajyoti Datta, Jonathan Chang, Mike Tian-Jian Jiang, Han Wang, Matteo Manica, Sheng Shen, Zheng Xin Yong, Harshit Pandey, Rachel Bawden, Thomas Wang, Trishala Neeraj, Jos Rozen, Abheesht Sharma, Andrea Santilli, Thibault Fevry, Jason Alan Fries, Ryan Teehan, Stella Biderman, Leo Gao, Tali Bers, Thomas Wolf, Alexander M. Rush
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Multitask Prompted Training Enables Zero-Shot Task Generalization
DRIFT: A Toolkit for Diachronic Analysis of Scientific Literature
In this work, we present to the NLP community, and to the wider research community as a whole, an application for the diachronic …
Abheesht Sharma, Gunjan Chhablani, Harshit Pandey, Rajaswa Patil
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DRIFT: A Toolkit for Diachronic Analysis of Scientific Literature
Improving Reading Comprehension with Abstract Words using Augmentation, Linguistic Features and Voting
We present our approaches and methods for SemEval-2021 Task-4 Reading Comprehension of Abstract Meaning. Given a question with a …
Abheesht Sharma, Harshit Pandey, Gunjan Chhablani, Yash Bhartia, Tirtharaj Dash
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Improving Reading Comprehension with Abstract Words using Augmentation, Linguistic Features and Voting
Toxic Spans Detection Leveraging BERT-based Token Classification and Span Prediction Techniques
Toxicity detection of text has been a popular NLP task in the recent years. In SemEval-2021 Task-5 Toxic Spans Detection, the focus is …
Gunjan Chhablani, Abheesht Sharma, Harshit Pandey, Yash Bhartia, Shan Suthaharan
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Toxic Spans Detection Leveraging BERT-based Token Classification and Span Prediction Techniques
Document Ranking with XLNet-Based Models
Establishing a good information retrieval system in popular mediums of entertainment is a quickly growing area of investigation for …
Abheesht Sharma, Harshit Pandey
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Document Ranking with XLNet-Based Models

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Programmer Analyst (FSE-CDB)
Cognizant
Aug 2021 – Present Bangalore
 
 
 
 
 
FSE Intern
Cognizant
Feb 2021 – Aug 2021 Bangalore

Responsibilities include:

  • Creating Secure and Scalable Microservices in Spring Boot
  • Working on frontend using Angular
  • Deploying applications with AWS
 
 
 
 
 
SDE Intern
Merkle Sokrati
Feb 2020 – Aug 2016 Pune
  • Creation of full stack applications, with technologies such as Redis, React, Node JS and Postgres with authentication and security layers.
  • Worked on Automation Scripts for Business Analysts.
  • Creating design flows for complex software architectures.

Projects

Adversarial Deep Learning Book
This is a collection of algorithms and approaches used in the book adversarial deep learning
Code
Adversarial Deep Learning Book

Certifications

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Amazon Web Services September 2021 – September 2024
Effectively demonstrate an overall knowledge of the AWS Cloud independent of a specific job role.
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The Complete Web Developer in 2020: Zero to Mastery
Udemy December 2020
A comprehensive course on React and Node Js.
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Convolutional Neural Networks
Coursera August 2019
Covers the fundamentals of Computer Vision.
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Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter tuning, Regularization and Optimization
Coursera August 2019
Covers methods that will improve Deep Learning models.
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Neural Networks and Deep Learning
Coursera August 2019
Covers the fundamentals of Deep Learning.
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Sequence Models
Coursera August 2019
Covers essentials of Natural Language Processing
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