Thushara Nair

Data Science Intern

Information Commissioner's Office (ICO, U.K)•  February 2023 - May 2023

• Utilised data analysis, pre-processing techniques, and machine learning algorithms to develop a robust framework that finds the optimal balance between privacy and utility within the Epsilon (ε) differential privacy domain. • Introduced a novel guide to identifying privacy budgets, addressing a significant need in the absence of established privacy budget configuration and evaluation standards. • Collaborated with Industry experts at the University of Manchester and the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) to analyse how different privacy budgets can protect individual data contributions in a dataset through adequate anonymisation (before data release) without compromising data quality.

Data Science Trainee

IBS Software Services (P)•  November 2022 - February 2023

• Contributed to the Dynamic revenue management application, utilizing reinforcement learning to achieve dynamic pricing strategies. • Created & successfully deployed a persistence module within the application, effectively preserving intermediate states of the model for improved performance.

The University of Manchester, Manchester

Data Science, MSc•  September 2022 - December 2023

• Recipient of the Chevening Scholarship and Humanities Excellence Scholarship for post‑graduate studies in the U.K. • Specialized in Data Engineering, NLP, Cognitive Robotics, and Computer Vision, achieving High Distinctions. • Relevant coursework in Statistics, Classical Machine Learning & Deep Learning Algorithms, and SQL/NoSQL Databases with High Distinction in the first semester.