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title: "Yashika Malhotra - Senior Associate Data Science in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Yashika Malhotra, Data Scientist @ Publicis Sapient | Ex-AI Research Intern @ SuperKalam (YC W23) | IIT Kanpur '24 based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes claude code, hugging face, and langchain."
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# Yashika Malhotra on Tal

## Headline

Data Scientist @ Publicis Sapient \| Ex\-AI Research Intern @ SuperKalam \(YC W23\) \| IIT Kanpur '24

## About

I'm an IITK grad passionate about using AI to solve complex problems that have technological and business impact\. Broadly, I'm interested in building scalable solutions by utilizing applied AI, NLP and deep learning\. I currently work as a Data Scientist at Publicis Sapient, where I'm the core developer and maintainer of the platform that powers "all things RAG" across several internal products and client projects of the company\. So far, I've had the opportunity to ship production\-grade customizable chatbots, agents and RAG pipelines that utilize intelligent data ingestion, retrieval and response generation mechanisms\. Previously, I've interned at SuperKalam \(YC W23\), where I was involved in building an AI\-powered personal tutor that helps Indian Civil Services Examination \(aka UPSC\) aspirants supercharge their preparation\. I specifically worked on building an automated system that takes an aspirant's hand\-written answer as the input, evaluates the content, assigns marks and provides detailed feedback \(highlighting strengths, identifying mistakes and suggesting areas of improvement\), just how an actual UPSC Tutor would \(or sometimes would not completely\) do\. Always excited to connect with fellow tech enthusiasts, discuss innovative ideas, and collaborate on exciting projects\!

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

claude code

hugging face

langchain

langfuse

langgraph

openai

## Work experience

Senior Associate Data Science at Publicis Sapient, Jul 2024 \- Present · 2 yrs 3 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

AI Research Intern at SuperKalam \(YC W23\), May 2024 \- Jun 2024 · 2 mos, Remote

Research and Development Intern at Skyroot Aerospace, May 2023 \- Jul 2023 · 3 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Secretary at Astronomy Club, IIT Kanpur, Aug 2021 \- May 2022 · 10 mos

## Education

Bachelor of Technology \- BTech, Aerospace Engineering, INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR

dav public school

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