Omkar Nanekar

Background

About Omkar Nanekar

I am a Data Scientist & Machine Learning Engineer with 3+ years of experience delivering scalable AI solutions across healthcare, life sciences, and multi-domain applications. Kaggle Expert (2× Silver Medals) — ranked in the top 2% globally for multi-target prediction challenges in Parkinson’s disease and polymer properties. Research & Impact — Presented at EUROTOX24 (Copenhagen), authored 3 abstracts, and co-developed a paper (under review) on reducing animal use in drug development through AI. Innovation — Built a full AutoML platform for drug discovery that automates feature engineering, model selection, optimization, and deployment—reducing manual workload and accelerating research pipelines. 🧠 Technical Breadth — Experienced in tabular ML, NLP, and computer vision, large-scale regression pipelines with XGBoost, PyTorch, and transformers, GenAI, LLM, Statistics. Deployment & Scale — Skilled in productionizing ML with FastAPI, Docker, CI/CD, and cloud workflows, ensuring models are reproducible, reliable, and fast in real-world settings. I thrive at the intersection of research and production ML — solving complex problems with measurable business and scientific impact.