// hi, my name is

Sayam Palrecha.

Data Scientist & ML Researcher

MS Data Science @ GWU. I build machine learning systems, data pipelines, and research tools. Currently a Data Science Research Specialist at the GWU Regulatory Studies Center.

Research & contributions

// open-source contributions

RegStats
GWU Regulatory Studies Center

Contributor to the flagship RegStats repository — building Python and RShiny scripts, automated data pipelines, and dashboards that power regulatory research at GWU.

github.com/regulatorystudies

// publications

publication
Reviewing the Second Trump Administration's First Year with RegStats
Sayam Palrecha  ·  GWU Regulatory Studies Center  ·  2025

An analysis of the second Trump administration's regulatory activity during its first year, using the RegStats data infrastructure to track and visualize rulemaking trends.

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Where I've been

Apr 2025 — Present

GWU Regulatory Studies Center

Data Science Research Specialist

Building scripts, dashboards, workflows using Python for the flagship Reg-Stats repository.

May 2025 — Jul 2025

GWU Institute of Public Health

Teaching Assistant — Analysing Data with R

Assisted in teaching the graduate-level R course for a class of 20 students. Course page ↗

Aug 2024 — May 2026

George Washington University

M.S. Data Science · GPA 3.8/4.0

Global Leaders Award ($17,100). Courses: Stochastic Calculus, Deep Learning, Data Warehousing, Data Visualization.

June 2023 - Sept 2023

Xu Lab, Carnegie Mellon University

Research Intern

Reduced space and time requirements for 3D cell mapping through hyperparameter tuning — 15% efficiency boost.

Jan 2023 - May 2023

Indian Institute of Technology

Medical Research Intern

Developed an Unsupervised Source-free Domain Adaptation model for early pneumonia detection in MRI and CT scans.

Jan — Nov 2022

AVM Constructions

Data Engineer

Implemented Linear Regression algorithm on Pune house price dataset to make price prediction model to assist operations research

2020 — 2024

Savitribai Phule Pune University

B.E. AI & Data Science · GPA 3.72/4.0

Courses: Statistics, Machine Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Pattern Recognition, Data Structures & Algorithms.

Things I've built

Agentic Fraud Detection

Agentic Fraud Detection System

Production multi-agent AI pipeline detecting payment fraud in real-time — XGBoost + Isolation Forest + LLM decision layer with CI/CD deployment.

Agentic AI FastAPI XGBoost LLM
Market Strategy

Sector-Aware Multimodal Stock Price Forcasting

Multimodal deep learning framework that combines financial time series data with natural language sentiment

Python Deep Learning Finance
source
Movie Recommendation

Movie Recommendation System

Vector-based NLP recommendation engine over 5000+ IMDB movies using NLTK.

NLP NLTK
source
Black-Scholes

Black-Scholes Model

Interactive Python implementation of the Black-Scholes options pricing model with live demo.

Finance Streamlit
source

What I work with

Languages

Python R SQL JavaScript

ML / AI

scikit-learn XGBoost Isolation Forest NLTK LLM Integration Agentic AI Groq API

Deep Learning

TensorFlow PyTorch YOLOv5 CNNs Transfer Learning

Data

Pandas NumPy Feature Engineering Tableau Power BI RShiny

Backend & APIs

FastAPI Uvicorn Pydantic REST APIs Streamlit

Infrastructure

Git & GitHub Railway CI/CD PostgreSQL MongoDB