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Avanti: Yes She Can! Podcast

"A soulmate doesn't have to be a romantic partner" - Kaneez Surka and Vandana Goyal

 

In this podcast, I talk to Vandana Goyal, co-CEO, Avanti Fellows and comedian, actor and producer, Kaneez Surka about supporting each other through hardships, laughing at inside jokes even twenty years later and what it really means to show up for one another.

NLP in Action

Hybrid Approach to Text Classification

 

In this session, I shared my approach of building a hybrid LLM combining Unsupervised Topic Modeling and Supervised BERT classification to classify news articles into relevant domain specific categories and discussed how to address the problem of lack of labelled data.

Navigating Data Careers

Building a Career in Data and AI

 

In this session, I share my experience and career journey from a Developer to a Data Scientist and what I learnt along the way.

Machine Learning

Ever wondered what machines can and cannot do?

 

In the first session of this 3-part series, we will focus on what exactly is Machine Learning, what is the scope of its application and whether machines will really take our jobs in the future.

Machine Learning

How do Machines "learn"?

 

In the second session of this 3-part series, we will focus on the fundamental mathematics behind training a machine learning model and understand how a machine actually learns.

Machine Learning

What Machines tell us about ourselves?

 

In the third session of this 3-part series, we will talk about how ML models are picking up human biases through our data and what we can do to minimize these biases.

© 2026 by Priyanka Palshetkar. 

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