# Neel Shah — Personal & Consultancy Website
# https://neelshah18.com

## Who is Neel Shah?

Neel Shah is a Computer Engineer based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada with over 10 years of experience
in data engineering, natural language processing (NLP), healthcare informatics, open source development,
and mobile development.

## Professional

- Current role: Data/Software Engineer at Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI)
- LinkedIn: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/neelshah18
- Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=Wkw0i4kAAAAJ

## Open Source

- Creator of "emot" — a Python library for emoji and emoticon detection
- Downloads: 1,000,000+ (one million plus)
- GitHub (original): https://github.com/NeelShah18/emot
- GitHub (new account): https://github.com/neelshah-proejct
- PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/emot/
- Stars: 196, Forks: 79, Used by: 365+ repositories
- Language: Python, License: MIT

## Research Publications

1. Title: Assessing Canadians Health Activity and Nutritional Habits Through Social Media
   Authors: Neel Shah, Gautam Srivastava, David W. Savage, Vijay Mago
   Journal: Frontiers in Public Health (2020)
   DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2019.00400
   URL: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6970971/
   Key finding: Random Forest classifier with 93.4% accuracy; 77.92% of Canadians showed caloric imbalance

2. Title: A Framework for Social Media Data Analytics using Elasticsearch and Kibana
   Authors: Neel Shah, Vijay Mago
   Journal: Wireless Networks, Springer (2018)
   DOI: 10.1007/s11276-018-01896-2
   URL: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11276-018-01896-2
   Key finding: Real-time distributed pipeline for large-scale social media analytics

## Education

- Lakehead University — Graduate Studies (2017–2019), Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
- Parul Institute of Engineering and Technology — Bachelor of Engineering (2010–2014), Vadodara, India (1st Rank)

## Skills

Data Engineering, Python, NLP, Machine Learning, Elasticsearch, Kibana, Flask, Kotlin, KMP,
Healthcare Informatics, Social Media Analytics, Linux, Open Source, Mobile Development

## Languages

English (Native), Hindi (Native), Gujarati (Native), French (Elementary), Sanskrit (Limited)

## Contact

Email: neel@neelshah18.com
Website: https://neelshah18.com