I did my Bachelor's in Information Technology from the
Indian Institute of Information Technology, Vadodara. It is one of the institutes of national importance in India. I am more geared towards R&D. After spending 2 wonderful years at
IISc Bengaluru, I have moved on to explore and solve some interesting AI problems. Nowadays, I am exploring the Meta-Learning approach. My research interests include
- Information Retrieval
- Natural Language Processing
- Artificial Intelligence, Reinforcement Learning
- Selected for internship at NVIDIA, Oct 2020
- Selected for the Machine Learning Fellowship @ Fellowship.ai, Jan 2020
- IUDX IISc team @ PUDX Datathon with Mr. Kunal Kumar, Joint Secretary & Mission Director (Smart Cities Mission), Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Government of India, 13 Dec 2019
- My current project work at IISc Bangalore, the India Urban Data Exchange (IUDX) is gaining attention by becoming a part of various newspaper articles. Check out the articles here, 2018-2019
- Volunteer, CyPhySS 2019, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 15-16 July, 2019
- Selected for Facebook PyTorch Scholarship Challenge, 2018
- Poster Presentation, CyPhySS 2018, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 11-12 July, 2018
- My winner's testimonial featured on India-EU ICT Standardisation's YouTube Channel, June 2018
- Attended Latitude59, Kultuurikatel, Tallinn, Estonia, 24-25 May, 2018
- Featured on RBCCPS, IISc Bangalore website , Feb 2018
- Won a fully funded Europe trip, India-EU ICT Standards OneM2M Hackathon, Feb 2018
- Selected for Google India Challenge Scholarship, 2018
- Selected for RBCCPS, IISc Bangalore Research Internship, 2018
- Runner's up @ IIIT-Vadodara Hackathon’16, 2016
- Won Central Sector Scholarship Scheme, MHRD 2013
- Edge-Detect: Edge-centric Network Intrusion Detection using Light and Fast Deep Neural Network. [Accepted: CCNC’21]
IISc Bangalore, IN & Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, USA
Collaborators: Reshmi Mitra, Praneet Singh | Dec 2018 – Oct 2019
- Improving Query Auto Completion Methodologies
IISc Bangalore, IN - Amazon
Collaborator/s: Parth Gupta (Amazon) | Apr 2018 – Oct 2018
- Attaining maximum power under cost constraints in single gene experiments
IIIT Vadodara, IN - University of Texas, Dallas, USA
Mentors: B. Chattopadhyay, P. Ray | Nov 2016 – May 2017
- Intern, NVIDIA, Remote (Oct 2020 - Present)
- ML Research Engineer, SupervisedAI, Remote (Apr 2020 - Jun 2020)
- Combating customer churn using ML/NLP
- ML Fellow, Fellowship.ai, Remote (Jan 2020 - Apr 2020)
- Worked on several machine learning projects involving deep learning and reinforcement learning. NDA constraint.
- Technical Associate, RBCCPS, IISc Bangalore (Jan 2019 - Mar 2020)
- Project Assistant, RBCCPS, IISc Bangalore (Jul 2018 - Dec 2018)
- IUDX, E-Sense, Video Analytics
- Research Intern, RBCCPS, IISc Bangalore (Jan 2018 - Jun 2018)
- Research Assistant, IIIT Vadodara (May 2017 - Dec 2017)
- SDE Intern, EduGorilla Community Pvt. Ltd., Remote (Jun 2017 - Sept 2017)
- SDE Intern, Atos India Pvt. Ltd., Pune (May 2016 - Jul 2016)
- SinGAN - Learning a Generative Model from a Single Natural Image (Mar 2020)
Video Analytics for Traffic Modelling (Jul 2018) - Poster Presentation, CyPhySS’18, IISc, Bangalore
- Domain: Computer Vision, Deep Learning
Breaking CAPTCHAs using ML (Mar 2018) - RBCCPS, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
- Domain: Deep Learning, Cyber Security
Ansible Overview (Nov 2017) Locality Preserving Projections (Nov 2017) MCQ Question Answering (Apr 2016) - IUDX - This project involves developing a reference implementation of IUDX: a useful mechanism to share and access data across smart cities, funded by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA). (2018-2020)
Featured Articles - Factly, Sep 13, 2019
- Medianama, Sep 12, 2019
- Civilsdaily, Sep 12, 2019
- The Hindu, Sep 11, 2019
- IndianWeb2, Sep 6, 2019
- firstpost.com, Apr 19, 2019
- Medium.com, Dec 17, 2018
- The Indian Express, Dec 16, 2018
- ESense - Developed an end to end pipeline to sample Current and Voltage values at afrequency of 32K from a Parallella board, store them in database and simultaneously plot the data on achart.
Constraint: The entire pipeline should run within 1 second. (2018)
- Video Analytics - Used Computer Vision and ML algorithms on video data obtained from thecameras installed at the various traffic junctions to track vehicles and estimatespeed. (2018)
- Crime-Retriever - This project involved making a web application which provides crime density at anylocation in India. This is a self-learning system born from the fusion of InformationRetrieval and Machine Learning techniques which would classify a news into one of 4 categories namely murder, theft, rape and other. (2016)
- Document Search Engine - This project involved creating a term pipeline for creating an inverted index for thea document collection (Hindi, English). Applying various normalization rules and concepts for ranked retrieval ofthe documents. Apart from these, an auto suggestion feature was also worked out forthe system using TRIE data structure. (2016)
- Offline Type Racer - An offline version of https://play.typeracer.com/. Players can play with each other the game of keyboard typing to determine the winner by creating a local network. Connection to the internet is not necessary. This helps in improving keyboard typing skills. (2015)
- pyIUDX[Python]
A Python SDK for Indian Urban Data Exchange (IUDX).
- IUDX-Catalogue[Java]
An Open Source implementation of India Urban Data Exchange (IUDX) Catalogue Service and Search APIs using Vert.x, an event driven and non- blocking high performance reactive framework, for identifying assets and data resources in Smart Cities.
- MV-Tractus[C, C++, Python]
A simple tool to extract motion vectors from mpeg videos.
- Offline-TypeRacer[Java]
This is a typical desktop app (game) made using JavaFX which only needs LAN/WLAN for multiplayer mode.