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Tans37/README.md

๐Ÿ‘‹ Hi, I'm Tanishq Sharma

Master's Student in Data Science @ Rutgers | AI/ML Engineer | Real-Time CV & NLP Systems | Patent Holder


๐Ÿš€ About Me

I'm passionate about building intelligent systems that bridge the gap between research and real-world applications. With experience spanning computer vision, NLP, forecasting, and distributed data engineering, I enjoy turning complex problems into efficient, scalable solutions.
โšก Actively seeking full-time roles (2025) in AI, Machine Learning, or Data Science.


โšก Patented Work

๐Ÿš˜ Real-Time Pothole Detection Using Computer Vision (Patent Granted ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ)

  • ๐Ÿ›ฃ๏ธ Designed a real-time pothole detection system(97% precision) using CNN-based computer vision, integrated with GPS tagging for precise location mapping of road defects.
  • ๐Ÿš€ Deployed on NVIDIA Jetson Xavier NX for efficient edge inference with low latency(13ms/frame), eliminating the need for cloud processing.
  • ๐Ÿ“ธ Enabled robust detection under varying lighting and road conditions through data augmentation and transfer learning.
  • ๐Ÿ“ Supports automated reporting with GPS-coordinates, facilitating proactive road maintenance and infrastructure planning.
  • ๐Ÿ“„ Patent granted for the systemโ€™s methodology, covering model architecture, detection logic, and deployment pipeline.
  • ๐Ÿ… Demonstrates a tangible example of AI for social good, improving safety and enabling preventive maintenance for road infrastructure. -Patent

๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿ”ฌ Work Experience

๐Ÿงฌ CLD Clone Screening Simulation Dashboard (1/2025 โ€“ 5/2025)

Brystol Myers Squibb & Rutgers University (competition)

  • ๐Ÿง  Built a statistical simulation tool to estimate the probability for clones to fall within the top X% performers in CLD workflows.
  • ๐Ÿ“ˆ Used Monte Carlo simulation over synthetic/real assay data to model selection outcomes across multi-step processes.
  • ๐Ÿ” Incorporated correlation-aware logic to simulate realistic assay dependencies and achieved ~10ร— speedup by using caching.
  • ๐Ÿ–ฅ๏ธ Developed an interactive Streamlit dashboard for uploading Excel data, filtering, and visualizing assay distributions, clone probabilities, and histograms. Project Repository

๐Ÿš€ Real-Time Object Tracking and Trajectory Prediction (Research Internship - Machine Learning) (1/2023 - 6/2023)

  • ๐Ÿ›ฐ๏ธ Built a hybrid Conv1D-RNN model along with YOLO for real-time object detection, tracking, and trajectory forecasting.
  • โšก Achieved 5 ms/frame inference on NVIDIA Jetson Xavier NX for edge deployment.
  • ๐Ÿ“‰ Conducted performance benchmarking against Kalman Filter, LSTM, and DeepSORT, achieving 20% RMSE reduction.
  • ๐Ÿ† Focused on sequential modeling for flying objects (airplanes, UAVs) in real-time environments.

๐Ÿ† Hackathon Projects

๐Ÿฅ‰ LostSight โ€“ Intelligent Surveillance for Lost Object Detection

Open-Source NYC Computer Vision Hackathon with Moondream (Won 3rd Place)

  • ๐Ÿง  Built a real-time AI system to detect, track, and identify unattended items in public spaces using the Moondream's VLM.
  • ๐ŸŒ€ Designed a custom IoU-based object tracker with no external tracking libraries, enabling lightweight ID assignment.
  • ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ Leveraged Moondream's Vision language model for multimodal reasoning and image captioning to verify lost status and log item details in a searchable CSV.
  • โšก Optimized for edge deployment with frame skipping, API caching, and fast video I/O for seamless real-time performance.
  • ๐Ÿ”— Project Repository

๐Ÿค– AgroSynth-RAG โ€“ AI Agent for Pest Outbreak Prediction and Weather-Aware Farming

Reboot the Earth 2025 Hackathon - New York City

  • ๐ŸŒพ Developed an AI agent that helps farmers adapt to climate risks by predicting pest outbreaks, answering context-aware queries.
  • ๐Ÿ“ก Integrated Open-Meteo API for real-time forecasts; triggered alerts for rainfall, high winds, frost, and extreme heat.
  • ๐Ÿง  Used RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) not only for QA, but also for pest outbreak prediction by interpreting weather patterns against a knowledge base.
  • ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ Enabled dynamic, location-specific queries (e.g., โ€œWill these conditions cause aphids?โ€) using curated NY-state pest articles.
    -๐Ÿ”— AgroSynth-RAG Backend ยท Frontend Interface

๐Ÿ“Œ Featured Projects

๐Ÿ–ผ๏ธ Multimodal Image Captioning with EfficientNet & Transformer-based Decoder

  • ๐Ÿž๏ธ Developed an image captioning system using EfficientNet Encoder + T5-Small Decoder.
  • ๐Ÿ“ˆ Trained on Flickr8k / Flickr30k datasets, achieving strong BLEU-4 performance.
  • ๐Ÿ’พ Supports image summarization and question-answering over generated captions. Project Repository

๐ŸŽฅ Advanced Movie Recommendation System Using RAG and Generative QA

  • ๐Ÿค– Fine-tuned BERT-based genre classifier (F1-score: 0.92) on a dataset of 43k+ movies.
  • ๐Ÿงฉ Combined semantic search with RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) using LLaMA 3.2 for highly relevant movie suggestions.
  • ๐Ÿ’ฌ Built a Generative QA system to answer detailed queries about recommended movies (BLEU: 0.76).

๐Ÿ† Real-Time Cryptocurrency Insights: Automated ETL for Dynamic Reporting

  • ๐Ÿ“Š Architected a distributed ETL pipeline using Apache Kafka and Apache Spark for real-time cryptocurrency data ingestion and analysis.
  • ๐Ÿ”ฎ Integrated LSTM-based forecasting with dynamic visualizations for five major cryptocurrencies (BTC, ETH, DOGE, XRP, SOL).
  • ๐Ÿง  Incorporated sentiment analysis from live news feeds to enrich predictive modeling. Project Repository

๐Ÿฆ Social Media Analytics: Advanced Twitter Search Engine

  • ๐Ÿ’ฌ Engineered a scalable search engine on 150k+ tweets using PostgreSQL + MongoDB hybrid database.
  • ๐ŸŒ Integrated language detection, machine translation, and sentiment analysis for content-aware search.
  • โšก Reduced query latency by up to 4 seconds via LRU caching. Project Repository

๐Ÿ“ฐ Forecasting Article Popularity

  • ๐Ÿ“ˆ Engineered a predictive model to estimate news article popularity using AdaBoost, XGBoost, and Artificial Neural Networks (ANN).
  • ๐Ÿ“Š Analyzed a large dataset of 450K+ rows and 60 features, with the target variable (article shares) following a Poisson distribution.
  • ๐Ÿ› ๏ธ Applied advanced feature engineering, including log transformations and regularization techniques to handle skewed distributions and improve model robustness.
  • ๐Ÿง  Optimized the neural network architecture to align with the Poisson-distributed target, achieving an MSE of 0.35, validated through bootstrap hypothesis testing.
  • ๐Ÿ† Compared performance across models and validated findings using rigorous statistical testing and error analysis. Project Repository

๐Ÿ› ๏ธ Technologies & Tools

Python | PyTorch | TensorFlow | Apache Kafka | Apache Spark | PostgreSQL | MongoDB | NVIDIA Jetson | Transformers | LLMs | Computer Vision | NLP | RAG | Streamlit | Docker | Git


๐Ÿ“ซ Let's Connect!

  • ๐Ÿ“ง Email: [email protected]
  • ๐Ÿ”— LinkedIn
  • ๐ŸŒฑ Open to collaborations, internships, and full-time opportunities.

"Building AI systems that donโ€™t just work on paper but deliver results in the wild." ๐Ÿง ๐Ÿš€

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