Master's Student in Data Science @ Rutgers | AI/ML Engineer | Real-Time CV & NLP Systems | Patent Holder
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.
โก Actively seeking full-time roles (2025) in AI, Machine Learning, or Data Science.
- ๐ฃ๏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.
- ๐ Deployed on NVIDIA Jetson Xavier NX for efficient edge inference with low latency(13ms/frame), eliminating the need for cloud processing.
- ๐ธ Enabled robust detection under varying lighting and road conditions through data augmentation and transfer learning.
- ๐ Supports automated reporting with GPS-coordinates, facilitating proactive road maintenance and infrastructure planning.
- ๐ Patent granted for the systemโs methodology, covering model architecture, detection logic, and deployment pipeline.
- ๐ Demonstrates a tangible example of AI for social good, improving safety and enabling preventive maintenance for road infrastructure. -Patent
Brystol Myers Squibb & Rutgers University (competition)
- ๐ง Built a statistical simulation tool to estimate the probability for clones to fall within the top X% performers in CLD workflows.
- ๐ Used Monte Carlo simulation over synthetic/real assay data to model selection outcomes across multi-step processes.
- ๐ Incorporated correlation-aware logic to simulate realistic assay dependencies and achieved ~10ร speedup by using caching.
- ๐ฅ๏ธ Developed an interactive Streamlit dashboard for uploading Excel data, filtering, and visualizing assay distributions, clone probabilities, and histograms. Project Repository
๐ Real-Time Object Tracking and Trajectory Prediction (Research Internship - Machine Learning) (1/2023 - 6/2023)
- ๐ฐ๏ธ Built a hybrid Conv1D-RNN model along with YOLO for real-time object detection, tracking, and trajectory forecasting.
- โก Achieved 5 ms/frame inference on NVIDIA Jetson Xavier NX for edge deployment.
- ๐ Conducted performance benchmarking against Kalman Filter, LSTM, and DeepSORT, achieving 20% RMSE reduction.
- ๐ Focused on sequential modeling for flying objects (airplanes, UAVs) in real-time environments.
Open-Source NYC Computer Vision Hackathon with Moondream (Won 3rd Place)
- ๐ง Built a real-time AI system to detect, track, and identify unattended items in public spaces using the Moondream's VLM.
- ๐ Designed a custom IoU-based object tracker with no external tracking libraries, enabling lightweight ID assignment.
- ๐ฃ๏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.
- โก Optimized for edge deployment with frame skipping, API caching, and fast video I/O for seamless real-time performance.
- ๐ Project Repository
Reboot the Earth 2025 Hackathon - New York City
- ๐พ Developed an AI agent that helps farmers adapt to climate risks by predicting pest outbreaks, answering context-aware queries.
- ๐ก Integrated Open-Meteo API for real-time forecasts; triggered alerts for rainfall, high winds, frost, and extreme heat.
- ๐ง Used RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) not only for QA, but also for pest outbreak prediction by interpreting weather patterns against a knowledge base.
- ๐ฃ๏ธ Enabled dynamic, location-specific queries (e.g., โWill these conditions cause aphids?โ) using curated NY-state pest articles.
-๐ AgroSynth-RAG Backend ยท Frontend Interface
- ๐๏ธ Developed an image captioning system using EfficientNet Encoder + T5-Small Decoder.
- ๐ Trained on Flickr8k / Flickr30k datasets, achieving strong BLEU-4 performance.
- ๐พ Supports image summarization and question-answering over generated captions. Project Repository
- ๐ค Fine-tuned BERT-based genre classifier (F1-score: 0.92) on a dataset of 43k+ movies.
- ๐งฉ Combined semantic search with RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) using LLaMA 3.2 for highly relevant movie suggestions.
- ๐ฌ Built a Generative QA system to answer detailed queries about recommended movies (BLEU: 0.76).
- ๐ Architected a distributed ETL pipeline using Apache Kafka and Apache Spark for real-time cryptocurrency data ingestion and analysis.
- ๐ฎ Integrated LSTM-based forecasting with dynamic visualizations for five major cryptocurrencies (BTC, ETH, DOGE, XRP, SOL).
- ๐ง Incorporated sentiment analysis from live news feeds to enrich predictive modeling. Project Repository
- ๐ฌ Engineered a scalable search engine on 150k+ tweets using PostgreSQL + MongoDB hybrid database.
- ๐ Integrated language detection, machine translation, and sentiment analysis for content-aware search.
- โก Reduced query latency by up to 4 seconds via LRU caching. Project Repository
- ๐ Engineered a predictive model to estimate news article popularity using AdaBoost, XGBoost, and Artificial Neural Networks (ANN).
- ๐ Analyzed a large dataset of 450K+ rows and 60 features, with the target variable (article shares) following a Poisson distribution.
- ๐ ๏ธ Applied advanced feature engineering, including log transformations and regularization techniques to handle skewed distributions and improve model robustness.
- ๐ง Optimized the neural network architecture to align with the Poisson-distributed target, achieving an MSE of 0.35, validated through bootstrap hypothesis testing.
- ๐ Compared performance across models and validated findings using rigorous statistical testing and error analysis. Project Repository
Python
| PyTorch
| TensorFlow
| Apache Kafka
| Apache Spark
| PostgreSQL
| MongoDB
| NVIDIA Jetson
| Transformers
| LLMs
| Computer Vision
| NLP
| RAG
| Streamlit
| Docker
| Git
- ๐ง Email: [email protected]
- ๐ LinkedIn
- ๐ฑ Open to collaborations, internships, and full-time opportunities.
"Building AI systems that donโt just work on paper but deliver results in the wild." ๐ง ๐