Experience

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  India urban data exchange (iudx)

  Feb 2022 - Jul 2022

  Summer intern

  - Contributed to the Smart City Mission, an initiative by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) to enhance city administration efficiency. - Performed statistical analyses to create visual representations of relative traffic hotspots for buses in Surat city, displaying the data on a geospatial temporal map using raw data provided by MoHUA.- Integrated Geospatial Analysis Techniques and Machine Learning Algorithms, such as Gaussian models, to efficiently determine average speed and distance travelled by buses along specific routes. Show less

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  University of tartu

  Mar 2023 - Jul 2024

  Research intern

  - Conducting research to improve Stance Detection in tweets utilizing cutting-edge NLP techniques and social network analysis.- Developed explainable ML models through target-oriented feature engineering including biterm topic modelling.- Experimented with Large Language Models encompassing prompt engineering, knowledge-enhanced masked language modelling, contrastive learning, few-shot learning, and knowledge distillation using BERT.

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  Indian institute of technology (iit) goa

  Jun 2023 - Jul 2023

  Summer research intern

  - Involved in cancer research conducted by Dr. Clint George, Assistant Professor in the School of Mathematics and Computer Science at IIT Goa, aimed at identifying critical genes that contribute to the growth of varying cancer types.- Implemented deep learning techniques, including Stochastic Gates and Hard Concrete, to enable effective feature selection and address data scarcity in cancer research.

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  Indian institute of science (iisc)

  Aug 2023 - Dec 2023

  Data science intern

  - Deploying Analytic Pipelines using Kedro for target domains (Transit management system, etc.) on MLOps platforms like Kubernetes- Enhancing traffic anomaly detection, predicting time of vehicle arrival using Graph Convolutional Neural Networks, and Gated Recurrent Units, while increasing precision through Kalman Filters and real-time data.

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  Microsoft

  Jul 2024 - now

  Research fellow

  Working in the Future of Scalable Software Engineering (FoSSE) lab