Karthik Prathaban

Experience

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  Singapore Army

  Jan 2013 - Jan 2013

  Logistics and Finance Specialist

  Facilitated procurement procedures for logistic supplies for company lines, produced and maintained budget forecasts for unit.

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  ST Aerospace

  Apr 2016 - Aug 2016

  Student Intern

  Assisted the Planning Production and Control (PPC) department with the tracking and quality control of aircraft maintenance related documentation and the recording of maintenance related information (defect rectifications, man-hours etc.). Also developed work process improvements in the form of training documentation for new personnel and an excel man-hour lookup function for the department as part of a school final year project module.

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  Singapore Polytechnic

  May 2017 - Jun 2017

  Technical Support Officer (Temporary)

  Stitched and prepared composite structures and assisted with activities at the composite technology lab.

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  National University of Singapore

  Aug 2020 - May 2021

  Research Apprentice
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  AI Singapore

  Apr 2022 - Oct 2024

  ● Machine Learning: Completed a two-month deep skilling phase and learned to apply various machine learning models in different contexts (e.g., Regression/Computer Vision/Natural Language Processing), with proper software engineering and MLOps practices.● 2D Computer Vision: Worked with a team of 5 to build a face detection and emotion classification framework with TensorFlow and OpenCV, as part of a week-long mini-project (Git Repository: https://github.com/Thiggz/workplace-emotion-detector).● 3D Computer Vision: Performed data analysis, processing and deep learning on point-cloud data acquired from LIDAR sensors as part of a 7-month AI project to develop an auto-annotation solution for a leading automotive multinational company.● Software Engineering: Utilized frameworks that include Pytorch/Pytorch Lightning for distributed training and testing. Leveraged and modified functionality from a public repository (OpenPCDet by OpenMMLabs), with Kedro for modularization and pipelining and MLflow for experiment tracking within the KubeFlow MLOps platform. Show less

  • AI Engineer

    Jan 2023 - Oct 2024

  • AI Apprentice

    Apr 2022 - Jan 2023
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  Erasmus MC

  Oct 2024 - now

  PHD Candidate

  Working in the Departments of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine and Pathology at Erasmus Medical Center, focusing on developing advanced vision-based models to address challenges in soft tissue tumor (STT) pathology.