Ritesh Soun

Experience

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  1GEN

  Jun 2019 - Jul 2019

  Project Intern

  - Worked for a UN Project namely "Summer of Solutions". - Responsibilities included programming an IoT device and product development.

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  Fine Arts Association, Sri Venkateswara College (University of Delhi)

  Aug 2019 - Feb 2022

  Fine Arts Association is the governing body of all the Cultural Societies of SVC and is also responsible for organising the Annual Cultural Festival - Nexus.

  • President

    Jun 2021 - Feb 2022

  • Vice President

    May 2020 - Jun 2021

  • Member, Technical Team

    Aug 2019 - May 2020
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  Boolean, Tech Club - Sri Venkateswara College

  Jan 2020 - Feb 2022

  • Advisor

    Aug 2021 - Feb 2022

  • General Secretary

    May 2020 - Aug 2021

  • Assistant General Secretary

    Jan 2020 - May 2020
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  Sri Venkateswara College, Delhi University

  Jun 2020 - Aug 2020

  Research Intern

  - Worked under Dr. Shubhra Gupta on modelling of thin film solar cells- Ran simulation experiments on MATLAB- Documented research outcomes

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  Mental Health Foundation India

  Aug 2020 - Oct 2020

  Technical Support Intern
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  BrickWin Consultancy Services

  Jan 2021 - Mar 2022

  Machine Learning Developer

  - Built end-to-end data-driven Django apps- Developed Natural Language Processing models for online text streams- Made models production-ready and integrated them with live products built on Django

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  GirlScript Summer of Code

  Feb 2021 - May 2021

  Mentor

  GirlScript Summer of Code is the 3 month-long Open Source program conducted by GirlScript Foundation. Throughout the program, participants contribute to different projects under the guidance of experienced mentors. Responsibilities include guiding participants throughout the program.

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  Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi

  Jun 2021 - Feb 2023

  NLP Researcher @ TavLab

  - Researching to utilize AI in the medical domain- Designing the end-to-end model pipeline- Fine-tuning domain-specific BERT models for classification tasks- Documenting the research experiments and findings

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  MIDAS: Multimodal Digital Media Analysis Lab

  Sept 2021 - Dec 2023

  AI Researcher

  - Assisting NLP research projects by conducting experiments and documenting research work- Co-authored 5 research studies (2 accepted at ACL 2022, 1 at NAACL 2022, 1 at EMNLP 2022)- Collaborating with researchers from abroad and India to conduct research

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  Mindshift Analytics

  Dec 2021 - Mar 2022

  Data Science Intern

  - Monitored and Analyzed 1000s of data points from sensors on a daily basis fromtelecom towers and construction machinery- Designed ML algorithms to detect anomalies in fuel and energy consumption- Suggested optimizations for higher consumption efficiencies

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  Now&Me

  Apr 2022 - Feb 2024

  - Setting up MLOps pipelines- Designing and training ML algorithms for content moderation and recommendations- Processing natural language data for deriving insights

  • Machine Learning Engineer

    Jun 2022 - Feb 2024

  • Machine Learning Engineer

    Apr 2022 - Jun 2022
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  Hexo

  Mar 2023 - Dec 2023

  ML Research Scientist

  - Conducted LLM and Generative AI Research- Built state-of-the-art image capationing, unconditional generation and prompt transformation models

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  Doctor Droid

  Feb 2024 - Mar 2024

  Machine Learning Engineer
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  ProjectPro

  Mar 2024 - May 2024

  LLM Expert
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  Tower Research Capital

  May 2024 - now

  Core AI & ML