Pranay Barkataki

Experience

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  Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

  Apr 2020 - Jun 2020

  Internship Trainee

  • During this internship, I gained hands-on experience in building an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) from scratch. • The greatest advantage of this internship was that I got a deeper understanding of the complex but intriguing mathematics behind building ANN. • Finally, I enrolled in-house Kaggle competition for classifying images, and I competed with a team of six members. I was the team leader and we developed 3 Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) from scratch.• The best model showed an accuracy of 62.28% on the test set. Show less

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  IAvenue Labs Pvt. Ltd.

  Oct 2021 - Dec 2021

  Research Analyst Intern

  Roles and responsibilities• Assisted in data collection, cleaning, and preprocessing for various analytical projects.• Conducted exploratory data analysis (EDA) to identify popular millet-based products in the market.• Developed Tableau dashboard presenting weekly reports for the team, highlighting trending products and key performance metrics.

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  Skillmine Technology Consulting

  Dec 2021 - Jul 2024

  Research Engineer

  Roles and responsibilities• Trained diffusion models from scratch, and surpassed previously reported SOTA results • Innovated and developed cutting-edge machine learning algorithms to address bias in image generation, leading to a significant 17.2% performance improvement over previous models.• Implemented a custom dataset with 100,000 images for Watermark removal using a WDNet model (GAN architecture) on 8 GPUs, achieving peak PSNR and SSIM values of 0.38 and 0.97• Conducted comprehensive research and co-authored a paper comparing prominent Language Models (LLMs) to assess their code generation capabilities, utilizing both qualitative criteria and quantitative metrics Show less

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  Honeywell

  Jul 2024 - Jan 2025

  Data Scientist
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  Meril

  Jan 2025 - now

  Senior AI ML Researcher