Kamal Shrestha

Experience

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  Em-Blood Android Application with Nepal Red Cross Society

  Jan 2017 - Jul 2018

  Ambassador

  · Supervised a team of ten volunteers among five teams in spreading awareness of the need for fresh emergency blood within different blood donation centers, hospitals, universities, schools, and blood banks.· Involved in creating awareness posters, an indexable database (using Google Firebase) for health professionals, and managing help desks in every hospital (in a distributed network of hospitals) that patients can contact in need of fresh blood/blood donors.

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  Kathmandu University Computer Club - KUCC

  Jan 2017 - Jan 2018

  Executive Board Member

  · An active student-run club of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Kathmandu University solely responsible for the majority of extracurricular activities like LTSP (Linux Terminal Server Project) and Software Freedom Day.· Conducted 20+ workshops (on varied topics) in collaboration with multiple guests from premium companies like A Yomari Company, Fusemachines, Deerwalk, F1Soft International, MIDAS and more every year.

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  Kathmandu University (KU)

  Jun 2019 - Nov 2020

  · Lead of documentation team and member of the marketing team of one of Nepal’s premier annual IT events, IT Meet v8.0, with 25 different events and participation of more than 50 techs. companies with internships and full-time career opportunities.· Directed a team of 25 through multiple documentation stages for sponsorship (proposals, cost analysis, contracts, MoU) and collaboration with 10-20 companies to successfully bring in 8 different companies with total funding of NPR 110,000, 20% of total funding. Show less

  • IT MEET v8.0 Documentation Lead and Marketing Representative

    Jan 2020 - Nov 2020

  • IT MEET v7.0 Photography Event Organizer

    Jun 2019 - Dec 2019
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  Fusemachines

  Jul 2020 - Dec 2021

  · Worked on clients based and in-house projects that involved all stages of applied ML, DL, and NLP in real-world data (from the collection, cleaning, and EDA to model building, deployment, and maintenance). · Worked as a lead curriculum engineer to design, create, review and refine course materials (reading materials, presentation slides, audio transcripts, auto-graded assignments, hands-on implementations, quizzes) for Fusemachines AI Education Programs: ”Foundations in AI: Computer Science for AI, Micro Degree™ in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Natural Language Processing, Strategy for implementing AI, AI for agriculture and AI in Healthcare. · Designed and Developed a fully automated Video and Text-to-speech(TTS) Generation System for Fusestudio(in-house project), which focuses on creating an entire video given Google Slides presentation and audio transcript mimicking how a person presents with the same using Tacotron2, GlowTTs, and MelGAN. · Remodeled and optimized Questions Answering and Difficulty Ranking Model along with Content Recommendation System (in terms of better representations, raking, and recommendations) for quizzes, assignments, and exams using BERT, Ensemble models, Elastic Search, MongoDB, and FastAPI as a part of fuse classroom· Moderator for multiple discussion sessions on SOTA papers, knowledge sharing sessions, hands-on implementations, and live coding rounds.· Facilitated weekly update meetings and reported to senior management on project status and maintain an intensive plan to keep visibility on the projects at all times. Show less - Focused on writing interactive student engaging materials on Deep learning, Machine Learning and Natural language processing- Worked on developing machine learning models specifically focused on classification and regression on structured data- Worked with tools that are involved in the life-cycle of a machine learning model like creating RESTful API using Flask, Deployment with Docker and Heroku, logging with mlflow, monitoring with Tesnorboard and exploratory data analysis using Mito. Show less

  • Machine Learning Engineer Associate

    Feb 2021 - Dec 2021

  • Machine Learning Engineer Associate Trainee

    Jul 2020 - Feb 2021
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  Fuse AI Center for Research and Training

  Jul 2021 - Nov 2021

  Course Instructor, Computer Science in Artificial Intelligence, Herald College

  Course Instructor for Foundational of Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science Course, for bachelor level students (B. IT 3rd Year) of Herald College as provided by Fusemachines AI Shikshya Initiative.Topics Included:- Introduction to Artificial Intelligence- Basics of Computer Systems, Linux, Networks- Python Programming- Scientific Python with Numpy, Pandas, and Matplotlib- Data Structure and Algorithms- Database, SQL and NoSQL- Software Development Lifecycle- Web Frameworks- Deployment Show less

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  Q.I. Roberts Jr. - Sr. High School

  Aug 2021 - Dec 2021

  Course Instructor, Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

  Course Instructor to "Introduction to Artificial Intelligence" for Students in Grade 11-12· Designed, planned, implemented, and instructed daily lesson plans, coding sessions, and online lectures for the course “Computer Science for AI” to high school students of US and undergraduate BSc.CSIT final year students of Nepal.· The class was of size 60 in Nepal and 18 in the US· Received an overall rating of 4.65/5 from Nepal students and 4.35/5 from US students· The course topics include Introduction to AI, Fundamentals of CS, Python Programming, Scientific Python(Numpy, Pandas, and Matplotlib), Data Structure, Database Management, and Web Application Basics. Show less

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  Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad

  Aug 2022 - Jul 2023

  · Responsible for all in college AI/ML/NLP discussion groups, paper reading sessions, blogs, writing groups, implementation workshops.· Organized session on ”Structuring Machine Learning Projects” that aimed to provide insights and guidance for fellow students looking to excel in their ML projects for better reproducibility, collaboration and more with industry-standard tools like Poetry, Commit Hooks, Github, Tensorboard, MLFlow, Docker.

  • Postgraduate Student

    Aug 2021 - Jul 2023

  • ACM - IIT Hyderabad Student Chapter - Machine Learning Moderator

    Aug 2022 - Jun 2023
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  Bosch Global Software Technologies

  Aug 2023 - Jan 2025

  Machine Learning Engineer

  TLDR: Working with large language models as an applied AI researcher at BOSCH Research Technology Center India (RTC-IN) to bring optimization within business units to drive efficiency and critical decisions.- Highlights on my work include working on a high-impact project centered on leveraging large language models (LLM) for retrieval augmented generative text to introduce interactive agents for streamlined workflows and user engagement aiming to enhance operational efficiency across business units. - Received the Bravo Award X 5 for excellent rigor and engineering skills in the successful completion of the first Generative AI PoC within 3 months.- Developed and implemented a novel deep learning model for classifying lengthy legal documents by relevance within the ProCodex team, significantly improving compliance processes for various BOSCH products across departments and global jurisdictions and achieving €10 million in annual savings by reducing manual human effort.- In parallel, working with in-house data pool to create multiple training, testing and deployment fine-tuning pipelines using SOTA models for production-ready generative and classification task to drive tangible results for critical decision and optimize team efforts in diverse business units. Show less

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  Veritus

  Aug 2024 - Sept 2024

  Applied AI Consultant specializing in LLMs

  Advisory Role in LLM Implementation: Leveraged extensive experience with generative libraries and fine-tuning methods to guide strategic decision-making in LLM application development for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Finetune of LLM Models, deployment with Microsoft Azure, and leveraing towards customizing open source applications. Provided advisory support to resolve common implementation challenges, ensuring optimal approach selection at each stage of development.Expert in Generative AI Solutions: Specialized in applying LLMs for enterprise-level RAG solutions and custom finetune solutions offering consulting services that blend technical proficiency with strategic insights. Collaborated closely with teams to implement cutting-edge LLM technologies, fine-tune models, and streamline workflows for maximum efficiency and effectiveness. Show less

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  GoDaddy

  Jan 2025 - now

  Senior Machine Learning Engineer

  - Primary focus on Generative AI for Enterprise Solutions