Hetarth Chopra

Hetarth chopra

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location of Hetarth ChopraChampaign, Illinois, United States
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  • Timeline

    Dec 2016 - Sept 2019

    Chief Designing Officer

    CoLinkers
    May 2017 - Aug 2017

    Mentor

    Frosh Week TU
    Sept 2017 - Nov 2017

    Team Member

    TEDxThaparUniversity
    Jan 2019 - Jul 2019

    Robotics Researcher

    Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
    Aug 2019 - Oct 2019

    Robotics Engineer

    Peer Robotics
    Jun 2020 - Nov 2020

    Machine Learning Researcher

    Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology
    Nov 2020 - Oct 2021

    Graduate Engineering Trainee

    Alstom
    Nov 2021 - Sept 2022

    Jr. Machine Learning Engineer

    Dukaan®
    Sept 2022 - Jul 2023

    Machine Learning Engineer (LLM's)

    Cactus Communications
    Aug 2023 - May 2024

    Graduate Research Assistant

    Siebel School of Computing and Data Science
    Champaign, Illinois, United States
    Dec 2023 - Jun 2024

    Machine Learning Engineer

    TextData
    Jun 2024 - Dec 2024

    Data Scientist

    CrowdStrike
    Jun 2024 - Aug 2024

    Graduate Research Assistant

    Coordinated Science Laboratory at University of Illinois
    Aug 2024 - Dec 2024

    Graduate Teaching Assistant

    Siebel School of Computing and Data Science
    Current Company
    Jan 2025 - now

    Graduate Research Assistant

    National Center for Supercomputing Applications
  • About me

    ML @ Crowdstrike | RA at LLVM Lab/NCSA and ex RA TIMAN Lab UIUC | ML Engineer with 3 YoE | MS Statistics @ UIUC | ex Cactus/Dukaan/IIT Delhi/Thapar

  • Education

    • University of illinois urbana-champaign

      2023 -
      Master of science - ms statistics 4/4

      Relevant CourseworkFA23 :STAT 410 - Statistics and Probability II (A)STAT 425 - Statistical Modelling (A+)STAT 432 - Machine Learning, Statistical (A)SPRG 24:CS 444 - Deep Learning in Computer Vision (A+)CS 597 - Independent Study with Dr Vikram Adve (A)STAT 542 - Advanced Statistical Machine Learning (A+)SMR 24:STAT 593 - Internship (with CrowdStrike) (A)FA 24:STAT 431 - Applied Bayesian Analysis (A)STAT 593 - Internship (with Crowdstrike)… Show more Relevant CourseworkFA23 :STAT 410 - Statistics and Probability II (A)STAT 425 - Statistical Modelling (A+)STAT 432 - Machine Learning, Statistical (A)SPRG 24:CS 444 - Deep Learning in Computer Vision (A+)CS 597 - Independent Study with Dr Vikram Adve (A)STAT 542 - Advanced Statistical Machine Learning (A+)SMR 24:STAT 593 - Internship (with CrowdStrike) (A)FA 24:STAT 431 - Applied Bayesian Analysis (A)STAT 593 - Internship (with Crowdstrike) (A)CS 597 - Independent Study with Dr Vikram Adve (A)SPRG 25:STAT 510 - Mathematical Statistics STAT 437 - Unsupervised Learning Show less

    • Thapar university

      2016 - 2020
      Bachelor of engineering - be mechatronics, robotics, and automation engineering 8.62
  • Experience

    • Colinkers

      Dec 2016 - Sept 2019
      Chief designing officer

      Acted as the chief designing officer for an event management startup in Patiala, by managing all graphic design requirements for 30+ events done across Patiala, Jalandhar, New Delhi, and Ludhiana. Mentored junior graphic designers to curate creative ideas for the same.

    • Frosh week tu

      May 2017 - Aug 2017
      Mentor
    • Tedxthaparuniversity

      Sept 2017 - Nov 2017
      Team member
    • Indian institute of technology, delhi

      Jan 2019 - Jul 2019
      Robotics researcher

      Worked at the PAR (Program for Autonomous Robotics) at IIT Delhi, under the guidance of Prof. S.K. Saha. Worked on the electronics and ROS software development of a semi-autonomous robot RoboMuse3XT - for surveillance purposes, and a fully autonomous collaborative mobile robot -RoboMuse V.

    • Peer robotics

      Aug 2019 - Oct 2019
      Robotics engineer

      Worked as a part-time robotics engineer/developer, on an Intertial-Aided Navigation system for an Autonomous Collaborative Robot. Developed a ROS-Python package for data acquisition from an IMU-Sensor, without interfacing it with a micro-controller.

    • Thapar institute of engineering & technology

      Jun 2020 - Nov 2020
      Machine learning researcher

      Worked on developing a Machine Learning Algorithm, under Dr.PS Rana, for predicting the concrete compressive strength of concrete by training gradient boosting models on the extracted data from concrete samples.

    • Alstom

      Nov 2020 - Oct 2021
      Graduate engineering trainee
    • Dukaan®

      Nov 2021 - Sept 2022
      Jr. machine learning engineer

      Worked solo on 10+ projects related to Deep Learning, Computer Vision, and Natural Language Processing in the domain of Fraud Detection, User Experience Enhancement and Profit Boosting. Highlights- Enhanced image clarity by fine-tuning DeblurGAN, CNN-based model, in LAB colorspace, increasing Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio by 72%.• Surpassed Google Translate (Hinglish) with a BLEU of 0.525 by forming a Romanization Python library based on IndicNLP.• Captured 32% more frauds by estimating a product's price using a vector database usingMiniLM (Quantized Sentence LLM), K-Nearest Neighbors Semantic Search, and Statistical Z-Score Outlier Detection.• Prototyped a video production engine using After Effects, RabbitMQ, and Apache Kafka, achieving up to 4 video renders per minute.• Fine-tuned a Pre-trained Inception-ResNet and Universal Sentence Encoder MultiModal DL Model to predict with 88% precision of determining an image-name's similarity. Show less

    • Cactus communications

      Sept 2022 - Jul 2023
      Machine learning engineer (llm's)

      • Acted as the Product Owner of a Language Acceptability Large Language Model by fine-tuning RoBERTa to score a paper's linguistic quality.• Collaborated with the business to develop a data-driven payment model, using Random Forest, yielding a remarkable $1.3 million in savings.

    • Siebel school of computing and data science

      Aug 2023 - May 2024

      In my research assistantship with the Text Information Management and Analysis (TIMAN) group at the University of Illinois, I will be working under the guidance of Prof. ChengXiang Zhai, a prominent figure in the field of information retrieval and data mining. I will be working on the Community Digital Library Project, especially on adding Large Language Models and RAG implementations on the existing infrastructure. Working under the guidance of Prof Vikram Adve, on CropWizard (an AI-Based LLM tool to assist farmers in solving queries) and fine-tuning IBM's Ansible Code Generator LLM.

      • Graduate Research Assistant

        Jan 2024 - May 2024
      • Machine Learning Engineer (LLM's)

        Aug 2023 - Jan 2024
    • Textdata

      Dec 2023 - Jun 2024
      Machine learning engineer
    • Crowdstrike

      Jun 2024 - Dec 2024
      Data scientist

      Part of the Core Detections team, trying to minimize attacks using proprietary ML models

    • Coordinated science laboratory at university of illinois

      Jun 2024 - Aug 2024
      Graduate research assistant
    • Siebel school of computing and data science

      Aug 2024 - Dec 2024
      Graduate teaching assistant

      Lead TA for CS598 - Fundamentals of Data Curation

    • National center for supercomputing applications

      Jan 2025 - now
      Graduate research assistant
  • Licenses & Certifications

  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Hetarth Chopra
      Gold Medalist - Third Year B.E. Mechatronics (2018-19) Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala Sep 2019 Branch Topper for the Third Year Mechatronics Engineering with a cumulative AGPA of 9.05
    • Awarded to Hetarth Chopra
      Merit Scholarship - Class Top 10 % Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala August 1, 2019
    • Awarded to Hetarth Chopra
      Merit Scholarship - Class Top 10 % Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala August 1, 2018
    • Awarded to Hetarth Chopra
      Merit Scholarship - Class Top 10% Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala August 1, 2017
    • Awarded to Hetarth Chopra
      Bruce M. Clark Award National Space Society (NSS), USA Feb 2014 Award for winning the grand prize at NASA/NSS Ames Space Settlement Design Competition. Co-shared between two teams Vona (from India) and Greenspace (from Bulgaria)
  • Volunteer Experience

    • Graphic Designer

      Issued by Prayaas Corps on Jul 2017
      Prayaas CorpsAssociated with Hetarth Chopra