
Timeline
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 4/4Relevant 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 - 2020Bachelor of engineering - be mechatronics, robotics, and automation engineering 8.62
Experience
Colinkers
Dec 2016 - Sept 2019Chief designing officerActed 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 2017MentorTedxthaparuniversity
Sept 2017 - Nov 2017Team memberIndian institute of technology, delhi
Jan 2019 - Jul 2019Robotics researcherWorked 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 2019Robotics engineerWorked 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 2020Machine learning researcherWorked 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 2021Graduate engineering traineeDukaan®
Nov 2021 - Sept 2022Jr. machine learning engineerWorked 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 2023Machine 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 2024In 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 2024Machine Learning Engineer (LLM's)
Aug 2023 - Jan 2024
Textdata
Dec 2023 - Jun 2024Machine learning engineerCrowdstrike
Jun 2024 - Dec 2024Data scientistPart of the Core Detections team, trying to minimize attacks using proprietary ML models
Coordinated science laboratory at university of illinois
Jun 2024 - Aug 2024Graduate research assistantSiebel school of computing and data science
Aug 2024 - Dec 2024Graduate teaching assistantLead TA for CS598 - Fundamentals of Data Curation
National center for supercomputing applications
Jan 2025 - nowGraduate research assistant
Licenses & Certifications
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Deep learning and computer vision a-z: opencv, ssd, & gan's udemy
Udemy - View certificate
Neural networks and deep learning
Deeplearning.aiApr 2020 - View certificate
Improving deep neural networks: hyperparameter tuning, regularization and optimization
Deeplearning.aiMay 2020 - View certificate
Convolutional neural networks
Deeplearning.aiJul 2020 - View certificate
Structuring machine learning projects
Deeplearning.aiMay 2020 - View certificate
Machine learning
Stanford onlineFeb 2020
Honors & Awards
- Awarded to Hetarth ChopraGold 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 ChopraMerit Scholarship - Class Top 10 % Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala August 1, 2019
- Awarded to Hetarth ChopraMerit Scholarship - Class Top 10 % Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala August 1, 2018
- Awarded to Hetarth ChopraMerit Scholarship - Class Top 10% Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala August 1, 2017
- Awarded to Hetarth ChopraBruce 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 2017Associated with Hetarth Chopra
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