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Things I've built

Deep-learning and computer-vision systems, machine-learning & data pipelines, and full-stack software — plus awards and peer-reviewed publications.

13 projects
4 published papers
3 hackathon & project awards
01

Deep Learning & Computer Vision

5 projects

Reinforcement Learning-Based Dialogue Summarization

Lightweight LSTM attention model for dialogue summarization on the SAMSum dataset, with a modular RL wrapper (SCST, PPO) that improved BLEU by +5.42% over baseline without pretrained transformers.

PyTorchRL (SCST, PPO)LSTMNLP

Multimodal Zero-Shot Learning for Unseen Concepts

Zero-shot image classifier using CLIP image/text embeddings and a knowledge-graph R-GCN with edge-attention and a prototype-refinement loss before an MLP head. Improved over the CLIP baseline by +23% Top-1 accuracy (59% vs. 36%) and +13% F1 on AWA2.

PyTorchCLIPGCNKnowledge Graphs

Human Pose Estimation in Fitness Tracking & Guidance

AI-based tool for real-time exercise monitoring using BlazePose, yoga-pose classification, and automated data reporting.

OpenCVDeep LearningMediaPipeNode.jsHTMLCSS

Contour Tracking & Detection of Heart Chamber

Detects blood chambers in echocardiogram video frames using a U-Net segmentation approach, built during a hackathon.

OpenCVDeep Learning (DeepGaze)PyDICOMPython

RePostureAI

AI-powered app that corrects posture in real time, tracks reps, and helps deliver safe, effective, injury-free workouts.

PythonOpenCVMediaPipeStreamlitGemini AI
02

Machine Learning & Data

4 projects

LinkedIn Job-Market Analysis & Recommendation System

Forecasting tool using LinkedIn data and ML models (ARIMA, clustering) to uncover job trends and salary insights.

PythonMachine LearningScikit-learnMatplotlibSeaborn

Document Classification in Apache Spark

Document classification system built with PySpark to handle big-data volumes and optimize multi-class document processing.

PySparkArticle APIMachine Learning

Hybrid Recommender System (Fashion)

Two-stage recommendation pipeline combining collaborative filtering and content-based search over 44,072 fashion products, with FAISS + CLIP embeddings for ~10ms vector retrieval and a neural re-ranker. Full-stack React 18 + FastAPI app with 11 REST endpoints; sub-100ms end-to-end latency, 95.4% recommendation diversity, 1-interaction cold-start.

FastAPIReact 18FAISSCLIP EmbeddingsCollaborative FilteringMatrix Factorization

Format Matters: Data Storage Format Impact on ML Training

Benchmarked six storage formats — CSV, Parquet, Feather, LMDB, WebDataset and TFRecord — across CIFAR-10 image training and 1M-row tabular ML workloads, quantifying impact on I/O throughput, load time, and storage efficiency while showing training accuracy stayed format-neutral.

PythonPyTorchSystems for MLI/O OptimizationBenchmarking
03

Software Development

4 projects

Chat Application

Simple chat application using React Chat Engine with real-time messaging and authentication.

React.jsReact Chat Engine

WhatNow — Multi-App Wellness Platform

Platform integrating six independent Next.js services (fitness coaching, nutrition planning, skin analysis, restaurant discovery, fitness analytics, community) under a unified opaque-token auth system on ports 3000–3006. MongoDB-backed, Google Gemini for AI features, MediaPipe-pose exercise tracking with rep counting and form feedback. Each service ships its own Dockerfile.

Next.jsTypeScriptMongoDBGoogle GeminiMediaPipeDocker

Smart Expense Calculator

Privacy-first personal-finance desktop app for Windows. Auto-categorizes transactions from bank-statement Excel exports, monitors budgets with real-time alerts, surfaces spending patterns and recurring subscriptions, and renders interactive analytics — all data stays local, no cloud sync. Built with Streamlit, Pandas, and Plotly on Python 3.11.

PythonStreamlitPandasPlotly

E-Commerce Website

Full-featured e-commerce platform with customer features (browse, cart, secure Stripe checkout, order history) and an admin dashboard (sales analytics, product/order/user management). Built with Next.js 15, TypeScript, Prisma, and NextAuth.js.

Next.js 15TypeScriptPrisma ORMNextAuth.jsStripeTailwind CSSshadcn/uiSQLite
04

Achievements & Publications

recognition & peer-reviewed work
Publication · 2026

Predicting Tensile Properties of Sub-Sized Nuclear Materials Using Data Augmentation Strategies on Imbalanced and Sparse Datasets

Frontiers in Manufacturing Technology · Vol. 6, 2026 · DOI 10.3389/fmtec.2026.1811951

ML framework for predicting tensile properties (yield strength, elongation) of miniaturized SS-316 nuclear specimens from sparse, imbalanced data. GAN + SMOGN data augmentation; Random Forest / XGBoost reached Pearson r > 0.98, establishing guidance for matching augmentation strategy to target property. Co-author, with INL collaborators.

Publication · 2025

Bridging Multimodal Microscopy for Advanced Characterization of Nuclear Fuel Using Machine Learning

Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering – Digital Manufacturing · Vol. 11, 2025

Co-authored work demonstrating a transfer-learning deep-learning framework that outperformed four state-of-the-art models for cross-scale defect segmentation in nuclear materials.

Award

3rd Place — T9-MediHack 2025 (24-hour Hackathon)

Awarded in the AI track for "RePosture AI", a computer-vision tool for posture correction with real-time feedback.

Award

7th Place — AWS Jam Hackathon, CU Boulder

Placed 7th of 20 teams, solving 9/13 security challenges using AWS services including Lambda, CloudTrail, DynamoDB, S3, VPC, IAM, and SageMaker.

Award

Best Project of the Year — Computer Science

Awarded for "Human pose estimation in fitness tracking and guidance" at VTU, Belagavi, August 2022, supported by KSCST.

05

Extracurricular

leadership & community

Teaching Assistant, Distributed Systems — CU Boulder

Jan – May 2026

Supported Prof. Mark Zhao by holding office hours, assisting with assignment/project design, grading, and helping students debug distributed-systems concepts and implementations.

Technical / Data Consultant, Data Buffs

Jan 2025 – Present

Data extraction, backend development, and statistical analysis to deliver data-driven insights.

Co-Founder, Data Science & AI-ML Student Club (Layers)

Dec 2021 – Present

Lead the Layers Club to promote knowledge sharing, networking, and skill development in data science and AI-ML.