Experience

Professional Experience

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May 2024 – Present

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Dragonfruit AI, India

Led integration and optimization of YOLOv5/v7/v9 models for CV pipelines. Enhanced CoreML inference on Apple Silicon, and developed pose-based action recognition models. Integrated Florence-2 and SmolVLM-256M for scene understanding and collaborated with product teams to align CV/ML initiatives with business objectives.

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June 2022 – Dec 2023

Master’s Thesis Student / Research Assistant

Computer Vision Group, RWTH Aachen University

Developed DynaMITe, an efficient Transformer-based architecture for multi-instance interactive object segmentation. The work was accepted at ICCV 2023 and as a spotlight paper at the Transformers for Vision Workshop, CVPR 2023. Achieved expertise in multi-GPU training across distributed nodes.

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Jun 2017 – Nov 2020

Machine Learning Engineer

Samsung R&D Institute, Noida, India

Created a TensorFlow Lite and OpenPose-based pose detection solution. Built a music recommendation engine for the Samsung music app and prototyped a smart volume control system using voice detection. Mentored intern teams in GAN-based facial editing and CNN-based image grouping projects.

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May 2016 – Jul 2016

Data Analyst Intern

Barclays Technology Center, Pune

Investigated PySpark and py4j for efficient JVM-to-Python data transfer. Assisted in handling large data pipelines, boosting performance and understanding in the team’s Spark-based projects.

Education

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Oct 2020 – July 2023

M.Sc. in Media Informatics

RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Graduated with distinction (CGPA: 1.3/4.0; US GPA Equivalent: 4.0/4.0).

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July 2013 – May 2017

B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering

IIT Kanpur, India

Graduated with a CGPA of 7.3/10 (US GPA Equivalent: 3.15/4.0).