Working as a Graduate Student Researcher in the Robotics Lab - https://robotics.ucmerced.edu/

Graduate Teaching Assistant CSE 005 - Computer Applications, Spring 2022

Graduate Teaching Assistant CSE 030 - Computer Organization, Fall 2021

Graduate Teaching Assistant CSE 120 - Software Engineering, Fall 2021

• Worked on training and evaluating text classification and generation models for Knorex KAIROS’s Brand Safety and Contextual targeting offerings. Improved overall CTR on an average advertising campaign by 12%.• Responsible for the end-to-end development cycle of Sentinel, an Active Learning platform to build text classifiers without any labeled data. A working manuscript is available below.• Applied Transformer models with guided decoding for the task of automatically generating high-quality advertising slogans for Dynamic creative optimization, surpassing previous benchmark results by 33%.• Supported several production ad-hoc features such as Keyword Extraction and Search Similarity for User-Defined Custom Segments for Contextual Targeting.

• Implemented a real-time object detection and on-device scene classification model for K12 language learning Lingolens. Trained a custom YOLO model to detect ∼150 objects with an mAP of 67%.• Subsequently optimized the on-device detection and classification inference speeds by 19% with only 6% performance degradation compared to SoTA methods such as RetinaNet and SSD.• Devised embedding and attribute-aware similarity models for the automatic question tagger system for the peer-to-peer question answering forum for the CampK12’s Generation Blockchain 2018 Summit.• Explored the domain of Machine-assisted Assignment Grading and experimented with applying variations of neural language models and other embedding techniques to the task of Automatic Essay Scoring.

• Led a 3 member team for the development and deployment of an ML-based Book Genre Classification system to classify books into their genres, based entirely on their title, without knowledge of author and origin.• Extended trained models through containers and pods in production and directly collaborated with the backend team on the prototype of a News Article Authorship Plagiarism Checker.

Core Responsibilities were : • Hosted activities and workshops to inculcate internship culture in college premises.• Promoted Internshala brand, products & services in my college campus.