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Pune, MH, IN

Hyderabad, India

• Creating a tailored NLP pipeline with OCR, Text Classification and Token Classification models leveragingOpen LLMs.

Saarbrücken, Saarland, Germany

• Topic of Research: ”Privacy Preserving Generation with Large Language Models”
• Researching on Private Large Language Models using various Differential Privacy Frameworks.
• Analyzing several pretraining / fine-tuning methods and model behavior in various downstream tasks.
• Fine-tuning text, vision, and multimodals with PEFT methods and enabling DP for Privacy PreservingPEFT methods.

Hyderabad, India

• Developed NLP classifier models exceeding 95% accuracy, demonstrating strong data analysis andmodeling skills.
• Fine-tuned large transformer models to improve precision, reliability, and efficiency.
• Created transformer models daily for sequence classification, generation, and token classification, showcasinginnovation and adaptability.
• Developed custom NER solutions to optimize data extraction and retrieval.
• Proficiently worked with Big Data to analyze patterns and successfully implemented developed models,contributing to data-driven insights and decision-making.

Delhi, India

• Worked with AWS EC2, EBS, and S3 to host and develop websites.
• Successfully migrated Non-AWS web applications to the AWS infrastructure.
• Developed a sophisticated Content Recommendation system using AWS Personalize.
• Gained hands-on experience with more than 50 AWS services during the training period.
• Proficient in using tools like the AWS Cost Calculator to optimize cloud resources.

Patna, India

• Topic of research: Agile motion of quadrupedal locomotion using Quad-SDK.
• Improved obstacle detection accuracy by 25% by testing deep learning algorithms.
• Increased terrain mapping accuracy by 12.7% using optimized contour mapping techniques.

Bachelor Of Technology - Btech, Computer Science And Engineering (Cse), Current Cgpa: 7.7/10 (Gpa: 3.06/4.00)

Activities and Societies: Curator at TEDxDYPAkurdi [TEDx Conference] • Technical Cohorts and Hackathons.

Freshmen & Sophomore Year, Science Stream - Pcm (With Cs), 78.2%

Activities and Societies: Football, Coding Champ