Parikshit Shembekar Email & Phone Number

Watertown, Massachusetts, United States

Rochester, New York Area

Created software using PyQt for dataset annotation. The dataset provides a new baseline for tracking and detection of objects in hyperspectral images.Refactored the front-end and added new functionality which optimized the data annotation performance by reducing labeling time for each image batch.

Rochester, New York Area

Teaching Assistant for the course: Topics in Intelligent Systems - Human Behavior Modelling.Designed assignments that included topics like Gaussian Mixture Model, Hidden Markov Model, and LSTM.For setting up projects, performed feature extraction using OpenFace, and wrote shell scripts to automate the process.Held office hours to solve student doubts and explain concepts.

Built a prototype for a candidate filtering system that helped shortlisting candidates based on resumes.Performed feature extraction and data modeling. Wrote scripts for automated data extraction using Selenium.Researched and implemented approaches like latent Dirichlet allocation, t-SNE, word-vectors, and Siamese networks.Developed machine learning pipeline which improved performance by 7%.

Mumbai Area, India

Worked at the IIT Bombay Aerospace Department, on Autonomous Navigation of vehicles.Used OpenCV Python on the project