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Abhipal Sharma

Brooklyn,NY

Overview

3
3
years of professional experience

Work History

Research Assistant

Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi (IIIT-Delhi)
New Delhi, India
02.2023 - 05.2024
  • Made improvements to the CaTRAT tool delivered to the Wildlife Institute of India (WII) which has been used in the All India Tiger Estimation (AITE),22 for detecting and classifying 50 million camera-trap images of wildlife. The tool has been used to detect 98 classes of animals with an average precision of 86.41% and recall of 84.38%.
  • Worked on developing a novel paradigm for integrating hierarchical information into object detection. I collaborated with Dr. Saket Anand, Associate Professor at IIIT Delhi.

Undergraduate Thesis

BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus
Hyderabad, India
08.2022 - 12.2022
  • Developed a novel methodology for the identification of drivers using temporal behavior analysis of GPS traces in Intelligent Transportation Systems in the field of Machine Learning, Data Analytics, and Data Security, achieving an overall accuracy of 95%.
  • Supervised by Dr. Rajib Ranjan Maiti, Assistant Professor at BITS Hyderabad during this period.

Research Assistant

Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
New Delhi, India
06.2022 - 09.2022
  • Implemented pre-existing State-of-the-art architectures for 'Video Instance Segmentation for medical surgery videos' in Computer Vision.
  • Worked towards the creation of a novel State of the Art architecture, collaborating with Dr. Chetan Arora, Associate Professor, IIT Delhi.

Machine Learning Intern

Arocom IT Solutions Private Limited
Ahmedabad, India
06.2021 - 08.2021
  • Collaborated with executives from the domains of Data Analytics and HR on Sentiment Analysis of user reviews for the company.
  • Worked on predicting the efficiency of service delivery, formulated as a classification task in Machine Learning.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science with a minor in Data Science

Birla Institute of Technology And Science, Pilani
Hyderabad, India
12.2022

Master of Science - Computer Science

NYU Tandon School of Engineering
Brooklyn, NY

Skills

  • Communication
  • Teamwork
  • Public presentation
  • Critical thinking
  • Problem-solving
  • Python
  • Data Analytics
  • Deep Learning
  • Machine Learning
  • SQL
  • Data Analysis
  • C
  • Java
  • App Development
  • Web Development

Projects

Digit classification 

  • I built 16 different models using CNNs to implement the optimal architecture and loss function for digit classification using the Fashion MNIST dataset.

Facial Expression Recognition

  • I built a facial expression recognition system using Convoluted Neural Networks, OpenCV, and Keras frameworks to distinguish between the seven basic facial expressions displayed by a character at different points in a video feed using the FER 2013 dataset.

Library management webapp

  • I designed an efficient database for a library management system that allows users to borrow books and the admin to keep track of the same. I also developed a web app allowing users to search, rate, borrow and return books and the admin to keep track of the same.

Career Counselling Chatbot

  • I built a chatbot to interact with the users and use artificial intelligence frameworks to provide career advice based on input criteria.

Activities

  • Member of the Computer Science Association (CSA) at BITS
  • Member of BITS Embryo
  • Member of the college football team at BITS

Timeline

Research Assistant

Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi (IIIT-Delhi)
02.2023 - 05.2024

Undergraduate Thesis

BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus
08.2022 - 12.2022

Research Assistant

Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
06.2022 - 09.2022

Machine Learning Intern

Arocom IT Solutions Private Limited
06.2021 - 08.2021

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science with a minor in Data Science

Birla Institute of Technology And Science, Pilani

Master of Science - Computer Science

NYU Tandon School of Engineering
Abhipal Sharma