Professional Experience

Machine Learning Intern

Kolena Inc.

Jan 2024 – Aug 2024 Vancouver, BC
Enhancing the way Machine Learning systems are evaluated.
  • Automated evaluation of Gen-AI by fine-tuning Vision-Language models to model human preference.
  • Improved RAG Generator accuracy by 8% on finance data through improved PDF-parsing & LLM-prompting.
  • Accelerated creation of textual datasets by 15x by building an LLM powered web-application using Streamlit.
  • Enhanced detection of AI model errors for users by building data analysis pipeline identifying edge cases.

Machine Learning Developer

Deep Breathe

Sep 2022 – Aug 2024 London, ON
Built AI-powered systems to automate the diagnosis of lung ultrasound scans.
  • Developed AI based screening tool confirming with 96% certainty the presence of fluid in lung ultrasound scans.
  • Achieved 80% accuracy (IoU) in segmenting effusions and consolidations in lung-ultrasound using TensorFlow.
  • Implemented MLOps pipeline using Azure, SQL & OpenCV to process, ingest & version data for FDA approval.
  • Integrated WandB into ML projects for dash-boarding and logging visuals during training and evaluation.
  • Reduced dataset fetching time by 91% through cross-platform deployment of pipeline producing 7.8 million M-Mode images from 140,000 B-Mode videos per version, automated through Unix & Shell scripting.

Software Engineering Intern

IntelliSports

Sep 2022 – Aug 2024 Montreal, QC
Developed activity recognition pipelines and modeled user application usage.
  • Boosted cheat-detection accuracy by 30% by feature engineering IMU Sensor data using Scikit-learn & SciPy
  • Optimized inference speed on CPU machine to 1.8x original by leveraging light-weight sklearn models.
  • Elevated mission count by 2.3x by deploying detection pipelines on EC2 for punch, crunch, high-knee, & jump.
  • Identified onboarding flow with +50% retention by conducting decision-tree & SVM analysis on early user data.
  • Built data visualization platform, showcasing user physical activity growth of 300%, employed in pitches that secured $1.4 million in funding using PHP and MySQL.

Research Experience

Research Assistant

Critical Machine Learning Lab

Sep 2023 – Present Waterloo, ON
Investigating ways on how AI models can adapt to new environments.
  • Achieved State of the Art results in Domain Adaptive Semantic Segmentation using Vision-Language models.

Research Assistant

Vision and Image Processing Lab

Jan 2022 – Apr 2023 Waterloo, ON
Researched ego-centric pose estimation techniques using spatio-temporal analysis.
  • Outperformed Egocentric HPE State of the Art by 38% via insertion of spatio-temporal data using Transformers.

Research Assistant

Social and intelligent Robotics Research Lab

Sep 2021 – Dec 2021 Waterloo, ON
Implemented suite of (IMU) feature extraction algorithms for Human Robot Interaction.
  • Researched and implemented suite of feature extraction algorithms relevant to singla detection for AI.

Research Intern

Human Centered Robotics and Machine Intelligence Lab

May 2021 – Aug 2021 Waterloo, ON
Developed and deployed facial and emotion recognition pipeline on humanoid robot.
  • Delivered 99.3% on LFW (Face ID) and 72.7% on FER2013 (Emotion) benchmarks using DLIB and Tensorflow.
  • Designed multi-input Keras model using pybind11 bindings of a C++ toolkit, informed by t-SNE data analysis.
  • Deployed facial identity and emotion recognition pipeline using ROS, Flask and PostgresSQL on the Reem-C robot, highlighted by researchers in International Robotics conferences.