About me
Hi! I’m Pranav Balaji, an entrepreneur at Inria Startup Studio. This site is a work in progress :)
I’ve worked on many Deep Learning projects in the past as part of my internship, course-work and my own interest - Video Sign Language Translation, Paraphrase Generation and Recommender systems are a few not mentioned above. What started off as a simple exploration of the field, when I did the Machine Learning course by Andrew Ng, has slowly grown into my professional interest.
I’m also interested in Computer Graphics with one of my favourite projects being Ray-tracing implemented in OpenGL.
For fun, I love to do Origami, Speedcubing, and go Scuba diving - having the Advanced Open Water Diver certification. As of the past 5 years, I’ve also been learning Japanese intermittently and have a deep fascination with the language.
- Computer Vison
- Natural Language Processing
- Deep Learning
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Bachelor's in Computer Science and Engineering, 2019 - 2023
BITS Pilani
Extra Interests
Language
PADI Advanced Open water certified
The art of paper folding
Mostly the 3x3
Experience
Teaching assisstant for the course Natural Language Processing.
- Conducted a 1 hour demo on PyTorch for NLP: Code
- Prepared lecture notes to summarize key concepts
Involved lots of experimental research on a wide array of topics.
Accomplishments
A 3 day ML Hackathon conducted by Amazon with 26000+ participants from top universities. The task was to predict the product length in mm given the product title, description, and bullet points as text.
- Leaderboard: Team Fishes
- GitHub Repository: AmazonML
A nationwide Hackathon conducted by Amazon with 2000+ participants from top universities. Took part under the theme Covid-19 and Technology and won. Pitch:
- An online game-ified Virtual Fitness application designed for lockdown times
- Real-time Machine Learning on the webcam feed for posture identification
- Video call system with live ranking against a friend
- GitHub Repository and related links: vFit
