A bit about My life and Work!

  • Graduate research assistant at Oregon State University (OSU). I work with a research group in the College of Forestry at OSU.
  • My responsibilities include training machine learning and deep learning models to support the research in plant phenotyping.
  • My interests are diverse from traditional Machine learning, to Deep learning.
  • Mainly use Python and have experience using libraries like sklearn, Pytorch, and Tensorflow.
  • Passionate about new technologies and ideas and exploring how they impact our lives.

Deep
Learning

Software Development

Computer Vision

Machine Learning

I am looking for a data scientist/software engineer position. Please checkout my resume.

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Skills

Programming Languages: Python, C++, Oracle Pl/SQL

Technical Areas: Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Image Processing

Databases: SQL, MongoDB

Tools: GitHub, trello, Confluence

Familiar with: Spark, Tableau

Education

Currently pursuing master's degree in Computer Science at Oregon State University

  • Advisor - Dr. Fuxin Li
  • Previous Advisor - Dr. Christopher Scaffidi
  • Expected graduation: January 2021.
  • Current GPA 3.91.

  • Course Work and grades -
    • Machine Learning
    • Methods of data analysis (Statistics)
    • Software Engineering Methods
    • Software Project Management
    • Deep Learning
    • Data Structures
    • Computer Vision
    • Natural Language Processing
    • Probabilitic Graphical Models

    • Completed undergraduate degree in Computer Science from Guru Tegh Bahadur Institute of Technology, Delhi

  • Graduation: May 2015.
  • Graduated with 83 percent.


  • Course Work and grades -
    • Data Structure
    • Algorithm Design and Analysis
    • Operating Systems
    • Computer Graphics and Multimedia
    • Software Engineering
    • Computer Architecture
    • Computer Networks

    • Work Experience

    Oregon State University
    Dec 2019 - Ongoing

    Graduate Research Assistant

    • Working on developing a new interactive segmentation model to improve accuracy on this task thus reducing the amount of user inputs required.
    • Used transfer learning to train image classification model (DenseNet) for classifying contamination in Plants. Achieved 87% accuracy on the validation dataset.
    • Used transfer learning for image segmentation models (Deeplab, PSPNet) to segment plant traits. Results of this model were used for plants growth analysis.

    Oregon State University
    Sep 2018 - Dec 2019

    Graduate Teaching Assistant

    • CS 361, Software Engineering I: Assisted more than 50+ students during Spring'19 and Summer'19 in understanding the concepts of software engineering, and software maintenance. Guided students carry out software development in Machine learning, algorithms, Deep Learning, web development.
    • CS 362, Software Engineering II: Graded and guided 60+ students during the Fall'18 and Winter'19 terms to understand the backend of the software engineering lifecycle and importance of testing, debugging and maintenance in software.
    • Responsible for grading the weekly assignments and reports by the third-year undergraduate students.

    Infosys Limited Oct 2017 - July 2018

    Senior Systems Engineer

    • Worked for Infosys client-Westpac.
    • Developed intelligence for managing performance and goals of employees in Westpac using the Oracle fusion reporting tools like Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence (OTBI) and Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher (BIPublisher).
    • Mentored five employees by acquainting them with the Westpac landscape and helped them accomplish their tasks, as the need arose. Served as a positive role-model for them.

    Infosys Limited Sep 2015 - Sep 2017

    Systems Engineer

    • Enhanced Westpac’s financial-General ledger system which uses Oracle E-business Suite (ERP) technology and Oracle Financials Accounting Hub (FAH).
    • Developed various inbound and outbound interfaces to process the transactions and post them into General Ledger with the use of PL/SQL language, UNIX Scripting and Oracle AOL components.
    • Created intelligence required for taking important business decisions for a project - Tax Country by Country.

    Contact

    Feel free to reach out and ask anything about my work. Email:

    kaurd at oregonstate dot edu

    daman7294 at gmail dot com