Jul 2018 – Sep 2023 · 5 yrs 2 mos · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

• Full-Lifecycle End-to-end AI system for automated visual inspection process in manufacturing.
• AI system surpasses human-level-performance, comparing against panels of quality inspectors, for multiple automobile components and multiple customers, for companies like Hyundai, Suzuki, Toyota; manufacturing millions of parts daily.
• Contributed to 2 Patents - one filed and one upcoming, for high speed, real-time defect/anomaly detection systems.
• Established process workflows for AI model training, evaluation, diagnosis, and data quality control, specific to the business use-case and customizable for each customer.
• Studied and contributed to Camera/Imaging ideas and computational photography, for optimizing end-to-end delivery.
• Contributing to the company since its inception

Mar 2018 – Oct 2018 · 7 mos · Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India

• Created object-detection pipeline for training custom models from scratch, including labelling the data and training from a single tool.
• Delivered AI-based POC-systems for multiple clients:
• Real-time basketball detection for in-game analytics and camera focus.
• Product inventory-tracking system using computer vision for Lipton Tea’s warehouse.
• Custom Object detection training pipeline for OnePanel – proven by training on Open-Images dataset of ~9M real-world images.
• Detection and classification of social media pictures of individuals for the automatic background check for professionals.
• Low-latency defects detection system for Jidoka Technologies (I pursued a full-time role with them, continuing on from POC to production)
• Mentored several individuals under the training division of the company – CTL Indore, for programming and AI/ML through weekly hands-on workshops.