Kshitij Pawar 🧑🏽‍💻
Kshitij Pawar

Grad Student

I am currently pursuing Masters in Computer Science at University of Southern California. Actively looking for internships and SWE/ML roles.

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Experience

  1. Graduate Research Assistant

    University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute

    Responsibilities include:

    • Design and fine-tune multimodal deep learning models, analyze video and text data, leverage annotated dataset for identifying harmful content in automated content moderation for TikTok and Reddit
    • Manage analysis of over 35 million tweets to forecast community reactions to major sociopolitical events, enhancing fine-tuned LLaMA-3 models for charting change in public sentiment
    • Analyze public opinion shifts across social media platforms and identify significant sentiment changes like a 22% increase in vaccine mandate support and a 25% rise in opposition to Roe vs. Wade from Twitter data
    • Deploy fine-tuned GPT-based models on HuggingFace Hub and as Docker container, enabling a 30% reduction in model access time and seamless usage for collaborating teams at Northeastern University
  2. Machine Learning Engineer

    Tata Consultancy Service Research and Innovation Labs

    Responsibilities include:

    • Orchestrated an object detection pipeline on inhouse GPU infrastructure for analyzing product price trends in client’s competition
    • Employed Text-to-Video Generative AI models to create promotional material for TCS New York City Marathon which was viewed by more than 2 million worldwide
    • Mentored team of 5 undergraduate and doctorate interns, providing comprehensive support and offering research guidance, training and deploying machine learning models with on-premise GPU architecture
    • Developed custom algorithm for title/heading extraction from scanned business documents with 80% accuracy and 25% lower inference time on edge devices using 16-bit quantization
  3. Deep Learning Research Intern

    Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology

    Responsibilities include:

    • Innovated and implemented novel, customizable functions leveraging Python, Matplotlib, and Seaborn for visualizing mean of rainfall variables across the Indian subcontinent over a 30-year period, accounting for leap year conditions
    • Spearheaded experiments involving spatial and temporal normalization in super-resolution models
    • Pioneered research efforts for identification of correlation between diverse climate variables and rainfall
  4. Deep Learning Intern

    TCS Rapid Labs

    Responsibilities include:

    • Developed Flutter mobile app to calculate user attention with eye-line and directional data analysis using Facial landmarks.
    • Achieved 25% reduction in system resource consumption using Provider state management and deferred loading , enhancing user experience and device longevity.

Education

  1. Masters Computer Science

    University of Southern California

    GPA: 3.7/4.0

    Courses included:

    • CSCI-570 Analysis of Algorithms
    • CSCI-585 Database Systems
    • CSCI-535 Multimodal Probabilistic Learning of Human Communication
    • CSCI-566 Deep Learning and Its Applications
  2. Bachelors Computer Engineering

    University of Mumbai
Skills & Hobbies
Technical Skills
Python
PyTorch
Flutter
React JS
Hobbies
Guitar
Chess
Gaming
Sci-fi books
Publications
(2020). Efficient pothole detection using smartphone sensors. In ITM Web of Conferences 2020.
Projects