Resume

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Yuvraj Verma

AI / ML Engineer · NLP & Computer Vision Researcher

Experience

Research Intern May 2026 – Present

VLED Lab, IIT Ropar · Remote

Researching and deploying scalable AI/ML pipelines on live open-source repositories targeting critical gaps in India's education ecosystem, with direct commit authorship. Under Dr. Sudarshan Iyengar, Associate Professor, IIT Ropar.

Machine Learning & Full-Stack Intern May – Jul 2025

Reaching Sky Foundation · Remote

Built a BERT-based multi-label classifier to detect mental-health disorders from user posts using attention mechanisms. Managed and optimized a responsive website with technical SEO to improve visibility and engagement.

Machine Learning Intern Nov 2024 – Jan 2025

BreakOut AI · Remote

Built an AI-powered tool for data and web insights that processes datasets, performs intelligent web searches, and uses LLMs to extract user-defined information through a streamlined interface.

Machine Learning Intern Apr – May 2023

Codesoft Technologies Pvt. Ltd. · Remote

Performed exploratory data analysis on large datasets to identify patterns and trends, and built machine-learning models for classification and regression problems.

Postman Student Expert Sep 2023 – Present

Postman · Remote

Certified Student Expert with experience in API scripting, workflow validation, and test automation using Postman tools.

Projects

Hybrid RNN–Transformer Efficiency Optimization Current

Developing a hybrid RNN–Transformer model to enhance language-modeling efficiency in low-resource settings — optimizing parameter use, memory footprint, and inference latency without compromising accuracy.

IDRiD-VQA: Explainable Diabetic Retinopathy Grading (2B VLM) Jul 2026

Fine-tuned Qwen2-VL-2B with 4-bit QLoRA (Unsloth) on IDRiD to grade diabetic retinopathy with structured clinical explanations on a single 6 GB GPU — accuracy 31.1%→66.0%, QWK 0.00→0.76. Released a 2,064-pair VQA dataset and model on Hugging Face with an ACL-format paper. Tech: PyTorch, Unsloth, QLoRA, Gradio.

Fake News Detection — Reproducible NLP Pipeline Jul 2026

End-to-end fake-news classifier (TF-IDF + linear models) reaching 0.99 F1 / 0.9995 AUC on a held-out test set — fully reproducible, unit-tested with GitHub Actions CI, Gradio demo, and a source-leakage analysis. Tech: Python, Scikit-learn, Pytest.

Transformer-Based Subjective Answer-Sheet Evaluation May 2026

AI evaluation system using BERT & SBERT for semantic scoring of descriptive answers, with OCR for handwritten text — reducing manual evaluation time by 70%+. Built under Dr. Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay (REC Kannauj). Tech: Python, TensorFlow, Hugging Face, OpenCV, Flask, Streamlit.

Bikers' Safety & Hazard Detection Aug 2025

AI-driven system to detect road hazards, lane deviations, and obstacles for biker safety using deep learning and computer vision.

Multi-Label Mental-Health Detection (BERT) May 2025

BERT-based multi-label classifier detecting disorders such as anxiety and depression from text using NLP and attention mechanisms.

AI Tool for Data & Web Insights Dec 2024

LLM-powered tool for dataset processing, intelligent web search, and structured information extraction through a clean interface.

Autonomous Vehicle Driving-Safety System (YOLOv8) Sep 2024

YOLOv8 system for vehicle detection, speed estimation, and collision-risk prediction with real-time alerts and object tracking.

Face Recognition System Apr 2023

CNN-based face-recognition model using OpenCV and FaceNet embeddings for accurate identity verification.

Education

B.Tech, Electronics Engineering 2022 – 2026

Rajkiya Engineering College, Kannauj

CGPA 7.5. Coursework: Digital Electronics, Microprocessors & Microcontrollers, DSP, Control Systems.

BS, Data Science (Foundation) 2023 – 2024

IIT Madras

Mathematics for Data Science, Statistics, Advanced Python, AI & Machine Learning.

Skills

Languages

Python, R, C++, C, Java

ML / DL Frameworks

TensorFlow, PyTorch, Keras, Scikit-learn, Hugging Face

Computer Vision

OpenCV, YOLOv8, FaceNet, CNNs, Object Detection & Tracking

NLP & LLMs

BERT, SBERT, Transformers, Attention, Multi-label Classification, LLM Integration

MLOps & Tools

MLflow, TensorBoard, JupyterLab, Colab, NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, Seaborn

Deployment & Databases

Flask, Streamlit, REST APIs, Postman, Neo4j, SQL

Achievements

India AI Impact Buildathon — Top 2% 2026

National Finalist (top 2% of 40,000+ participants) at the GUVI–HCL Buildathon for innovation and AI-driven problem-solving.

Leadership

Training & Placement Coordinator

REC Kannauj · Sep 2024 – May 2026

Google Student Ambassador — Gemini

Google India · Sep 2025 – Jan 2026

Core Member, GDSC

IIT Madras · Jan 2023 – Dec 2024

IEEE Student Member

Branch STB11540 · Jun 2024 – Jun 2025

Certifications

Stanford & DeepLearning.AI — ML Specialization, TensorFlow for AI/ML/DL (2024)

Google — Prompting Essentials (2025), Cloud Foundations (2024)

Neo4j Certified Professional (2025) · Postman API Fundamentals (2024)

LinkedIn Learning — Generative AI (2025) · IBM — Data Science · HackerRank — Python (2023)

Languages

English — Fluent (IELTS B2) · Hindi — Native