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about me

My name is Gaurav Pendharkar, and I am deeply passionate about solving real-world problems through the application of my machine learning knowledge. I have worked with various data sources, including relational data, text, images, and documents across multiple domains such as cyber security, wildlife, law, aviation, and medicine.

experience

Research Intern, Generative Artificial Intelligence University of Technology, Sydney (Sep 2023 - Feb 2024) Tech Stack: Python, FastAPI, HuggingFace, PyTorch, JavaScript, Git

Designed and developed a multilingual rich text editor to study user interaction with AI for assistive writing
Integrated GPT-2 model from HuggingFace to generate four suggestions for each user prompt in English
Developed APIs for transliteration using the IndicXlit model and translation with the IndicTrans model
Collected user keystrokes from 7 writing sessions and observed overall GPT-2 usage of approximately 37.5%

Research Intern, Natural Language Processing Vellore Institute of Technology (May 2022 - Feb 2023) Tech Stack: Python, PdfPlumber, Selenium, spaCy, NLTK, Seaborn, Git

Expanded a legal document repository by over 200% through automated web scraping on Manupatra database
Wrangled unstructured Indian legal documents by employing regular expressions and named entity recognition
Created and Benchmarked a dataset for judgment classification and prediction against eight ML and DL models
Reduced information extraction time from 3 months to 12 hours with the designed automated NLP pipeline