NAGARJUN GURURAJ

GitHub: https://github.com/nagrjungururaj
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nagarjun-gururaj/

Summary

AI Engineer specializing in Computer Vision with a total of 4 years of industrial experience,

interested in computer vision and NLP business use cases. Have experience in
designing and applying computer vision, deep learning and data science methodologies to
business and research.

Technical Skills

Python, Keras, opencv-python, pytesseract, pdf2image, tika-parser, RCNN, Fast RCNN, Faster
RCNN, SSD multi object detector, numpy, matplotlib, sklearn, pandas, ML algorithms, SQL,
Google Cloud (GCP), AWS Sagemaker, Tensorflow Object Detection API, Intel Openvino
Toolkit, Flask, Streamlit, FastAI

Work Summary

InnovatorsBay Technologies, Data Evangelist, Bengaluru, India, Apr 2020 – present

● Worked on use cases like static vehicle detection, face recognition and AI content
moderation for a travel application

SMARTAIL, Product Engineer Machine Learning, Bengaluru, India, Dec 2019 – Mar 2020
● Trained and deployed SSD object detection model on AWS Sage maker for product
"Deepgrade"

Digite Inc., Data Scientist Intern, Bengaluru India, Aug 2019 – Oct 2019
● Designed an algorithm to predict the maize cover over an agricultural field using Fast
RCNN model

Paderborn University, Graduate Research Assistant, Paderborn Germany, Jan 2018 – Mar
2019
● Was a research assistant at the Department of Statistics at Paderborn University

IBM India Pvt. Ltd., Application Developer, Bengaluru India, Sept 2012 - Aug 2014
● Worked on support and maintenance for the application production environment for a
middleware application called "Seebeyond"
Education
MSc. Signal Information Processing, Paderborn University, Paderborn, Germany, 2015 – 2019
● Completed 90 ECTS out of total 120 ECTS

B.E. Electronics and Communication, Vishveshvaraya Technological University, Bengaluru,

India, 2008 - 2012
● Thesis / Final project : Design and simulation of an efficient 8-bit multiplier in Cadence
EDA

Notable Projects

Real time Face Recognition for employee attendance, InnovatorsBay Technologies Pvt. Ltd
● Goal to build a real time face recognizer for employees of a facility. Used three deep
networks to do the face recognition
● Achieved an F1-score of 95 % on 30 masked and unmasked faces with a real time speed
of 20FPS

Real time vehicle parking alert system, InnovatorsBay Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
● Designed an alert mechanism for vehicles parked too long outside a facility using static
and moving vehicle detection
● Achieved a real time processing of 20 FPS on the feed

AI Multimodal Content Moderation, InnovatorsBay Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

 Strategized, designed and implemented the algorithms for image, text and video content
filtering for travel application Gypsyz.club using AI.
 Built the dataset from scratch for images & text and used text classification and sentiment
analysis for text content filtering

Content extraction of question papers, SMARTAIL

● Used ssd-mobilenet-v1 and trained the custom the object detector to detect the fields of
question paper
● Converted the cropped parts into text using OCR and deployed the trained algorithm on
AWS Sage maker

Canopy Cover Estimation of maize plants using deep learning, Digite Inc.
● Trained, tested and customized the Fast-RCNN object detection deep network for a
custom dataset of maize fields images to calculate canopy cover
● Experimented semi-supervised and reinforcement learning techniques like customized
GAN to improve the predictions of Fast-RCNN.
Artist Identification of Van Gogh painting images and their forgeries, Paderborn University
 ● Two approaches, Feature Engineering and Deep learning were used to identify artist Van-
Gogh and forgery of painting images
● Used dimensionality reduction techniques like Principal component analysis (PCA) and
Linear discriminant analysis (LDA)

Publications

 Approximate Deep Neural Networks for Embedded Platforms, 18 Aug 2020

Lattice Vol 1, Issue 2, pages 37-44

 InnovFaceNet: Deep Face Recognition for Industrial Environments, 03 Nov 2020

Lattice Vol. 1, Issue 3, pages 50

Languages

 Kannada (Mother Tongue)

 English
 Hindi