Nikhita Devgan

Electrical Engineer (AI-ML)

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SUMMARY

Electrical engineer with 4+ years of experience in Machine Learning and Data Analytics plus a strong educational
background in Micro-fabrication. Highly skilled in Mathematics for Deep Learning and flexible to work in an
interdisciplinary team for research in AI.

SKILLS

● Tools: Python, Scikit-learn, OpenCV, Tensorflow, Keras, AWS

● Data Science: Exploratory Data Analysis, Data Visualization, Feature Engineering
● Machine Learning: Regression Analysis, Classification Algorithms, Support Vector Machines, K-Nearest
Neighbors, Decision Trees, Random Forests, Bagging, Boosting, Clustering Techniques (K-Means,
Hierarchical), Principal Component Analysis (PCA)
● Deep Learning: Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), BackPropagation, Gradient Descent
● Model Tuning: Ridge and Lasso Regularization, Cross Validation, Up-sampling and Down-sampling (SMOTE),
Hyper-parameter Tuning (GridSearch, RandomizedSearch)
● Model Deployment: Model Serialization, Real-time Productionalization with Flask, Docker Containerization
● Recommendation Systems: Popularity and Content based RecoSys, Market Basket Analysis
● Cloud: Amazon Sagemaker, Rekognition, Textract, Comprehend, Translate
● Computer Vision: Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), Object Detection and Tracking, Camera Calibration
● NLP: Vectorization (Bag of Words, TF-IDF), Sentiment Analysis
● Mathematics: Vector Calculus, Linear Algebra, Probability, Statistics, Differential Equations, Complex Analysis
● Engineering: Micro-fabrication, Semiconductor Physics, Material Sciences, Circuit and Systems,
Electromagnetism, Intelligent Systems
● Others: Research, Management, Leadership, Analytical Reasoning, Problem Solving, Critical Writing

EXPERIENCE

Think Dignity International, India - Machine Learning Engineer April 2021 - Present

Project - Automated Traffic Analysis

• Implementing the advanced computer vision tools to detect vehicles from traffic surveillance videos and estimating
their speed using fully-automatic camera calibration from 3 orthogonal Vanishing Points and scene scale using 3D
bounding boxes on Indian Roads.

Tools: Python, Google Colaboratory, Tensorflow, Keras, PyCharm

Techniques: Vehicle Detection (faster-RCNN), Vehicle Tracking (kalman filters), KLT optical Flow, Lane Detection
(Canny edges/ Hough transform), Edgelets, Orthogonal Vanishing Points (RANSAC/ Diamond space), Contour
Detection (mask- RCNN), 3D Bounding Box, Scene Scale, Intrinsic Camera Parameters calculation, Estimation of
World Coordinates from 2D Image, Speed Calculation
 Punjab Switchgears Pvt. Ltd., India - Chief Technologist Jan 2018 - Jun 2020

• Improvised the production planning, manufacturing and sale of thermal-magnetic MCBs (Miniature circuit Breakers)
using advanced data analytics for increased efficiency and cost-effectiveness.
• Maintained the calibration and testing of the MCB according to Indian Standards IS/IEC 60898-1:2015.

Tools: MS Office, Tableau, Python

Techniques: Data Collection, Data Science, Data Visualization, Exploratory Data Analysis, Failure Analysis, Project
Management, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Lean Manufacturing, Agile Methodologies

Research on Autism and Development Laboratory, UCSD - Electrical Engineer Sep 2016- Dec 2017

Project - Gaze Glasses for Outcome Assessment in Autism Spectrum

• Researched the techniques to help the interdisciplinary team develop a module for custom object detection.
• Performed multiple calibration tests to measure the accuracy and performance of eye tracking glasses by 'Pupil Labs'.

Tools: MATLAB, State-of-art Eye-Tracking Software & Hardware by Pupil Labs in Berlin (Germany)
Techniques: Dataset Collection and Annotation, Object Detection (Faster-RCNN), Augmented Reality for
Gaze-training in Autistic children, Automated manual labelling of gaze on videos, Efficacy Estimation of training video
games.

PROJECTS

FINANCE Bank Customer Churn Prediction

Built an artificial neural network using Tensorflow and Keras to help the operations team
predict the customers that are more likely to churn by using SMOTE techniques to remove
data-imbalance and achieve an accuracy above 85% and AUC score of 0.86.

SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter Sentiment Analysis for Airline Services

Identified the sentiment from a tweet to understand an airline’s customer satisfaction using Bag of
Words/ TF-IDF vectorization and lemmatization to build a logistic regression classifier with
above 80% accuracy.

AGRICULTURE Plant Seedlings Image Classification

Trained a convolutional neural network in Keras to correctly predict the weeds from 12
different plant seedlings species with 91% accuracy.

CONSTRUCTION Concrete Strength Prediction

Analyzed the various features at hand and predicted the concrete strength using feature
engineering techniques and cross-validation for model tuning to achieve accuracy above 90%.
Hackathon (Dec 2020): Built a regressor that predicts the heart rate of an individual to monitor their stress levels with MAE = 0.0072.

PUBLICATION

Quantifying Gaze Behavior during Real World Interactions using Automated Object, Face, and Fixation
Detection - IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems (Dec 4, 2018) [IEEE Link]

EDUCATION

P.G.P. Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Mar 2021 - The University of Texas at Austin
B.S. Electrical Engineering, Mar 2017 - University of California, San Diego

Relevant Certifications: Data Science Fundamentals - IBM (Dec 2020), Machine Learning A-Z: Hands-on Python & R in Data
Science - Udemy (Oct 2020), Complete Python Bootcamp: Go from zero to hero in Python3 - Udemy (Jun 2020)