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ROMAL PATEL

Chicago, IL-60616 • 331-***-**** • ac9c3b@r.postjobfree.com SUMMARY

AI Enthusiast, with relevant experience in Data Mining, Machine Learning and Deep Learning on real world datasets looking for intern/ full-time position to work with exciting teams to build innovative solutions. EDUCATION

Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA (Anticipated May 2019) Master’s in Computer Science with concentration in Data Analytics GPA: 3.81 / 4.0 University of California, Davis, USA (Sept 2016- Dec 2016) Global Study Program, Visiting Student

SRM University, Chennai, India (June 2017)

Bachelor of Technology in Electrical and Electronics Eng. GPA: 8.96 / 10.0 EXPERIENCE

Illinois Institute of Technology- Research Assistant, iConSenSe Laboratory (Sept 2018 - Present)

• Design and prototyping of an artificial cognitive assistant- a chatbot system for closed domain data using tools such as tensorflow on GPUs, Automatic Question-Answer generation using Syntactic Parsing, and concepts of NLP. Application runs on python GUI using Tkinter for messaging interface.

• Provide Technical Support and front desk support at conferences and events. Illinois Institute of Technology- Independent Researcher, Datasys Laboratory (June 2018- Dec 2018)

• Build Neural Network framework in C++ and compare its test scores with tensorflow/python.

• Build image classification application on MNIST, CIFAR dataset, and achieved similar performance on C++ framework for 16 bits float and 64 bits double data types. Reliance Industries Limited, Hazira, Gujarat, India- Industrial Intern (June 2016 - July 2016)

• Designed relay coordination for MEG chemical Plant Substation using Power System Protection principles for Overcurrent protection, Restricted Earth Fault Protection, and Differential Protection using relay characteristics of Definite Time Relay, IDMT relay on 415V and 6.6kV lines. SKILLS

Programming Languages: C, C++, Java, Python, R, HTML, LaTeX, SQL, shell Platforms: Eclipse IDE, RStudios, MATLAB, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Jupyter Notebooks, tensor-flow, keras, Apache Hadoop, Apache Spark, EC2.

Other Skills: Data Visualization using ggplot/matplotlib, Microsoft Office Tools, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Text and Data Mining, Operating Systems such as Windows, Mac and Linux. PROJECTS

Coupon Inventory System (Oct 2017 - Dec 2017)

• A Java based application that runs as a GUI (using Java Applet) to centralise all the coupons and effectively sort them in a single piece of software.

Cloud Systems Benchmarking (Jan 2018 - Mar 2018)

• Tested CPU, Memory, Disk and network by writing benchmarks in C and comparing it with well-known open source benchmarks such as Linpack, pmbw, Iozone, iperf.

• Used bash scripting for processing jobs with Slurm Workload Manager on a cluster of computers. Recommendation Engine (Mar2018 - May2018)

• Designed and implemented a Content based and Collaborative filtering-based recommendation system on Movielens dataset using R language.

ACHIEVEMENTS/EXTRACURRICULARS

Finalist Team in Hackathon- AI in Data Privacy, Global Cyber Security Initiative Conference- 2018 Build machine learning model using tools such as spacy, NLTK, sklearn, re, numpy, pandas and more, for text mining. The work begins with feature extraction, feature engineering and tuning hyperparameters to machine learning models. Global Study Program, University of California, Davis, California, USA (Sept 2016 - Dec 2016) Selected as one of the 5 candidates from the department of 450+ students for Semester Abroad Program based on Academic and Professional merits. Completed coursework in VLSI Design and Computer Programming.