KARTHICK GUNASEKARAN

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LinkedIn & Github : karthickpgunasekaran

EDUCATION

University of Massachusetts, Amherst EXP GRAD: DEC 20 College of Information and Computer Sciences

Master of Science in Computer Science (3.68/4.00)

Specialization - Machine Learning

Coimbatore Institute of Technology JUL 13 - MAY 17 Bachelor of Computer Science and Engineering (8.11/10.0) RELATED COURSEWORK

Machine Learning,Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, Neural Networks, DBMS PUBLICATIONS

Unsupervised Pre-training for Biomedical Question Answering (https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.12952) Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2020 Thessaloniki, Greece

● Improved BioBERT, SciBERT models to build Biomedical QA system to answer different question types. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

I.E.S.L, UMass Amherst SEP 20 - Present

Graduate Student NLP Researcher

● Implement new unsupervised approaches to meta-learning in order to improve few-shot generalization of NLP.

● Evaluate multiple pre-trained models for few-shot generalization to new tasks and new domains. Amazon Inc MAY 20 - SEP 20

SDE Intern

● Design and Development of Widget-Builder Framework using new Amazon’s Internal platform to render different widgets on Amazon.com.

● Project helped cut costs with completely Front-End based application using React, Typescript. I.E.S.L, UMass Amherst & Chan Zuckerberg Initiative JAN 20 - MAY 20 Graduate Student NLP Researcher

● Developed a Bert based architecture and used BioSentVec emb for BioMedical Question Answering with CZI.

● Model saves huge time for medical practitioners from searching patient records and drug interactions.

● Won 2nd prize in BioASQ challenge for various BioMed QA task types. Mosaic lab, UMass Amherst MAY 19 - AUG 19

Summer Graduate Student ML Researcher

● Developed a novel model with Prof. Tauhidur based Multispectral Physiological Parameter Estimation.

● Researched the effect of external factors such as angle, blur, lighting, sweat on the estimation project.

● Worked on a novel LSTM architecture for estimation of Galvanic skin response with Multispectral imaging. Samsung Semiconductor India Research JUL 17 - NOV 18 Senior Engineer

● Design and development of LTE Physical layer simulator used for board bring ups .

● Performed cache optimization of LTE DSP code: Refactored, removed redundant code & performed ARM level optimization among L1, L2 and L3 cache regions which led to successful reduction of memory utilization and improvement in cache hit rate.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Language: Java, Python, React, Typescript, C, SQL. Tools and Libraries: PyTorch, Nltk,OpenCV, TensorFlow, HuggingFace,Scipy, Pandas, Perforce, Scikit, GIT, SpaCy.

PROJECTS

Modelling tags & publication dates of News articles AUG 19 - DEC 19

● Developed a BERT language model based architecture for predicting the dates and categories of articles.

● The project helps in auto tagging for articles and predicting the original dates to find authors writing style.

● 20% more performance compared to baseline NaiveBayes, implemented in PyTorch with HuggingFace library.

Partial Occlusion in Autonomous vehicles AUG 19 - DEC 19

● Created synthetic dataset by augmenting different artifact types with varying sizes on Stanford Cars dataset.

● Simulated various experiments understanding the partial occlusion scenario with state-of-the-art CNN models.

● Project helped in understanding the performance of networks under various uncertain environment.

Single Image Super Resolution AUG 19 - DEC 19

● Developed a Residual dense network based architecture for Super Resolution of Images.

● Focused on medical research for pathological cancer slides and prostate tissue glands.

● Project supplements existing microscopes achieving a high resolution and maintaining a large field-of-view. AWARDS & ACHIEVEMENTS

● Second Prize in BioASQ 8b Biomedical QA challenge.

● Recognized with SPOT award for my contribution to LTE DSP simulator at Samsung.

● Recognized with “Employee of the month” for my contributions at Samsung.

● Won First prize at hackathon event called “HACKCEPTION” at Amrita University, India

● Won Third prize at hackathon event called “HACKIN” at PSG college of Technology, India.

● Won Third prize at intra college coding event.

● Recipient of Vijayalakshimi trust merit scholarship, India.

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