RISHIKESH PANDA Goa, India rishipanda2003@gmail.com github.com/redrodeo03 EDUCATION --------- Bachelor of Electronics and Instrumentation (2021 - 2026 expected) Birla University of Technology and Sciences, Goa Masters in Biological Sciences (2021 - 2026 expected) Birla University of Technology and Sciences, Goa WORK EXPERIENCE -------------- AI Engineer Intern (July - October 2024) Upsurge Labs - Deployed various deep learning models for human activity classification as an API for use through a mobile app. - Worked on creating and testing consumer AI powered web apps using a proprietary backend software. Computational Biology Intern (May 2023 - July 2023) Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow - Performed Data Analysis and feature selection along with Virtual Screening for viable drugs using Molecular Fingerprinting Methods - Project: github.com/redrodeo03/mol-fingerprinting PROJECTS -------- Research Paperthon with the Synteraction Lab (NUS) - Paper accepted as a poster to ICONIP'24 - Was among the top 40 students in the world selected for a Human Computer Interaction (HCI) bootcamp - Developed a Multimodal Dashboard for autonomous cars which increases trust in passengers by explaining the actions taken by the vehicle. - Project: github.com/redrodeo03/multimodal-XAI-interpreter-autonomous-vehicles Research Project (February 2023 - May 2023) Prof. Sumit Biswas, BITS Goa - Used Feed Forward Networks and Feature Representation Learning to identify the Amyloid Plaque patterns [Paper Implementation] - Project: github.com/redrodeo03/Amyloid-Prediction-FRL Autonomous Drone System with Gesture Control (October 2022) - Computer Vision Lead, Aerodynamics Club, BITS Goa - github.com/redrodeo03/gesture-detection-tello-drone Iris Detection Integrated with a Web Game playing Interface (April 2024) - Software that performs coordinate mapping to execute precise iris tracking which controls the cursor and can be used for various purposes. Affective Learning - Detecting Student Emotional Engagement (June 2024) - Finding efficient methods to analyze the emotional engagement of students in a classroom setting - Experimenting with a multimodal approach of pose detection and facial expression extraction ACCOMPLISHMENTS -------------- Winners - iGEM Grand Jamboree Hackathon (November 2023) - Created a fully revamped database for all iGEM projects and an AI chatbot trained on the respective data from iGEM's internal API - Won the hackathon at the Paris Grand Jamboree under the team name "Array of Hope" - Project: all-about-igem-projects.streamlit.app Winners - Moveworks HackAIthon (October 2023) - Created a conversational chatbot trained specifically on the company's internal data for closed loop and accurate bot replies - Project: github.com/redrodeo03/hack-moveworks Zonal Winners - IISER Pune Mimamsa (January 2023) - National Science Quiz, BITS Goa