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Prajna Bhandary

Prajna Bhandary

Bangalore

Summary

Detail-oriented Data Scientist with over 3+ years of experience in AI-driven solutions. Specializing in Generative AI, Computer Vision, and Data Analytics, with expertise in cloud technologies, and scalable machine learning pipelines. Passionate about leveraging AI to drive innovation and deliver impactful solutions.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Data Scientist

Tiger Analytics
Bengaluru
07.2024 - Current
  • Company Overview: Tiger Analytics is a leading provider of advanced analytics and AI consulting services, helping enterprises unlock business value through data-driven insights and innovative solutions
  • GenAI-Driven Product Attribute and Description Generation: Developed advanced GenAI solutions for extracting product attributes and generating high-quality titles and descriptions across diverse product categories
  • Implemented Visual Question Answering (VQA) and multimodal AI techniques to enhance product understanding and customer interactions
  • Utilized Gemini LLM to process both text and image data, enabling intelligent, context-aware responses to product-related queries
  • Optimized customer engagement by delivering accurate insights for apparel, intimate wear, and nightwear
  • GenAI for Maruti Suzuki: Promotional image content generation for Maruti, delivered solutions by Integrating GenAI Models and streamlit backend/UI for advanced image editing, including features like cropping, enhancement, filtering, in-painting, logo addition, and customizable footer text
  • Managed image versions and ensured a user-friendly interface
  • Planogram Analysis for Mars retailer: Improved the accuracy of Object detection yolo V8 models to detect the on shelf retail products by applying relevant augmentations, handling class imbalance and decreasing generalization error
  • Improved the data capture phase by delivering the solution on multi-image stitching from video frames for detailed panoramic shelf views
  • GHG Emission Project: Conducted a Methane Emission Analysis using Sentinel-5P data by collecting Sentinel-2 satellite imagery for the area of interest, processing specific bands (B12, B11) at 20m resolution, and applying a methane balance algorithm
  • Generated detailed emission maps and methane emission values, compiled in a timestamped Excel file for further analysis
  • Tiger Analytics is a leading provider of advanced analytics and AI consulting services, helping enterprises unlock business value through data-driven insights and innovative solutions

Senior Analyst

Tiger Analytics
Bengaluru
05.2021 - 05.2024
  • Driver Analysis: Statistical technique used to assess the impact of specific features on sales by identifying key features, collecting data, performing regression analysis, and taking actionable steps to optimize influential features for profitability
  • This approach was applied in developing compliance dashboards and automating data pipelines
  • End-to-End Pipeline Design: Led the creation of a machine learning pipeline for retail brands, transforming raw data into actionable insights, including data extraction from a data lake, preprocessing in Databricks, and analysis using various ML models
  • Advanced Analytics Techniques: Used K-means clustering for customer segmentation, regression analysis for sales impact modeling, and K-NN for product recommendations, optimizing product offerings
  • Innovative Data Integration: Integrated external census data with internal sales data, revealing critical market insights to influence sales strategies and resource allocation
  • Real-Time Data Solutions: Developed and deployed real-time analytics dashboards, providing stakeholders with up-to-date metrics and enabling dynamic decision-making and responsiveness to market changes

Machine Learning Engineer

Darsa.ai (AV Advanced Vision Systems Pvt Ltd)
Bengaluru
04.2020 - 10.2020
  • Company Overview: Dasra.ai is a vision AI platform on the edge
  • Mask and social distancing compliance for Deloitte(POC): Built the deep learning pipeline to check if a person is wearing a mask and maintaining social distancing
  • People and seat occupancy on the floor for Deloitte(POC): Built a deep learning pipeline to detect the number of people on the floor, number of people who are currently seated, and number of vacant chairs
  • Checking for EHS compliance of cars for Deloitte(POC): Built the video analysis/deep learning pipeline to check if the car/cab is complying with the safety checks such as working wipers, headlight, and brake lights and blinkers
  • Mask/No Mask Compliance for Grofers: Built the deep learning pipeline to detect if a person is wearing a mask or no mask, to curb the spread of covid 19
  • AI attendance system for Grofers: Worked on a deep learning pipeline for facial recognition of employees to register time in and time out
  • Detecting location of Hand pallet truck for Grofers: The use case was to restrict the hand pallet truck from entering the service, detection techniques to detect the location and the supervisors were alerted accordingly
  • Dasra.ai is a vision AI platform on the edge

Tinkering Consultant

Evobi Automations Pvt Ltd
Bengaluru
06.2018 - 06.2019
  • Company Overview: Evobi is an Ed-tech product company, demystifying technology for k-12 students
  • Market research and feasibility study for new in house developed products
  • Evaluate and improve business processes to increase revenue
  • Training employees on the product
  • Creating tech curriculum for k-12 students
  • Evobi is an Ed-tech product company, demystifying technology for k-12 students

Education

CCE - Mathematics for Data Science

Indian Institute of Science
Bengaluru, KA
01.2019

B.E. - Information Science

Sahyadri College of Engineering
Mangalore, KA
01.2018

Skills

  • Deep learning
  • Machine learning
  • Python
  • Generative AI
  • Microsoft Azure
  • TensorFlow
  • PyTorch
  • Docker and Kubernetes
  • Streamlit
  • SQL
  • Edge computing

Certification

  • Intel AI from Data center to the edge
  • Cloud summit.nxt for AI on cloud
  • AWS Public Sector Summit on ML
  • NVIDIA Compute Technical Curriculum
  • NVIDIA Omniverse Technical Curriculum

Publications and Appearances

Pioneered the generation of synthetic mask data, with my work featured in numerous publications, some of which are listed below

  • A hybrid deep transfer learning model with machine learning methods for the face mask detection in the era of the COVID-19 pandemic
  • A Survey on how computer vision can respond to urgent need to contribute in COVID-19 pandemic
  • Face Mask Detection using Transfer Learning of InceptionV3
  • An Application for the Detection of COVID-19 Face Mask Using OpenCV
  • "COVID-19: Face Mask Detector with OpenCV, Keras/TensorFlow, and Deep Learning" - Adrian Rosebrock(PyImageSearch)
  • "FaceMask Detection using Tensorflow and OpenCV" - towardsdatascience
  • "Face Mask Detection using Python | Tensorflow | Keras | OpenCV |" - GOEDUHUB
  • "Tensorflow Models on Android - Absolute Beginner" - DEV
  • Face With/Without Mask classification using MobileNetV2

Timeline

Data Scientist

Tiger Analytics
07.2024 - Current

Senior Analyst

Tiger Analytics
05.2021 - 05.2024

Machine Learning Engineer

Darsa.ai (AV Advanced Vision Systems Pvt Ltd)
04.2020 - 10.2020

Tinkering Consultant

Evobi Automations Pvt Ltd
06.2018 - 06.2019

CCE - Mathematics for Data Science

Indian Institute of Science

B.E. - Information Science

Sahyadri College of Engineering
Prajna Bhandary