Education
Iowa State University, USA
- Degree: Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science (Focus: Deep Learning, Computer Vision)
- Advisor: Dr. Ali Jannesari and Dr. Matthew Darr
- Graduation Year: 2017-Present
Iowa State University, USA
- Degree: Master of Science, Computer Science
- Advisor: Dr. Ali Jannesari
- Graduation Year: 2017-2022
BIT Sindri, India
- Degree: Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science (With Distinction)
- Graduation Year: 2011-2015
Work Experience
Iowa State University
- Position: Graduate Research Assistant
- Dates: January 2023 - Present
- Description:
- Skills Used: Python, Pytorch, CUDA, bash scripts, slurm.
- Unsupervised Learning approach to Object-Detection. Developed fully unsupervised leaning based object detection algorithm using contrastive learning.
- Unsupervised Image retrieval. Developed algorithm to retrieve image using unsupervised learning.
- Scaling Unsupervised Learning algorithm to HPC(High Performance Computing).
Hagie Manufacturing (John Deere)
- Position: Data Scientist Coop
- Dates: January 2022 - January 2023
- Description:
- President award winner for extraordinary performance.
- Skills Used: Alteryx, Ignition SCADA, Databricks, PowerBI, Microsoft Excel,AWS, RabbitMQ, Python, OpenCV, Pytorch.
- Using tools and techniques to perform Text Mining, ML models development for predictive analysis and automation and Computer Vision models.
- Design and develop project pipeline(Data Exploration, Sampling, Feature Engineering, Model Building, Field Performance Evaluation).
Iowa State University
- Position: Graduate Research Assistant
- Dates: January 2019 - December 2021
- Description:
- Skills Used: CAN-Bus, Python, OpenCV, POE, Pytorch, ROS
- Developed real-time driver assist system for large farm-vehicles. Involved a system of 16 cameras, edge computing and image stitching to utilize the CAN protocols and integrate the mechanism to existing system.
- Real-time depth detection and analysis using stereo camera(s). Used stereo camera to develop algorithm that can perform real-time depth detection and calculate volume of objects from the drone.
Iowa State University
- Position: Graduate Teaching Assistant
- Dates: January 2017 - May 2019
- Description:
- COMS 106 (Introduction to programming using HTML5, CSS, PHP, SQL, JQuery, JavaScript). Responsible for helping students understanding concepts, clearing their doubts and grading assignments.
EXL(Inductis) Services India Pvt. Ltd.
- Position: Business Analyst
- Dates: February 2016 - December 2016
- Description:
- Awarded Rising Star Award (1 of 6 awardees out of 37,000+ employees)
- Skills used: SAS, SQL, IBM-Netezza, DB2,Tableau, R, Python, Microsoft Excel.
- Utilized applications like SAS to identify trends and relationships between different pieces of data, draw appropriate conclusions and translated analytical findings.
- Created and worked on various reporting frameworks (Microsoft Excel, Tableau) that involved customer segmentation and clustering exercises for customers
Skills
- Languages and Tools: Python, Java, OpenCV, Pytorch,CUDA, Databricks, Ignition, Alteryx, AWS, Jenkins, IoT, Git, Unix
- Web Technologies: HTML, CSS, React, AngularJS, NodeJS.
Awards/Grants
ACCESS grant supported by NSF (CIS220069)
- Description: Develop algorithm for Unsupervised Object Detection.
- Position: Co-PI.
- Grant Amount: USD 174,000.
Professional Service
Invited Speaker
- Description: International 7-in-1 Symposium, CGC, Herning, Denmark.
Reviewer
- Conference: ECCV 2024.
- Conference: ICML 2024.
- Conference: ICLR 2024.
- Conference: NeurIPS 2023.
- Journal: Journal of AI Research (JAIR).
- Journal: River Publishers.
Professional Memberships
- IEEE
- IEEE Computer Society
- Cohere for AI
Attachments
Resume
- Description: Click here to view my resume.
- embed: Resume_Chandan.pdf