Neethu Venugopal, Research Assistant Engineer

Neethu Venugopal

Research Assistant Engineer

Zayed University

Location
United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
Education
Master's degree, M.Tech in Computer Science
Experience
6 years, 10 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :6 years, 10 Months

Research Assistant Engineer at Zayed University
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • My current job since January 2021

• Collaborated with a team of 6 researchers and PI on developing a web-based AI Task Playground - AI AnswerZ.
• Deployed 100+ pre-trained models from multiple platforms like Hugging face, Open AI, TensorFlow and stability AI.
• Created REST APIs to serve the models for real-time and near real-time inferences.
• Architect and build MLOps pipeline (preprocessing, training, evaluation, model registration, deployment) in AWS Sagemaker.
• Develop and implement advanced AI algorithms in the field of Generative AI.
• Design and deploy solutions to automate tasks by fine-tuning LLMs like GPT, Flan-T5 and LLaMA.
• Conducted In-depth research on “Detecting Cheating in Online exams” and “Classifying Bots from Twitter Profiles” and obtained accuracy of 97.7% and 97.2% respectively.
• Mentored and guided 3 interns and 3 junior team members.

Research Associate at Hamad Medical Coorporation
  • Qatar - Doha
  • June 2019 to October 2019

Responsibilities:
• To work as a Research Associate in a QNRF funded project
• To automatically segment medical implants like stent grafts from 3DRA CT images
• To code in python and to use libraries like SCIKIT-IMAGE and SKLEARN to analyze and interpret 3D images
• To analyze and process data using VMTK toolkit
• To work in a team and to support integrating the work to a larger project.
• Attending team meetings, sharing ideas, discussing issues and solutions
Projects:
Computer Enabled Radiological Resource for Blood Flow Rates in Aneurysms using Lattice Boltzmann

Research Specialist I at Sidra Medical and Research Center
  • Qatar - Doha
  • September 2018 to September 2019

Responsibilities:
- To work as a data engineer in an IRF funded project on developing deep
prediction model using data from Cerner Millennium Electronic Health Records
- To analyze and extract EHR data from Cerner Millennium EHR database
- To apply data preprocessing techniques using python
- Doing statistical analysis on data
- Data visualization through interactive graphs and tables using python and R
- To do literature study on recent research papers on health events prediction
- To work in a team, attending team meetings, Sharing ideas and updates
- To do project presentations
Projects:
- Knowledge discovery in EHR predicting preterm delivery
- Knowledge discovery in EHR predicting adverse events during delivery

Software Engineer- Computer Vision and Machine Learning at Holoteq Group
  • Qatar - Doha
  • August 2016 to September 2018

Responsibilities:

• To provide creative ideas and solutions for video and image processing problems
• Develop and implement algorithms using required tools like OpenCv (Visual C++, C#, Python), MATLAB etc.
• Implement machine learning applications in Python- Keras framework with Theano backend.
• Perform live testing.
• Work with software and web development team to integrate image processing algorithms to a larger framework meeting different functionalities.
• Attend meetings discussing the progress of the work and presenting demo.

Projects:

Client: Ministry of Interior- Traffic department, Qatar
• Automating L- Parking Test using video processing solutions.
• Automatically detecting driving violations during the test from live video input.(mainly included background subtraction, motion detection and shadow removal)
• Designing a smart car with automatic lane detection and lane departure warning system for assisting in road test (mainly included template matching, Line detection, curve fitting etc).
• Detecting vehicles from video (Machine Learning).
• Driver Face and Eye detection (Machine Learning)
Client: Kahramaa, Qatar
• Developed an interactive camera based kids game for an awareness exhibition (mainly included motion detection, color detection etc.).

Digital Image Processing Engineer at Grey Technolab(India) Pvt.Ltd
  • India - Kerala
  • December 2013 to January 2014

Responsibilities:

• Worked with a team of image processing engineers applying processing techniques.
• Implementation of IEEE papers on image processing using MATLAB.
• Provide training on Image Processing and MATLAB.
• Attend Enquiries on projects.
• Guiding candidates on implementing projects.
• Report to the project leader about the progress of the work.
• Prepared presentation on the working of the developed modules and the nature of blending with the other modules.
• Participated in the discussion and planning of projects or assignments.
• Making sure that client requirements have been satisfied, and documenting the software.

Projects:

• Directional People Counter Based on Head Tracking
• Enhancing Image Quality in Computed Tomography
• Data Embedding using Adaptive Pixel Pair Matching

Education

Master's degree, M.Tech in Computer Science
  • at University of Kerala
  • November 2012

Qualified GATE 2010 Recieved 2 year GATE scholarship Dissertation on Digital image watermarking project 1- Noise removal in digital images project 2- Bulk SMS scheme in PHP project 3- Online voting scheme in DOTNET

Specialties & Skills

Natural Language Processing
Computer Vision
Machine Learning
Artificial Neural Networks
Digital Image Processing
TensorFlow
Artificial Neural Networks
AWS Sagemaker
Deep Learning
Amazon S3
Amazon Web Services
Amazon EC2
Open AI

Languages

English
Expert
Malayalam
Expert
Hindi
Intermediate

Training and Certifications

Generative AI with LLMs (Training)
Training Institute:
Coursera
Date Attended:
August 2023
Duration:
10 hours
MLOPS Essentials : Model Deployment and Monitoring (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2023
Introduction to Tableau (Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2020
Browser based models with tensorf;ow.js (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2022
Introduction to Git (Certificate)
Date Attended:
July 2020
Data Analysis in Excel (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2020
Tensorflow for Deeplearning with Python (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2020