AI/ML Engineer

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About

Here is a little background

Hey 👋🏼 I am a Software / Machine Learning Engineer currently based in the United Kingdom. I completed my undergraduate degree in Computer Science in India and later earned my Master's degree in Computer Science with Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. I’m passionate about leveraging AI and machine learning to solve complex problems and crafting elegant code to build user-focused solutions. I’m also an active contributor to open-source projects in AI and HCI, collaborating with global communities to create impactful tools. Currently, I’m seeking exciting opportunities to apply my expertise in AI, machine learning, and software engineering to drive innovative solutions.

Experience

Research Associate

University of Birmingham

Oct 2024 - Jan 2025

  • Developed a pipeline to process Accimap diagrams (PNG/PDF), converting images into structured data for easier incident analysis.
  • Applied AI techniques to study connections in Accimaps, uncovering how different system levels interact.
  • Enhanced analysis by processing text, building graphs, and visualizing interactions with clustering techniques.

Full Stack Intern

Our Time HQ

Jun 2024 - Aug 2024

  • Built an employee time management calculator, designing an easy-to-use interface and a solid backend to track work hours and measure productivity.
  • Assisted in creating Nexie, an AI-powered time management assistant, by researching how users manage their time to help the AI better understand their needs.
  • Collaborated with different teams to connect the calculator with Nexie’s AI features, delivering tailored time management insights for users.

Skills

Hover over a skill for current proficiency

Streamlit

80%

HuggingFace

90%

CSS

80%

NetworkX

75%

FastAPI

80%

Groq API

85%

NumPy

85%

TypeScript

80%

Java

90%

LangChain

85%

PostgreSQL

70%

spaCy

75%

pandas

85%

LangGraph

85%

PyTorch

90%

JavaScript

85%

Docker

80%

Pillow

75%

Scikit-learn

80%

Figma

95%

Git

90%

OpenCV

80%

TensorFlow

80%

Python

90%

HTML

80%

Qdrant

80%

React

85%

Projects

Brain - Computer Interface

Project 1: Brain - Computer Interface

PythonPyTorchStreamlitDocker

Developed a brain-computer interface to decode speech sounds from EEG signals, training a model to recognise eight distinct speech phonemes with a 92.5% F1-score on synthetic data, while creating an interactive app that displayed topographic scalp maps and used visualisation techniques to show how the model interprets brain activity, making it easier for researchers to analyse results in real-time and support cognitive studies, with added reliability through cross-validation, hyperparameter tuning, and data augmentation.

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ResearchWebGraph

Project 2: ResearchWebGraph

FastAPIStreamlitGroq APIQdrantspaCyLangChainLangGraphPython

Built an AI-powered tool to help researchers tackle academic papers more efficiently, letting them upload PDFs to run semantic searches, extract key entities like concepts, authors, and references, and even answer specific questions about the content using a retrieval-augmented generation pipeline, while also creating knowledge graphs to map out relationships between studies, summarize papers, and highlight connections, all wrapped in a straightforward interface that made these insights easy for nontechnical users to dive into, boosting engagement by 45% among 10 beta testers.

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MoodMoji

Project 3: MoodMoji

PythonTensorFlowOpenCVPillow

Developed a real-time facial emotion recognition app that analyzes webcam video to detect emotions and pairs them with custom emojis, training a convolutional neural network on the FER2013 dataset to classify seven emotions—angry, disgust, fear, happy, neutral, sad, and surprise—and designing an interactive GUI to show the live video feed alongside matching emojis, highlighting skills in deep learning, computer vision, and interface development.

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Contact

Need a creative mind? Look no further! Let's join forces and make magic happen. Coffee's on me – unless you prefer tea!

+44 7741918549

tirthkanani18@gmail.com

London, United Kingdom

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