👋 Hi there, I am Yuvraj!

  • 🧠 Build and fine-tune LLMs; re-implement classic AI/ML papers from scratch
  • 🧩 Focus areas: Multimodal LLMs (vision, language and audio) and RL for pre/post treaining paradigms.
  • 🎯 Looking for: Research Internship (academia / industrial) positions in my areas of interest. Open to AI Engineer roles for development of pipelines, RAGs, Fine Tuning and other AI/ML related projects.
  • 🤝 Community: Mentor newcomers and collaborate on open‑source projects

👨🏻‍🔬 Professional Experience

  • 🏛️ TurboML— AI Engineer · Dec 2024 – Feb 2025
    • Worked on development of various tools for LLM, enhancing tool-calling capabilities.
    • Developed pipeline for smooth integration of tools developed for YouTube QnA, summarization of videos and fact check features with the platform.
  • 🏛️ University of Maryland — Research Intern · Dec 2024 – Feb 2025
    • UI/UX→Code dataset creation for VLM fine‑tuning
    • Scraped 100+ static sites; curated 200+ layout/commit records
  • 🧪 IISER Kolkata — Summer Research Intern · May 2024 – May 2025
    • Built 40k human‑verified stance‑analysis dataset (sports controversies)
    • Labels via Llama‑3.1/3.2, Mistral‑7B, Qwen‑2.5 with human verification
    • Fine‑tuned reasoning and non‑reasoning LLMs; ~30% improvement
  • 🔬 AIISC — Research Intern · Mar 2024 – Jul 2024
    • Worked with Prof. Amitava Das on hallucination prevention
    • Web‑scraped news/posts; generated synthetic data with open‑source LLMs
    • Entity tagging using GLiNER and related models
  • 🏥 Clinical AI Assistance — Research Intern · Dec 2023 – Mar 2024
    • Dataset creation and model evaluation with HuggingFace‑hosted LLMs
    • Data gathering, cleaning, and efficiency analysis

🧑‍🎓 Education

  • 🎓 International Institute of Information Technology, Bhubaneswar · 2023–2027
    • BTech, Computer Science Engineering
  • 🏫 Delhi Public School · 2022–2023
    • CBSE Grade 12 — 91%
  • 🏫 Amity International School · 2021–2022
    • CBSE Grade 10 — 96%

🧰 Skills

  • 🧠 Languages
    Python
  • 🧩 Frameworks
    PyTorch Keras Flutter Flask
  • 🤖 GenAI Tools
    LangChain LlamaIndex ChromaDB Pinecone FAISS HuggingFace
  • 📝 NLP
    GRU RNN LSTM Attention Transformers LLMs
  • 🖼️ Computer Vision
    CNN OpenCV YOLOv8 GANs Vision‑Language Models Vision Transformers (ViTs)
  • 🛠️ Tools & Platforms
    Streamlit Git GitHub Firebase Docker Google Cloud Platform

Projects

  • 🚀 FarmGenie (GeoHack 2024) | Empowering farmers with real-time insights and expert guidance via AI-driven space
    Hackathon · IIIT-BH · Bhubaneswar · 2024-07-19 00:00:00 -0700
    • Our platform utilizes LLMs and a Mixture of Expert (MoE) approaches to provide precise guidance on soil management, plant disease identification, and irrigation techniques.
    • Built as a scalable web application with a Next.
    • js frontend and backend, and supported by a Redis queue and multiple worker nodes, FarmGenie ensures robust performance.
    • The system’s multilingual support, interactive community forum, and up-to-date knowledge base facilitate seamless, expert-driven assistance for both new and experienced farmers.
  • 🚀 Paper/Architecture Replication from Scratch using PyTorch | Github Repository
    Replication · NIT · 2024-05-01 00:00:00 -0700
    • A repository consisting of paper/architecture replications of classic/SOTA AI/ML papers.
  • 🚀 Insight-Ed (HackNITR 5.0) | EdTech Platform for Student and Teacher
    Hackathon · NIT · Rourkela · 2024-03-03 00:00:00 -0800
    • Imagine an online classroom where teachers instantly know when and why students lose focus.
    • Our AI-powered solution bridges the knowledge gap by detecting student emotions and attentiveness, highlighting problem areas, makes the teacher aware of each student's progress.
    • With features like reverse video search, dynamic questionnaires, and advanced Q&A bots, we transform the learning experience, making it more interactive and insightful.
    • Redefining online education with our model, ensuring every student gets the attention they need, right when they need it.
  • 🚀 PlogPayouts | AI-driven Plogging System
    Google's Solution Challenge '24 · IIIT · Bhubaneswar · 2023-12-01 00:00:00 -0800
    • Transform your daily jog into a mission for a cleaner world with PlogPayouts.
    • Our innovative website + app rewards you for collecting litter, promoting fitness and environmental cleanliness.
    • Utilizing AI for trash categorization and optimized routes, and fostering community through shared stories, PlogPayouts turns every step into a step towards a greener, more inclusive society.
    • Join us and make a difference today!.
  • 🚀 MoviesMania (Geek-o-thon) | A Reverse Search based Movies Recommendation System
    Hackathon · IIIT · Bhubaneswar · 2023-10-03 00:00:00 -0700
    • Step into the future of entertainment discovery with MoviesMania.
    • The rpoduct aims to simplify your search for the perfect movie or web series.
    • Using various AI/ML techniques and elements, we analyze uploaded video clips to predict movie titles and recommend similar content with an impressive accuracy.
    • Experience flavoured recommendations tailored to your tastes, powered by Keras, Flask, and advanced face recognition algorithms with a full-fledged movie recommendation system.
  • 🚀 Movies Review System | Spoiler-Free Sentiment-Analysis based Movies Review System)
    POC · IIIT · Bhubaneswar · 2023-09-01 00:00:00 -0700
    • Introducing the Movie Review System, where AI meets movie magic to revolutionize how viewers experience films.
    • This project goal is to provide an interface for spoiler-free reviews and sentiment analysis, enhancing the viewing journey.
    • With advanced models like Voting Classifier and Bi-LSTMs powered by Keras and TensorFlow, we achieve impressive metrics—a 91% accuracy, 91% precision, and 90% recall that understands and enhances the users' with the respective movies' plot from a bird's eye view.

🎖️ Achievements

  • 🏆 GeoHack ’24 Finale — 2nd place
    Project: FarmGenie · IEEE GRSS Kolkata and SAADRI · 2024
  • 🥈 YESIST12 ’24 (Special Track) — Finalist
    Project: PlogPayouts · Led the project · 2024
  • 🥇 Geek‑o‑thon (D3 @ IIIT‑BH) — Winner
    Project: MovieMania · Inter‑college hackathon (AI/ML) · 2023