Pankaj currently holds 8+ years of experience in data science and ML. Handling recommendation and computer vision based ML projects at Chingari. - Trained and deployed large scale multi-modality models for video classification - Training, deployment and maintenance of content moderation models at Chingari - Recommendation pipelines for short videos, live rooms and private calls In my past experience at Ittiam Systems I was part of a corporate R&D group As part of the Lead Engineer was part of the following: - Was part of a distinguished client project for AI based image and video compression. - Implemented and benchmarked some leading deep learning based papers for I-frame, P-frame and B-frame compression. - Was part of continuous release and deployment of AI based software as deliverables to the client. - Published a research paper and two US patents as part of our research As part of the Senior Engineer was part of the following: - Lead multiple client projects and POCs and also was part of IttiamInsite, a in-house product for human behaviour inside the store. - End to end training of a top-down person detection which was used as part of the IttiamInsite for people count and other dynamics. - Benchmarking and deployment of deep learning based models on Edge devices like Jetson TX2 and Open Vino using Deep Learning frameworks such as TENSORT and ONNX.