Walia's Resume
Walia's Resume
E DUCATION
Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College, Ludhiana Expected Graduation - June 2025
Bachelor of Technology in Information Technology
Minors: Big Data Analytics; Entrepreneurial Studies
E XPERIENCE
Indian Institute of Technology, Indore April 2024 – Present
Research Intern (under Dr. Chandresh Kumar Maurya, AI lab)
– Generated corpus for Speech-to-text Translation specified for Indic Languages.
– Developed state-of-the-art models for both end-to-end and cascade STT conversion.
– Expanded the system’s capabilities to support multiple Indic languages within a unified framework.
Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College, PTU Mar 2023 - June 2023
Research Intern (under Dr. Sandeep Kumar Singla, HPC lab)
– Contributed to a government-aided project called ‘Medigen’, a pharmaceutical app to detect insights about medical
drugs.
– Developed a template for prompt generation using the Chain-of-Thought prompting technique for an LLM, prior to
tokenization and stemming.
T ECHNICAL S KILLS
Languages Java, Python, JavaScript, SQL, C++ Tools Git, GitHub, Anaconda, Postman, Tableau
Frameworks TensorFlow, PyTorch, Hadoop, NLTK, Scapy, Platforms Linux, Web, Windows, Arduino
FastAPI, Scikit
P ROJECTS
– CancerClassifier Pytorch, Image Classification, Streamlit A web application for classifying skin cancer types using a
pre-trained ResNet-50 model. The project includes data preprocessing, model training, and a Streamlit web application
for predicting types of skin cancer from uploaded images.
V OLUNTEER
Center for Multi-Faceted Learning (CML) Feb 2021 – Present
– Headed peer-to-peer machine learning workshops for 320+ students.
– Created dashboards to organize faculty and student financial data, simplifying interpretation, which helped reduce
annual expenses by 10%.
A CHIEVEMENTS
– Selected in Illuminate AI as a mentee out of 10,000 applications - June 2023.
– Selected as a delegate in AIS Youth Conference 2023 in Bali, Indonesia - September 2023.
– Reached the pre-final round of Samsung’s Solve for Tomorrow - June 2022.
– Won the Inter-college Basketball championship 2023 as vice-captain.