NIRUPAMA

Software / AI Engineer

Nirupama Balasubramanian

I'm a better engineer than Opus 4.6, GPT-5.4 and Gemini 3.1 😉

Nirupama Balasubramanian

About

I am currently pursuing an MS in Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (GPA 4.0/4.0), with prior experience across applied computer vision, NLP, and ML platform engineering. I focus on turning research-driven models into practical production systems.

Experience

AI/ML Engineer Intern · Ascend Cargo Systems

Jan 2026 – Present · San Francisco, USA

  • Engineered an Autonomous AI Agent using Python, Java Spring Boot, and MCP to orchestrate LLM-driven graph reconstructions and shipment rate refreshes, targeting a 70% reduction in manual supply chain lookups

Software AI Engineer · Cogniverse Labs

Jan 2025 – Jul 2025 · Bangalore, India

  • Developed and fine-tuned Faster R-CNN and YOLOv8 object detection models for India's Smart City roadside monitoring initiative, reducing manual inspection workload by 40%
  • Built a computer vision inference pipeline for batch and real-time workloads, deploying models using TorchServe for scalable serving

Machine Learning Intern · National University of Singapore

Dec 2023 – Jul 2024 · Singapore

  • Developed a medical CV pipeline using Vision Transformer and TypeScript; analysed real-time inference via Flask REST API to achieve 96% accuracy through research-led fine-tuning
  • Architected a microservice to deploy an SVM-based predictive engine for a Tier-2 Singaporean Telecom provider; optimized high-dimensional feature sets to achieve 92% accuracy while leading a 45-member technical cohort

Data Science Intern · Colt Technology Services

Aug 2023 – Sep 2023 · Bangalore, India

  • Automated sentiment extraction from employee feedback, by designing and training a BERT-based transformer model with end-to-end NLP pipelines, reducing manual analysis effort and achieving 90% model accuracy

Projects

IQA Assessment of LDCT Images

GitHub

Deep Learning · Image Processing · Image Enhancement

  • Authored a Diagnosis based Image Quality Assessment and enhancement technique for Low Dose CT Scans leveraging feature extraction and spatial enhancement methodology
  • The SVR-GS model achieved a 0.969 PLCC, with enhancements verified by Dr. Inthulan Thiraviraj

Multilingual Online Polarization Detection

GitHub

PyTorch · XLM-R · NLLB-200

  • Architected an XLM-RoBERTa framework across 9 languages using NLLB-200 for translation-based oversampling to resolve manifold collapse and increase Macro F1 from 0.63 to 0.727
  • Integrated Supervised Contrastive Learning and Focal Loss to disentangle overlapping rhetorical labels, achieving 8% boost through Dynamic Thresholding

Distributed ML Pipeline for Flight Delay Prediction

GitHub

ML · Python · PySpark · TensorFlow

  • Predicted Flight Delays for over 1 million records using Catalyst Optimizer and Lazy Evaluation
  • Optimized to 0.6535 AUC via Grid Search and validated scalability by benchmarking PySpark against Pandas

Publications

Efficient Medical Diagnosis Using ML Algorithm: Comparative Study on Cataract Detection and Analysis

View Paper

Published in Advances in Electrical and Computer Technologies (CRC Press / Taylor & Francis)

ANGEL: Automated Navigation Giving Emergency Location — A Robust Tracking System

IEEE Xplore

Published in 2025 International Conference on Information, Implementation, and Innovation in Technology (I2ITCON) — IEEE

Certifications

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

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Foundational cloud architecture, security, and AWS service knowledge.

AWS Certified Solutions Architect

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Design of scalable, secure, and cost-optimized cloud infrastructure.

Contact

Open to AI/ML engineering roles, internships, and research collaborations.