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I am pursuing my <strong class="sub-heading">PhD in Computer Science</strong> @ <a class="" href="https://www.umbc.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">University Of Maryland - Baltimore County</a> in the <a class="" href="https://www.csee.umbc.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Dept. of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering</a>.
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I work as a <strong class="sub-heading">Research Assistant</strong> to <a class="" href="https://coral-lab.umbc.edu/oates/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Prof. Tim Oates</a> in the <a class="" href="https://coral-lab.umbc.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CORAL Lab</a> and work with <strong class="sub-heading">Graph Neural Networks for deep learning model classification, Image Segmentation techniques, and Grounding Language using Visual Percepts</strong>.
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I am open to collaborate on research projects or paper ideas. I am also open to internship opportunities as a ML/AI Intern or in a research position.
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<strong>University of Maryland Baltimore County</strong> | 2022 - ONGOING
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<li><strong>GPA</strong>: 3.89/4</li>
<li><strong>Coursework</strong>: Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing</li>
<li><strong>Research</strong>: Graph Neural Networks, Adersarial ML (Backdoor Detection), Image Segmentation</li>
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<strong>University of Maryland Baltimore County</strong> | 2019 - 2021
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<li><strong>GPA</strong>: 3.86/4</li>
<li><strong>Coursework</strong>: Algorithms, Distributed Systems, Data Science, Machine Learning, Cryptography</li>
<li><strong>Research</strong>: Using Text to Improve Classification of Man-Made Objects</li>
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<strong>Savitribai Phule Pune University<small>, formerly University of Pune</small></strong> | 2013 - 2017
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<li><strong>GPA</strong>: 3.86/4</li>
<li><strong>Coursework</strong>: Data Structures, Object Oriented Programming, Operating Systems, Artificial Intelligence</li>
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<strong>University of Maryland Baltimore County</strong> | MAY 2021 - ONGOING
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<li>Using graph Neural Networks for posisoned neural models.</li>
<li>Neural architecture search using deep learning ontologies.</li>
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<strong>University of Maryland Baltimore County</strong> | AUG 2020 - MAY 2021
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<li>Interacting with students during and out of class and solving questions and queries.</li>
<li>Supervising graders in grading projects, assignments, homework, quizzes, and any other assessments.</li>
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<strong>Yardi Software India Pvt. Ltd.</strong> | JUL 2017 - JUL 2019
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<li>Identified and mitigated application security issues which was verified by third-party security testing team.</li>
<li>Optimized invoice-batch processing times from 2 weeks to 1 hours, by implementing a smart, scalable scheduling algorithm.</li>
<li>Planned, designed and developed a complete end-to-end in-application chat function.</li>
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<strong>E2open</strong> | AUG 2016 - MAR 2017
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<li>Predicted best price of an item for a given store to maximize sales by developing a machine learning algorithm for sales forecasting and price optimization.</li>
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Python, JAVA
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<span class="font-weight-bold"><strong>Machine Learning/Data Science: </strong></span>
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PyTorch, PyTorch-Geometric, NetworkX, Scikit-learn, Pandas, NumPy, Matplotlib, Seaborn, BeautifulSoup, pyttsx, Shell scripting
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Git, LaTeX, Team Foundation Server (TFS), MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), WinSCP
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Linux, Windows
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<li>Current research aiming to investigate the feasibility and performance of graph neural networks to identify and classify trojaned neural network models.</li>
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<li><span class="font-weight-bold">Akash Alok Vartak</span>. <a href="Akash_Vartak_Masters_Thesis.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Using Text to Improve Classification of Man-Made Objects</a>. University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 2022.</li>
<li>Using text found on objects to ground language within the context of the object and improve classification of the object itself.</li>
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<li>Aakash Raina, <span class="font-weight-bold">Akash Vartak</span>, Prof. P. R. Patil, Yash Katariya, Yash Lahoti, <a href="" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">A Survey on Promotional and Base Level Forecasting using ARIMA</a>, In International Journal of Computer Systems (IJCS), pp: 10-12, Volume 4, Issue 1, January 2017.</li>
<li>A survey on how the ARIMA forecasting model can be used in the retail industry for base level forecasts and for promotional sales prediction, specifically for Time Series data.</li>
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<p class="font-italic my-1">python, scikit-learn, matplotlib, seaborn, machine learning, data science</p>
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<li>A system to recommend a list of artists to sing a song based on the lyrics, genre, mood, and other song and artist meta-data like the number of hits an artist has or the genre of an artist or tempo.</li>
<li>Recommendation model was based on Natural Language Processing and Naive-Bayes and SVM machine learning models.</li>
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<p class="font-italic my-1">python, scikit-learn, matplotlib, seaborn, machine learning, data science</p>
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<li>Prediction of an item's best price so as to maximize sales.</li>
<li>Developed a sales forecasting and price optimization ML model that achieved an 8-10% error rate on past sales data.</li>
<li>ML model used different regression models to predict the optimal price by analyzing past retail sales across a vast demographic data and of multiple store-item combinations.</li>
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<li>A personal vocabulary trainer that displays a word and its meaning as a desktop notification, originally made for Ubuntu OS.</li>
<li>Can also provide pronunciation using pyttsx library.</li>
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