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Pankaj Joshi.

Final year student interested in machine learning, deep learning, and building things. Working on NLP, CV, and full-stack applications.

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01 — Skills

Skills.

Languages

Python SQL JavaScript Bash

ML / AI

PyTorch scikit-learn Deep Learning LightGBM TF-IDF / NLP Transformers

Data

NumPy Pandas Matplotlib Seaborn W&B

Web / Infra

Flask Vue.js Redis Celery SQLite Linux

02 — Education

Education.

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BS in Data Science & Applications

Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Expected April 2027

Coursework spanning statistics, machine learning, deep learning, algorithms, and application development. Tracks in NLP, computer vision, and generative AI.


03 — Projects
01 / NLP

Comment Category Classification

End-to-end ML pipeline classifying 198,000 user comments into 4 categories (general, identity/hate, political, violent). Handled severe 20.9× class imbalance. Progressed from Logistic Regression → Random Forest → LightGBM with hyperparameter tuning. Built on Kaggle.

02 / Deep Learning

Music Genre Classification — Messy Mashup

Classified audio into 10 genres from noisy mashups (ESC-50 noise overlay). Trained Simple CNN → ResNet-style CNN → AST (Audio Spectrogram Transformer). Final ensemble (AST × 0.75 + ResNet × 0.25) achieving ~0.85 val macro-F1. All runs tracked on W&B.

03 / Full Stack

Placement Portal v1

Web-based placement management system connecting students, companies, and admins. Role-based access, resume upload, drive approval workflow, application tracking. Built with Flask, SQLite, and Bootstrap. Course project for Modern Application Development.

04 / Full Stack

Placement Portal v2

Production-grade rebuild with Vue 3 frontend and Flask-RESTful backend. Added Redis caching, Celery async jobs, scheduled deadline reminders, CSV export with email alerts, token-based auth via Flask-Security, and a Pinia message store. 6 concurrent services.


04 — Leadership

Leadership.

2024–25

Secretary — Namdapha House, IIT Madras

Elected secretary of Namdapha House, the student community of IIT Madras BS Degree, representing 3900+ students across India. Organised academic support, events, hackathons, and cross-community initiatives.

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Elected
2023–24

Web Admin — Namdapha House, IIT Madras

Managed the digital presence and web infrastructure of Namdapha House. Maintained community platforms and supported online events for a house of thousands of students spread across India.

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Appointed

05 — Tools

Tools.

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PDF Converter

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Link Shortener

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CSV Explorer

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Text Classifier


Contact.

Looking for full-time ML / data science. Feel free to reach out.

Email

I check regularly and respond promptly.