Pawan S.

CAPTCHA Recognition using CRNN

Nuremberg, Germany

Experience

Apr 2025 - Aug 2025
5 months

CAPTCHA Recognition using CRNN

  • Built a CRNN model with VGG16 and BiLSTM backbone for text-based CAPTCHA recognition
  • Achieved 9.37% character error rate and 68.36% sequence accuracy on validation data
  • Expanded data augmentation pipeline with distortions, noise injection, and clutter to improve robustness
  • Conducted detailed error analysis on confusable characters (O/Q/D) and proposed error-specific augmentation
  • Tech Stack: Python, TensorFlow/Keras, OpenCV, NumPy, Matplotlib
Apr 2025 - Aug 2025
5 months

LoRA Style Fine-Tuning with Stable Diffusion

  • Implemented LoRA fine-tuning on Stable Diffusion 1.5 to generate Studio Ghibli-inspired imagery
  • Optimized hyperparameters (learning rate, epochs, LoRA rank/alpha) for stable convergence and effective style transfer
  • Designed an evaluation framework with negative prompting and systematic seed testing to ensure consistency
  • Managed training checkpoints and prompt engineering for reproducible high-quality outputs
  • Tech Stack: Python, PyTorch, Hugging Face Diffusers, Stable Diffusion 1.5
Apr 2025 - Aug 2025
5 months

Translation Bias Analysis with LLMs

  • Investigated age and gender bias in German–English translation across MT tools and LLMs (GPT-4, DeepSeek)
  • Implemented Logistic Regression, SVM, and multilingual BERT classifiers for demographic prediction
  • Designed and tested baseline, preserved, and adaptive prompting strategies for bias mitigation
  • Contributed training and inference code for LR and SVM, visualization of gender and age bias, and report methodology
  • Tech Stack: Python, scikit-learn, Hugging Face Transformers, Logistic Regression, SVM, BERT
Oct 2024 - Feb 2025
5 months

Stock Market Prediction System

University of Technology Nuremberg

  • Engineered an ML pipeline integrating Yahoo Finance data with real-time news sentiment analysis
  • Implemented feature engineering combining technical indicators with FinBERT sentiment scores
  • Achieved 0.94 ROC AUC using an optimized ensemble of Naive Bayes, Logistic Regression, and SVM
  • Tech Stack: Python, scikit-learn, pandas, numpy, matplotlib, seaborn
Sep 2021 - Nov 2024
3 years 3 months
Hyderabad, India

Senior Data Analyst

Tiger Analytics

  • Designed and implemented customer segmentation models for retail clients, reducing the target customer base by 70% while maintaining 95% revenue coverage
  • Migrated legacy SAS workflows to MySQL, improving processing speed by 40% and reducing operational costs for an insurance client
  • Developed insurance sales prediction models using H2O AutoML, achieving over 90% accuracy
  • Built scalable PySpark pipelines on Databricks for processing 50M+ records, reducing processing time from 8 hours to 45 minutes
  • Delivered comprehensive patient journey analysis for a Fortune 500 healthcare client, creating automated Power BI dashboards tracking 15+ KPIs
  • Implemented real-time data pipelines using Snowflake and Dataiku
  • Created interactive dashboards serving over 200 stakeholders
  • Developed drug-switching analysis tools for pharmaceutical research
Jan 2020 - Sep 2021
1 year 9 months
Noida, India

Technical Content Engineer

GeeksforGeeks

  • Authored and reviewed over 110 technical articles on state-of-the-art artificial intelligence topics
  • Developed production-ready code examples for complex algorithms such as BERT, GPT, YOLO, and ResNet
  • Created educational content on computer vision, NLP, and deep learning fundamentals
Aug 2019 - Dec 2019
5 months

Human Activity Recognition for Patient Monitoring

  • Developed a real-time action detection system for hospital patient safety monitoring
  • Implemented OpenPose for pose estimation and DeepSORT for multi-object tracking
  • Achieved 95% accuracy in fall detection with less than 200 ms latency
  • Tech Stack: Python, OpenCV, TensorFlow, Keras
Jan 2019 - Jun 2019
6 months

Intelligent Attendance System with Face Recognition

  • Built a frame-wise face recognition system, achieving around 97% accuracy
  • Extended the solution for UAV surveillance applications
  • Published “UAV Surveillance for Violence Detection and Individual Identification”
  • Tech Stack: Python, OpenCV, TensorFlow, Keras, computer vision libraries

Summary

Results-driven Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Engineer with 3+ years of professional experience in machine learning, deep learning, and advanced analytics.

Proven track record of delivering scalable ML solutions for Fortune 500 clients, with expertise in end-to-end data science pipelines, customer segmentation, and predictive modeling.

Languages

English
Advanced
German
Elementary

Education

Oct 2024 - Oct 2026

University of Technology (UTN)

Master of Science · Artificial Intelligence & Robotics · Nuremberg, Germany

Aug 2016 - Jun 2020

Bennett University

Bachelor of Technology · Computer Science & Engineering · Greater Noida, India · 9.28/10 (Equivalent to German Grade: 1.3 - Very Good)

Certifications & licenses

Large Language Models: Foundation Models from the Ground Up

Large Language Models: Application through Production - Databricks

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Google Data Analytics Specialization

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