Mrityunjay Balkrishnan
@mrityunjaybalkrishnan
Research Fellow at Indian Political Action Committee
Mumbai, Maharashtra
Mrityunjay Balkrishnan is a data science professional with experience in research and project management across sectors like political action and heavy industry. He has expertise in developing advanced ML solutions, including LLM-based chatbots and computer vision models. His technical skills encompass Python, R, MATLAB, and deep learning architectures, complemented by a strong academic background in Chemical Engineering.
Experience
Research Fellow, Central Planning Unit
Indian Political Action Committee
Collaborated with the Strategic Research and Insights (SRI) team to Automate reports using APIs for operational efficiency. Developed a robust captcha handle model for efficient web scraping of government PDFs. Developed an LLM-based Chatbot for PKconnect using Voiceflow using Press Conferences transcript insights. Improved publicly available datasets through synthetic data generation, enhancing data quality.
Project Manager
Reliance Industries Limited
Managed multiple complex projects simultaneously, demonstrating multitasking capabilities in designing Instruments. Collaborated with project management teams to plan, execute, and monitor progress, ensuring timelines and resulting in a 13% cost reduction in the budget for retrofit projects for the second quarter of the annual year ’23. Researched design engineering automation solutions with Engineering Solutions and Automation, streamlining manual processes involving Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams (P&ID). Developed a prototype for automation, optimizing design engineering workflows.
Intern
Department of Atomic Energy
Modelling an efficient heat sink for a 3-phase inverter (PWM - IGBT based). Data such as (switching frequency, and load) are obtained from PSIM Simulations. Trained the data in Microsoft Azure and cross-validated in MATLAB using Levenberg-Marquardt Algorithm for benchmarking.
Education
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Post graduate degree
Applied Data Science and Machine Learning
Jadavpur University
Bachelor of Engineering
Chemical Engineering
St. Xaviers Junior/Senior School
Licenses & Certifications
Machine Learning Specialization
DeepLearning.AI, Coursera
Mathematics For Machine Learning
Imperial College, Coursera