Pramod Ch
@pramodch
Senior Data Scientist at Mahindra Software Defined Vehicle Center
Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu
Highly motivated Senior Data Scientist with a M.Sc degree from Germany and over 5+ years of total experience, including 4+ years focused on Data science, GenAI, ML, and DL. Expertise in Machine Learning (TensorFlow, PyTorch), robust data pipelines (Databricks, Spark), data visualizations (PowerBI, Tableau). AWS Certified Solutions Architect, with proficiency in cloud platforms. Skilled leader adept at managing team members and interns to drive innovation across diverse data domains. Passionate about leveraging AI to address challenges in various industries and committed to pushing the boundaries of innovation.
Experience
Senior Data Scientist in Connected Cars - Data Intelligence
Mahindra Software Defined Vehicle Center
Technical expertise and spearheaded POC projects for data engineering, Analytics and AI, establishing myself as the department's AI implementation expert. Streamlined historical big data processing with Databricks & Delta Live Tables. Collaborated with stakeholders to translate complex data insights into compelling data visualizations and increased user engagement by 6%. Developed an anomaly detection pipeline for vehicle data for last 2 years, enabling proactive identification of potential issues. Leveraged Explainable AI (XAI) to identify key features contribute to real-world fuel inefficiency, enabling targeted optimization strategies. Built an inhouse object detection model for vehicle telltale detection as a part of Adrenox Mlens android and iOS app leading to a 75% reduction in development time and 90% reduction in cost. Developed a time series forecasting model to estimate the demand of spare parts requirement to help the supply chain and logistics. Leading development of a persona-based RAG LLM chatbot for Mahindra, empowering product, sales, and design teams with customer-centric insights from vehicle reviews. Tools: Databricks, Pyspark, SQL, GCP Vertex AI, PowerBI, Qliksense, mlflow, gradio, Langchain, Huggingface.
Software engineer - Analytics
John deere (Titum GmbH)
Contributed to enhancing the testing efficacy of the tractor display system by effectively identifying areas for improvement and proposing data-driven solutions.
Data Scientist/ Consultant
P3 digital services GmbH
Leveraged data analytics on user experience data of vehicle's infotainment system, particularly in climate controls and navigation, achieving a 12% improvement. Enhanced ETL processes through optimized Glue job scripts, ensuring smooth data flow for analysis. Analyzed infotainment usage data to address complex business use cases. Identified potential KPI (re-)calculations and creation of insightful dashboards and reports. Tools: PySpark, Python 3, MySQL, AWS (S3, Sagemaker, Glue, Redshift), Tableau.
Development Engineer- ADAS
Bertrandt AG
Developed robust and real-time visualization systems that depict gaze vectors from both head and eyes, leading to a 15% improvement in identifying driver focus areas. Tools: C++, Python, OpenGL, Atlassian tools (Jira, Confluence).
Data scientist in connectivity and assistance systems
Pierburg GmbH – Rheinmetall Automotive AG
Designed a data pipeline and ML algorithm for monitoring vital signs (heart rate and breath rate) using radar for vehicle interior monitoring. Performed data pre-processing, model selection, and evaluation, validating results against existing solutions to ensure reliability. Tools: Python 3, Tensorflow 2, Matlab, Simulink, MLflow, Linux.
Machine learning Engineer in Pre-development of driver assistance systems
Volkswagen AG
Designed and implemented data pipelines and ML algorithms for large-scale vehicle CAN bus data, enabling accurate drivable path estimation models. Developed a novel unsupervised clustering method, followed by training a neural network, which increased model training efficiency by 29%. Conducted a comprehensive literature review to evaluate and integrate novelty detection techniques for data pipeline. Tools: Python 3, TensorFlow, Keras, Numpy, SciKit-learn, Pandas, bokeh, Matplotlib, Seaborn, Plotly (Dashboard), Atlassian tools, Airflow and ADTF.
Graduate Industrial engineer Trainee
Pennar industries
Analyzed production data in order to increase man, machine and material productivity.
Education
Technische Universität Kaiserslautern
Master of Science
Vehicle Technology
Focus: Machine learning, Data Science, ADAS & Autonomous driving. Thesis: Multi-object tracking and interactive event prediction in traffic scenes using Graph Neural Networks.
GITAM University
Bachelor of Technology
Mechanical Engineering
Licenses & Certifications
AWS Certified Solutions Associate
AWS
Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals AI-900 Specialization
Microsoft