SHOUNAK DEEPAK

Developed a flask web application to suggest alternate words for Indic languages using NLP. Developed the first solution for the company suggesting synonyms for 10 Indian Languages. Collected 500K+ paragraphs text data by web scraping from Wikipedia using Selenium, Kaggle for model training. Visualized data and performed text cleaning and pre-processing using Regular Expression and Indic NLP Library. Trained and fine-tuned Word2Vec models on pre-processed data using Gensim library to generate similar words/synonyms. Deployed the models on Heroku and created an API for calling the models for all the languages using Flask framework. Developed a flask web application using Language Tool Python to remove grammatical errors from an English(US) text corpus. Identified and documented a way to add a custom grammatical rule in the Language Tool Python Source code for Hindi.

Mentored a group of 3 students for their academic growth and emotional wellbeing at IIT Kharagpur.

Organized and managed the Entrepreneurship Awareness Drive, Pune 2019 receiving a footfall of over 700 students. Organised the first ever edition of E-Start, comprising of pitching sessions of 6 startups in front of eminent mentors. Managed the Start-up bootcamp 2019 held in IIT Kharagpur which witnessed pitching sessions from 17 startups.