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Sumit Vaise

Graduate Research Assistant

[2019 - Present]

Computer Vision Engineer
[2015-2018]

Hello !

I am an Electrical and Computer Engineering Graduate student at the Concordia University , living on the beautiful Island of Montreal, Canada. I work as a Research Assistant in my University.

I had significant experience in Computer Vision application development through my Computer Vision Engineer (4 years in India) and Reasearch Assistant positions.

My whole professional and academic career revolves around pixels, in understanding them, manipulating them and using them for specific purposes through Image Processing and Computer Vision. I developed prototypes, using Python or MATLAB, to understand the underlying concepts and then converted them to an optimized applications using C++.I created application for desktop as well as development boards.

Interests

  • Image Processing
  • Deep Learning
  • Computer Vision
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Full Stack Development
  • GPGPU Programming

Education

  • MEng in Electrical and Computer Engineering (Course Based), 2020

    Concordia University, Montreal

  • Post Graduate Diploma in Elctronics Product Designing

    Centre of Development and Advanced Computing, Hyderabad

  • BTech in Electronics and Communication Engineering, 2012

    Uttar Pradesh Technical University, Ghaziabad

Skills

Python

Proficient

Javascript

Intermediate

SQL

Proficient

Full Stack Web Development

Deep Learning

Computer Vision

Natural Language Processing

Machine Learning

Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Machine Learning Engineer Intern (NLP)

Nuance Communications

Jan 2020 – Apr 2020 Montreal, Canada

Responsibilities :

  • Developing Language Models for Non-English languages to provide Conversational AI products.
  • Working closely with the NLU research team in collaboration with the MILA Lab, Montreal.

    • Technologies used: Tensorflow, Python, Docker.
 
 
 
 
 

Machine Learning Engineer Intern

Motion Metrics International

May 2019 – Aug 2019 Vancouver, Canada

Responsibilities :

  • Designed and Developed an end-to-end Deep-Learning based computer vision pipeline to remove shadows from images caused due to varying illumination conditions. The Shadow Removal algorithm I developed has improved the company’s existing algorithms performance by 95% and is ready for deployment in production.
  • Researched and Developed Domain Adaption algorithms using Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN’s) for the Shadow-Removal project.
  • Worked with an experienced team of Senior Software Engineers that followed industry-proven disciplined agile methodology for development.
  • Project management using tools like JIRA to create, assign, and submit tasks, manage task descriptions and task timelines.

    • Technologies used: PyTorch, Python, OpenCV, Docker.
 
 
 
 
 

Research Assistant, Visual Computing Lab

University of Victoria

Sep 2017 – Dec 2019 Victoria, Canada

Responsibilities:

  • Developing novel algorithms for Real-Time Semantic Segmentation on Low Power Devices.
  • Developing algorithms for domain adaptation of semantic segmentation of hands using Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs).
  • Developed and open-sourced a large scale dataset containing 200k annotated depth images and deep-learning architectures for hand segmentation.

 
 
 
 
 

Management Trainee

Coal India Limited

Jul 2015 – Jul 2017 Sambalpur, India
Responsibilities :

  • Administration of the database server and part of a team that involved in the design of physical database schema, data modeling, and performance tuning. I was part of a research team working on building an Explosive Recommender System, that helps optimize blasting operation to attain production efficiency in coal mines.

Projects

Flack - Real Time Online Messenger Application

An online messaging service using Python’s Flask, similar in spirit to Slack.

Facial Key Point Detection

Developed a Facial keypoint detection system by training a convolutional neural network on Youtube Faces dataset.

Hand Segmentation from Depth Images

Created a large scale dataset containing 200k annotated depth images and deep-learning architectures for hand segmentation.

Accomplishments / Awards

Computer Vision Nano Degree

Learned cutting-edge computer vision and deep learning techniques from basic image processing to building and customizing convolutional neural networks.
See certificate

Deep Learning Nano Degree

See certificate

University Entrance Graduate Fellowship

Awarded for the first year of my master’s program

Merit Cum Means Scholarship

Awarded for 4 consecutive years for excellent academic performance

Contact

  • 250 885 2990
  • 1445 Fort Street, Victoria, BC, V8S 1Z4, Canada