AI Researcher & Data Science Specialist

Hello, I'm Mokshada Nehete

Dual-Degree Scholar at IIIT Pune (B.Tech CSE, Honors in AI) & IIT Madras (B.S. Data Science). Passionate about Generative AI, Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning, and Scalable Data Pipelines.

IIIT Pune: 9.79 CGPA (Honors: 10)
IIT Madras: 9.88 CGPA
research_profile.py
class AIResearcher:
    def __init__(self):
        self.name = "Mokshada Nehete"
        self.institutes = [
            "IIIT Pune (CSE w/ AI Honors)",
            "IIT Madras (Data Science)"
        ]
        self.cgpa = {"IIIT_Pune": 9.79, "IIT_Madras": 9.88}
        self.focus = ["LLMs & RAG", "Deep Learning", "RL"]

    def get_mission(self):
        return "Building intelligent, efficient & scalable AI systems."
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IIIT Pune CGPA (Honors: 10)
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IIT Madras CGPA
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Overview

About Me

Driven by Innovation & Analytical Rigor

I am a Computer Science & Data Science scholar with an exceptional academic record across two of India's premier technical institutions: IIIT Pune (CGPA: 9.79, Honors CGPA: 10) and IIT Madras (CGPA: 9.88).

My passion lies at the intersection of Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), Computer Vision, Reinforcement Learning, and Data Engineering. I specialize in designing high-performance AI architectures—ranging from reinforcement learning cloud schedulers and multimodal retrieval systems to automated clinical intake systems and high-throughput data engineering pipelines.

Artificial Intelligence & LLMs

Expertise in RAG pipelines, fine-tuning Vision Transformers, FAISS, BGE-M3, and prompt optimization.

Data Engineering & Systems

Architecting Medallion (Bronze-Silver-Gold) pipelines, Apache Airflow, Docker, Snowflake, and PostgreSQL.

Quick Details

Academic Journey

Education & Excellence

Aug 2023 – May 2027

Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Pune

B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering with Honors in AI

9.79 CGPA Honors CGPA: 10.0

Specialized curriculum focused on Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Algorithms, and System Architecture. Maintaining top-tier academic standing with a perfect 10 CGPA in AI Honors.

Artificial Intelligence Deep Learning Reinforcement Learning Data Structures & Algorithms Robotics Leadership
Jan 2024 – July 2027

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras

B.S. in Data Science and Applications

9.88 CGPA Diploma Topper

Advanced program covering Large-scale Data Processing, Machine Learning, Statistical Inference, Deep Learning, and Mathematical Modeling. Recognized as the Female Topper in Diploma in Programming out of 1,400+ students.

Data Science Applied Machine Learning Statistical Modeling Big Data Python & SQL
Technical Proficiency

Skills & Technologies

ML / GenAI / LLMs

PyTorch HuggingFace Transformers LLMs & RAG FAISS ChromaDB LangChain BGE-M3 & SigLIP Vision Transformers (ViT) Deep Q-Networks (DQN)

Programming Languages

Python Java C / C++ SQL (PostgreSQL) JavaScript Shell Scripting

Frameworks & Backend

FastAPI Flask React React Native Vue.js PyTorch Lightning Celery

Data & Analytics

Pandas NumPy Matplotlib / Seaborn EDA Feature Engineering Scikit-learn XGBoost & LightGBM

Systems & Infrastructure

Docker & Compose Apache Airflow Snowflake Redis REST APIs Vector Databases API Design Git & GitHub

Experimentation & MLOps

TrackIO Mel Spectrograms torchaudio / librosa Model Versioning Hyperparameter Optimization Docker Deployment
Innovation Showcase

Featured Projects

Mar 2026 – Apr 2026 Reinforcement Learning

Energy-Aware Task Scheduling

PyTorch, DQN, Cloud Scheduling, Reinforcement Learning

Developed an energy-aware cloud task scheduler using a Deep Q-Network (DQN) to optimize task allocation across virtual machines by jointly minimizing energy consumption while maximizing resource utilization and QoS.

  • Engineered a multi-objective reward function incorporating CPU, RAM, memory, disk utilization, uptime, and response time.
  • Designed a modular RL pipeline comprising environment simulation, agent, scheduler, replay buffer, and evaluation modules.
  • Implemented an adaptive ε-greedy exploration strategy, experience replay, and target network updates.
  • Benchmarked the scheduler on workloads ranging from 50–1000 concurrent tasks evaluating Pareto-optimal trade-offs.
Apr 2026 Data Engineering

Flight Operations Data Engineering Pipeline

Python, Apache Airflow, Snowflake, Docker, OpenSky API

Developed an end-to-end ETL pipeline using Apache Airflow to orchestrate scheduled ingestion of live flight-state data from the OpenSky Network API, with automated retries and 30-minute execution schedules.

  • Implemented a Bronze–Silver–Gold Medallion Architecture for raw API responses, schema validation, deduplication, and gold datasets.
  • Built modular Python ETL components for high-volume telemetry (aircraft metadata, geospatial coords, velocity, heading).
  • Integrated with Snowflake for automated table creation, curated data loading, and query optimization.
  • Containerized the complete stack using Docker Compose with configuration-driven DAGs and fault-tolerant execution.
Feb 2026 – May 2026 GenAI & Healthcare

MedAssist: LLM-Based Clinical Intake System

Python, FastAPI, React, Gemini, PubMedBERT, Celery

Built an AI-powered clinical intake platform for symptom assessment, medical report analysis, and medication safety using LLMs and NLP.

  • Designed a hybrid AI pipeline combining PubMedBERT embeddings, semantic similarity, and LLM reasoning for drug interaction detection.
  • Automated SOAP note generation and OCR-based medical report summarization to provide structured clinical insights.
  • Implemented real-time risk scoring, QR-based emergency profiles, and Celery-powered medication reminder workflows.
Jan 2026 – Feb 2026 Deep Learning & Audio

Messy Mashups: Audio Genre Classification

PyTorch, torchaudio, AST, librosa, AdamW

Built a noise-robust audio classification pipeline using Mel Spectrograms and GPU-based preprocessing for efficient training on music genre data.

  • Applied Mixup, SNR-based augmentation, and tempo alignment to improve robustness against noisy and time-shifted audio.
  • Scaled model from CNN/ResNet baselines to an Audio Spectrogram Transformer (AST) with self-attention.
  • Optimized training with AdamW, Focal Loss, and test-time augmentation (TTA), achieving a 0.964 Macro F1 score.
Sep 2025 – Dec 2025 Multimodal AI & Search

AI-Powered Offline Disk Analyzer

Python, Flask, React, FAISS, Docker, BGE-M3, SigLIP, YOLO

Built a multimodal offline retrieval system over 1000+ files, supporting 5+ query modes including text, image, face, and object search using BGE-M3 (1024-d) and SigLIP (768-d) embeddings.

  • Implemented FAISS-based vector search with hybrid reranking, achieving 85–90% accuracy with <5 s latency.
  • Enabled text-to-text, text-to-image, image-to-image, and face/object search using YOLO and ArcFace (512-d).
  • Integrated LLM-based Q&A for structured offline data exploration.
Aug 2025 Agentic AI & Analytics

Data Analyst Agent

Python, LLMs, Pandas, SQL, Matplotlib, Docker

Built an LLM-powered autonomous data analysis agent capable of ingesting and processing large-scale datasets from CSV files, APIs, S3, and SQL sources.

  • Designed a multi-stage agentic pipeline with planner, retrieval, analysis, and visualization modules.
  • Implemented automated EDA, feature extraction, and statistical analysis using Pandas and NumPy.
  • Enabled natural language querying delivering analysis outputs and visualizations in under 3 minutes.
Jun 2025 RAG & GenAI

Virtual TA Assistant

FastAPI, FAISS, RAG, LLMs, all-MiniLM-L6-v2

Built an LLM-powered API to answer course-related queries using retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) over course content and 1000+ Discourse posts.

  • Engineered a FAISS-based retrieval pipeline with all-MiniLM-L6-v2 embeddings for semantic search and source grounding.
  • Designed system supporting JSON-based queries and base64 file inputs, returning responses with source links in <30s.
  • Automated data scraping, chunking, and indexing with date-range filtering for continuous knowledge updates.
2025 Machine Learning

Cinema Audience Forecasting

Python, XGBoost, LightGBM, Scikit-learn, Pandas

Developed a machine learning pipeline to forecast movie audience demand using historical box office, release metadata, seasonal trends, and genre-specific features.

  • Performed extensive feature engineering (temporal features, categorical encoding, missing value imputation).
  • Trained and evaluated multiple regression models (XGBoost, LightGBM, Random Forest) with cross-validation.
  • Built an end-to-end forecasting workflow covering data preprocessing, model training, and trend visualization.
Dec 2025 Deep Learning & Bio-AI

Protein Secondary Structure Prediction

PyTorch, PyTorch Lightning, BiLSTM, GRU, TrackIO

Developed an end-to-end sequence-to-sequence deep learning pipeline for predicting protein secondary structures from amino acid sequences, jointly learning Q8 (8-state) and Q3 (3-state) annotations.

  • Designed and benchmarked 6 neural architectures (BiRNN, BiLSTM, GRU, Inception-BiLSTM, ResNet-BiLSTM, SE-ResNet-BiLSTM).
  • Engineered a modular PyTorch Lightning framework with custom tokenization, dynamic padding, and mixed-precision.
  • Optimized token-level prediction using Macro-F1 evaluation and cross-entropy based multi-task learning with TrackIO.
Nov 2025 Computer Vision & ViT

Multi-Task Facial Attribute Prediction

PyTorch, PyTorch Lightning, Vision Transformers (ViT), CNNs

Developed a multi-task computer vision pipeline to jointly predict age (regression) and gender (classification) from facial images using shared feature representations.

  • Benchmarked custom CNNs and fine-tuned Vision Transformer (ViT) architectures leveraging transfer learning.
  • Built an end-to-end PyTorch Lightning framework with advanced image augmentations and mixed-precision training.
  • Optimized joint classification and regression losses with Macro-F1 and normalized RMSE metrics.
Honors & Achievements

Awards & Recognition

2026

Exceptional Initiative & Learning Award

IIMA Ventures AI Summer Residency

Awarded for exceptional initiative, continuous learning, and impactful technical contributions during the AI Summer Residency.

2026

Advanced Certificate in ML & Data Science

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras

Completed advanced coursework in Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Transformers, and Applied Data Science with stellar academic distinction.

2025

Recognized as Female Topper

Diploma in Programming (IIT Madras)

Recognized for achieving the highest CGPA among 1,400+ students across the entire cohort.

2024

Dover Foundation Scholarship (Global Recipient)

Dover Foundation

Selected as 1 of 30 scholars globally out of thousands of applicants worldwide based on academic leadership.

2019, 2021

Student of the Year Award (2x)

Academic Excellence

Recognized twice for consistent academic excellence, peer leadership, and top-tier overall performance.

2015 – 2017

Post-Graduation in Abacus & Vedic Math

Speed Calculation Institute

Completed advanced training in rapid speed calculation, mental arithmetic, and numerical problem solving.

Verified Credentials

Certifications & Specializations

Impact & Community

Leadership & Activities

Club Head Aug 2025 – Present

R.O.F.I.E.S (Robotics Club of IIIT Pune)

  • Leading robotics activities, technical workshops, and hands-on hardware/software training sessions.
  • Mentoring student teams for national robotics competitions and managing cross-functional technical projects.
Design Head Aug 2025 – Present

QuantNum (Mathematics Club of IIIT Pune)

  • Created research posters, mathematical event designs, and interactive visual math content.
  • Fostering mathematical research interest and organizing university-wide problem-solving challenges.
Volunteer June 2024 – Present

Robin Hood Army

  • Actively contributing to education drives, health awareness, and food donation campaigns for underprivileged children.
Sports Captain / Athlete 2017 – 2018

Throwball & Basketball

  • Runner-up in Zonal Throwball Championship; active basketball tournament player representing school teams.
Get In Touch

Let's Connect & Collaborate

Contact Information

I am always open to discussing research collaborations, innovative AI projects, or academic opportunities. Feel free to reach out directly via email or phone!

Phone Number +91-9284969160
GitHub Profile github.com/MokshadaN
Location Pune / Madras, India

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