A Little Bit About Me
Hey! My name is Suraj and I'm a Data scientist with a passion for building products with AI features. I'm currently a Graduate student at
University of South Florida pursuing a degree in Artificial intelligence (AI) and Information Systems. I aspire toward a career that will allow me to channel my creativity through crafting beautiful software and engaging experiences.
When I'm not on the computer, I enjoy photography - I have an instagram account with over 1k followers! I love watching movies, beatboxing and spending time outdoors.
TL;DR? Self Proclamations:
Data Scientist
AI Enthusiast
Photographer
What I Do
Analytics
With an abundance of data at our disposal, I am firmly convinced that analytics holds the key to solving problems across various fields. My expertise lies in leveraging data to address business challenges.
Development
I'm passionate about designing and developing full-stack applications, particularly when it involves integrating AI and data science capabilities.
Research
At USF, I'm currently a Research Assistant. Some of the topics of my research involve applying game theory and Deep Learning on Cyber Security Problems.
Check out my résumé!
Graphien
Duo-lingo for learning how to write
Graphien, which is "to write" in Greek, was our submission @BayHacks2024 held at Tampa Bay that was a "DuoLingo" for learning how to write. Built in less than 30 hours, we leveraged a CNN model fine-tuned to free-form drawings of handwritten english alphabets.We emerged as winners :)
AutoWise
Smart Used Car Market Place
Complete used car market place product that I built for my data mining class. Data & images for this project was scraped from Vroom.com using selenium. I integrated a recommender system for similar cars based on current viewing car using a similarity model pre-computed and stored on a Postgres Sever. I also made a price prediction model which gives you optimal price to sell based on a Machine Learning Algorithm.
Yog.Ai
AI yoga assistant
The idea was to make a low-cost, accessible solution to learn yoga! Human pose estimation is an actively researched area in computer vision, we solved implemented this on detection and active feedback of yoga poses using Blaze-pose!
State of the region
Insights report - Tampa Bay Partnership
As a graduate research assistant at the University of South Florida, I contributed as a researcher towards the State Of The Region - 2024 report. This was a comparative study of Tampa bay region against 19 other MSAs on various socio-economic metrics.
Handgun Detection - Security Footage
Object Detection - Computer Vision
The idea was to build an object detector model to detect Handguns from surveillance footage. Trained a YOLO-v5 model on over 50,000 handguns - taken from ROBOFLOW. This implmentation allows you to upload images, videos and it gives a downloadable file with a bounding box of the detection.
Racing Wheel
Computer Vision Based Racing Wheel
I've always wanted to play racing games with a racing wheel to get the proper experience, but could never afford the gear. In this simple implementation, I created a CV based detection of racing wheel movements.
Check out this short video describing the project!
Medicine and the Military
Website
Medicine and the Military is one of the Department of Defense sites I was involved in working on while at Mullen. I worked on various elements of the website, including the full bleed header video, many design tweaks, and the overall experience in general.
JetBlue HumanKinda
Tumblr Site
At Mullen, I played a major role in the development and design of this Tumblr site to complement JetBlue's new HumanKinda documentary. The site houses the video documentary at the top, the many graphics created by Mullen for the campaign, and an interactive quiz to determine how "HumanKinda" you are.
Read more about this project on AdWeek, Fast Company, and Digiday!
U.S. Cellular Landing Pages
Static Template Promo Sites
At Mullen, I was resonsible for the development of several of U.S. Cellular's landing pages. Each landing page was for a different campaign, and each page lived in U.S. Cellular's static template.
A few pages I built can be found here, here, and here.
Mullen Display Screens
I was involved in the prototyping and initial development of Mullen Display Screens, which was an in-house project at Mullen Lowe's Boston office. This site is displayed on various TV screens around the office as an convenient way to keep employees and guests informed about what goes on at Mullen Lowe. With a Wordpress backend, it's easy for Mullen employees to maintain and update the information displayed by the site.
Lovesac
Tumblr Site
For Lovesac's 20th anniversary, Mullen built this Tumblr timeline site to document Lovesac's history juxtaposed with different cultural trends and pop culture throughout the years. I inherited the code for this shortly before launch, and was responsible for finishing the development on a tight deadline, as well as handling hotfixes.
MullenLoweUS.com
Mullen Lowe's Website
In the beginning of my co-op at Mullen, I tackled and fixed many major bugs and blockers for the company website. I worked with digital producers to create a site style guide and optimized the homepage particle image across all browsers.
Bookmarks
A Compilation of Front End Dev Bookmarks
One day I realized my bookmarks folder was overflowing and disorganized. So, I decided to make what I had always hoped my bookmarks folder to look like. This site is essentially a visualization of my bookmarks folder, and also a resource for other developers and designers. This site is mainly for my personal reference, but hopefully, other people find it useful.
NOTE: Optimized for desktop only.
Oblivion Themes
Custom Tumblr Themes & Theme Blog
In my spare time I enjoy designing and developing custom Tumblr themes for free. Oblivion Themes is a theme blog that I created to showcase and open source my custom themes. Creating these themes are a productive way for me to keep coding in front end languages and learn new tricks in my free time. I haven't released any new themes recently, but I hope and plan on creating many more themes in the future.
Get In Touch!
Whether you have an idea for a project or just want to chat, feel free to shoot me an email!