Parth Vashisht

About Me

I am a Machine Learning Engineer with a passion for developing and implementing cutting-edge AI solutions. With a strong background in computer science and extensive research experience, I specialize in machine learning, natural language processing, and multimodal systems.

Skills
ML Skills ~ NLP, CV, Research95%
Language Skills ~ Python, C/C++ 95%
Frameworks ~ PyTorch, Lightning, Tensorflow, Keras, Scikit-Learn 95%
Cloud ~ GCP/AWS 85%
Utils ~ Docker, Kubernetes, ElasticSearch 80%

Resume

My professional journey and academic background
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Education

Masters of Science in Computer Science

Sep 2022 - May 2024

University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA

Courses: Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Distributed Systems, 3D Computer Vision

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Aug 2016 - Jul 2020

Chitkara University, India

Courses: Data Structures and Algorithms, Web Development, Probability and Statistics, Artificial Intelligence

Professional Experience

Machine Learning Intern

Jun 2024 – Present

Vectara, Palo Alto, California

  • Optimizing Vectara’s Boomerang model for improved multilingual text retrieval.
  • Enhancing re-ranking performance across diverse retrieval datasets.

Research Collaborator

Jan 2024 – June 2024

Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence Remote

  • Developed a reinforcement learning framework for enhancing moral reasoning tasks in LLMs.
  • Finetuned open-source models to align with human moral reasoning.

Graduate Student Researcher

May 2023 – Present

BioNLP lab, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA

  • Led research on synthetic data generation for clinical note summarization using GPT-4 and GPT-3.5.
  • Improved Visual Question Answering task accuracy by 23% using multimodal RAG pipeline.

Software Development Engineer

Oct 2019 – Feb 2021

Stracuity Consulting (FreightDeck Technologies), Bengaluru, India

  • Founding software engineer, responsible for building Freightdeck (PaaS) Platform.
  • Worked on developing and deploying logistics optimization platform for multi-billion dollar customers using AWS, Node.js, React and Python.

Research & Projects

My latest Research Work and Projects

Research Publications (EMNLP, NAACL, Springer)

SYNFAC-EDIT: Synthetic Imitation Edit Feedback for Factual Alignment in Clinical Summarization*

In Review EMNLP - 2024

Performance of Multimodal GPT-4V on USMLE with Image: Potential for Imaging Diagnostic Support with Explanations

In Review Springer Nature - 2024

UMass-BioNLP at MEDIQA-M3G 2024: DermPrompt - A Systematic Exploration of Prompt Engineering with GPT-4V for Dermatological Diagnosis

Accepted NAACL Clinical NLP Workshop - 2024

Projects

Abstract Artwork Image Captioning

Deployed BLIP for the image captioning task, applying Supervised Fine-Tuning and leveraging PEFT techniques using LoRA to maximize image-text correlation and improve caption quality by 13% points using GPT4-Evaluation.

Multimodal Misogyny Classification

Modified the architecture of CLIP model by adding multiple fusion points and finetuning the model using custom loss to achieve state of the art multi-label classification accuracy.

Contact

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Location:

Palo Alto, California