Rida Aftab

AI/ML Engineering Student · Machine Learning | Deep Learning | Computer Vision | NLP

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

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🎓 B.E. in Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning at Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) · Graduating 2027

About

AI & Machine Learning engineering student who builds end-to-end AI systems across preprocessing, model evaluation, and deployment. Seeking an AI/ML engineering or data science role where models reach real users.

Experience

Artificial Intelligence Intern

EdiGlobe

Apr 2026 – Jun 2026

Built a clinically useful heart-disease risk classifier from 303 patient records, performing data cleaning, EDA, feature scaling, model evaluation, benchmarking four classifiers, and deployment as an interactive Streamlit web app via Joblib.

Education

B.E.

Kalpataru Institute of Technology · Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU)

Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning · 2027
Class XII

Government PU College

2023

Skills

3 to 6 months

Machine Learning Feature Engineering

<3 months

C SQL RAG Oop LLMs NumPy Faiss Python Pandas OpenCV Joblib Streamlit AI Agents Matplotlib scikit-learn Deep Learning Advanced DBMS Image Processing Face Recognition Prompt Engineering Natural Language Processing Data Structures and Algorithms Generative AI (ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini)

Tools / apps / platforms

<3 months

Git MySQL Docker GitHub Amazon Web Services AWS

Languages

Fluent

Hindi Speak · Read · Write English Speak · Read · Write

Projects

AI Video Entity Prediction with Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Python · RAG · FAISS · LLMs · NLP · Vector Embeddings

Built a retrieval-augmented pipeline that chunked and embedded source content into a FAISS vector index, retrieved top-k semantically relevant passages, and grounded LLM reasoning in retrieved context to improve entity prediction accuracy.
Smart Attendance Management System

Python · OpenCV · LBPH · SQL · Pandas · Matplotlib

Built a face-recognition attendance platform with preprocessing, SQL persistence, and an analytics layer; achieved 93.8% average recognition accuracy and 1.2-second average response time.

Courses & certifications

ML with Python
Python for Data Science
AI
Generative AI

🏆 Achievements & awards

1st Place — Prakalp-AI Mini Project Exhibition

First among 100 competing teams for an AI project build and demo.
University Rank Holder — VTU

Top of the university cohort across an AI & ML engineering programme in 2nd sem, with a 9.7/10 CGPA.
NPTEL ELITE — Cloud Computing

Elite grade, awarded to the top percentile of a national IIT Kharagpur-led certification course.
85.25% model accuracy on a health-critical prediction task

Best of four benchmarked classifiers, then deployed as a live web application.

⚽ Extracurricular activities

Event Anchor & Coordinator

Hosted college-wide events for audiences of 900+.
vice president

kalpatatva club - college cultural committee
secretary

AIML Club - technical club at our college

🤝 Volunteering

IEEE · Volunteer · 2026

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