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- Artificial Intelligence Engineer
- Mar 2023 – May 2024 · Pekoe.ai, Singapore (hybrid)
- Improved image retrieval by 14% over a vision-only baseline by enhancing VLM vision encoders.
- Fine-tuned LLMs for attribute-controlled image-difference captioning.
- Built OCR and object-tracking pipelines for real-time product recognition on industrial production lines, with calibrated industrial camera feeds.
- Developed Blendmix, an augmentation technique for self-supervised training, and built speech-to-text and text-to-speech pipelines.
- AI Research Intern
- Apr 2021 – Jul 2021 · LIRNEasia, Colombo, Sri Lanka
- Built a reference dataset of land cover and land use classes for Sri Lanka.