Achieved a 2:1 (3.47/4 GPA) in my Masters degree. I also graduated my Bachelors degree with a First-Class distinction (8.5/10 CGPA).
ML & AI Engineer · Dublin
Kshitij Sekhar Dutta
Machine Learning Enthusiast
I am a driven individual, passionate about translating ML ideas into impactful, real-world solutions. Throughout my journey so far, I have been a part of esteemed organizations (through internships or college clubs) and learned a lot more than what is on my CV. Things like corporate etiquette, importance of a strong work ethic and traits like punctuality and leadership. I also bring hands-on experience in deep learning, computer vision and NLP fields (among others).
Actively seeking opportunities in the Machine Learning, AI or Data Science fields.
Quick Glance
Industry internships across aviation, analytics, and education sectors.
Publicly available GitHub repositories showcasing my work. Have won college level hackathons (CryptX, SudoHacks) and actively participate in Kaggle contests.
Certifications, badges and creditations from titans of the industry such as Google, IBM, Microsoft, NVIDIA and many more (regular updates on my LinkedIn).
Fun Projects
A few projects that I have been working on in my free time that highlight my commitment to xAI, CV, NLP, DL etc.
AnimalMaker
Tesseract OCR meets generative illustration—transforming handwriting into whimsical animal sketches with tunable controls.
DiceyLoans
Counterfactual explanations for credit decisions using DiCE to flip outcomes and surface responsible lending levers from logistic regression baselines.
GIFEnhancer
Self-supervised restoration of compressed GIFs through a custom DCGAN-influenced PyTorch model optimised for artefact reduction.
MeetPlot
Zoom transcript analytics with spaCy NER, NLTK summarisation, and NetworkX speaker graphs to surface conversation dynamics automatically.
Counterfactual
Explainable AI project that generates counterfactual explanations for image classification models.
AIAssessmentTool
Tool made for judging a teacher's AI-readiness, in collaboration with DeFactoED. The website was built from the ground up by me and uses a marking rubric and OpenAI API's to generate a personalized summary for each teacher.
Academic Projects
Highlights from recent UCD coursework and collaborations where I translated theory into usable prototypes.
CLI Agent for Multi-Tool Automation
UCD capstone project in which we developed an AI-powered assistant with MCP integration that lets you manage dev tools, environments, SSH/Git, VS Code extensions, and generate code using natural language. Fully supports Windows, macOS, and Linux (Debian/Ubuntu based) with platform‑aware install logic.
sCurVy
Resume/Cover Letter assistant that uses OpenAI's Assistant's API with RAG sourced resume tips for targeted advice
Twitter Emotion Classification
End-to-end Twitter emotion classification with NLTK preprocessing, stratified splits, Keras and PyTorch tokenization, and three models (PyTorch MLP/CNN, Keras Bi-LSTM).
Publications
- Utilized Reddit APIs to build a crawler that harvested 220K+ posts across targeted subreddits, delivering a structured dataset for downstream analysis.
- Applied VADER sentiment models and topic correlations to achieve 85% accuracy in mapping tone shifts vs. discussion frequency.
- Surfaced emerging narratives by clustering subreddit discourse, exposing sentiment polarity trends to stakeholders.
- Outlined practical deployment considerations, including ethical guardrails for research-grade social listening.
Experience
Corporate internships where I applied my skills to real-world challenges.
Intern · Adani Airport Holdings Ltd
Feb 2024 – Apr 2024 · Ahmedabad- Fine-tuned domain-specific transformer models to automate reporting and analytics workflows for airport operations.
- Optimised LLM inference pipelines with distributed training and latency-aware tuning.
- Partnered with transformation teams to modernise legacy systems and track delivery via Kanban.
AI/ML Intern · Wictronix
Jun 2023 – Aug 2023 · Bengaluru- Deployed YOLOv8-powered traffic analysis to 25+ city intersections with 98% detection accuracy in production.
- Reduced response latency for violation alerts from ~2 seconds to under 200 milliseconds.
Intern · DeFactoED
May 2023 – Jul 2023 · Remote- Produced insight-driven reports on generative AI adoption across 100+ educational institutions in South-East Asia.
- Designed data visualisations for stakeholders and collaborated with Turing Institute contributors.
IoT Intern · Yhills
Jul 2022 – Sep 2022 · Remote- Developed Arduino-powered prototypes and delivered 10+ IoT automation proofs-of-concept for smart home scenarios.
- Optimised sensor-driven workflows and integrated remote monitoring dashboards using cloud IoT services.
Leadership & Community
Active participation in communities across Ireland and India.
Caveat Lector Publishing Team · UCD Literature Society
Oct 2024 – May 2025- Established a clear support system for aspiring authors to get their work published in the Caveat Lector Magazine.
- Reviewed and selected articles and photos for the magazine.
Technical Lead · ACM MUJ Student Chapter
Sep 2020 – Dec 2022- Delivered explainable AI and ChatGPT workshops to 200+ students during AI Literacy Month.
- Conducted and participated in hackathons like Defi-Hacks, CryptX, and Ctrl-Alt-MUJ.
Curation Co-Lead · Litmus MUJ
Feb 2022 – Dec 2022- Curated novels, articles and poems for the Dead Reader’s Society book club.
- Organized and coordinated events with 1K+ attendees.
Teaching Volunteer · BGS National Public School India
Apr 2023 – Jan 2024- Taught 30+ Right To Education students from impoverished backgrounds; various subjects such as English, Mathematics and Computer Science at a Middle School level.
- Developed teaching materials such as PowerPoint Presentations, worksheets and charts.
Skills Stack
Tools and platforms I rely on to turn raw data into reliable products that scale.
Languages
- Python
- R
- SQL
- C/C++
- HTML/CSS
Frameworks and Libraries
- Pandas
- NumPy
- Scikit
- TensorFlow
- PyTorch
- Keras
- OpenCV
- SpaCy
- NLTK
- LightGBM
- XGBoost
- Seaborn
- Streamlit
- HF Transformers
Platforms
- AWS (Lambda, EC2, S3)
- Google Cloud
- Azure ML Studio
- Visual Studio Code
- Jupyter Notebook
- Salesforce
- IBM Watson
- MLflow
- MS Office Suite
Databases
- MongoDB
- MySQL
- Supabase
- Oracle
Tools
- Tableau
- Vega-Lite
- Git
- GitHub
- Jira
- Kanban
- Scrum
Soft Skills
- Communication
- Collaboration
- Creativity
- Adaptability
Let’s build what’s next
Whether it’s architecting a production-ready ML pipeline or publishing research-backed insights, I’m excited to collaborate with mission-driven teams.