About

Vivek Kumar is an AI researcher currently working as a Junior Research Engineer at Hitachi R&D. He holds a degree from IIT Kharagpur and has 2.43 years of relevant experience in the field of AI and deep learning. Vivek has a strong background in AI and deep learning and has worked on several projects in this field. During his internship at Hitachi, he worked on a project that involved the recognition of Chinese shrinking cities using street view images. He developed and trained several image classifiers based on various tensorflow models using deep learning techniques to classify a dataset of 1.4 million street view images into nineteen categories to determine the extent of urbanization in Chinese cities. He also created a training dataset of annotated images using a python tool 'labelImg' followed by training object detection models. Prior to Hitachi, Vivek worked as a web developer at Sponsdo, where he developed and currently manages the website for the startup. Sponsdo aims to build a cleaner internet for users, provide publishers with a better way to earn, and provide companies with a better medium to market their products. Vivek believes that the current form of advertisements is very lame and their significance has also seen a decadence as they do not influence users much. He is passionate about finding better ways to market products and believes that AI and deep learning can play a significant role in this field. Vivek's tech stack includes research scientist, AI, tensorflow, and Python. He is a quick learner and is always eager to learn new technologies. He is a team player and has excellent communication skills. He is looking for challenging opportunities in the field of AI and deep learning where he can utilize his skills and knowledge to develop innovative solutions.