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Basics
| Name | Harshwardhan Fartale |
| Label | Machine Learning & Data Science Professional |
| harshwardhanfartale.nith@gmail.com | |
| Phone | +91-9317439486 |
| Url | https://emharsha1812.github.io/ |
Work
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2025.10 - Present Advanced Data Science Associate
ZS
Building GenAI based healthcare solutions for pharma.
- Building GenAI based healthcare solutions for pharma
- Technologies: GenAI, healthcare AI workflows, Python
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2024.07 - 2025.09 Predoc Associate
DRDO & Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Worked on ML systems for combat aircraft applications and SciML research at AiREX lab under Prof. Sashikumaar Ganesan.
- Developed low level C++ components to integrate ML models for CASDIC's combat aircraft hardware for low-latency inference
- Evaluated fine-tuned IBM Granite & Gemma models for SciML using a custom Graph-RAG pipeline, achieving SOTA accuracy on benchmark datasets
- Led open source projects PULSE & SciREX at AiREX under Professor Sashikumaar Ganesan
- Technologies: C++, IBM Granite, Gemma, Graph-RAG, SciML
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2024.01 - 2024.06 Data Scientist
Bajaj Finserv Health
Worked on fraud detection models and graph-based pipelines.
- Designed and implemented a high-performance statistical model for fraudulent transaction prediction, achieving the highest abuse detection rate
- Spearheaded end-to-end development of a fraud detection pipeline using graph database technologies (Memgraph, Neo4j, Cypher)
- Built and optimized SQL queries to aggregate features from relational databases, improving training data quality for fraud detection models
- Technologies: Python, SQL, Memgraph, Neo4j, Cypher
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2023.06 - 2023.07 Machine Learning Intern
IIT Indore
Developed ML models for financial forecasting.
- Developed ML models for stock-price prediction using Python, achieving 85% accuracy by incorporating news and market data
- Implemented time-series analysis and feature engineering, boosting model accuracy by 25%
- Technologies: Python, time-series modeling, feature engineering
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2023.01 - 2023.06 Open Source Technical Writer
OpenMined
Contributed to documentation and technical blogs for privacy-preserving ML.
- Collaborated with the writing team to improve existing documentation and beginner tutorials in differential privacy
- Published blog posts on federated learning and privacy-preserving machine learning, resulting in increased product adoption
- Technologies: Differential privacy, federated learning, technical writing
Education
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2020.12 - 2024.05
Publications
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2026 Disentangling Recall and Reasoning in Transformer Models through Layer-wise Attention and Activation Analysis
AAAI XAI4Science Workshop 2026
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2026 Can Linguistically Related Languages Guide LLM Translation in Low-Resource Settings?
LoResMT 2026: EACL 2026 Workshop
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2026 The Evolution of FlashAttention
ICLR Blog Post Track 2026
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2025.09 RADAR: Mechanistic Pathways for Detecting Data Contamination in LLM Evaluation
NeurIPS 2025 LLM Evaluation Workshop
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2025 Equilibrium Dynamics and Mitigation of Gender Bias in Synthetically Generated Data Evaluation
AAAI Workshop on Shaping Responsible Synthetic Data in the Era of Foundation Models
Projects
- 2025.03 - Present
AIFred – Secure, Local AI Coding Assistant
Desktop AI coding assistant with real-time LLM and ASR, ensuring 100% local data privacy.
- Launched AIFred: a desktop coding assistant with real-time AI and 100% data privacy via a local AI pipeline (Ollama for LLM and NVIDIA NeMo for ASR)
- Built an entirely on-device voice command interface for secure offline querying
- Optimized for low latency by architecting a fully local AI pipeline and shipped an Electron overlay UI for seamless coding workflows
- Technologies: Python (FastAPI, NeMo, pydub), JavaScript (Electron), Ollama API
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Document Tampering Detection using YOLOv8
Forgery detection system using YOLOv8 and Streamlit.
- Developed a forgery-detection system with YOLOv8 to identify overwriting, scribbling, and whitener use
- Built a dataset of 600+ document images for robust detection
- Designed a Streamlit interface for document upload, tampering visualization, and detailed digital-forgery analysis
- Technologies: Python, Streamlit, OpenCV, YOLOv8
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Fundus AI
AI-powered ophthalmic disease detection solution.
- Developed an end-to-end solution to detect ophthalmic and systemic diseases such as Diabetic & Hypertensive Retinopathy, Cataract, Glaucoma, and ARMD
- Built a deep-learning smartphone app for accessible ophthalmic screening
- Designed a 3D-printed Tinkercad-based accessory for high-quality fundus image capture
- Technologies: Python, Keras, TensorFlow, Flutter, Tinkercad
Skills
| Programming Languages | |
| Python | |
| C++ | |
| SQL | |
| Triton |
| ML & GenAI | |
| PyTorch | |
| Scikit-learn |
| Data & MLOps | |
| Neo4j | |
| Memgraph | |
| Cypher | |
| Docker | |
| Kubernetes |
| Frameworks & Platforms | |
| FastAPI | |
| Streamlit | |
| Linux | |
| Google Cloud Platform | |
| LaTeX |
| Technical Writing | |
| Substack | |
| Medium | |
| Hashnode |
Certificates
| GATE Data Science (DA) AIR 663 | ||
| IIT | 2025-01-01 |
Volunteer
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2025.07 - 2025.09 Teaching Assistant
IISc Bangalore
DS-246, Generative & Agentic AI in Practice. Delivered lectures and tutorials, led doubt sessions, and was responsible for developing and grading assessments.
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2025.01 - 2025.01 Machine Learning & Data Science Trainer
DRDO Industry Academia Centres of Excellence (DIA-CoEs)
Designed & delivered a 3-day training module to DRDO scientists, focusing on foundational Machine Learning and core data science tools.