AI For Social Good

The following section discusses my previous engagements with Social Impact Organizations

Omdena, Impact Manager, 2023
  • Worked as an Impact Manager with Omdena for a span for 3 months working on proposal writing and delivering Generative AI education to NGOs for their specific use case
  • Interacted with Organizations like WikiTongues, ACET, IREX and UNDP
  • Managed Omdena community by helping local developers in building their tools from prototypes to deployable applications
NYU + Dreamspace, Lead ML Engineer ,2022
  • The project aimed to create an AI tool to detect Tamil Hate speech on platforms like Facebook and Youtube.
  • Task Leader for the Data annotation and Modelling phase of the project.
  • Experimented with Indic BERT, XLM-Roberta.
  • We implemented Behavioural Testing as well adopted from the publication Titled: Beyond Accuracy: Behavioral Testing of NLP Models with CheckList
  • The Project Discussion can be found here
Save the Children (USA), Lead ML Engineer , 2020
  • Developed an Anti-Grooming AI Solution that analyses conversation flow and performs contextual sentiment analysis to protect young users from online child abusers, capable enough to mimic both child or groomer-type conversation.
  • Initial Project Demo can be seen here