PRATYUSH KAURAV
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E DUCATION
Indian Institute of Technology Dharwad Dharwad, Karnataka
Bachelor of Technology in Maths And Computing CPI: 8.46/10.00 Dec. 2022 – Present
E XPERIENCE
Winner DevHack Hackathon, IIT Dharwad Feb 2024
Web Development
• Secured first place in the web development category at the DEVHACK hackathon hosted by IIT Dharwad by demonstrating
expertise in full-stack web development and delivering a standout, innovative project.
NLP Intern June 2024 – Present
Natural Language Processing, Research Intern
• Conducting research to enhance tokenization for Indian languages by using Google Translate and Deep Translator.
Focused on identifying phonetic similarities across multiple languages.
P ROJECTS
Combating Misinformation using Blockchain | React Js, Node Js, Smart Contract, Tailwind CSS | §
• Deployed and tested a decentralized image-based social media dApp on the Sepolia Ethereum testnet.
• Enabled user reporting of suspicious images, triggering a consensus vote by high-reputation users to verify
misinformation.
• Ensured data authenticity via IPFS-based image storage and on-chain content hashes for tamper-proof provenance.
• Built a dynamic reputation system rewarding voting accuracy and limiting influence of unreliable users.
• Implemented smart contract-based incentives to reward trusted behavior and penalize consistent misreporting.
Real Time Chat Application | React Js, Node Js, Express Js, Websocket | §
• Designed and implemented a real-time chat application where users can send and receive text messages, images, and
videos instantly, ensuring seamless communication between multiple users.
• Enabled live communication using WebSocket, providing real-time updates without needing to refresh the page, ensuring
low-latency, bidirectional communication between the client and server.
• Built a scalable backend with Node.js and Express, using RESTful APIs for user authentication, file uploads, and chat
management.
AI that mimics the Poet | Python, NLP | §
• Developed a Transformer model from scratch to replicate the writing style of renowned poets like Shakespeare. This
model was specifically designed to capture the unique linguistic patterns and stylistic nuances of the target authors.
• Started with a Bigram model as the baseline and systematically enhanced its architecture. Integrated single-head and
multi-head attention mechanisms, leading to significant improvements in the model’s ability to understand and generate
contextually accurate text.
• Utilized perplexity as the primary metric to fine-tune the model and compared the generated text with original writings
using the ROUGE score to evaluate the quality of the output.
T ECHNICAL S KILLS
Languages: Java, Python, C, JavaScript, Bash, HTML/CSS, SQL
Technologies/Frameworks: React Js, Node Js, Express, MongoDB, Git, Bootstrap, Tailwind CSS, AWS,
Oops
Machine Learning: Numpy, Pandas, PyTorch, Scikit-Learn
R ELEVANT C OURSEWORK
• Artificial Intelligence • Computer Architecture • Data Structures and
• Software Systems Lab • Operating System Algorithms
• Design, Analysis of Algorithms • Computer Networks
