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yakkala-pooja/README.md

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Hi, I’m Pooja Yakkala (@yakkala-pooja)

I'm a graduate student pursuing an MS in Artificial Intelligence at Rochester Institute of Technology (Class of 2026), with a strong foundation in AI and Data Science from my BTech at SR Gudlavalleru Engineering College.


Areas I’m Passionate About:

  • Machine Learning, Deep Learning & Generative AI
  • Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI), EEG Decoding, and Cognitive Computing
  • Few-Shot and Cross-Domain Learning for Satellite Imagery
  • AI for Healthcare (Medical Imaging, EHR)
  • AI Robustness & Interpretability (Adversarial Attacks, OOD Detection, SHAP, LIME)
  • Neuro-symbolic Reasoning & Multimodal Transformers
  • MLOps, Model Optimization & Scalable AI Deployment (Vertex AI, AWS)

Currently learning:

  • Advanced AI robustness techniques (e.g., adversarial attacks, OOD detection)
  • Scalable model deployment using Vertex AI
  • Multimodal learning and neuro-symbolic AI for real-world reasoning

Looking to collaborate on:

  • Research or open-source projects in ML/CV/NLP
  • Projects applying AI in healthcare or environmental monitoring
  • Exploratory work in neuro-symbolic AI or multimodal transformers

Pronouns: She/Her
⚡ Fun fact: I’m obsessed with stress-testing models—whether it’s causal patch injection or conceptual fragility metrics, I like to break models to make them better.


Skills & Tools

Languages: Python, R, SQL, Java, C, C++, JavaScript
ML/AI: Transformers (BERT, ViT, LLaMA, SAM), GANs, SHAP, LIME, RL, XGBoost, Bayesian Optimization, AutoML
Computer Vision & NLP: YOLO, Detectron2, VQA, RAG, NER, Image Segmentation, OCR, Grad-CAM, HuggingFace
MLOps & Cloud: Vertex AI, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, MLflow, CI/CD, Streamlit, A/B Testing
Analytics & Tools: Tableau, Power BI, MySQL, MongoDB, Apache Spark, DVC
Frameworks & Libraries: PyTorch, TensorFlow, Keras, OpenCV, Scikit-learn, Flask, FastAPI, LangChain


Featured Projects

Retrieval-Augmented Neural Decoder for EEG BCI (2025–Present)

  • Developed a temporal convolutional decoder for real-time BCI EEG decoding using motor imagery datasets.
  • Integrated FAISS retrieval to find semantically similar brain states, boosting decoding robustness.
  • Built an interactive Streamlit UI for EEG tracking and simulated BCI control loop.

Cross-Domain Few-Shot Satellite Classification (2025)

  • Implemented contrastive pretraining + domain adaptation for urban/rural satellite imagery.
  • Used ViT distillation + structured pruning to build efficient, lightweight classifiers for edge devices.
  • Outperformed ProtoNet & MAML baselines by reducing inter-domain error by 12%.

Heart Failure Prediction using Transformers (2024)

  • Designed a multimodal transformer to fuse EHR + time-series vitals.
  • Applied SHAP/LIME for clinical interpretability and visualized temporal attention for diagnosis.
  • Boosted precision to 91% (LogReg: 70%) for early cardiac risk assessment.

Causal Concept Subversion for CNNs (2025)

  • Proposed Conceptual Fragility Index (CFI) to quantify CNN vulnerability to semantic OOD patches.
  • Injected high-contrast CLIP-selected patches into Grad-CAM regions, degrading ResNet-18 accuracy by 40%.
  • Automated the full CCS pipeline from patching to evaluation.

Multimodal Web Agent for Autonomous Interaction (2024)

  • Combined CLIP visual grounding with LLaMA-2 action planning for form-filling & task automation.
  • Enabled multi-step reasoning via UI detection and natural instruction parsing.

RAG-Based Grant Recommendation System (2024)

  • Built a semantic search + RAG system over 5K+ grant descriptions using OpenAI embeddings + FAISS.
  • Achieved 28% improvement in Top-5 grant match accuracy using prompt tuning and reranking.

Certifications

  • Amazon: ML Summer School 2023
  • NVIDIA: Generative AI for Diffusion Models
  • NVIDIA: Fundamentals of CUDA Python

2025 Goals

  • Build 20+ AI research projects spanning BCI, vision, NLP, and robustness
  • Contribute to 3+ open-source AI interpretability or MLOps toolkits
  • Publish papers on adversarial robustness or cross-domain generalization
  • Master scalable AI deployment with Vertex AI, LangChain, and neuro-symbolic reasoning stacks

Thank you

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  1. AI-Powered-Meeting-Summarizer-and-Action-Tracker AI-Powered-Meeting-Summarizer-and-Action-Tracker Public

    AI-Powered Meeting Summarizer extracts summaries, decisions, and action items from meeting transcripts using LLMs (Ollama or OpenAI) or rule-based methods. Built with Python, React, and FastAPI, it…

    Python

  2. Stress-Testing-CNNs-Using-Causal-Concept-Subversion-CCS Stress-Testing-CNNs-Using-Causal-Concept-Subversion-CCS Public

    A framework to evaluate model fragility by injecting semantically dissimilar OOD patches into Grad-CAM-highlighted regions. Uses LPIPS and CLIP for hybrid patch selection and introduces the Concept…

    Jupyter Notebook

  3. Stress-Testing-CNNs-Using-Semantic-Confusion-Attack Stress-Testing-CNNs-Using-Semantic-Confusion-Attack Public

    Implemented Semantic Confusion, a generative OOD attack using BART and diffusion models to create misleading image-caption pairs. Evaluated ResNet-18 and EfficientNet-B0 on ImageNet256 and Intel da…

    Jupyter Notebook

  4. Grant-Matcher-AI-Retrieval-Augmented-Recommender-System-for-Nonprofits Grant-Matcher-AI-Retrieval-Augmented-Recommender-System-for-Nonprofits Public

    Built a personalized grant recommendation system analyzing 240K+ nonprofit records using Retrieval-Augmented Generation. Leveraged FAISS and OpenAI embeddings for dense retrieval over 5K+ grants. E…

    Python

  5. Heart-Failure-Prediction-using-Multi-Modal-Transformers Heart-Failure-Prediction-using-Multi-Modal-Transformers Public

    Heart Failure Prediction using Multimodal Transformers and Analysis using SHAP, LIME and Attention Mechanisms

    Jupyter Notebook

  6. SmartDraft.AI SmartDraft.AI Public

    SmartDraft.AI transforms ideas into polished documents using semantic search and local LLMs. With FAISS, Ollama, and a React UI, it delivers fast, structured content from 490K+ WikiHow articles, lo…

    Python