Rishi Jobanputra

Senior Machine Learning Engineer @Cambridge Consultants

Cambridge, GB

Natural Language Processing• Core developer on the Training and Scaling teams for the companies first Protein Language Model.• Technical Lead (team of 3) on the sale and delivery of a pipeline to produce manufacturing schematics from natural language input.• Technical advisor for a pipeline to control laboratory robotics given natural language experiment plans.• Implemented LoRA as part of the NeurIPS 2023 LLM efficient fine-tuning challenge.• Investigated the use of transformer and non-transformer-based techniques for named entity recognition and keyword extraction from non-English texts.• Developed a tool to predict the information content in text using conditional probability theory, various tokenizers and the output logits from various transformer models. Signal Processing/Time Series Analysis• Developed a foundation model for an automated labelling pipeline using contrastive learning.• Trained an autoencoder-based anomaly detector for a telecoms application to predict antenna failure.• Owned pre-training and pipeline set-up for the classification of audio data. Competed against 6 other companies, achieved 1st place. • AI Lead (team of 3) for a literature review into signal-to-noise ratio prediction for telecoms.• Applied peak detection algorithms for the development of a consumer healthcare device.Image Processing/Computer Vision• Technical Lead (team of 3) for developing a healthcare-relevant Gaussian Splatting demonstration.• Investigated an underperforming semantic segmentation model for medical imaging.Optimization• Integrated a Bayesian optimiser and CFD model for parametric design of a microfluidic mixing well.Other• Advised on AI health app concepts for a major pharmaceutical company.• Reviewed literature on a broad range of topics including reinforcement learning exploration bonuses, Mixture of Expert models, Physics Informed Neural Networks, and generative antibody design models.

University of Cambridge

MEng - Engineering