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Hi, I'm Chinmay Rane

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Transforming cutting-edge AI research into real-world applications. Specializing in Generative AI, Computer Vision, and Multimodal Systems.

7+

Years Experience

15+

Publications

20+

Projects

Chinmay Rane

AI Researcher & Engineer

Bridging the gap between academic research and practical AI applications

I'm a Senior Machine Learning Engineer based in Austin, Texas, with a PhD focused on adaptive activation functions in neural networks. I specialize in transforming cutting-edge AI research into practical, scalable solutions.

PhD in Machine Learning

University of Texas at Arlington

7+ Years Experience

Enterprise AI Solutions

Active Researcher

15+ Published Papers

Generative AI Computer Vision Medical Imaging Multimodal AI LLMs MLOps

Current Focus

3D Vision-Language Models

Exploring spatial AI understanding

Medical AI Applications

Cardiac MRI & pathology analysis

Aircraft Safety Systems

Vision-language models for maintenance

Professional Journey

Senior ML Engineer

2021 - Present

Leading development of enterprise AI solutions across multiple domains including medical imaging, automotive safety, and aerospace applications.

Generative AI Computer Vision Technical Leadership

Personal Research Projects

2021 - Present
  • Custom semantic search RAG pipeline with Milvus DB
  • Web-based RAG for Llama 3.1 and Mistral 7B
  • YOLOv8 deployment with Docker & Kubernetes

Data Scientist Intern

Jan 2018 - Dec 2018

Applied machine learning solutions for client projects at Unique Software Development.

PhD Research

2017 - 2021

Developed AdAct, a novel adaptive activation algorithm for neural networks. Demonstrated superior performance over traditional ReLU across various architectures.

View Dissertation

Technical Expertise

Programming & Frameworks

Python
PyTorch
TensorFlow
Docker/K8s

Machine Learning

Computer Vision
NLP
Generative AI
Medical Imaging

Cloud & DevOps

AWS
GCP
MLflow
TensorRT

Featured Work

Cardiac MRI Segmentation

End-to-end MONAI pipeline with self-supervised learning for cardiac MRI analysis. Optimized with TensorRT and deployed on AWS.

MONAI TensorRT AWS

Aircraft Safety AI

Vision-language model for aircraft part defect detection and RAG system for automated repair instructions.

Vision-Language RAG LLMs

Semantic Search Pipeline

Custom RAG pipeline for medical information retrieval using Milvus DB, rerankers, and generative AI.

Milvus RAG Generative AI

Rail Safety Computer Vision

Technical lead for multi-use-case computer vision system with active learning and drift detection.

Computer Vision Active Learning Drift Detection

Publications

Evolutionary Intelligence • Oct 2024

Optimizing performance through dynamic activation functions

Chinmay Rane, Kanishka Tyagi, et al.

ICLR 2024 • Mar 2024

Dynamic Activations for Neural Net Training

Chinmay Rane, Kanishka Tyagi, et al.

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I'm always interested in discussing new opportunities, research collaborations, or innovative AI projects.

Location

Austin, Texas