Joydeep Medhi
LEAD DATA SCIENTIST | MACHINE LEARNING RESEARCH ENGINEER Bengaluru - 560066, INDIA medhijoydeep@gmail.com | LinkedIn | GitHub
Work Experience
Lowe’s Companies Inc (Bengaluru, India) LEAD DATA SCIENTIST - AI/ML (July 2022 - Present)
- Led R&D initiatives in Computer Vision and AI solutions for retail, driving $1M+ incremental revenue with estimated $500M enterprise impact
- Developed customer experience optimization through real-time multi-person tracking and trajectory analysis
- Pioneered Generative AI solutions using RAG and VLMs for voice assistants and action recognition
- Architected Multi-Camera Multi-Target Tracking (MTMC) systems for enhanced cross-camera tracking
- Optimized self-checkout systems with self-supervised learning, achieving 25%+ efficiency gains
Mercedes-Benz Research and Development India (Bengaluru, India & Stuttgart, Germany) SENIOR ML RESEARCH ENGINEER (Dec 2018 - June 2022)
- Designed Computer Vision solutions for MBUX Interior Assistant, focusing on human pose estimation and gesture recognition
- Developed efficient CNNs for embedded hardware, achieving real-time inference with optimized accuracy
- Led Face Recognition and Authentication Module development using metric learning and domain adaptation techniques
- Optimized production training code in distributed/multi-GPU environments, saving hundreds of GPU hours
- Collaborated with hardware/FPGA teams to integrate quantized models into low-compute automotive devices
Silversparro Technologies (Gurgaon, India) DEEP LEARNING RESEARCH ENGINEER (July 2018 - Nov 2018)
- Developed CV solutions for Automated Attendance System using Face Recognition and Anti-Spoofing models
CBRC, KAUST (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia) RESEARCHER, BIO-ONTOLOGY RESEARCH GROUP (May 2017 - July 2017)
- Developed novel deep learning methods for protein function prediction using sequence and structure data
- Achieved ROC-AUC of 0.967 and Avg. Precision 0.964 on disease variant classification using GPU-optimized DNNs
Education
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD) (New Delhi, India) B.TECH & M.TECH DUAL DEGREE IN MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING - EQF LEVEL 7 (July 2013 – June 2018)
- Relevant Coursework: Probability and Stochastic Processes, Linear Algebra, Statistical Methods, Data Structures, Algorithm Design and Analysis, Machine Learning, Data Mining, Optimization Methods, DBMS, OS, Computer Networks, Bio-informatics, Image Processing.
- Head Teaching Assistant (Jul 2017 - Dec 2017): Computer Programming Class (60 students).
- Master’s Thesis: Calculus on Normed Vector Spaces (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Amit Priyadarshi, IIT Delhi)
Skills
- Programming Languages: Python, Lua, C++, MATLAB, JAVA, SQL
- Tools & Platforms: Weka, Git, Version Control, Linux, NVIDIA CUDA, GPU, Docker
- Machine Learning Frameworks: PyTorch, Torch7, Numpy, Tensorflow, Keras, OpenCV, Detectron, Pandas, Scikit-learn
- AI Technologies: LLM, HuggingFace, Langchain, GenAI, NLP, Computer Vision, RAG, GraphRAG, Agentic AI, VLM, Deepstream
- Computer Vision: Camera Calibrations, Image Processing, SLAM, 3D Vision
Publications and Patents Filed
- End-to-end differentiable 6DoF object pose estimation with local and global constraints, DiffCVGP Workshop, NeurIPS 2020
- System and Method for Dynamic Adjustment of Sound Zone for A Passenger in a Vehicle, 2020
- System and Method for Hand Cropping for Hand Pose Recognition, 2020
- System and Method for Occupancy Detection within a Vehicle, 2021
- System for Predicting User Rating for in-car Entertainment Recommendation, 2021
- System and Method for 6DoF pose estimation of a Child-Seat inside a passenger vehicle, 2022
Awards and Recognition
- 2024: 3rd Place in Lowe’s Techwide AI Global Hackathon for Multimodal GenAI Application (Lowe’s Companies Inc, Bengaluru)
- 2023: 2 ideas selected in Lowe’s Top 5 AI Strategy (Lowe’s Companies Inc)
- 2022: High Quality Patent Award (Mercedes-Benz Research & Development India)
- 2022: Implemented Product Patent Award (Mercedes-Benz Research & Development India)
- 2021: Product Innovation Award - Top 5 products (Mercedes-Benz Research & Development India)
- 2020: Silver Award - Best Performing Team Member (Mercedes-Benz Research & Development India)
- 2012: 2nd Position, Chemistry Olympiad (Guwahati University)
- 2011 - 2013: Top Board Performance - Class X & XII (Assam), National Merit Award (Govt. of India)
Organisational Skills
- Excellent communication skills in English to present complex algorithms/ideas in simple terms.
- Scientific team-leading and mentoring skills gained from current work experience.
- Good organisational skills gained as Executive of the Sparks Forum, responsible for organising events and promoting events.