🎓 Final-year B.Sc. (Hons) Computer Science student @ University of Delhi (2023–2026) 🧠 Research Assistant working on CNN-based medical image classification (skin cancer detection) 🏆 Best Paper Award (ICIDSSD '26) | Google × Kaggle Tunix Hackathon Honorable Mention | 1st Place – Vihaan 8.0 (IEEE DTU) 💻 Always building, always scaling, always learning

• 🧩 LLM post-training pipelines (SFT → GRPO RL → Self-Distillation) on JAX/TPU
• 🧬 ML for medical/clinical risk prediction (dermoscopic imaging, cardiogenetic risk)
• 📊 Benchmarking and evaluating LLMs for production deployment
• 🌐 Full-stack development (MERN) and ML systems infrastructure

Research Assistant — Under Prof. Raj Kumar Sharma, GGSIPU New Delhi (Aug 2025 – Present)

• Trained 8 CNN architectures on 5,666 dermoscopic images (BCN20000); best model hit 83% accuracy / AUC 0.90 for MEL/BCC classification
• Co-authored and presented paper at ICIDSSD '26, Jamia Hamdard — Best Paper Award

Technology Research Intern — To-Let Globe, New Delhi (Feb 2025 – Apr 2025)

• Benchmarked 10+ LLMs (GPT, Gemini, LLaMA, DeepSeek) on cost, latency, and fine-tunability
• Delivered the technical report that informed the company's chatbot deployment strategy

Technology Intern, ML Recommendations Team — Sam Monitoring Solutions, New Delhi (Jun 2024 – Dec 2024)

• Fixed a critical data leakage bug and proposed optimizations yielding a 25% efficiency improvement

Glassbox — Structured Reasoning via LLM Post-Training | JAX Tunix GRPO TPU

• 3-tier pipeline (SFT → GRPO RL → Self-Distillation) on Gemma-2-2B; ~100% format compliance, emergent self-correction
• Curated a 50k-sample multi-domain reasoning corpus with strict data-hygiene across tiers

Cardi-HACK — Ensemble ML Pipeline for Cardiogenetic Risk Prediction | Python Scikit-learn

• Top 1% global ranking using a stacked ensemble with probability calibration on clinical + SNP data

• 🥇 Honorable Mention — Google × Kaggle Tunix Hackathon (11,173 entrants, 322 final submissions)
• 🏅 Best Paper Award — ICIDSSD '26, Jamia Hamdard
• 🥇 1st Place (Top 0.25%) — Vihaan 8.0 Hackathon, IEEE DTU
• 🥉 2nd Runner-Up (Top 0.5%) — HackWith Gujarat, State-Level Hackathon
• 🎖️ Finalist — Multiple national hackathons (Govt. of Delhi, IIIT-D, GGSIPU, BVCOE, etc.)
• 🌟 Hacktoberfest Super Contributor — 8 PRs submitted, 7 merged

• 📧 Email: namit2006rana@gmail.com
• 💼 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/namit-rana
• 🌐 Portfolio: namitrana.dev

"I don't just code to build — I code to make a difference." — Namit Rana