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About

Gokulakrishnan

AI Engineer Intern in Chennai, India

Work Experience

2024 — 2024

AI Engineer Intern at The Binary Holdings

Remote

Developed Buddy.ai, a sentiment-aware 3D avatar chatbot providing real-time emotional support using empathetic NLP techniques for mental health assistance. Integrated a 3D animated character with dynamic lip-sync and micro-expressions using Three.js, adapting facial responses based on detected user sentiment. Designed a low-latency full-stack architecture with Python backend and React frontend, enabling seamless communication between LLMs and the 3D rendering engine. Implemented ethical AI guardrails to ensure safe mental-health-related interactions, achieving 100% compliance with university safety standards.

Writing

2025

Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning Framework for Decentralized Drone Swarm Exploration in IEEE International Conference, Singapore

Best Paper Award.

Volunteering

2025 — 2025

Technical Lead at Blue Screen Programming Club

Led Innothon 2025 CodeArena hackathon with 1,000+ participants. Organized multiple technical events and hands-on workshops, driving student engagement and programming skill development.

Projects

2024

REX Healthify AI Health Assistant

Developed an AI-driven health assistant using Gemini AI for personalized medical guidance with features for medical record management and emergency doctor discovery. Built medication reminders, voice interaction capabilities, and NFC-based emergency access to critical health data for rapid response scenarios. Competed against 1,000+ teams and secured 4th place for building a high-impact technical solution. 4th Place, OpenAI × NxtWave Buildathon (Jul 2024 - Nov 2024)
2024

Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning for Drone Swarm

Proposed a privacy-preserving federated learning framework enabling decentralized exploration in autonomous drone swarms without centralized control. Designed a 3D voxel-based environment with room-like obstacles and implemented LiDAR sensor simulation using 3D spherical ray marching with 8m sensing range. Developed frontier-based exploration strategies and applied Federated Averaging (FedAvg) to aggregate drone models while preserving local data privacy. Built real-time 3D visualization tools to monitor drone trajectories, environment coverage, and swarm coordination. IEEE International Conference, Singapore (2025) - Best Paper Award (Sep 2024 - Nov 2024)

Skills

PythonRJavaScriptNode.jsTensorFlowPyTorchScikit-learnNumPyPandasMachine LearningDeep LearningNLPFederated LearningRegressionClassificationClusteringGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)VercelDockerGitCI/CDSupabase (PostgreSQL, Auth, Storage, Realtime APIs)MongoDB

Education

2022 — 2026

B.Tech. in Computer Science (Specialization: AI & Data Science) at Hindustan Institute of Technology and Science

Chennai, India

CGPA: 8.26/10

Awards

2025

Best Paper Award by IEEE International Conference, Singapore

for research in privacy-preserving federated learning.
2024

4th Place Winner by OpenAI Academy × NxtWave Buildathon

among 1,000+ participants.