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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
Python•R•JavaScript•Node.js•TensorFlow•PyTorch•Scikit-learn•NumPy•Pandas•Machine Learning•Deep Learning•NLP•Federated Learning•Regression•Classification•Clustering•Google Cloud Platform (GCP)•Vercel•Docker•Git•CI/CD•Supabase (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.