Active Fire Edge Detection
Real-time fire boundary detection on DJI drones with Manifold3 edge hardware for NTFES.
YOLOv8Computer VisionEdge
AIPythonDJI SDK
Hello, I'm
SAUGAT
Bridging AI, Machine Learning & Edge Computing
with Real-World Impact
I build intelligent systems that solve complex problems — from real-time fire detection with drones to NLP pipelines processing thousands of documents. Currently pursuing a Master of IT (AI) at Charles Darwin University.
Explore My JourneyAbout Me
I am an AI/ML Engineer dedicated to building intelligent, scalable systems. By combining strong software engineering foundations with applied AI and machine learning, I deliver high-performance solutions across public safety, agriculture, and enterprise sectors.
🔥 AI & Edge Computing
I build real-time AI systems on edge devices. Currently developing an active fire edge detection system for NTFES using DJI drones and Manifold3 hardware, enabling autonomous fire boundary identification.
🤖 NLP & Machine Learning
I design and deploy NLP pipelines, RAG chatbots, and ML models at scale. From processing 10,000+ documents with semantic search to building fraud detection systems analyzing 15K+ transactions.
📊 Data Engineering & Research
I extract, clean, and analyze large datasets for research and production. Experienced with satellite imagery, remote sensing data, and building automated validation tools that reduce manual work by 40%.
1+
Working Years
2
Degrees
6+
Projects
Experience
Building AI, ML & Edge Computing Solutions
Vacation Employment – AI in Public Safety
Northern Territory Fire & Emergency Services- Developing an active fire edge detection system using DJI drones and Manifold3 hardware.
- Enabling autonomous fire boundary identification for rapid emergency response.
R&D Intern – AI in Agriculture
University of Sydney & Mak Design- Designed NLP pipelines and machine learning models for agricultural data analysis.
- Collaborated with researchers to optimize crop yield predictions using remote sensing.
Machine Learning Engineer Intern
Xonects- Built and deployed scalable machine learning models for enterprise clients.
- Optimized data pipelines, improving data processing speed and model accuracy.
ML Engineer Trainee
SMS Neotech- Developed a line parser to process OCR text from Google Vision API, dropping costs by 95%.
- Processed 50-60k documents rapidly using unstructured data extractors.
Education
Academic Background & Learning Journey
Charles Darwin University
Master of Information Technology (AI Major)
Jul 2025 – Jul 2027
Core Skills: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Edge Computing, NLP
Torrens University Australia
Bachelor of Software Engineering (AI)
May 2022 – May 2025
Core Skills: AI, Deep Learning, Software Engineering, Data Science
Certifications
Verified Credentials & Achievements
Azure AI Engineer Associate (AI-102)
In Progress
Gov Hack NT Challenge
Honorable Mention
Projects
Click any card to see what was built, the tech stack, and links
Insurance RAG Chatbot
Retrieval-augmented chatbot querying 10,000+ insurance policy documents with GPT-4 and semantic search.
LangChainRAGFAISSGPT-4FastAPI
Credit Card Fraud Detection
Ensemble ML system identifying fraudulent transactions across 15,000+ records with 98.7% ROC-AUC.
XGBoostScikit-learnSMOTEFlaskPandas
PDF Chatbot (Local LLM)
Privacy-first offline document Q&A powered by Mistral 7B via Ollama — zero data leaves the machine.
OllamaMistral
7BLangChainChromaDBStreamlit
Market Pulse – Sentiment Analyser
Real-time financial news sentiment dashboard using fine-tuned FinBERT, achieving 91% accuracy on stock mood prediction.
FinBERTTransformersFlaskREST
APINLP
Multiclass Image Classification (CNN)
Deep CNN achieving 94.3% top-1 accuracy on 10+ image categories using EfficientNetB0 transfer learning.
TensorFlowKerasEfficientNetB0Grad-CAMCNN
Skills
Technical competencies across AI, ML, and Cloud Engineering
AI & Machine Learning
TensorFlow
Scikit-learn
LangChain
RAG Systems
NLP
Computer Vision
Edge AI
Prompt Engineering
Cloud, Data & DevOps
AWS
Azure
Docker
CI/CD Tools
Linux
Git
SQL
Power BI
REST APIs
Programming & Web
Python
JavaScript
HTML/CSS
Flask
FastAPI
Agile / Scrum
Contact
Let's Connect
Have a project, question, or just want to chat? I'd love to hear from you!
0450 112 303