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Aviraj Virape
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Data Scientist. Builder. Coder.

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I don't wait for the future. I build it.

Final-year AI & Data Science student (CGPA 9.28) building end-to-end machine learning and LLM systems — from EDA and tuned models to verified RAG, safety classifiers and live apps. Builder of Fix with Me, a bilingual AI repair assistant, and MahaGuru AI, with research presented at an international conference.

Python Machine Learning RAG · LLMs SQL FastAPI
ACCESS · BUILDER PASS
AI & DATA SCIENCE
Aviraj Virape
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Aviraj Virape
DATA SCIENCE · ML ENGINEER
IDAV–2026
STATUSBuilding
CGPA9.28
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About Me

Not your typical
engineering student.

It started with JARVIS.

Watching Iron Man as a kid, I didn't just see a superhero — I saw what technology could become. Intelligent. Purposeful. Human. That obsession never left.

Today I'm a final-year AI & Data Science student at APCOER, Pune (CGPA 9.28). I founded a startup that was selected into COEP's I2I Startup Program, presented research at an international conference, built Fix with Me, a bilingual AI repair assistant with verified answers and a trained safety gate, and ship end-to-end ML projects as live apps — not because a syllabus demanded it, but because I genuinely cannot stop building.

I believe technology is the most powerful tool humanity has. And I intend to use it well.

Education
May 2027B.E. Artificial Intelligence & Data Science · APCOER, Pune · CGPA 9.28 (expected)
May 2022HSC (Science) · Yashodhara Junior College, Solapur · 78%
Aviraj Virape
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9.28
CGPA
B.E. AI & DS
275+
LeetCode
problems solved
5
AI & ML apps
live in production
1
Startup
founded
The Arsenal

Tools of the Trade

Every skill here was earned on a real project — not a tutorial.

Maths for AI
DSA
Python Python
MySQL SQL · MySQL
Pandas Pandas
NumPy NumPy
Matplotlib
Seaborn
Plotly Plotly
EDA
scikit-learn scikit-learn
XGBoost · LightGBM
Feature Engineering
Model Evaluation
OpenCV Computer Vision · YOLOv8
LLM Agents
PyTorch Deep Learning · PyTorch · Keras
RAG · Hybrid Search
Gemini LLMs · Gemini · Gemma
LLM Evaluation · Safety
GitHub Git · GitHub
Streamlit Streamlit
FastAPI FastAPI · Pydantic
Docker Docker · Render
Supabase Supabase · PostgreSQL
GitHub Actions GitHub Actions · pytest
Jupyter Jupyter
Google Colab Google Colab
Kaggle Kaggle
LeetCode LeetCode
+∞ Always learning
Selected Missions

Problems I attacked.
Systems I built.

Fix with Me screens: diagnosis chat, repair guide and safety stop
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Project 01 Live

Fix with Me

An AI repair assistant for Indian households, in English, Hindi and Hinglish.

Users type, talk or snap a photo of what is broken. A Bayesian diagnosis engine over a curated knowledge base picks the most informative next question, reaching 90.7% top-1 accuracy on a 94-case benchmark versus 81.3% for plain Gemini. Follow-up questions run through hybrid RAG on Supabase (pgvector + PGroonga, Reciprocal Rank Fusion, 100% recall@5) with per-claim verification by Gemma, cutting unsupported claims from 34% to 0%. A trained TF-IDF + logistic regression safety classifier (3.8K examples, 0.68 MB pure-Python runtime, about 0.2 ms per message) lifts hazard recall from 67.2% to 89.1%.

90.7%
Top-1
diagnosis
0%
Unsupported
claims
100%
Safety-stop
recall
118
pytest tests
in CI
PythonFastAPIGeminiGemmaRAGSupabasescikit-learnNext.jsDocker

Web app on Cloudflare Workers, API on Render’s free tier: the first answer can take about a minute while the API wakes up.

MahaGuru AI homepage with a live StudentGPT demo
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Project 02 Live

MahaGuru AI

An AI mentor and a personalised classroom for college students. Open source.

Two products that hand off to each other. StudentGPT is a reflective mentor that asks before it advises. It runs a deterministic English and Hinglish safety screen on every message, keeps a structured understanding record, and retrieves reference dialogues with BM25. Classroom turns a goal into a diagnostic, a versioned roadmap, generated lessons with an AI teacher, quizzes, rubric-graded projects and mastery tracking that adapts the plan. Built as a FastAPI and React monorepo with streamed replies, guest-to-account sessions and a provider-agnostic LLM layer (Gemini by default). Shipped as one Docker image with CI on every push.

FastAPIReactTypeScriptPostgreSQLGeminiSSEDockerPlaywright

Hosted on Render’s free tier. The first load can take about a minute to wake up, and AI replies use a daily free quota.

Customer Churn Predictor live app
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Project 03 Live

Customer Churn Prediction

Kaggle Playground S6E3 — who is about to leave, and why.

XGBoost and LightGBM trained on ~594K telecom records (21 features) with 5-fold stratified cross-validation; XGBoost reached a 0.916 mean ROC-AUC. EDA surfaced the strongest churn drivers — electronic-check payment (49%), month-to-month contracts (42%), fiber-optic internet (41.5%) and first-year customers (49%). Deployed as a live app with batch scoring and per-customer explanations.

PythonXGBoostLightGBMscikit-learnPandasSeaborn

Hosted on Render’s free tier — the first load can take ~30 s to wake up.

CreditWise Loan Approval System live app
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Project 04 Live

CreditWise — Loan Approval

Instant, explainable lending decisions.

A scikit-learn pipeline (imputation, scaling, one-hot encoding) on 950 applicant records with 18 features. A class-balanced Random Forest reached 0.91 F1 and 0.98 ROC-AUC on a stratified 20% test set, versus 0.81 F1 for a logistic-regression baseline. The Streamlit app returns live predictions with confidence scores and feature importance — credit score and DTI ratio are the strongest predictors.

Pythonscikit-learnPandasNumPyStreamlit
IAMARS drone detection and tracking demo
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Project 05 Live

IAMARS — Drone Detection & Tracking

Finding small drones in the sky, in real time.

Led a team that fine-tuned YOLOv8n on the VisioDECT drone dataset with a leakage-aware block split, reaching 0.965 mAP@0.5 on a 1,800-image held-out test set. The pipeline runs at 88.5 FPS on an RTX 2050 and 20 FPS on CPU; tracking was evaluated with MOTA/IDF1 on 91 test videos, plus intercept-point prediction in 3D simulation. Found and fixed a label-conversion bug that had inflated training mAP.

PythonYOLOv8ByteTrackOpenCVNumPy
More Projects

Dashboards, deep learning & hackathons

PhonePe Pulse Insights preview

PhonePe Pulse Insights Live

Internship project: PhonePe Pulse JSON data (2018–2024) loaded into a 9-table MySQL database, analysed with 10 SQL business queries and visualised in a multi-page Streamlit + Plotly dashboard.

PythonMySQLSQLPlotlyStreamlit
Mental Health in Tech — EDA preview

Mental Health in Tech — EDA Live

EDA of 1,251 tech-industry survey responses (50.5% sought treatment). Family history, care options and work interference were the factors most correlated with seeking treatment; published as an interactive Plotly dashboard.

PandasSeabornPlotlyscikit-learn
Tesla Stock Price Forecasting preview

Tesla Stock Price Forecasting

SimpleRNN vs stacked LSTM on TSLA prices (2010–2020) with moving-average, EMA, MACD and volatility features, a 60-day window and 1/5/10-day horizons. Best result: SimpleRNN at 3.1% MAPE one day ahead (LSTM: 5.1%).

TensorFlowKerasPandasTime Series
SmartCart Customer Segmentation preview

SmartCart Customer Segmentation

Unsupervised segmentation of 2,240 e-commerce customers: feature engineering, PCA to 9 components (84.5% variance kept), K-Means elbow/silhouette analysis and Ward agglomerative clustering into 4 segments.

scikit-learnPCAK-MeansClustering
Off-road Scene Segmentation preview

Off-road Scene Segmentation

Built in 12 hours at YOLO Hackathon 2026 (MIT WPU, Pune): frozen DINOv2 ViT-S/14 backbone + ConvNeXt head labelling every pixel of 2,857 synthetic desert images into 10 terrain classes — 0.432 val mIoU after 5 epochs.

PyTorchDINOv2Computer Vision
Used Car Price Prediction preview

Used Car Price Prediction

Regression on the CarDekho dataset comparing KNN, Linear Regression and Random Forest. Random Forest reached R² 0.962 (MAE 0.61 lakh) on the test set, versus 0.849 for Linear Regression.

scikit-learnRandom ForestPandas
The Journey

Products, ventures,
industry and research.

Flagship Build · Solo · Live 2026

FIX WITH ME

An AI repair assistant that knows when to say stop.

Built end to end for Indian households: a user describes a broken fan, extension board, headphones or toy in English, Hindi or Hinglish, by text, voice or photo. Fixy, the robot guide, asks only the questions that matter, names the likely fault with a calibrated confidence, and walks through a safe, sourced repair with tools, time, a rupee estimate and part links. Every claim is checked against sources, and every hazard ends the session with a clear stop screen.

Fix with Me screens: home, diagnosis chat, repair guide, guided step and safety stop
  1. 01Safety gateRules in three languages plus a TF-IDF + logistic regression classifier (0.68 MB, about 0.2 ms per message). Hazard recall 67.2% to 89.1%.
  2. 02Bayesian diagnosisPicks the most informative next question over a curated knowledge base. 90.7% top-1 vs 81.3% for plain Gemini.
  3. 03Verified answersHybrid RAG on Supabase (pgvector + PGroonga, RRF) with per-claim Gemma checks. 0% unsupported claims vs 34%.
  4. 04Shipped and testedFastAPI and Docker on Render, Next.js PWA on Cloudflare Workers, 118 pytest tests and a CI safety gate.
94
Benchmark
cases
96.0%
Top-3
diagnosis
92.5%
Correct
answers
100%
Retrieval
recall@5
0%
False
stops
Diagnose. Verify. Stop when it matters.
The Startup · Founder · 2024 – 2025 · Rebuilt and live in 2026

MAHAGURU AI

From a startup that shut down to a product that ships.

I founded MahaGuru AI as a student-guidance startup. It was selected into COEP's I2I Startup Program. I designed a multi-agent LLM architecture, curated a student–mentor dialogue dataset and collected feedback from around 150 student users on early prototypes. The company shut down, but the idea did not. In 2026 I rebuilt it from scratch as an open-source product: a reflective AI mentor (StudentGPT) and an adaptive AI classroom, with safety screening, an evaluation suite, CI and a live deployment.

COEP I2I
Startup
Program
2
Products
live today
24
Evaluation
scenarios
Try MahaGuru AI
Shut down. Rebuilt. Now live.
A StudentGPT conversation in MahaGuru AI
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Data Science Intern · Feb – May 2026

Innovexis Pvt. Ltd.

From raw JSON to business answers.

My first industry role. I built an ETL pipeline that loads PhonePe Pulse JSON data (2018–2024) into a 9-table MySQL database, then a multi-page Streamlit and Plotly dashboard that answers 10 business questions through SQL queries.

9
MySQL
tables
10
Business questions
answered
PhonePe Pulse project
Innovexis internship certificate
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Conference Research · Mar 2026

AI-Powered Reflective Mentorship

Research exploring how AI can act not just as an answer-engine, but as a reflective mentor — prompting learners to think, question, and grow rather than simply consume output. Presented at the 1st International Conference on Interdisciplinary Advances in Mechanical, Electronics and Computer Engineering (INMEC-2026).

AuthorAviraj Virape
VenueINMEC-2026 · Keystone School of Engineering, Pune
FocusGenAI · Education · Human-centred AI
Researched. Written. Presented.
INMEC-2026 paper presentation certificate
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Where I'm Going

I'm not building toward a job. I'm building toward something larger.

Education Healthcare Governance Infrastructure

In ten years, I want to have built systems that meaningfully change how India — and the world — solves hard problems with AI. The problems are enormous. The tools are finally here. I intend to be someone who uses them well.

Contact

Let's Build
Something.

Founders, researchers, recruiters — if you're working on something hard and worth building, I want to hear about it.

© 2026 Aviraj Virape I don't wait for the future — I build it.