Nikhil Paliwal
Machine Learning Engineer at experial.ai
Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolNikhil Paliwal is a Machine Learning Engineer with eight years of experience melding research and product-focused AI, currently based in Cologne while completing an MS in Data Science and AI at Saarland University. He has a strong track record across research labs and industry—DFKI, DLR, Google Summer of Code and autonomous-driving startups—where he delivered practical gains like a 50x inference-speed improvement and developed self-supervised and continual representation-learning solutions. His technical breadth spans 2D/3D computer vision, point clouds and calibration, segmentation and pose, large models and model-compression techniques, plus deployment in Docker/AWS/CICD. Nikhil repeatedly bridges theory and engineering: implementing papers end-to-end, optimizing models for resource-constrained deployment, and applying contrastive pretraining for temporal generalization. He thrives on competitive challenges and hands-on projects, often digging into low-level C++ or Python OOP to squeeze extra performance from complex pipelines. Ambitious about unsupervised domain adaptation and self-supervised learning, he seeks roles that push both research depth and real-world impact.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer and Communication Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer and Communication Engineering at The LNM Institute of Information TechnologyMaster of Science - MS Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, Master of Science - MS Data Science and Artificial Intelligence at Universität des Saarlandes
Github Skills (38)
opencv10
python10
data-set10
machine-learning10
infection10
classify10
deep-learning10
ai10
percentage10
computer-vision10
reinforcement-learning9
convolutional-neural-networks9
warmup9
deep-neural-networks9
jetson-xavier9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
nik1806/Human-Pose-Detection
Jan 2020 - Feb 2020
Contributions:12 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
nik1806/classical-flame-detection
May 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:7 commits, 3 pushes in 6 months
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