Banoth Padmasree

B.Tech student in Environmental Science & Engineering at IIT Bombay with expertise in Machine Learning, Data Science, and Software Development. Secured ST Rank 1239 in IIT JEE-Advanced. Strong background in building LLM-based applications, RAG systems, and real-time ML projects with hands-on experience in leadership roles.

Machine Learning Intern at NoQs Digital (2025-06 – Present)

Designed and implemented LLM-based solutions and advanced ML techniques for production systems.

• Awarded Letter of Recommendation for outstanding performance and contributions
• Designed and implemented an LLM serving as a versatile Chatbot and spam classifier, featuring 12 transformer blocks with specialized layers including MultiHead Attention and feed forward layers with GeLU activation
• Pre-trained the model on a narrative dataset using cross-entropy loss and backpropagation and implemented advanced techniques such as temperature scaling and top-k sampling for improved response generation
• Fine-tuned transformer-based models for classification and instruction-based tasks using pretrained embeddings

Operations and Marketing Coordinator at Entrepreneurship-Cell, IIT Bombay (2023-06 – 2024-02)

Led operations and marketing initiatives for Asia's largest business competition and secured strategic partnerships.

• Secured sponsorship for Eureka!, Asia's largest business competition, by engaging 200+ executives from 25+ companies
• Secured partnerships with 100+ LinkedIn professionals, yielding 140+ internships & collaborations with 20 colleges
• Implemented mail merge for personalized documents, enhancing communication with recipient-specific info efficiently

B.Tech in Environmental Science & Engineering – Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (2022 – 2026)