Yaswanth Battu is an AI Engineer at BrainDAO, working on IQ GPT, an AI-powered search engine developed by IQ.wiki.^[1]

Education

Yaswanth is pursuing a Bachelor of Technology (Hons) in Information Technology from the JNTU-GV College of Engineering, Vizianagram (2020-2024). He also finished his intermediate studies majoring in MPC in 2020. Yaswanth previously completed his secondary higher education in 2018 at K.K.R's Gowth Concept School Gudivada.^[2]

Career

Yaswanth started his career in June 2022 through an internship at Sparks Foundation, India as a Web Development and Design Intern where he worked on developing a Banking System and Payment Gateways Integration which enabled him to explore programming languages like PHP, HTML, CSS, and MySQL cloud DB's.^[2]

In August 2022, Yaswanth virtually worked with Goldman Sachs in their Engineering Virtual Program, where he learned about Cryptography and Encryptions. He learned and worked with libraries like Hashlib and tools like Hashcat to detect the algorithms used to encrypt the passwords and suggested changes to the use of different encryption algorithms like asymmetric SHA variants instead of MD5.^[2][3]

In September 2022, Yaswanth had a virtual Internship in the domain of Data Analytics, at Accenture, where he worked on a problem statement that has data from various posts on a social media platform called Socialbuzz. His task was to identify the most trending posts which helped in targeted promotion and increased customer interaction. He also worked with Pandas library and Excel in this task.^[2]

In February 2023, Yaswanth joined BrainDAO as an AI Engineer to work on IQ GPT, an AI-powered search engine developed by IQ.wiki.^[3]

Technical Background

Languages: TypeScript, Python, C++
FrameWorks: LangChain, Next.JS, TensorFlow, Keras
Specialized in: Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Transfer Learning, Data Science & Analytics, Mathematics, Prompt Engineering
Domain Related Tech: Vector databases, Serverless Deployments, Instruction & Fine Tuning^[2][3]

Volunteering and Social Activities

In September 2021, Yaswanth joined in Association for Computing Machinery, an ACM student chapter STB-!86519, and has been actively involved in various technical events conducted by the chapter since that time. In October 2022, Yaswanth was appointed as Chapter Membership Chair and increased the Chapter Members count from 4 to 72 with the collaborative efforts of all the Chapter Officers. In addition, he conducts special events every month like the Coding Contest and CSEd' Week Celebrations, etc.^[2]

During his studies, Yaswanth led the contest CODE GEEKS with multiple teams and surpassed the all-time highest registration & participation count for any single event held previously in the college on October 6, 2022. The CODE GEEKS coding contest, which was led by Yaswanth was also featured in ACM Chapter Member Newsletter on December 14, 2022. Only 10 Chapters were selected, combined from all over the world of ACM Student Chapters.^[2]

Yaswanth represented Chapter on HOUR OF CODE's World Map at the International Level on December 6, 2022. The chapter also received an invitation to attend ACM INDIA SUMMIT at IISER Pune on January 21, 2023. Yaswanth and his Chapter are one of the top 20 chapters ranging from top-notch IITs, IIScs, CFTI, etc. shortlisted for the Summit.^[2]

Yaswanth is also organizing food donation camps for the needy in the areas of Vizianagaram, Andhra Pradesh, India.