Neal Daftary
Hello!
AI Enthusiast based in India, pursuing B.Tech in AI & ML at Nirma University. Experienced in developing end-to-end AI pipelines and deploying data-driven solutions — from computer vision systems to predictive maintenance platforms.
Tech Stack
Core Areas
Achievements
EXPERIENCE
June 2025 – Sept 2025
8x Sports
Computer Vision Engineer (Remote)
Developed visual search engine with YOLOv8 object detection, DINOv2 features, OpenCV texture analysis. Implemented FAISS for millisecond-latency semantic similarity search. Earned a Letter of Recommendation for high-impact technical execution.
Oct 2025 – Dec 2025
MZHUB Faithtech
Product Engineering Intern (Remote)
Led end-to-end product and technical research for AI-driven solutions (AI OCR, agentic AI, CX automation, knowledge-grounded chatbots). Built and optimized the website frontend for performance and SEO.
Jan 2026 – Present
Nirma University
Student Researcher (Hybrid)
Working under a project of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). Developing AI system for automated detection, segmentation and morphometric analysis of lunar surface features using deep learning on Chandrayaan-2 imagery.
WORKS
2026
Lumin.AI
AI-Powered Solar Inverter Predictive Maintenance Platform. Architected a 7-stage ETL pipeline, built hybrid Isolation Forest & XGBoost risk engine, deployed as FastAPI microservice with SHAP explainability.
2026
SpectraScan
AI-Powered Defect Detection for Paint Inspection. Secured 4th National Rank at 6th Mitsubishi Electric Cup 2026. DINOv2/FPN-UNet segmentation with MLflow tracking and Optuna tuning.
2025
MZHub.in
Built the enterprise-grade customer engagement platform for MZHub — an AI-powered spiritual technology platform for religious institutions worldwide. Led SEO optimization, design strategy, and engineered serverless contact automation using SMTP with Azure Cosmos DB.
2025
CatBoost-Driven Anomaly Detection in Industrial Robotic Arms
published in IEEE Sensors Letters with 97.20% accuracy on 200K+ sensor samples.
2025
Visual Search Engine
Built visual search engine with YOLOv8 detection, DINOv2 feature extraction, and FAISS for millisecond-latency semantic similarity search at 8x Sports.
2025
Transaction Fraud Detection
End-to-end fraud detection system leveraging Isolation Forest, Flask, Pandas, SQLAlchemy for real-time transaction analysis, intelligent risk scoring, and anomaly detection with interactive dashboards and JWT-based authentication.
2025
ChefX
Next-gen intelligent cooking assistant platform. Blends a massive global recipe database with smart appliance integration and dietary management, delivered via a slick multi-platform user experience.
EDUCATION
Aug 2024 – May 2028
Institute Of Technology, Nirma University
B.Tech in Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
CGPA: 7.95 (till 3rd Sem)LEADERSHIP
Sept 2025 – Present
Student Chairperson
Association of Computer Machinery (ACM) ITNU
Leading 200+ member technical community, organizing workshops and speaker sessions.
RESEARCH
LET'S WORK
TOGETHER
Got a project in mind? I'd love to hear about it. Let's build something amazing together.