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Data Science · Machine Learning · GenAI

Hi, I'm Akansha. I build and write about machine learning & generative AI.

I'm a cloud and AI architect with 17 years in IT, lately across deep learning and generative AI. This is where I share the projects I build and what I learn along the way.

17
Years in IT
2
Master's-level qualifications in Data Science
2
Cloud & AI certifications

Work

Featured projects

A few things I've built across ML, computer vision, and GenAI.
2023Featured

Medicinal Leaves Detection with Deep Neural Networks

My Master's thesis explored automated identification of medicinal plant species from leaf imagery. I built an image-classification pipeline using convolutional neural networks and transfer learning from pre-trained backbones, adapting them to a specialised botanical dataset to reach reliable accuracy on a fine-grained recognition task.

Deep LearningTransfer LearningComputer VisionCNNPython
2024Featured

Generative AI Solutions

Design and delivery of generative-AI capabilities: from retrieval-augmented generation over internal knowledge to LLM-assisted workflows that reduce manual effort. Focused on grounding model output in trusted data, evaluating quality, and shipping something dependable rather than a demo.

Generative AILLMsRAGPrompt EngineeringAzure
2023Featured

Sales Efficiency Optimisation

A postgraduate project boosting sales efficiency for an EdTech firm: feature engineering over operational data, model building to identify the drivers of performance, and turning the results into recommendations the business could act on.

Machine LearningAnalyticsPythonSQL

About

A practitioner who ships, and writes it down.

I care about the parts of data science that make models actually useful: clean data, honest evaluation, and dependable delivery. Here's where I focus.

Machine learning in production

Taking models from notebook to something dependable: data pipelines, evaluation, and the unglamorous work that makes ML actually useful.

Generative AI

Building with large language models: retrieval, grounding, and evaluation so that GenAI features are trustworthy, not just impressive.

Cloud & Azure

Operationalising data science on Microsoft Azure and Azure Machine Learning, backed by an MCSE in Cloud Platform and Infrastructure.