Hari Baskar

2024 – Present

Senior Data Scientist
Building real-time failure-prediction systems for 25,000+ turbines at Vestas.

2019 – 2023

Senior Data Scientist
Led anomaly detection & reliability analytics for wind farms at Utopus Insights.

2016 – 2019

Data Scientist
Developed NLP chatbots, ML pipelines, and OCR solutions at Happiest Minds.

Mar 2016

Intern
Worked on ManageEngine at Zoho: testing workflows, APIs, and integration flows.

Jul 2015

Intern
Automated testing and backend services at Tata Consultancy Services, including developing the Weather Tracker Android app integrating multiple APIs for localized forecasts, push alerts, and interactive maps.

2012 – 2016

B.E. Computer Science
Degree from KCG College of Technology.

2007 – 2012

Higher Secondary (Math & CS)
Completed at St. Joseph’s School.

Courses & Certifications

Asset Reliability Practitioner (Mobius Institute, 2025): Certification in reliability engineering.

Certified Vibration Analyst II (Mobius Institute, 2025): Credential for advanced vibration analysis.

Deep Learning Specialization (Coursera, 2019): Neural networks, CNNs, RNNs, and more.

Mathematics for Machine Learning (Coursera, 2019): Linear algebra and multivariate calculus foundations.

Projects

Teacher Tool (May 2016)
Portal for educators to track attendance, share materials, and automate grading, boosting efficiency by 30%.

Churn Prediction & Performance Attrition (Apr–Aug 2018)
Built classification and regression models (Survival analysis, HMM, RandomForest, XGBoost, RNN) to predict user churn and performance drops.

Model Interpretation (2018)
Explained individual predictions using SHAP, LIME, and ELI5 for transparent AI decision-making.

IT Help Desk & Health Chatbots (Nov 2017–Apr 2018)
Engineered NLP pipelines: tokenization, POS tagging, stop-word removal, stemming, lemmatization, intent classification, and entity recognition, plus a minimal utterance generator.

Image Classification & Object Detection (2017)
Retrained Inception V3 for custom classes and implemented YOLO for real-time object recognition.

Invoice Data Extraction (Jul–Oct 2017)
Used Tesseract OCR and KNN clustering on bounding-box coordinates to extract billing details without hard-coded templates.

Anomaly Detection Pipeline (Feb–Aug 2017)
Applied HBOS, denoising autoencoders, and decision trees to identify operational outliers in streaming data.

API Server & Distributed Processing (2017)
Built a Spray/Undertow-based tool with worker nodes for scalable data ingestion and service orchestration.

Handwritten Tamil Character Recognition (Mar 2016)
Extracted script regions with OpenCV and classified letters using k-NN with 90%+ accuracy on test datasets.

Crime Control App (Sep 2015)
Developed a mobile social platform for community crime reporting with geotagging and automated alerts.

Weather Tracker App (Jul 2015)
Android application integrating multiple APIs for localized forecasts, push alerts, and interactive maps.

Source Code Editor (Jul 2014)
Java-based IDE featuring syntax highlighting, auto-completion, and embedded compiler integration.

Video Highlights Generation (2016–2019)
Combined audio signal processing and NLP techniques to auto-generate sports match highlights with 85% precision.

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