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Retinal Disease Classifier
Ran zero-shot and linear-probe experiments with FLAIR for diabetic retinopathy and glaucoma detection. Hit 0.92 AUROC with only 5-20% labels.
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AI / Machine Learning Engineer
Hi, I'm Pugalenthi Magendran.
I build intelligent systems, from foundation models and LLM pipelines to real-world AI tools.
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Forge
End-to-end training data engine: generates, evaluates with LLM-as-judge, detects contamination, fine-tunes with LoRA, and runs significance tests. 184 tests, +16.8% ROUGE-1.
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GateCrown
Built a compliance documentation service for Australian real estate agencies facing new AUSTRAC AML/CTF obligations. Customised programs, 5-day turnaround.
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I'm an AI / Machine Learning Engineer with a Master of Artificial Intelligence from Monash University. I work across foundation models, LLMs, and computer vision - from retinal disease classifiers to fine-tuning models for text-to-SQL.
Currently a Business Fellow at Perplexity AI, where I prototype LLM agent workflows and dig into AI product strategy. I like taking projects from idea to working tool.
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Models Trained
Vision-language models, LLM fine-tuning, and more
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Best AUROC
Retinal disease detection with minimal labeled data
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Production Tools
Ideas shipped from scratch to deploy
Skills & Technologies
Python
PyTorch
Transformers
LLMs
LoRA
RAG
Computer Vision
scikit-learn
Streamlit
Docker
SQL
Git
AWS
Azure
Experience
Business Fellow (AI Product & Research)
Perplexity AI
Prototyping LLM agent workflows and working on AI product strategy. Building no-code and low-code tools to automate internal analysis.
AI Researcher, Foundation Models
Monash University
Ran zero-shot vs linear-probe experiments with the FLAIR vision-language model for retinal disease detection. Built the full Python/PyTorch research pipeline from scratch.
Master of Artificial Intelligence
Monash University
Coursework in deep learning, NLP, computer vision, and reinforcement learning. Research focused on foundation models for medical imaging.
Venture Capital Analyst
1337 Ventures
Researched ~400 Malaysian startups, categorising companies by sector, stage and traction to map the early-stage ecosystem and support deal flow.
Certifications
Machine Learning Specialization
DeepLearning.AI · Coursera
Deep Learning Specialization
DeepLearning.AI · Coursera
Natural Language Processing Specialization
DeepLearning.AI · Coursera
Google Data Analytics Professional Certificate
Google · Coursera
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