00:00I'm Yash. I'm a fourth year at Plaksha and I'm studying data science, economics and business.
00:07I use deep learning and in the space of geospatial machine learning. Using drone images, what we were
00:13doing is we were predicting the water and stress levels. Obviously, huge implications in agriculture
00:18and this is just the start of what I was doing. That led to me co-authoring a research paper in
00:24the same field as well as I also got an internship at Wadwani AI which is a company that does stuff in
00:30similar direction and there I worked on pest detections just using images of crops that
00:36farmers would send to us and this would have implications in them calculating their losses
00:41way before if something had actually happened. I also worked on a project called Social Media Simulator.
00:47It's harnessing the power of AI to models, user performance, personas and then we basically
00:53made a small Twitter. You can send out your post and then you would get the response of
00:58what likes, what comments would you get from a dedicated crowd. So, it's just the amount
01:03of stuff, AI that is involved everywhere and that leads me to me being a quant intern at
01:09Jefferies. Jefferies is a financial firm and I got a return offer from there and I'm really
01:15excited to work in APAC there as well. But all this is just to say that AI, be it customer
01:21acquisition like we saw in Social Media Simulator, be it agriculture in my projects with Wadwani AI
01:27or my research paper or be it simply finance which I'm working on in currently and I think
01:33I have pleasure to thank for that to have my continued interest in it as well as my
01:39really foundational knowledge that really drives me every day.
