Portfolio 2026

Mohammed
Ishaaq.

AI Engineer Intern @ Stellaria · Building real-world AI systems.

Patented hardware. ML research. Now building geospatial AI pipelines at Stellaria, UAE.

7th Sem

Student · Intern

20+

Projects Done

Mohammed Ishaaq

About Me

"To see the boundaries of the possible, we must attempt the impossible."
— Mehmed II

Information Science student focused on AI, Edge Computing, and Sustainability.

Built patented waste-management systems, published ML research on edge-efficient training, and shipped full-stack products used in national competitions.

Currently seeking internship opportunities in Software Engineering and AI Research.

Education

BGS College of Engineering

Focus

AI & Edge Systems

Experience

Jun 2026 – Present 1 mo Abu Dhabi, UAE · Remote Current

Artificial Intelligence Engineer

Internship

Stellaria

Working on a confidential geospatial AI system. Integrated SAM 3 for semantic and instance segmentation, Grounding DINO for open-set object detection, and LangGraph for multi-step agent orchestration. Built mathematical models for spatial calculations and designed FastAPI microservices connecting vision model sidecars with a browser-based agent frontend.

SAM 3 Grounding DINO LangGraph FastAPI Rasterio PyTorch Segmentation Geospatial AI
Apr 2024 – Jun 2026 Bengaluru, India · Hybrid

Software Lead

Self-employed

BGSCET Incubation Centre

Led software architecture for an incubated sustainability startup. Engineered computer vision pipelines and optimised machine learning models for real-time edge deployment. Guided a 4-member team and secured ₹1L+ in funding.

Computer Vision Edge AI TensorFlow Raspberry Pi Team Lead

Technical Skills

AI & Vision

  • psychology PyTorch
  • visibility SAM 3 · Grounding DINO
  • crop_free Segmentation
  • neurology Deep Learning
  • terminal Python

Agents & LLMs

  • account_tree LangGraph
  • chat LLM Pipelines
  • travel_explore RAG Systems
  • manage_search Prompt Engineering

Backend

  • api FastAPI
  • database Node.js / Express
  • storage MongoDB
  • map Rasterio / GDAL

Hardware & IoT

  • memory Raspberry Pi
  • settings_input_component Arduino
  • precision_manufacturing Embedded Systems
  • sensors Edge AI

Selected Work

IoT / AI / Hardware

IWM - Reverse Vending Machine

Patented AI-powered waste collection system awarded a Government of India Design Patent. Secured ₹1L+ in funding from the BGSCET Innovation Cell. Three-stage bottle validation with thermal reward coupons.

Machine Learning Research

Staged Embarrassment Learning (SEL)

Bio-inspired training framework achieving up to 99% FLOPs reduction using dynamic gradient sparsity. Focuses compute on high-loss samples — designed for Edge AI and satellite deployment.

AI / Computer Vision

Recylo — Smart India Hackathon

AI waste segregation system built for SIH 2025, holder of Design Patent No. 482604-001. CNN on Raspberry Pi 5 classifies waste into 4 categories at ~90% accuracy.

Web Graphics / 3D

OceanOS

Integrated marine conservation platform with real-time ocean health monitoring and AI-powered cleanup management. Unified 3D simulation + admin dashboard + fisherman incentive app over WebSockets.

Open Source

GitHub Activity

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Problem Solving

LeetCode Progress

What I'm Doing Now

Current focus — July 2026.

Interning

AI Engineer at Stellaria, UAE — building automated pipelines that turn geospatial and thermal data into 3D environments using vision AI.

Learning

Generative AI and Agentic AI — working through DeepLearning.AI courses on LLMs, prompt engineering, RAG, and autonomous agents.

Next Up

Planning projects at the intersection of AI agents and real-world utility. Still figuring out exactly what that looks like.

Achievements

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Design Patent

Granted by the Government of India for the AI Household Waste Segregator design.

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Grand Finalist

Smart India Hackathon (SIH) Grand Finalist, competing among top teams nationally with innovative tech solutions.

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Funding Milestones

Secured seed funding and grants exceeding ₹1L for prototype development and research scaling.

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JVTM Exhibition Prize Winner

Awarded as the winner at the National-level engineering innovation exhibition for excellence in technical prototype demonstration.

Education

2023 – 2027

BE in Information Science & Engineering

BGS College of Engineering & Technology

8.06 GPA

2021 – 2023

2nd PUC (PCMC)

Falcon PU College

84%

2021

SSLC — Class 10

St. Joseph's Indian High School

74%

Let's build
something.

Open for collaborations, freelance opportunities, or just a chat about technology and design.