Jackson Sunny

Jackson Sunny

AI Engineer | 3D Computer Vision | Machine Learning

About Me

AI Engineer with a Master's degree in Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Visual Computing from Ecole Polytechnique. Passionate about 3D Computer Vision, Deep Learning, and developing innovative solutions. Proven experience in multimodal learning, point cloud processing, and deploying machine learning models. Eager to contribute to challenging projects that push the boundaries of AI technology.

Work Experience

AI Engineer (CDI)

SAMP SAS, Paris, France

Nov 2024 – Mar 2025

  • Created a multimodal classifier by fusing image features and point features.
  • Created synthetic images from point clouds for integrating it into the learning pipeline.

3D Computer Vision Intern

SAMP SAS, Paris, France

Apr 2024 – Sept 2024

  • Developed a multimodal network for fusing point cloud features to respective image features for better segmentation of pointclouds.
  • Built mapping from points to images (respective pixels) to pixel features for multimodality.
  • Analysed the impact of image foundation models on point cloud segmentation.
  • Supervised by: Nachwa Balit, PhD & Damien Robert, PhD

Research Intern

Telecom Paris, Paris, France

May 2023 – Sept 2023

  • Developed a tool to interactively edit the 3D-Skeleton of Pulmonary Airways generated from CT Scan.
  • Usage of Graph Neural Networks to refine the 3D-Skeleton by using the generated segments as reference.
  • Designed Geometric methods for refining connection paths in the airway.
  • Supervised by: Prof. Amal Dev Parakkat

Machine Learning and IOT Intern

Adihptham Technologies, Bangalore, India

Mar 2021 – June 2021

  • Assisted in building the production pipeline for Computer Vision applications.
  • Responsible for building edge Deep Learning and Computer Vision applications using Pytorch and ONNX.
  • Worked with Arduino and Node Red for prototyping IOT products.

Education

Master of Science and Technology

Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France

Sept 2022 – Sept 2024

Specialization: Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Visual Computing

GPA: 3.67/4

Engineering in Computer Science

Reva University, Bangalore, India

Aug 2017 – Sept 2021

Major: Computer Science and Engineering (First class with distinction)

CGPA: 8.72/10

Projects

Research Projects

Fingerprint Matching with Graph Neural Network

IDEMIA, Paris | Oct 2023 – Mar 2024

Developing a project for matching fingerprints. Leveraging Graph Neural Networks and embedded finger minutiae.

Supervised by: Laurent Kazdaghli and Victor Videau.

Fake News Detection and Correction

Nov 2020 – May 2021

Developed a novel stance detection model for news articles and web-scraped data for authenticity. Awarded Best Paper at Reva University, 2021.

Course Projects

Evolution in Wonderland Game

Evolution in Wonderland - Unity3D Game

Sept – Oct 2023 | Course: Advanced 3D Graphics

Developed a game using terrain brushes, Inverse Kinematics, genetic algorithms, and neural networks for animal brains.

MaskFormer Project

MaskFormer Implementation

Oct – Dec 2023 | Course: Deep Learning

Studied, analysed and Implemented the MaskFormer paper from scratch for semantic segmentation.

Bird Species Retrieval

Bird Species Retrieval (CLIP & Blip-2)

Feb – Mar 2024 | Course: Computer Vision

Implemented CLIP and Blip-2 for bird species retrieval from CUB-200-2011 dataset, using linear probing.

DeltaConv Project

DeltaConv Analysis

Nov – Dec 2023 | Course: Analysis and Deep Learning on Geometric Shapes

Analysed and implemented DeltaConv on Point Clouds, studying differences with KPConv.

Radiance Fields Project

Differentiable Point-Based Radiance Fields

Jan – Mar 2023 | Course: Image Synthesis

Analysed and implemented the paper for efficient view synthesis from scratch.

DRL Project

Continuous Control with DRL

Oct – Dec 2023 | Course: Deep Reinforcement Learning

Analysed DDPG algorithm for physical games using visual data, studying differences with DQNs.

Technical Skills

Languages

C C++ Python

Developer Tools

VS Code Vim Git

Libraries/Frameworks

PyTorch PyTorch3D Torch Geometric OpenCV Unity3D OpenAI Gym libigl Flask

Extras

Mathematics for Deep Learning Mathematics for Machine Learning Linux Server Management

Patent

Air Pollution Control System Using Tunnels

Jan 2021 | Indian Patent Office (No: 202041023584)

Novel design for metropolitan cities, simulated using CFD and optimized with DNNs.

Achievements

Hack Zurich Winner

Sept 2022

Won "Best Project for Huawei-Sunrise-Swissski" for creating a monitoring tool for skiing athletes.

PyTorch YOLOV5 MonoDepth GPS Mapping

Relevant Coursework

  • Machine Learning & Deep Learning
  • Deep Learning
  • Deep Reinforcement Learning
  • Analysis and Deep Learning on Geometric shapes
  • Advanced ML & Autonomous Agents
  • Image Analysis & Computer Vision
  • Advanced 3D Graphics
  • Image Synthesis
  • Soft Robotics, fabrication and Control
  • Navigation for Autonomous Systems
  • Computer Animation
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Real-Time AI in Video Games
  • Intelligent Agents
  • Advanced Data Structures & Algorithms