Amlan Nag

Blunge and Robotics

Machine Learning Engineer

Working as a Machine Learning Engineer and researcher at Blunge, where I am developing image-to-video generation capabilities for their fine-tuned Stable Diffusion models.

Blunge.ai

Bipedal Wheeled Robot

Currently developing a bipedal wheeled robot. The robot includes a LiDAR detector, an arm module, and a custom reinforcement learning model. We are funded by Blackbird.

Blank Robotics

Fortus - Software Engineer

Participated in the Lab Accelerator as a software engineer for Fortus, where I contributed to building the frontend and backend of their gym app.

Fortus App

Fortus App

180 Degrees Consulting - Technology Consulting Director

Over the course of 1.5 years, I led 5 consulting projects and supervised over 40 individual consultants. I worked on implementing machine learning and other software solutions for industrial clients who ranged from energy companies to not-for-profits.

Blunge Background Removal

This project implements a state-of-the-art background removal pipeline for images through fine-tuning segmentation models and hyperparameter optimization. It is also accompanied by a front-end interface and toolkit.

Blunge Background Removal Project

UQ Winter Research

Participated in the UQ Winter Research Program under Dr. Miao Xu. Fine-tuned YOLOv8 for object detection and added additional blocks for object tracking. The goal of this project was to quantify the game state for League of Legends and develop a reinforcement learning model to play the game.

UQ Validate Accelerator

Was one of 10 winners who received funding in UQ’s startup program. I pitched and prototyped a SaaS job interview tool that integrated ChatGPT APIs and image detection models.

Placed Top 1% in IMC Prosperity Globally

My team and I placed in the top 1% out of 13,000 students globally in the IMC Annual Trading Challenge. In this challenge, we analyzed market data from a wide range of agents and products to curate profitable trading strategies.

IMC GitHub Repository

GitHub Repository

Exit MyIBTutor

Decided to exit MyIBTutor to direct more attention toward technology and machine learning. Over the year, my co-founder and I grew the team to over 30 tutors and taught more than 300 concurrent students. We also partnered with several schools across Queensland to deliver workshops on pedagogy and time management.

Co-founded MyIBTutor

Co-founded MyIBTutor, a tutoring agency specializing in services for International Baccalaureate (IB) students. We delivered lectures at QASMT and grew the team into a small group of dedicated tutors.