Syam Sundar Nallamekala

AI/ML Engineer · Researcher · Toledo, Ohio

Making machine learning work on signals that don’t behave

I build ML systems for physical processes — furnaces, hip scans, roads, microscopes — where the measurement is as hard as the model. I’m an ML engineer at the Northwest Ohio Innovation Consortium, partway through a master’s in computer science engineering at the University of Toledo.

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Syam Sundar Nallamekala AI/ML Engineer & Researcher Toledo, Ohio
  • 3 Published papers Springer Nature · IEEE · UPenn-validated
  • 1 Granted patent Flower Plucking Robotic Arm, IN 573184
  • 6 Featured projects industrial · medical · transport
  • 3.92 GPA University of Toledo

About

I work on the machine learning that has to survive contact with hardware.

I build machine learning systems for physical processes — furnaces, hip scans, roads, microscopes — where the measurement is as hard as the model. The through-line is hybrid fuzzy–deep learning: a fuzzy layer for the ambiguity, a deep model for the structure underneath it.

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Selected work

Six projects I built against real data

Each one states its limits as plainly as its results.

  • Northwest Ohio Innovation Consortium

    AI digital twin for a glass fiber furnace

    Thermocouples submerged in molten glass drift, degrade and fail, leaving operators blind on the variable that controls fiber diameter, breakage and energy cost. A virtual sensor keeps reading when the physical one stops.

    4.37°FRMSE, middle of melt at 100 TPD

    • XGBoost
    • FastAPI
    • Time-series

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  • MS thesis research, University of Toledo

    Hip osteoporosis risk from CT imaging and clinical data

    Osteoporosis usually goes undiagnosed until a fracture happens. This work inherited a prior pipeline, audited it end to end, and found that its headline result did not survive honest evaluation.

    0.976DiceU-Net bone segmentation

    • U-Net
    • PyRadiomics
    • Cross-validation

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  • University of Toledo, Dept. of EECS

    Fuzzy deep neural network for brain tumor classification

    Tumour margins are soft and blurred, which is exactly where hard clustering fails. Fuzzy C-Means segments the ambiguous boundary and a CNN classifies what it finds.

    95.8%overall accuracy

    • Fuzzy C-Means
    • CNN
    • Medical imaging

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  • University of Toledo

    Fuzzy deep LSTM for cancer cell death analysis

    Studying how cancer cells die normally requires fluorescent labelling, which is invasive and can alter the biology being observed. This asks whether death patterns can be recognised from raw, unlabelled microscopy video alone.

    • Fuzzy inference
    • LSTM
    • Microscopy

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  • Ohio Department of Transportation

    Traffic demand forecasting

    With only seven years of counts, time-series forecasting is the wrong frame. Normalising the origin-destination matrix by population turns the task into learning a spatial assignment operator that can be re-expanded against any year.

    8.92%MAPE across 919 count stations

    • Keras
    • Spatial modelling
    • O-D matrices

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  • Independent work, then Ohio Department of Transportation

    Vehicle speed estimation from video

    Built first independently — roadside video capture, detection, tracking and speed derived from tracked movement, with real-time inference on a Raspberry Pi at the roadside. Then integrated into ODOT’s existing statewide detection network.

    Speed accuracy was never documented

    • YOLOv8
    • DeepSORT
    • Perspective transform

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All six in depth

Tech stack

The tools I reach for

Fuzzy–deep learning at the centre; the rest is what it takes to get a model in front of someone who can act on it.

Fuzzy–deep
learning
  • Python
  • TensorFlow
  • PyTorch
  • Keras
  • Scikit-Learn
  • OpenCV
  • FastAPI
  • React
  • pandas
  • NumPy
  • Docker
  • Git
  • Vite
  • PostgreSQL
  • Streamlit

The full stack

Contact

Get in touch

I’m looking for full-time ML engineering and research roles from Summer 2027, and for internships before then. The fastest way to reach me is email.

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