I'm a Computer Science master's student at SUNY Binghamton interested in AI/ML, robotics, LLM evaluation, and intelligent autonomous systems.
I enjoy building projects that combine model evaluation, structured analysis, simulation, and real-world decision-making — especially in areas like autonomous systems, cybersecurity, and AI safety.
Autonomous drone security patrol simulation using PPO reinforcement learning, Gazebo, and context-aware risk assessment.
Skills: Python, Gazebo, PPO, Stable-Baselines3, Gymnasium, Reinforcement Learning, Risk Assessment
Fine-tuned a small instruction model using QLoRA for structured cybersecurity threat analysis and JSON generation. Compared zero-shot, few-shot, QLoRA v1, and QLoRA v2 using blind evaluation.
Skills: QLoRA, LoRA, LLM Fine-Tuning, Cybersecurity, Qwen, Model Evaluation, Structured Output
Built a benchmark to evaluate LLM understanding of autonomous swarm robotics across safety-critical scenarios and domains.
Skills: LLM Evaluation, Benchmarking, Prompt Engineering, Robotics, Model Comparison, Responsible AI
Client-server file synchronization system in C with push/pull operations, file locking, and socket-based communication.
Skills: C, Systems Programming, TCP Sockets, Client-Server Architecture, File I/O
Machine learning based malware detection and cybersecurity threat classification project.
Skills: Machine Learning, Cybersecurity, Classification, Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn
Programming: Python, C, C++, Java
AI / ML: Machine Learning, Deep Learning, NLP, Transformers, LLM Evaluation, Model Fine-Tuning
Frameworks & Libraries: PyTorch, Hugging Face, Scikit-learn, Pandas, NumPy, OpenCV, Stable-Baselines3
Robotics & Systems: Gazebo, ROS, Reinforcement Learning, Autonomous Systems, Navigation, Simulation
Tools: Git, GitHub, VS Code, Linux, Jupyter Notebook, Google Colab
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rucha-panhale
Handshake: https://binghamton.joinhandshake.com/profiles/rucha_panhale
GitHub: https://github.com/RuchaPanhale