Pranav Balachander
Penn State CS ’26 · California ·
Hey, I’m Pranav. I just finished CS at Penn State, where I did some ML research and ran track. These days I mostly build side projects and go to hackathons.
Experience
- Penn State, Dept. of CSApr 2025 - May 2026Research AssistantPennsylvania
- Built end-to-end Python pipelines with Pandas, NumPy, and Scikit-learn, fusing quantum-chemistry, epidemiological, and genomic sources into analysis-ready datasets across three concurrent research projects.
- Applied SHAP across models to surface feature importance and make predictions interpretable and auditable.
- Authored three research papers as a named author, spanning electricity price forecasting, Arctic mercury modeling, and pesticide-resistance surveillance, and presented the work at conferences including Harvard’s National Collegiate Research Conference.
- SBS IT SolutionsRemoteJun 2025 - Sep 2025AI EngineerTexas
- Contributed to a HIPAA-compliant telehealth platform as part of a 5 to 8 person engineering team, working across front-end and AI/ML feature development.
- Built front-end components in React to support the platform’s user interface.
- Worked on AI/ML-assisted document processing (RAG, Python, LangChain, OpenAI APIs).
- mResult CorporationRemoteJun 2023 - Oct 2023Data & Analytics InternConnecticut
- Built and automated data-processing pipelines over large datasets using Python, Pandas, and Dataiku, applying data-warehousing and ETL techniques for downstream analytics.
- Wrote SQL queries and cleaned, transformed, and validated large datasets to prepare reliable inputs for analysis.
- Shipped dashboards that translated analytics into decisions for non-technical stakeholders across teams.
Roster
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SponsorScan
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Capstone
More projects
- 2026HomewardTurns patient discharge paperwork into clear, source-linked next steps. TrueFoundry Hackathon.
- 2026PostcardAI avatar that keeps a grandmother company between weekly family calls. Better Days Hackathon.
- 2024MaargdarshakGuidance tool with an accessible Streamlit interface wired to the OpenAI API.
Research
VALS: A Model-Agnostic Virtual Reality Framework for Real-Time Annotation of 3D Anatomical Models
A VR framework for Meta Quest 3 that lets anatomy instructors load any OBJ model and place, search, and save labeled pins in real time, fully on-device. Built in Unity 6 with OpenXR as a capstone with the Penn State College of Medicine.
UniElecPrice: A Unified Cross-Regional Day-Ahead Electricity Price Dataset
A globally unified dataset of day-ahead electricity prices from 40 markets across 5 continents, built for standardized forecasting research. Includes a hybrid CNN, BiLSTM, and attention model that outperformed LSTM and Transformer baselines.
Pending publication
- 2026Assessing Tick-Borne Pathogen Transmission Risk in PennsylvaniaML and geospatial analysis to predict tick-borne pathogen presence and hotspots across Pennsylvania.
- 2025Arctic Mercury ModelingML-assisted modeling of mercury reduction, reemission, and diffusion across Arctic snow and ice.
GitHub
533 contributions this yearToolkit
- Python
- C++
- SQL
- Java
- JavaScript
- HTML/CSS
- PHP
- C#
- TensorFlow
- Keras
- PyTorch
- scikit-learn
- XGBoost
- SHAP
- OpenAI
- LangChain
- React
- Node.js
- Flask
- Streamlit
- pandas
- NumPy
- Matplotlib
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- SQLite
- Git
- GitHub
- VS Code
- Figma
- LaTeX