Hey, I’m Pranav.

I build AI/ML systems and the software around them. RAG pipelines, forecasting models, production frontends. CS graduate and published IEEE researcher.

Computer Science · Penn State · based in California

Pranav Balachander
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Experience

The Reasoning CompanyFeb 2026 → May 2026
Software Engineering Intern · San Francisco, CA

Built responsive, user facing frontends in HTML, CSS and JavaScript, and developed a stock price forecasting model in Python using time series methods to predict market movements.

Penn State, Dept. of CSApr 2025 → May 2026
Research Assistant · Harrisburg, PA

Named author on three research papers across electricity price forecasting, Arctic mercury modeling, and pesticide resistance surveillance. Built a hybrid CNN/BiLSTM/Attention model (TensorFlow, Keras) reaching ~25% lower RMSE (12.40 vs 16.49) and higher R² (0.87 vs 0.63) than the strongest baselines.

SBS IT SolutionsJun 2025 → Sep 2025
AI/ML Intern · Dallas, TX

Built a RAG based health chatbot end to end, answering symptom questions with LangChain, OpenAI APIs and a vector database. Contributed UI for a HIPAA compliant medical app.

Penn State Harrisburg Athletics2025 → 2026
Men’s Track & Field · NCAA Division III, United East

Student athlete on the varsity roster, training and competing alongside a full course load and research work.

Roster
mResult CorporationJun 2023 → Oct 2023
Data & Analytics Intern · Bangalore, India

Organized and analyzed large datasets with data warehousing techniques, ran cleaning and EDA in Pandas, and automated processing with Dataiku for non technical stakeholders.

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Projects

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Research

IEEE Data Descriptions · 2025

UniElecPrice: A Unified Cross Regional Day Ahead Electricity Price Dataset

Introduced a globally unified dataset of day ahead electricity prices drawn from 40 markets across 5 continents, enabling standardized forecasting research. Developed and validated a hybrid CNN/BiLSTM/Attention model that outperformed LSTM and Transformer baselines.

Accepted, IEEE Data Descriptions, 2025 · Two further papers pending publication
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Toolkit

Languages
PythonC++SQLJavaJavaScriptHTML/CSSPHPC#
Frameworks
ReactNode.jsTensorFlowKerasPyTorchScikit learnStreamlitFlask
ML / Data
pandasNumPyMatplotlibSHAPXGBoostOpenAILangChain
Databases
MySQLPostgreSQLSQLite
Tools
GitGitHubVS CodeJupyterLaTeXFigma

Let’s build something.

The fastest way to reach me is email. Always happy to talk shop.

p.pranavbalachander@gmail.com