Hey World, I'm Pranav 👋

MLE/MLR/SWE 📍 Bay Area, CA

CS & CE @ CWRU

pranav.saran@case.edu

I'm a current sophomore who's super interested in machine learning engineering/research, especially in the field of NLP!

Outside of academics and the career world, I enjoy playing badminton, bouldering, vlogging, and exploring!

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Skills

Experience

Electronics & Software Engineer @ CWRU GHDC

September 2024 - Present

Worked on the Pulse Ox team designing a mobile app and circuitry.

Authored the main data transfer algorithm between Pulse Ox and app.

Machine Learning Researcher @ Algoverse

January 2025 - June 2025

Conducted multilingual figurative language detection research using hybrid transformer models, achieving high accuracy on low-resource Konkani and performing ablation testing across mBERT, IndicBERT, and XLM-R.

Reviewer

July 2025

Reviewed papers for COLM WDMQS 2025.

Publications

COLM 2025

Pruning for Performance: Efficient Idiom and Metaphor Classification in Low-Resource Konkani Using mBERT

Timothy Do, Pranav Saran, Harshita Poojary, Pranav Prabhu, Ivory Yang, Sean O'Brien, Vasu Sharma, Kevin Zhu

COLM Workshop, 2025

more to come :)

Featured Projects

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Baby GPT | Transformer Model From Scratch

Python, PyTorch, Trasnformers

Implemententation of key ML Features such as attention, AdamW, etc.

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Nueral Network Plays Flappy Bird

Python, Pygame, NEAT

Genetic Learning Algorithm learns to play Flappy Bird.

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Autonomous Agent for Multireasoning

Python, smolagents, PyTorch

Agent eqipped with a variety of tools to score well on a subset of GAIA Benchmark.