Impact of goverment policies for reducing infection rate of COVID-19 in the US

Tuesday, May 22, 2021
Posted by Tushar Nitave, Dept. of Computer Science, Illinois Tech, Chicago

In this project we aim to develop an SIR based model to estimate the spread of the coronavirus disease and evaluate the effects of government interventions in the United States. Government policies such as mask mandate, social distancing, mobility of the community are taken into consideration. We plan to show how the enforcement of these policies by government and acceptability by people has reduced the growth rate of infection. We study the particular case of the state of Illinois and plan to extend this study to other states. Read More


Telegram Spanish Assistant 1.0

Wednesday, July 22, 2020
Posted by Tushar Nitave, Dept. of Computer Science, Illinois Tech, Chicago

This is a telegram bot which will convert your Spanish sentences/words to English and vice versa. It is a very basic but effective assistant developed using IBM Cloud services in node.js. It uses IBM language translator for real-time language translation. Read More


MyFitnessPal to Grafana

Thursday, June 12, 2020
Posted by Tushar Nitave, Dept. of Computer Science, Illinois Tech, Chicago

MyFitnessPal is a app and website that tracks diet, exercise and more. It exports all the data in CSV format and we will visualize this data using Grafana which is a open source interactive visualization web application. Read More


Visualizing CNN Activations

Friday, May 08, 2020
Posted by Tushar Nitave, Dept. of Computer Science, Illinois Tech, Chicago

In this post I will talk about visualizing CNN activations from a pre-trained model. These activations are really helpful to see what each layers tries to extract from given image during training the neural model. Read More


30 Hrs at McDonald's HQ

Wednesday, October 30, 2019
Posted by Tushar Nitave, Dept. of Computer Science, Illinois Tech, Chicago

Want to feel exhausted, excited, motivated and do you want to code at a stretch for more than 20 hours? There can't be any place better than attending coding hackathon! In this post I am going to share my experience of Dare Mighty Things hackathon held in Chicago on 26th - 27th October 2019. Read More


ML Tools

Tuesday, October 22, 2019
Posted by Tushar Nitave, Dept. of Computer Science, Illinois Tech, Chicago

Use of machine learning based solutions to solve real-life problems is becoming popular not only among tech giants but also among startups. From ML-based company to software-native company everyone wants to leverage benefits of artificial intelligence. In order make this possible lots of ML tools are also developed. Here is the list of ML tools for specific tasks. Read More