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🎓 Dr. Hari Thapliyaal, PMP
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  • EDA & Feature Engineering 101

    Table of Contents What is EDA? Importance of EDA EDA Stage 1: Basic Exploration EDA Stage 2: Univariate, Bivariate &…

  • 20 Reasons Why AI Project Fails

    20 Reasons Why AI Project Fails Why does AI Project fail? I have been in IT project management for 2+ decades. Being in…

  • Duration Formatting in Excel

    Problem in Duration Formatting in Excel Recently I wanted to perform some analysis using the YouTube channel data. So I…

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  • Best Youtube Channels to Learn Data Science

    The way we are learning new technologies has hugely changed in the last 5 years. Many educators, researchers, voices…

  • Project Scope Terminologies

    Original Article Many times we read so many academic definitions of various terms but when it comes to the application…

  • What is XAI in Simple Language?

    Orignal Post The disciple of Data Science and AI has brought many terms in the boardroom for discussion, which looks…

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  • High-level Usecases of AI

    Originally this article is available here Nowadays we are listening and reading a lot about AI and it's a role in…

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  • About Positive Mind

    Namaste What is positivity? What is positive thinking? Why is positivity so important? Why is negative hated so much?…

  • Why to travel for appearing in an Exam?

    It is an age old practice to travel to examination hall to write an exam. I am not sure when there will be a last day…

  • Agile Project Management for Agile Professionals

    Being in Industry for around 25 years and played all kind of roles from programmer, analyst, leader, manager, delivery…

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Volunteer Experience

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    Mentor & Career Coach

    Dasarpai2

    - Present 15 years 11 months

    Education

    Mentored hundreds of individuals in Data Science, AI/NLP, Product Management, and Project Leadership. Combined technical coaching with life philosophy, enabling professionals to align talent, effort, education, and purpose.

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    Vice President – Volunteer Development

    PMI Mumbai Chapter

    - 1 year 3 months

    Designed and ran volunteer engagement frameworks: recruitment, mentoring, training, career planning, recognition, and performance review.

  • Vice President – Volunteer Development

    PMI Chennai Chapter

    - 1 year 3 months

    Education

    Designed and ran volunteer engagement frameworks: recruitment, mentoring, training, career planning, recognition, and performance review.

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    Chair – Conflict of Interest Committee

    PMI Mumbai Chapter

    - 6 months

    Politics

    Identified, monitored, and resolved conflicts of interest across board-level decisions. Created awareness material and drafted escalation protocols.

  • Project Manager (Volunteer Video Course Initiative)

    Infinity Foundation (with Rajiv Malhotra)

    - 5 months

    Education

    Managed a 5-member team to identify 400+ short educational video clips from over 1000 hours of source content. These were used to build thematic YouTube playlists and courseware on Indian civilization and thought.

  • Management Consultant

    Ramakrishna Mission, Trivandrum

    - 6 months

    Health

    Led the cost-efficiency redesign of IT infrastructure at a major charitable hospital. Delivered a 3-month diagnostic report that helped reduce vendor-quoted project cost (~₹2 crore) through smarter internal restructuring and IT planning.

  • Technology Consultant – Payroll System Integration

    Ramakrishna Seva Ashram Hospital, Haridwar

    - 2 months

    Health

    Designed an integrated payroll system by consolidating decentralized data from multiple stakeholders (full-time, part-time, volunteers). Enabled centralized processing and simplified analytics for HR and finance.

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    Project Management Consultant

    YOUTH FOR SEVA (YFS)

    - 2 months

    Designed a scalable, metrics-driven School Development Program for vernacular students (Grades 5–8). Created volunteer teacher enrollment and impact dashboards, attendance tracking, and donor management workflows.

Publications

  • Namo Puran – A Rashtra Purana for Bharat

    https://www.amazon.in/Namo-Puran-Glimpse-Struggle-Bharatvarsha-ebook/dp/B0CZ149BND

    A puranic-style historical narrative from Vedic times to modern Bharat (2023). Chronicles struggles, revival, and glory of India through the lens of spiritual nationalism.

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  • AI Powered Sarcasm Detection System for Hinglish Language (SDSHL)

    https://www.amazon.in/Powered-Sarcasm-Detection-Hinglish-Language-ebook/dp/B0D1GLLLGL

    Created a Hinglish sarcasm dataset and evaluated 109 ML/NLP models using lexical and pretrained embeddings. Best performance achieved with fastTextWiki + Naïve Bayes.

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  • AI-Powered Historical Book Question Answering: Unveiling the Past with GenAI

    https://www.amazon.in/AI-Powered-Historical-Book-Question-Answering-ebook/dp/B0CYCVTY87

    Introduced RAAGS, QAGS, and AGS — novel architectures for multilingual, domain-agnostic Q&A systems using historical corpora for Indian Context. Evaluation metrics included ROUGE, Cosine, MRR.

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  • Ramayana Q&A Edition – Balkanda

    https://www.amazon.in/Explore-Ramayana-Balkanda-Questions-Unveiled-ebook/dp/B0CW18MXZC

    Features 335 Questions and Answers from Balkanda. Uses a didactic method for spiritual learners and modern interpreters of Ramayana.

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  • Mahabharata Q&A Edition – Sabha Parva

    https://www.amazon.in/Sabha-Parva-Explorations-Mahabharata-Questions-ebook/dp/B0CSCSJ2ZG

    This book is part of the “Mahabharata Unveiled: Q&A Edition” series. It has approximately 260 questions and answers related to the Sabha-Parva of Mahabharata. Questions and answers are based on the work translated by Kisari Mohan Ganguli (KM Ganguli).

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  • Mahabharata Q&A Edition – Aranya Parva

    https://www.amazon.in/Aranyaka-Parva-Explorations-Mahabharata-Questions-ebook/dp/B0CRZB5D5W

    This book is part of the “Mahabharata Unveiled: Q&A Edition” series. It has approximately 900 questions and answers related to the Vana-Parva of Mahabharata. Questions and answers are based on the work translated by Kisari Mohan Ganguli (KM Ganguli).

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  • Mahabharata Q&A Edition – Adi Parva

    https://www.amazon.in/Adi-Parva-Explorations-Mahabharata-Questions-ebook/dp/B0CRS8K34P

    This book is part of the “Mahabharata Unveiled: Q&A Edition” series. It has approximately 310 questions and answers related to the Adi-Parva of Mahabharata. Questions and answers are based on the work translated by Kisari Mohan Ganguli (KM Ganguli).

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  • Wisdom in Awareness: Quotations and Passages for the Clarity

    https://www.amazon.in/Wisdom-Awareness-Quotations-Passages-Clarity-ebook/dp/B0CRHX2D12

    A collection of deeply reflective and philosophical quotes from the author's lived experiences. Blends critical thinking, spiritual inquiry, and project insights.

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  • Mindful Project Management: Voyage of a Project Manager

    https://www.amazon.in/Mindful-Project-Management-Voyage-Manager-ebook/dp/B0CQ37294Y

    A collection of 42 stories blending personal and professional experiences in project management. Focuses on extracting wisdom from both high-visibility and small-scale projects to develop mindful, ethical, and joyful project leaders.

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  • Blog Portfolio: AI, Project Management, and Wisdom

    dasarpai.com

    Publisher: dasarpai.com
    Date: Ongoing
    🔗 Blog Home :https://dasarpai.com/
    🔗 Wisdom Blog : https://dasarpai.com/wia-home
    🔗 PMLOGY : https://dasarpai.com/pmlogy
    🔗 Samskrutyatra : https://dasarpai.com/samskrutyatra/

    • 300+ reflective articles on self-mastery and ethical leadership
    • 300+ technical blogs on AI, NLP, MLOps, LLMs, and XAI
    • 50+ insights on PMBOK, PMP prep, agile transformation, and project systems
    • 300+ quotation on mindful living
    • Deep-dive…

    Publisher: dasarpai.com
    Date: Ongoing
    🔗 Blog Home :https://dasarpai.com/
    🔗 Wisdom Blog : https://dasarpai.com/wia-home
    🔗 PMLOGY : https://dasarpai.com/pmlogy
    🔗 Samskrutyatra : https://dasarpai.com/samskrutyatra/

    • 300+ reflective articles on self-mastery and ethical leadership
    • 300+ technical blogs on AI, NLP, MLOps, LLMs, and XAI
    • 50+ insights on PMBOK, PMP prep, agile transformation, and project systems
    • 300+ quotation on mindful living
    • Deep-dive collections on Sanskrit NLP, Q&A corpus modeling, and process maturity

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Projects

  • AI-Powered Historical Book QA System (RAAGS, AGS, QAGS)

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    Tech Stack: LLM, Prompt Engineering, Langchain, Pytorch, BERT, DistilBERT, T5, Flan-T5, BLOOM, RoBERTa, LaTeX, Mendeley, ChatGPT, ChatPDF, Python, Seaborn, Google Colab, Kaggle Kernel, Huggingface, W&B

    Objective: This AI/NLP project is focused on the intricate task of generating questions, providing accurate answers, and referencing pertinent information within documents. We explored evolving technologies for generating and evaluating insightful questions, descriptive answers…

    Tech Stack: LLM, Prompt Engineering, Langchain, Pytorch, BERT, DistilBERT, T5, Flan-T5, BLOOM, RoBERTa, LaTeX, Mendeley, ChatGPT, ChatPDF, Python, Seaborn, Google Colab, Kaggle Kernel, Huggingface, W&B

    Objective: This AI/NLP project is focused on the intricate task of generating questions, providing accurate answers, and referencing pertinent information within documents. We explored evolving technologies for generating and evaluating insightful questions, descriptive answers, determining performance metrics for question-answer pairs. We explored generating answering without giving specific context. The ultimate goal is to advance NLP capabilities in handling historical and multilingual contexts while improving the metrics of question answering systems.

    Solution: In this work, we are exploring techniques for creating questions and answers for a book corpus using ChatGPT and other available techniques (QAGS). Secondly, we are finetuning the answer generation models for creating an answer (AGS). Thirdly we are retrieving a relevant document that may have answers to a given question (DRS). Finally, we are creating and evaluating a system that can answer a history question without any context (RAAGS). In this work, we used The Mahabharata book as a corpus. To evaluate the different sub-systems we have used different metrics like BLEU, ROUGE, Accuracy, Recall, R@n, P@n, F1@n, Cosine. We have used SentenceTransformer for text embedding. Our approach does not depend upon the domain, script, or language of the text document. Neither, does it depend upon the Era when the text was written. The cosine between answer & question, answer & chunk is 0.91. In DRS MRR metric is 0.55, and MAP is 0.25. In AGS cosine between the reference answer and predicted answer is 0.827. In RAAGS cosine between the reference answer and the predicted answer is 0.763


    🔗 GitHub : https://github.com/dasarpai/HBQA

  • Sarcasm Detection in Hinglish Language

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    Tech Stack: Python, PyTorch, mBERT, IndicBERT, NLP, FastText, Classification, Web Scrapping, Data Cleaning, ML, Decision Tree, XGBoost, SVC, AdaBoost, Naive Bayes, RNN, LSTM, GRU, LaTex, Mendeley, Literature Review, Research Writing

    Objective : Sarcasm Detection in text written in Latin + Devanagari Script and Hindi + English + Indian
    Languages (popularly called Hinglish).

    Solution : Developed Hinglish Language Sarcasm Dataset. Developed custom embedding (BOW, TFIDF, Word2Vec…

    Tech Stack: Python, PyTorch, mBERT, IndicBERT, NLP, FastText, Classification, Web Scrapping, Data Cleaning, ML, Decision Tree, XGBoost, SVC, AdaBoost, Naive Bayes, RNN, LSTM, GRU, LaTex, Mendeley, Literature Review, Research Writing

    Objective : Sarcasm Detection in text written in Latin + Devanagari Script and Hindi + English + Indian
    Languages (popularly called Hinglish).

    Solution : Developed Hinglish Language Sarcasm Dataset. Developed custom embedding (BOW, TFIDF, Word2Vec, fastText, Lexical), plus used embedding transfer from IndicFT, fastTextWiki, mBERT, IndicBERT. Used Task Transfer from mBERT, IndicBERT, fastTextWiki and fine-tuned the model with my training data. Developed classifier models using Logistic Regression, Support Vector Classifier, AdaBoost Classifier, XGBoost Classifier, Naive Bayes Classifier, Decision Tree Classifier, Peceptron. Developed RNN based classifier architecture. Analyzed various Embedding Models for Hinglish Text and created 108 models to identify which ML Algorithm, NLP Pretrained Model, and which embedding works best for Hinglish language and Sarcasm detection.

    Key Achievement : Developed the best model with fastTextWiki embedding and Naïve Bayesian classifier gives 76% accuracy, 78% recall, 75% precision, 76% F1 score, and 80% AUC. Concluded FastTextWiki embedding

  • Summary of PMO Consulting for Many Parterns.

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    - PMO Head in Dynamics NAV Implementation Project for a Major NGO. (2015)
    - PMO Coach in Industrial Engineering Co. PMO Setup, defining new roles \& responsibilities, training, implementing EPM, PMO reports, and dashboards using PowerBI. (2017-2019)
    - As a Head PMO defined \& implemented PMO, scorecards, KPI, and the dashboard for my Company. Implementation in Sharepoint and Microsoft Project Server. (2006-2009)
    - Managed projects/programs as program/project manager, scrum master…

    - PMO Head in Dynamics NAV Implementation Project for a Major NGO. (2015)
    - PMO Coach in Industrial Engineering Co. PMO Setup, defining new roles \& responsibilities, training, implementing EPM, PMO reports, and dashboards using PowerBI. (2017-2019)
    - As a Head PMO defined \& implemented PMO, scorecards, KPI, and the dashboard for my Company. Implementation in Sharepoint and Microsoft Project Server. (2006-2009)
    - Managed projects/programs as program/project manager, scrum master, and agile coach. (2005-2019)
    - Consultant/MR/Lead for PMO, CMMI, ISO9001:2000 initiatives. (2007-2009)
    - Delivered many training courses at international locations for the citizens of the Philippines, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Japan. (2013-2018)
    - Classroom training experience of around 8000+ hours. (2010-Till Now)
    - The Average Rating of training feedback of all training courses is 9.36 out of 10. (2010-2015)
    - Managed delivery center of 100+ people.(2006-2009)
    - Project Management experience of managing 30+ IT projects of 40,000 Mandays. (1996-2010)
    - FPA counting experience of more than 30000 FPs of 15+ proposals/projects. (2005-2017)
    - Experience at strategic \& tactical management level. (2006-Till Now)
    - Experience in IT Product development lifecycle from conceptualization to selling to product improvisation. (1996-2018)
    - Sound understanding of ITIL and ISO-20000, ISMS/ ISO-27001 frameworks. (2006-2009)
    - A profound experience of Business and Delivery Process Engineering; defining, implementing processes, and defining metrics and quality goals for process improvement. (2005-2018)
    - Solid experience in Managing OPA \& process institutionalization.

  • Summary of Project of Management Training Courses for Many Partners

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    - Designed PMP Course As per PMBOK Edition 4.0, 5.0, 6.0 for PMP Participants. This program is PMI, USA approved certification program. It has content of 35 hours of classroom-based training. (2010-2018)
    - Designed CAPM Course As per PMBOK Edition 4.0, 5.0, 6.0 for CAPM Participants. This program is PMI, USA approved certification program. It has content of 23 hours of classroom-based training. (2010-2018)
    - Designed PMI-ACP Course As per PMI-ACP course outline for PMI-ACP…

    - Designed PMP Course As per PMBOK Edition 4.0, 5.0, 6.0 for PMP Participants. This program is PMI, USA approved certification program. It has content of 35 hours of classroom-based training. (2010-2018)
    - Designed CAPM Course As per PMBOK Edition 4.0, 5.0, 6.0 for CAPM Participants. This program is PMI, USA approved certification program. It has content of 23 hours of classroom-based training. (2010-2018)
    - Designed PMI-ACP Course As per PMI-ACP course outline for PMI-ACP Participants. This program is PMI, USA approved certification program. It has content of 21 hours of classroom-based training. (2013-2018)
    - Designed multiple MSP (Microsoft Project) training courses for Project Managers and other users, who want to learn this tool for project planning, governance, and reporting purposes. (2006-2018)
    - Designed Dozens of other customized project management (Risk, Quality, Costing, Proposal, Vendor Management, Requirement Management, Resource Management) training courses based on the customer's need. (2010-2018)
    - Designed PMP exam simulation question bank with 1000 questions. This was developed for PMBOK Edition 4.0. (2012)
    - Open-house Class Room Training: Trained 4000+ leaders in 300+ corporate on PMP®, Agile Project Management, PMI-ACP®, PRINCE2, PMI-RMP®, PMI-SM®, CAPM®, Microsoft Project®, Project Online, Enterprise Microsoft Project Server®, AgileEVM, Earn Value Management, Function Point Estimation (FPA), Scrum. (2010-2018)
    - Online Training: Trained 2000+ learners, 400+ sessions, 1600+ Hours. (2019-Till Now)

  • dasarpAI Website Design Development - Jekyll

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    Design and Developed dasarpAI everything from scratch for DasarpAI
    Tech Stack: Jekyll, Ruby, Netlify, Github, Github Actions, Templating Engine, Markdown

    website: old.dasarpai.com

  • Driver Availability Prediction Model

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    Predicted driver working hours for a taxi aggregator based on seasonal, weekly, and personal behavior data.
    Outcome: R² = 0.81
    Tech Stack: sklearn, Python

  • Gesture Recognition for TV Control

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    Built a deep learning model to detect 5 hand gestures from live camera stream.
    Tech Stack: CNN + RNN, Keras, Python
    Outcome: Achieved 72% validation accuracy on low-resolution video feed.

  • Migrating dasarpAI from Jeykll to Hugo

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    Migrating dasarpAI from Jeykll to Hugo.
    - Understanding strength and weakness of both technolgoies
    - Understanding folder structure and difference between both
    - Content migration planning
    - Learning hugo's shortcode, templating engine, partial, taxonomy working
    - Design entire website, menu, navigation, studied varies theme and their working
    - Final migration, CI/CD, Deployment on Netlify and Github Pages

    Tech Stack: Go, Hugo, NPM, Node, Netlify, Github Action…

    Migrating dasarpAI from Jeykll to Hugo.
    - Understanding strength and weakness of both technolgoies
    - Understanding folder structure and difference between both
    - Content migration planning
    - Learning hugo's shortcode, templating engine, partial, taxonomy working
    - Design entire website, menu, navigation, studied varies theme and their working
    - Final migration, CI/CD, Deployment on Netlify and Github Pages

    Tech Stack: Go, Hugo, NPM, Node, Netlify, Github Action, Github, Hugo Templating Engine, Markdown

    website: dasarpai.com

  • PMO Setup & Dashboards (Multiple Clients)

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    Designed and led PMO transformations for NGOs and Industrial Firms using Microsoft Project Server, SharePoint, Power BI.

  • Prosperity Clustering for NGO Fund Allocation

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    Clustered 200+ countries by health, GDP, and education metrics to recommend optimal allocation of $10M NGO fund.
    Tech Stack: Python, PCA, Hierarchical Clustering, Silhouette Score

Languages

  • Sanskrit

    Professional working proficiency

  • Hindi

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • Punjabi

    Elementary proficiency

  • Garhwali

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • French

    Elementary proficiency

  • English

    Native or bilingual proficiency

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