Machine learning meets sports: Predicting the injuries of NFL players due to variation in playing surface
Hello, my name is Kaushal,
I am a student at Delhi Public School Bangalore East studying in the 12th grade who is passionate about computer science and swimming. This is the moment I have lived many times in my sports career. Being a competitive swimmer for years, I have experienced what inevitable injuries mean to a sports person. Injuries are part of the sports that we all experience, but what one does not know is the agony and the pain that a sports person goes through of not being able to practice every day or missing those competitions, or even losing those nail-biting finishes as pains stop letting you give your 100%. Now that in the covid times, my competitive swimming career had temporarily been suspended, and I have also devoted my time to my second passion developing skillsets in machine learning and AI.
A 2-year consecutive state medalist in swimming at the 2018 and 2019 junior championships in Karnataka. In my swimming journey, I have endured injuries that have not only hindered my performance but also have kept me out of practice. To help the athlete community, I have decided to combine my two passions, computer science and love of sport, to help better understand the usage of Machine learning in sports. Guided and mentored by professor Gregory M. Kapfhammer