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Volunteer Experience

  • The Akanksha Foundation Graphic

    Teaching Assistant

    The Akanksha Foundation

    - 1 year 3 months

    Education

    • Taught in an NGO and volunteered for activities by coordinating tasks with the school principal.

Courses

  • Analysis of Algorithms

    CSCI 570

  • Artificial Intelligence

    CPC 703

  • Big Data

    CPE 803

  • Cloud Computing Laboratory

    CPL 801

  • Computer Networks

    CPC 504

  • Data Structures

    CSC 303

  • Data Warehouse and Mining

    CPC 801

  • Database Management Systems

    CSC 404

  • Distributed Systems

    CPC 603

  • Object Oriented Programming Methodology

    CSC 302

  • Operating Systems

    CPC 502

  • Parallel and Distributed Systems

    CPC 803

  • Soft Computing

    CPE 7025

  • Theoretical Computer Science

    CSC 405

  • Web Technologies

    CSCI 571

Projects

  • Weenix Operating System Implementation

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    • Implemented kernel level processes, threads, and basic mutex locking on a dummy OS "Weenix"
    • Implemented virtual memory concepts: VM Map, Copy-On Write (Shadow Objects) and forking child processes

    Skills: C, Operating System

  • Tweet Sentiment Analysis - Serverless

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    • Built a Serverless application to process tweets in real time and provide an overall sentiment (Mixed, Positive, Neutral, Negative) score of trending topics on twitter, to do real time analysis of user content from all the tweets made on that topic on Twitter.
    • Built and Deployed the application using AWS Lambda Function to modularize the application and to enhance reusability
    • Customized the Amazon CloudWatch rule for the twitter event source application on AWS SAR(Serverless…

    • Built a Serverless application to process tweets in real time and provide an overall sentiment (Mixed, Positive, Neutral, Negative) score of trending topics on twitter, to do real time analysis of user content from all the tweets made on that topic on Twitter.
    • Built and Deployed the application using AWS Lambda Function to modularize the application and to enhance reusability
    • Customized the Amazon CloudWatch rule for the twitter event source application on AWS SAR(Serverless Application Repository) to send tweets at an interval of 1-minute to the sentiment analysis Lambda Function.
    • Computed an overall sentiment score of the tweets received, by using Amazon Comprehend service and published the metrics on Amazon CloudWatch to ease the evaluation and monitoring of overall sentiments of the users on a given topic.

    Tech Stack: Java 8, AWS Lambda, Maven, AWS SAM CLI, Amazon CloudWatch, Twitter API

    See project

  • Scyther - An interactive voice based AI Game

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    • A first person game where the player talks with the antagonist in the game. This antagonist is powered by IBM Watson's NLP APIs and leverages NLP principles to power a real time interaction.
    • Designed the game on Unity 3D, and responsible for camera behavior, map and event triggers.
    • Built an interactive Quest Log that lets the player monitor the progress in the game and get an idea of the current tasks.
    • Recommended to integrate feature of Text to Speech for better Player…

    • A first person game where the player talks with the antagonist in the game. This antagonist is powered by IBM Watson's NLP APIs and leverages NLP principles to power a real time interaction.
    • Designed the game on Unity 3D, and responsible for camera behavior, map and event triggers.
    • Built an interactive Quest Log that lets the player monitor the progress in the game and get an idea of the current tasks.
    • Recommended to integrate feature of Text to Speech for better Player involvement and interaction.
    • Responsible for Testing the game by various types of users and analyze their behavior and the way of interaction with the game.

    Tech Stack: Unity3D, C#, IBM Watson API

    Other creators
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  • Stock Tracker Application

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    • A Web-Application that accepts the stock symbol input and displays the stock details, indicator charts and gives the option to mark it as a favorite in that browser.
    • MarkitonDemand API was used to fetch results for the AutoComplete list implemented in AngularJS.
    • Used Highcharts API in JavaScript to display the Indicator and Historical charts.
    • AlphaVantage API was used to fetch the stock time series data. Parsed the JSON data to extract required fields
    • SeekingAlpha API was…

    • A Web-Application that accepts the stock symbol input and displays the stock details, indicator charts and gives the option to mark it as a favorite in that browser.
    • MarkitonDemand API was used to fetch results for the AutoComplete list implemented in AngularJS.
    • Used Highcharts API in JavaScript to display the Indicator and Historical charts.
    • AlphaVantage API was used to fetch the stock time series data. Parsed the JSON data to extract required fields
    • SeekingAlpha API was used to fetch the articles from the RSS feed. Used XML parsing to extract the necessary fields.
    • Used jQuery to make asynchronous AJAX calls to the PHP script and update DOM based on results.
    • Facebook API was used to post the chart that was selected by the user on Facebook.

    Skills: AngularJS, PHP, AWS, JavaScript, REST APIs

  • Virtual Reality based Puzzle Game

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    • Collaborated with USC ICT to develop a VR based training game, that aims to train and enhance the nervous-motor system for people affected with Parkinson’s disease
    • Implemented a custom event-based timer and scoring logic to produce personalized user experience

  • Movie recommendation system

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    • Developed a collaborative based movie recommendation system using the MovieLens dataset from the LightFm Library.
    • Used the gradient descent algorithm to make predictions.

  • Document Classification using NLP and a Semantic Model

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    • Augmented TF-IDF algorithm with a Semantic model to improve document classification by 40%
    • Leveraged Stanford NLP tagger and WordNet database to parse documents and assign word similarity scores
    • Led a team of 3 to design, implement and successfully complete the project

    Skills: Java, NetBeans, NLP

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  • ETL Tool

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    • Implemented a custom ready to use tool for companies to Extract, Transform and Load data for various sources to their data warehouse.
    • Helper library used in this project was mETL.

    Skills: Python, mETL

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  • Online Discussion Forum

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    • Made an online forum where different users can start a new discussion thread and other users can build on it by adding their own content(gets added by owner's permission)
    • The forum also displays the top commented/active posts on the sidebar.
    • Used json parsing in php for the owners to dynamically reorder the comments of different users.

  • Student tracker

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    • Developed a website using PHP, used by teachers to keep a track of assigned and completed assignments given to students.
    • Displays a graph using Highcharts (JavaScript library) showing attendance of student for different lectures. Parents can also create an account with this website and keep a track of their children.

    Other creators

  • Rental House Portal

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    • Designed a portal in ASP.net for sellers to upload advertisements of their apartments for selling or renting, buyers can also post a requirement to be matched with the existing house advertisements.
    • Implemented backend in SQL server management to store and retrieve advertisements based on users location.

    Other creators
    • Azhar Ali
    • Shravan Tiwari

Honors & Awards

  • CodeChef- Snackdown Round 2

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    • Ranked amongst top 20% of students all over India in coding competition organized by CodeChef.

  • Runner-up in Paper Presentation on Li-Fi

    Computer Society of India

    - Presented a paper on Light-Fidelity(Li-Fi) with my team member at the Usha Mittal Institute of Technology organised by the Computer Society of India(CSI).
    - Was declared the runner-up among 15 teams

  • JRD Tata Scholarship for Excellent Academic Performance

    JRD Tata Education Trust

    Awarded full scholarship for the year 2013-2014 for securing first rank in Computer Engineering department at Thakur Polytechnic.

  • Third rank in second year of Engineering

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    - Ranked third in the computer engineering department comprising of 150 students.

  • First rank in Diploma final year

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    - Ranked first in the Computer engineering department consisting of 140 students.

  • Network Implementation and Security workshop

    Association for Computer Machinery(ACM)

    - Attended a two day workshop organised by ACM IIT Delhi and Network bulls
    - Learnt about:
    a. Creating networks
    b. Configuring CISCO Routers and Switches
    c. Worked on softwares like Packet Tracer, GNS and Wireshark

  • Winner in State Level Math Quiz competition

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  • Winner in presentation on Cloud Computing

    ISTE

    - Presented a paper on the various models and the deployment of each at the paper presentation competition held at Thakur Polytechnic, organised by the Indian Student Technical Education(ISTE).
    - Declared winner among 20 teams.

  • Runner-up in state level Math quiz competition

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Languages

  • English

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  • Hindi

    Professional working proficiency

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