Experience

  1. Research Fellow

    Boston University, Kolachalama Laboratory

    Responsibilities include:

    • Utilizing Python’s pandas and sklearn libraries to efficiently process large volumes of non-imaging data from various cohorts to create a master dataset for training the model
    • Working on developing an end to end transformer based pipeline for identifying different dementia etiologies using brain scan MRI and non-imaging data
    • Researching ways to improve the model performance by experimenting with different loss functions and utilizing different strategies to tackle the class imbalance problem
  2. Machine Learning intern (Part-time)

    BU Spark

    Responsibilities include:

    • Built a reliable machine learning framework using BERT backbone to recognize the semantic difference between mentions of race vs. mentions of color in non-racial terms in the media articles
    • Extracted racial keywords from a sentence using attention analysis of the trained model’s hidden layers
  3. Embedded software development and QA intern

    Mentor Graphics (now Siemens)

    Responsibilities include:

    • Worked on development and testing of embedded Linux Flex operating system
    • Automated the process of embedded testing using Unix test scripts and CI/CD tools like Jenkins and LAVA

Education

  1. PhD Data Science

    Boston University

    GPA: 3.81/4.0

    Coursework:

    • MA582 Mathematical Statistics
    • DS598 Introduction to Reinforcement Learning
  2. MS Computer Science

    Boston University

    GPA: 3.93/4.0

    Coursework:

    • CS505 Natural Language Processing
    • CS506 Computational tools for data science
    • CS523 Deep Learning
    • CS542 Machine Learning
    • CS585 Image and Video Computing
    • CS599 User-centric Systems for Data Science
    • CS611 Object-oriented Software Principles and Design in Java
    • CS630 Graduate Algorithms
  3. BE Electronics and Communication Engineering

    RV College of Engineering

    GPA: 9.09/10.0

    Coursework:

    • Object-oriented programming and Data structures using C++
    • Graph theory
    • DBMS
    • High-performance computing
    • Linear algebra and probability theory
    • Applied partial differential equations
    • Discrete and integral transforms
    • Advanced linear algebra
    • Computer communication networks