Bio

Education

M.S. in Computer Science, University of Southern California, 2017- present.
B.Tech. Computer Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Silchar, 2013 - 2017.

Graduate Student researcher, (Natural Language Processing) University of Southern California (Sept’18-Dec’18)
Summer Intern, Software Development Engineer at Audible Inc., an Amazon company (June’18-Aug’18)
Graduate Student researcher at Project Sharp, (Parallel Computing and Graph Analytics) University of Southern California (Jan’18-May’18)
Full-Time Summer Intern, (Algorithms) Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bengaluru, India (May’16-June’16)
Full Time Summer Intern, (Parallel Computing) Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Telangana, India (May’15-July’15)

Consistently Ranked in top Five in the university; maintained higher grades (A+ with distinction) in Computer Science Majors.
Received the prestigious ‘Indian Academy of Sciences Summer Research Fellowship, a Paid internship at Indian Institute of Science Bangalore (2016) and Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (2015)
ACM ICPC (Oct, 2016): qualified the online round and was selected to represent the university in the “2016 Asia Regional Contest” of ACM ICPC (Association for Computing Machinery - International Collegiate Programming Contest), organized by Baylor University TX.
Ranked 11th at the State Level High School Math Olympiad (2008)
Received merit scholarships from sponsoring corporate organization, for outstanding scholastic achievements through high school and College years. (OPGC) Odisha Power Generation Corporation and (SBI) State Bank of India - Ranked 2nd.

Volunteered in the Audible's "Activate Caring" initiative. Helped primary school students with some cool fun and learning activities in Newark.
TEDx - served two years as the Team Leader in the college Speech club, organized TEDx events themed “Instruments of Change” at a regional level. Pitched innovative fundraising ideas for corporate sponsorships, Merchandise sales, promotion through social media channels and worked to build a pool of diverse, distinguished speakers including actors, entrepreneurs, and reformers.
Founded a local STEM awareness club and volunteered as coach and mentor to a group of underprivileged youths (15-25 years old) building Java-based application development skills for a STEM career.
As a National Cadet Corps (Youth wing of Indian defense and Military academy), partnered with local volunteers in community welfare workshops, Diabetes awareness marathons, assisted as an electrician in building shelter homes, gathering food and clothing for homeless children.
An active sports enthusiast in ‘shorin ryu seibukan’ Karate and Badminton, volunteers in community services, has an all-round personality that reflects self-propelled leadership, accountability and has rich diverse cultural background/ thought process.
Provided tutoring services to junior students to catch up with challenging Math and C++ algorithm.