Research

EMPLOYMENT/RESEARCH:

University of Southern California, Los Angeles , (Sept’18-Dec’18)

Graduate Student Researcher, Part of Human Language Technology Certificate Program

As a part of this program, I worked on story generation team under the supervision of Dr. Nanyun Peng. The story generation model generates a 5 sentence story. This project was sponsored by Amazon. I also developed an Alexa Skill for this model.

Audible Inc, Newark

SDE Intern (June’18-Aug’18)

Developed a URL Redirect Tool. Designed end-to-end system architecture. Wrote production level code for each component (validator, config store, service) in the backend. Tool's latency maintained at 10 milliseconds thereby giving extremely fast services

University of Southern California, Los Angeles

Graduate Student Researcher, Part of the project SHARP (Jan’18-May’18)

I work in the SHARP team. SHARP is a collaborative effort led by Viktor Prasanna at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering and David Bader at the Georgia Institute of Technology. It is focused on the software infrastructure technology area of the Hierarchical Identify Verify Exploit (HIVE) program sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

We develop novel hierarchical abstractions to represent graph algorithms, optimal memory data layouts for static and dynamic graphs and efficient linear programming based scheduling algorithms for graph processors that synergistically enable easy and efficient mapping of algorithms and data structures on a variety of heterogeneous hardware architectures.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.08092

Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bengaluru, India

Full-Time Summer Intern (selected based on a competitive recruitment process, May’16-June’16)

Assisted in a Research project in ‘Geometric Approximation Algorithm’ under Research Mentor Dr. Minati De. Worked on obtaining 3-factor and 4-factor approximation algorithm for a geometric set cover problem with a demand factor by using a hexagonal grid in 2D space.

Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Full-Time Summer Intern (selected as one of 300 among 8,500 applicants, May’15-June’15)

Using Tesla K20 GPUs and CUDA C, worked on a research effort using Parallel computing techniques to expeditiously solve computational fluid dynamics problems with Mentor Professor Dr. Sivadasan. Analyzed performance stats of parallel GPU clustering methods.

PROJECT WORK SUMMARY:

University of Southern California, Los Angeles

Artificial Intelligence: (Sept, 2017)

• Developed an AI program to solve a variant of n-Queen k-Pawn problem. Implemented DFS, BFS and meta-heuristic algorithm like simulated annealing to scale the search space with a branching factor of the order of 1000. Tested and debugged the code by creating a python script.

National Institute of Technology Silchar (Jan’13 - Nov’16)

• Led and collaborated with a team of College junior and senior students for developing a ‘Gender Identification’ system with intelligent detection and classification using unsupervised learning techniques such as K-means clustering accompanied by K-nearest neighbor method.
• Project in Memory Retention Game Design: Coded OpenGL algorithms, Graphical object animation using graphical functions.
• Contributed to a data prediction project by designing the program algorithm based on the principles of the linear regression model. That converts Tweet trends by a title search and generate a predictive model for forecasting movie revenues.
• Scripted games like ‘Hangman’ using Python.
• Participated in a Hack Day to trace a Challenge network IP using packet tracer – won 2^nd place
• Programmed (JAVA) for Robotics controls and dynamic positioning.