Shivang Soni

A few years back, I saw an inspiring TED talk by Dr. Rana et Kaliouby - "This app knows how you feel from the look on your face". She used computer vision and artificial intelligence to develop emotion sensing algorithms and created the world's largest emotional database with 12 billion emotion data points. My interest in Artificial Intelligence (AI) was ignited by this talk. I was fascinated by the concepts of Artificial Intelligence and how they can be leveraged to make the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) easier and more natural.

After a lot's of struggle in the Computer Science field. I am incredibly blessed and so excited to announce that I will be joining Microsoft as a Software Developer starting from June 2020 in its Redmond Headquarter's. I will be working in CSEO group at Microsoft. Futhermore, working for Big Tech company has been a life-long dream of mine. Now it's becoming reality. Thanks a lot to everyone who supported me in achieving this great accomplishment especially my parents, friends and family members.

Software Developer Intern at MobiTV: a.) Develop a high-level coding plan and development time estimate for the agile stories assigned to me.

b.) Develop a well organized , robust and efficient server applications in Java using Spring, Junit, MySQL, Cassandra and other similar tools.

c.) Develop automated tests to demonstrate the quality of the code.

d.) Troubleshoot and resolve software issues in various development and production environments.

e.) Learned on how to build and consume the service end-points

I am 1st year Masters Student at University of California Davis from upcoming Fall 2018.

Prior to this I completed 3 years of my under-graduation in Computer Science at Amrita School of Engineering and also completed the final year of my under-graduation in Computer Science at UC Davis as an exchange student. At UC Davis I worked under guidance of Prof. Zhou Yu in Language , Multi-modal and Interaction laboratory.

During my undergraduate education in India at Amrita School of Engineering, I had an opportunity to work as a software development intern at Thermo Fisher Scientific, India. There my project revolved around the developing a high-performance data visualization tool for interactive exploration of large and integrated genomic datasets to detect cancerous cells. This tool utilized deep learning algorithms for cancer metastasis detection. It was only during this internship, I realized the power of research and how it can directly impact our society and the lives of people.

Focus: Artificial Intelligence in Computer Vision or Natural Language Processing specifically.