Nitika Tanwani

*** **** **** ******, *** #**, Los Angeles, CA 90007 +1-323-***-**** ac7nwj@r.postjobfree.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/nitika-tanwani/ https://github.com/NitikaTanwani EDUCATION

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA May 2019 Master of Science in Computer Science GPA: 3.65

Coursework: Affective Computing, Database Systems, Web Technologies DeviAhilya Vishwavidyalaya (I.E.T-D.A.V. V), India April 2016 Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Engineering GPA: 81.39% Coursework: Data Structures, Algorithms, Operating Systems, Computer Networks SKILLS

Programming Languages Java, C++, Python, Racket (functional programming language) Web Technologies HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, PHP, JavaScript, AJAX, JSON Database/Server MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, Mongo DB, Tinker Pop (Graph Database) Software Tools Eclipse, Git, IBM Bluemix, Dr Racket PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Research Assistant (Machine learning team) http://www.carma-cam.com/ Python, TensorFlow August 2018 - Present

• Developing machine learning models to analyze videos for recognizing dangerous driving in vehicles.

• Assigning priorities to user reports based on feature extraction from the video. USC Suzanne Dworak- Peck School of Social Work July 2018 - Present Web Developer HTML, CSS, PHP, Drupal

• Working closely with the onsite webmaster, updating the content on the school website. University of Southern California (Capital Construction and Facilities Management Services) June 2018 – Present Student Assistant (Energy Services, Utilities Billing Data Analysis) Python, MySQL, Angular, HTML, CSS, JavaScript

• Building a system to analyze campus utilities data to make billing and reporting more efficient by 35%.

• Developing an application to draw insights from historical data, also making manual entry less error prone which is estimated to save 30 hrs. of work.

PROJECTS

Feel the review-Python, Scikit-learn, NLTK

• Built a binary classifier to classify amazon reviews as positive or negative with an accuracy of 90%. (training data- 32K rows, test data-8K rows)

• Used various machine learning algorithms (Neural Nets, Decision Tree, Random Forest, Support Vector Machine) to compare results in terms of accuracy, precision recall and ROC curve Personality Matcher-Python, IBM Bluemix, IBM Watson, Twitter API

• A system that outputs top 10 common traits between two users with the probability of each user displaying that trait.

• Leveraged APIs to fetch data, analyze personality traits of two users based of their tweets. Digital Diary- Java, Eclipse, Abstract Window Toolkit, File handling

• Built a password protected local personal diary from the scratch. Travel and Entertainment Search-HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Ajax, AWS, GCP, jQuery

• Created an application to search for travel and entertainment options based on a user’s location up to accuracy of 20m.

• Users can see photos, reviews and maps for any given location, along with the option to favoritize the places they like. Federated Movie Ontology-HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Ajax, Protégé, Apache Jena

• Extracted datasets from Kaggle combined with protege, to combine and link all data sets.

• Built ability for users to write their own queries and see results from popular queries (top actors, top directors etc.) Infinity-Racket

• Developed a software that takes in a list of functions (recursive) and outputs its possibility for an infinite loop to exist.20 recursive call list in 2ms

• Used graph-based search to output a Boolean result. Leadership Skills

• Lead Volunteer and Social Media Manager for CoderDojo, Indore to encourage children and women in tech.

• Student Coordinator for a student-based startup, managed 6 teams and their projects.