EDUCATION DURGA [ ********@***.*** PRASAD Ó 651-***-**** 1 2 Minneapolis,SANUGULA MN,US ̄ durga-prasad-sanugula/ github.com/sanuguladurgaprasad M.S. in Computer Science University of Minnesota, Twin Cities GPA: 3.91/4.0 Sep 2017 – May 2019 B.SKILLS Tech. in Computer Science & Engineering NITWarangal,India CGPA: 8.75/10 Jul 2011 – May 2015 Programming: C C++ Java Python(Pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn, TensorFlow, Keras) MATLAB R Lisp Other technologies: SQL Shell scripting Android Assembly Language PHP HTML CSS Coursework Machine Learning Data Mining Artificial Intelligence Computer Vision Operating Systems EXPERIENCE Distributed Systems Database Management Systems Computer Networks Systems Programming Graduate Research Assistant University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Sep 2018 – Present
Managing a huge public health system with millions of records using Omaha System SQL database.
Building Machine Learning models to classify clients suffering from pain by leveraging data fromOmahaSystem. Intern (Machine Learning) Samsung Research America, Mountain View, CA May 2018 – Aug 2018
Automated tagging of Android application UI interactions to entities and actions in Bixby project.
Developed models like SVM, Random Forests, Gradient Boosting, MLP, CNN, RNN with LSTM units and tested their performance with various feature engineered attributes generated using autoencoders and embedding techniques. Senior Software Engineer Samsung R&D Bangalore, India Jul 2015 – Aug 2017
Responsible for dialogue management and contextual user interactions of Samsungs virtual assistants, S Voice and Bixby.
Implemented Natural Language Generation (NLG) flow in C++ for Samsung Connect agent which helped in achieving reduction of server response latency. Implemented NLG Flow for Calendar domain and improved the domain accuracy by 8% Intern Samsung R&D Bangalore, India May 2014 – Jul 2014
PROJECTS Worked on statistical AND NLU which PUBLICATIONS involved implementation of morphological analysis algorithms and syntax parsing of text.
Implementation of various Data Mining techniques i. Implemented FP-tree pattern mining algorithm in C++ which generates association rules for 63,000 transactions. ii. Parsed and clustered the articles present in "Reuters-21578 Text Categorization Collection” by applying various clustering algorithms like K-means, Spherical K-means and E1 criterion function using Python and C++. iii. Implemented KNN and Ridge Regression algorithms on MNIST dataset for handwritten digit recognition.
~ Implementation of various techniques in Machine Learning and Deep Learning i. Implemented regression, PCA, SOM, EM clustering, SVM kernel methods and Neural Networks in MATLAB. ii. Worked on reducing computational complexity and parameters by modifying the Capsule Networks architecture.
Gesture Control using Head Pose Estimation
i. Implemented face and facial landmark detections. Built an application in OpenCV and Python to control VLC media player by implementing Head Pose Estimation using Perspective-n-Point (PnP). Human Face Detection and Emotion Recognition
i. Human face detection was performed using Haar based cascade classifier. Detected faces were passed through a 4 layered deep convolutional neural network to classify the input faces into 7 classes of different emotions., Implementation of various Distributed System and Operating System concepts i.Built Bulletin Board discussion forumwithreplicatedserverswhichofferSequential,Read-your-Write consistencies. ii. Developed Publish Subscribe system and server-less file system using Java RMI and sockets. iii. Implemented thread library, file system simulator at user-level and scull character device driver at kernel level. N IEEE International Paper Publications
i.Published 2 IEEE International papers titled “Telugu Handwritten Character Recognition using Adaptive and Static Zoning Methods” and “AModularApproachforClothModellinginVirtualFittingRoom”.
/ AWARDS Built Web-Based AND User ACHIEVEMENTS Interface in local language (Telugu) for GIS of rural areas using Java, PHP, HTML, CSS 3 Earned Deep Learning Specialization certification from Coursera with 98.1% grade. 3 Bestowed Employee of the Month award in the year 2016 for my key contributions to the S Voice project in Samsung. 3 Received Academic Merit Scholarship of Rs.35K in 2012 for being in top 10 percentile in a class of 135 students.