Assistant Software Engineer

Abishek Prasanna

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+ Interests: Cloud Computing, Systems Design, ML applications, NLP, Conversational AI, and Recommendation Systems.

+ 3 yrs experience in areas like Voice Assistant Apps, End-to-End Embedded Apps, & Python SW engg. for IoT products.

+ Demonstrated ability for project management, product delivery & deployment. Open to full-time offers starting Sept ’19. Education

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Rutgers University New Jersey, USA

Master of Science in Computer Science, Machine Learning track, GPA : 3.70/4.00 Aug ’17–May ’19

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National Institute of Technology Trichy Trichy, India Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering, CGPA : 7.90/10.00 Jul ’11–Aug ’15 Skills

+ Programming Languages & Frameworks: Python, C, C++, SQL, Flask, Javascript, NodeJS, Cloud platforms

+ Libraries & Toolkits: PyTorch, Keras, NLTK, Spacy, Numpy, Hadoop

+ Languages: English, Tamil, Malayalam, Hindi

+ Other Tools: Rasa (NLU, Core), Valgrind, Git, GDB, FFmpeg Professional Experience

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Samsung Research Institute Bangalore (w./ Samsung SmartThings, USA) Bangalore, India Intelligence & IOT Division, Senior Software Engineer Aug ’15–Aug ’17

Trained, Maintained & Deployed Deep Neural nets for NLU in Samsung Bixby Voice Assistant (like SIRI).

Data generation from grammar and preparation for training deep nets.

Developed embedded driver application for Smart Home Hub enabling mobile surveillance through clips and live stream.

Decentralized video-processing & security services to reduce latency in live-stream routing from cameras to mobiles.

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Samsung Research Institute Bangalore Bangalore,India Wireless Networks Division, Student Intern May ’14–Jul ’14

Surveyed energy consumption in Bluetooth, Bluetooth Smart, and Zigbee on a point-to-point network Research Experience

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Summer Research Assistant, Rutgers University May ’18–Aug ’18 Cancelable Biometrics: Learning repeatable non-invertible representations for biometrics data privacy

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Undergraduate Research Assistant, B.Tech Thesis Jan ’15–May ’15 Community membership identification using seed set expansion with an adaptive PageRank algorithm Projects

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Paper Impln - A Recurrent Latent Variable Model for Sequential Data,J.Chung ’15 Aug ’18–Jan ’19 Deep Generative model applied to text generation by adding latent vbles to RNNs - Variational RNN

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One-Shot Text Summarization with Attention based Seq2Seq encoder-decoder network Mar ’18–May ’18 French summarization by learning shared representation on Engl. summarization & French translation

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Product Recommender system for efficient similarity join with Map-Reduce model. Jan ’18–Apr ’18 DIMSUM algorithm on Amazon Products data for fast recommendation based on all-pairs similarity

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Biological Neuron Spike Sorting and Clustering Analysis (Cocktail party problem) Oct ’17–Dec ’17 Comparison of manifold learning & traditional clustering approaches in distinguishing neuron spikes 1/2

Awards and Honors

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Student Travel Grant, First Nepal Winter School in AI 2018 Served as TA and Lab instructor in the 10-day Nepal Winter School in AI introducing students to AI research.

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Best Hack for Good, iCIMS Halloween Hackathon 2018 Built Inclusive.ai, a Messenger Chatbot with third party APIs to spread awareness on inclusion in AI research

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All India Engineering Entrance Exam 2011

Secured All India Rank 6100 among 110,000 students

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Special Merit List, All India Senior Secondary Exams 2009 Placed in the top 0.1% among all Indian students.

Extra-curriculars

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Professionally trained Carnatic/Indian classical singer Performed on TV, Radio, 30+ programs, competitions etc

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Member of RU Cog Sci Club, Rutgers University

Conduct weekly forums to discuss, learn and share ideas in Cognitive Science, Philosophy and Psychology.

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Co-ordinator of Campus Placement Committee, NIT Trichy Taught algorithms and competitive coding techniques as a personal mentor for a batch of juniors.

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Secretary of Office of Alumni Relations, NIT Trichy

Improved Alumni engagement and organized Bangalore chapter. 2/2

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