AREEHA DURRANI

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EDUCATION:

MASTER’S IN COMPUTER SCIENCE – UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH (AUG 2019 –Present)

CGPA: 3.4

Major Courses: Machine Learning and Data mining, Artificial Intelligence, Database Management Systems, Advanced Algorithms & Data Structures

Thesis: Outlier Detection in Multi-dimensional data streams

BACHELORS IN ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING- NED UNIVERSITY OF ENG. AND TECH (2014-2017)

CGPA: 3.568

Relevant Courses: Calculus, Linear Algebra & Ordinary Differential Equations, Computer Architecture & Organization, Probability & Statistics, Numerical Methods, Microprocessor & Assembly Language, Fourier Analysis

Major Project: Weather station using Environmental sensors and Recurrent Neural Networks

PROJECTS:

OUTLIER DETECTION IN MULTI-DIMENSIONAL DATA STREAMS:

Developed outlier detection technique in java, using Apache Spark that detects an outlier/ anomaly in real-time in a multi-dimensional data space.

SMART WEATHER ALERT SYSTEM FOR DWELLERS OF DIFFERENT AREAS :

Developed a Weather station that reads data from environment using C and generates alerts for next 24 hours using Non-linear Autoregressive Exogenous Recurrent Neural Networks, in MATLAB.

GENETIC ALGORITHM MODIFICATIONS USING DIFFERENT TECHNIQUES:

Designed a genetic algorithm using different parent selection schemes and selected the one with best precision and Jaccard coefficient.

OBJECT DETECTION USING CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK:

Designed an image classification algorithm that uses Convolutional Neural Networks in Python and Tensorflow, another module using Linux-based system for YOLO algorithm.

OTHER PROJECTS: RFID based door lock system using MQTT protocol and Raspberry Pi, Maze solving and Line following robot, smart agriculture kit, conjunctive normal form for equations

EXPERIENCE:

GRADUATE TEACHING ASSISTANT- UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH(AUG 2019- MAY 2020)

Assisted instructor and class of 220 students with C++ programming and a class of 30 students for Machine learning in R and Python.

MANAGEMENT TRAINEE ENGINEER- PAKISTAN OXYGEN LIMITED (JUN 2018- JUL 2020)

Designed attendance system for workers and contributed in saving 20 Million PKR by projects like Consumption reduction.

RESEARCH STUDENT- RESEARCH CENTER FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (FEB 2016- OCT 2017)

Worked on research-based projects like smart irrigation systems based on AI and freelance industry-based projects and supervised juniors in lab.

ENTREPRENEURSHIP:

MANAGING PARTNER & DATA SCIENCE LEAD - OPTICAL DOT (AUG 2018- AUG 2019)

Contributed in scaling the business to be among Top 25 Shortlisted Startups in TIE Pakistan startup cup. Smart healthcare mobile application proposed.

SKILLS:

C

C++

Python

Java

Apache Spark

R

MATLAB

ARDUINO

AVR

Raspberry Pi

Verilog

PLC Ladder logic

Tensorflow

Keras

Pandas

Numpy

Scikitlearn

PUBLICATION:

Areeha Durrani, Dr. Muhammad Khurram, Dr. H. R. Khan, “Smart Weather Alert System for Dwellers of Different Areas”, 16th International Bhurban Conference on Applied Sciences and Technology (IBCAST), 2019

EXTRA COURSES:

Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter tuning, Regularization & Optimization

Structuring Machine Learning Projects

Introduction to Data Science for Python

Intermediate Python for Data scientist

Python Data Science Toolbox

Importing Data in Python

Pandas Foundation

Data Cleaning in Python

Supervised Learning with Scikit Learn

Deep Learning with Python

AWARDS:

AMONG Top 25 SHORTLISTED STARTUPS- TIE Pakistan Startup cup 2019

8th Position among all startup Ideas- DICE VIC Competition 2017

2nd Position- Developing Maze Solving Robotic competition, NEDUET 2016

3rd Position- Developing Line Following Robotic competition, NEDUET 2015

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