Vanshika Sridharan

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EDUCATION

University of Southern California - MASTER OF SCIENCE IN COMPUTER SCIENCE (CGPA: 3.65/4) Aug 2019 - May 2021

Anna University (Chennai, India) - BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING IN COMPUTER SCIENCE (CGPA: 8.82/10) July 2015 - Apr 2019

EXPERIENCE

Nokia Solutions & Networks - SOFTWARE DEVELOPER INTERN - Worked at the 5G Innovation Centre, on the project Nokia’s THIRD EYE, an Augmented Reality (AR) application for real-time production data analysis May 2018 - Jun 2018

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) - RESEARCH INTERN - Worked on developing a chatbot to recommend smartphones to users in real time based on user preferences and product reviews using Deep Learning May 2018 - Aug 2018

SSN College of Engineering - UNDERGRAD RESEARCH ASSISTANT - Developed an avant-garde solution for monitoring traffic congestion dynamically and prioritizing emergency vehicles using Arduino, RFID, sensors July 2017 - Mar 2018

PROJECTS

MuseGAN - A Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) that models musical styles by analysing MIDI files using a sequence model, and generates creative realistic music, that conform to specific styles without replicating patterns. The newly composed music on project MuseGAN is validated by Audio Fingerprinting technique Oct 2018 - Mar 2019

Nokia’s THIRD EYE - An AR-based application developed using Unity3D and Vuforia SDK that performs monitoring of production data and displays a real-time summary of manufactured products, pass-fail ratio, yield, etc. The application leverages the ability of 5G to speed up image recognition and data parsing May 2018 - Jun 2018

SIH’18 - A web application developed using HTML/CSS, Bootstrap, jQuery, AJAX and Flask framework to ensure avoidance of duplication of beneficiaries for Government welfare schemes. Developed as a project at the ‘SMART India Hackathon’, for the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment. Feb 2018 - Mar 2018

Recommender System - A movie recommendation system for the MovieLens 100k Dataset using collaborative filtering. The recommender predicts movie ratings and generates relevant recommendations July 2017 - Sept 2017

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages - Python C C++ JAVA SQL JavaScript HTML CSS AJAX

Databases - OracleDB MySQL Apache Hive

Python Libraries - Numpy Pandas Scikit-learn Keras Scipy

Data Science - Data Mining Analytics Machine Learning ACCOLADES

Awarded gold medal by SSN College of Engineering (affiliated to Anna University) for emerging as the topper of the department of Computer Science in the University Examinations

Recipient of Merit Scholarship for two years in the exceptional academic performance category from SSN Institutions

One among the country’s top ten finalists in Smart India Hackathon organized by Government of India

Secured 96% in NPAT (National Programming Aptitude Test) conducted by the Indian Institute of Technology and ACM India

Won 4th place in Python programming contest in SSN Institutions among 200 plus contestants CERTIFICATIONS

Algorithms: Design and Analysis - Secured an aggregate of 98% in the course from Stanford Online

Machine Learning - Completed the course with a hundred percent score from Stanford University on Coursera

Programming, Data Structures & Algorithms in Python - Received a gold medal for emerging in the 98th percentile

Programming in JAVA - Certified as a JAVA programmer by ORACLE LEADERSHIP & COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

Viterbi Graduate Student Association (VGSA), USC January 2020 - May 2020 SENATOR FOR DIVERSITY AFFAIRS REPRESENTATIVE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT

Make a Difference (NGO) & ‘TEACH A SCHOOL’ campaign - Chennai, India July 2018 - May 2019 ACADEMIC SUPPORT VOLUNTEER MATH & ENGLISH TEACHER

Entrepreneurship Development Cell, SSN - Chennai, India June 2017 - April 2019 STUDENT CHAIR FOR SSN YOUTH CONFERENCE ORGANIZER OF TEDx SSN

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