Leesburg, Virginia
https://www.linkedin.com/in/harshit-
mishra1793/
HARSHIT MISHRA
adh5o2@r.postjobfree.com
EMPLOYMENT
Research Intern SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY June 2020 – Present
• Reduced bias in search engine results by suggesting 3 alternate keywords for a query.
• Developed a search engine in python to reduce bias while maintaining relevancy of results.
• Solved a multi objective optimization problem between 2 parameters using pareto front.
• Published a paper on Keyword Recommendation for Fair Search at the IJCAI 2020 Workshop on AI for Social Good
System Engineer TCS December 2016 - August 2018
Employee Induction Process (Front-end Developer; JavaScript, Python, SAPUI5)
• Built an application in JavaScript to automate employee onboarding and offboarding process.
• Reduced human error percentage by 18% and total time taken for internal processes by 75%.
• Led the development, supervised, and coached 4 new members in working of the tool. Nightly Build Checks (Back-end Developer; JavaScript, Python)
• Predicted delivery dates for SAP systems with an accuracy of 84% using a regression model.
• Coordinated development of JavaScript dashboard and python scripts with 3 team members. Trained 5 new members of internal automation team as a User Interface Developer and Contract User for SAP. EDUCATION
Syracuse, NY Syracuse University August 2018 – May 2020
• M.S. in Computer and Information Science, May 2020.
• Graduate Coursework: Design & Analysis of Algorithms; Ethics in Machine Learning; Structural Programming
& Formal Methods; Machine Intelligence & Deep Learning; Object oriented programming. Indore, India
Shri Vaishnav Institute of Technology
& Science July 2012 – June 2016
• B.E. in Computer Science and Engineering, June 2016.
• Undergraduate Coursework: Analysis & Design of Algorithms; Software Engineering. & Project Management; Web Engineering; Data Structures; Object Oriented Design; Distributed Programming. TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE
Projects
• Debiasing Word Embeddings (2020). Removed gender bias by 3% in word embeddings using variational autoencoders and adaptive sampling. Published and presented a paper on bias in NLP at an AI for Social Good, Harvard, CRCS Workshop. Python, ML, PyTorch, Deep Learning, Variational Autoencoders.
• Chatroom Application (2020). Created a complete end to end slack like application with an OAuth functionality and a master-detail layout consisting of 4 groups and individual chat rooms. JavaScript, React JS, Firebase.
• The Twitter Divide (2018). Proved existence of echo chambers on Twitter. Predicted political ideology of a random twitter handle with 91% accuracy and created a python dashboard using bokeh. Python, Bokeh, Data Mining.
DISTINCTIONS AND AWARDS
• TCS Gems: Earned an appreciation award from the manager for delivering a high-quality tool (employee induction process) 3 days before deadline.
• Cloud infrastructure and services; EMC Academic Associate: Nov 2017. LANGUAGES and TECHNOLOGIES
• JavaScript; Python; HTML5; CSS; SAPUI5; jQuery; NodeJS; ReactJS; Java; C++; SQL; HANA.
• Git; REST Web APIs; AWS; Mongo DB; Visual Studio; Data Structures; C#; ASP.NET; Visual Studio