Nagasai Chandra

adls6s@r.postjobfree.com

Sunnyvale, CA 408-***-****

OBJECTIVE

Looking for full-time opportunities in the field of Computer Science – April 2021

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages/Tools: Python, Golang, Tableau, JavaScript, SQL, TensorFlow, Keras, Hadoop, Spark, React, C++, CUDA

Expertise: ML, Data Modeling, Big Data, Analytics & Visualization, Statistics, Probability, Experiment Design, Hypothesis Testing, Algorithms, AI, Research Experience in Deep Learning for NLP, CV & KGs, Data Engineering

Others: Containers, GPU Programming, AWS, GCP, Deployment, Transformers, Angular, DataBricks

PROJECTS

Node Classification on Relational Graphs Using Deep-RGCNs (Master’s Thesis) Winter ’21

Deep Neural Network architecture based on Graph Convolutional Networks with Dense and Residual Connections for modeling KGs. Proposed architecture achieved state-of-the-art accuracies in Node Property Prediction task for MUTAG (74.56%) and AIFB (96.11%) Relational Entity Graph Data sets.

Languages and Tools: Python, Torch Geometric, DGL, LaTeX, Ontologies, Distributed Computing

Frequently Asked Question Generation (NLP) Spring ’20

Generating questions and answers that contain salient information of a text given any sizable text document.

Tested the model on Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy documents with human evaluation and recorded impressive results.

Languages and Tools: Python, Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, Torch, Spacy, NLTK, Transformers, LaTeX

Image Classification Using Hierarchical Layers (Vision) Winter ’20

Made use of hierarchical information available in data between parent and child classes to classify images with better precision

Modified Resnet-18 architecture to use classification losses and showed reasonable improvement than existing flat-N layer neural network

Languages and Tools: Torch, ImageNet, FastAI, Python

Reddit Comment Prediction using Long Short-Term Memory (NN) Spring ’19

Used Reddit API to grab features of comments for pattern recognition

Predicted the next few minutes of a comment score given 30 minutes of comments’ previous score and other metrics

Languages and Tools: Python, Keras, TensorFlow, Scikit Learn, NumPy

STACIA: Chatbot for answering questions about Cal Poly (NLP, DS) Spring ’19

Developed Chatbot, answers questions about Cal Poly asked to discord chatbot interface with decent accuracy

Used data scraped from calpoly.edu websites and NLU for accurate answers

Languages and Tools: NLTK, BeautifulSoup4, Discord, PyMySQL, urllib3, requests, PySpark

EDUCATION

California Polytechnic State University, SLO, CA Mar ’21

Master of Science, Computer Science

Gandhi Institute of Technology and Management (GITAM), Hyderabad, India June ’18

Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science

WORK EXPERIENCE

California Polytechnic State University, SLO, CA Research Assistant Jan ’20 – Mar ’21

Active research assistance for NLP, Knowledge Discovery, Data Mining, Deep Learning, and Knowledge Graphs for Dr. Foaad Khosmood and Dr. Franz Kurfess. Literature review, mentoring students with doubts in classroom activities and projects and grading their assignments. Improved CNN model accuracy and F1 to predict languages on images of text

Ridhan Technologies Pvt Ltd, Hyderabad, India Software Engineer Jul ’17 – Dec ’19

Assisted in developing a 4-stage deep convolutional neural network for Diabetic Retinopathy detection system for Netra.ai

Worked on data pipeline for a computer-aided diagnosis project based on CNN architecture for skin cancer identification

Handled Search Engine Optimization for tutascreen.com, a product of Ridhan Technologies.

Responsible for visualizing, debugging, and validating various layers in the vision pipeline. Hands-on experience in ML/DS.

Cedar InfoTech Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad, India Data Science, Machine Learning Intern Apr ’17 – Jul ’17

Contributed to building/working with data pipelines and assisted with backend development

Worked on real-world projects of providing ML and web solutions to small- and large-scale businesses

LEADERSHIP & CAMPUS INVOLVEMENT

Former Student Crew Lead at Campus Market, Cal Poly

Editor and StoryBoard Creator for G-Studio, a photography club at GITAM, as an undergrad student

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