Anindita Nath

Computer Science Research & Development (R&D)

adug89@r.postjobfree.com

915-***-**** • El Paso, TX

https://www.linkedin.com/in/anath2110/

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Summary

An accomplished, proficient programmer and articulate communicator. Agile professional with proven achievements across the public and private sectors. Broad research and development experience optimizing machine, deep or multitask learning systems for business-critical Natural (Speech) Language Processing (NLP) tasks. Highly motivated to contribute 4+ years as an R&D scientist plus 5+ years as a programmer to a challenging new computer science R&D opportunity. Technical Proficiencies

Platforms Windows, Linux/UNIX, Goggle Colab. AWS, Oracle, MS SQL, Android Tools Python, TensorFlow, Keras, PyTorch, Transformers. MATLAB, C#, ASP.Net, VB, VB.Net, Java, JScript, HTML, CSS, C++, C, PL/ SQL, Tableau, MS Office, Rasa, Mozilla Deep Speech, Mozilla TTS Data Science Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Multitask Learning, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Speech Processing, Prosody Analysis, Feature Reengineering, Data Analytics, Data Science, Data Engineering Work Experience

Benten Technologies Feb 2022-Aug 2022

Software Engineering Intern (Hybrid)

Integrated end-to-end state-of-art Natural Language Processing/Generation models to improve performance of voice-based chat bots designed for i) caregiving to dementia/Alzheimer patients and ii) training African-American kids on healthy food habits. DvSum Inc., Sunnyvale, CA Jun 2021 – Aug 2021

Data Engineering Intern

Introduced and improved context-based semantic search in the AWS Elastic Search Database of large-scale real-life data. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA Jul 2020 – Aug 2020 Summer Research Intern

Delivered time-sensitive research to support 2020 Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (WNUT). Identified applicable messages and multiple relevant events from 7K+ English tweets addressing COVID-19. Employed Bert-based multi-task learning models and achieved 95%+ accuracy. University of Texas El Paso Jan 2017 – Aug 2020

Graduate Research Assistant

Completed multiple data analytics and deep learning research projects for clients across the public and private sectors.

• Applied process mining to track and predict maternal morbidity in pregnant women using NIH’s All of Us Research data.

• Designed prototype Tableau dashboard for City of El Paso. Graphically represented critical COVID-19 business data to facilitate tracking and drive sound decision making during pandemic.

• Predicted appropriate turn-taking in senior citizen conversations (English and Japanese) for Toyota Motor Corporation, Japan by following regression and deep neural networks approach. Project aimed to train robots to communicate successfully and emulate human speech.

• Developed optimized learning solutions using prosody to predict relevance, resolution, and location of disasters. Completed project, Low Resource Languages for Emergent Incidents, for Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), an agency of the US Department of Defense. Provided real time information in any language, specifically those with minimum available resources, to support emergent missions. 3M, Pittsburgh, PA May 2019 – Aug 2019

Natural Language Processing Intern

Built deep learning LSTM-RNN models using prosody to streamline turn-taking in automatic medical transcriptions. Processed 36K records and achieved lowest loss rate of 0.01.

Food Corporation of India, Kolkata, India Apr 2011 – Dec 2016 Anindita Nath

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Information Technology Executive

Softthink Intelligent Solutions Pvt. Ltd., Kolkata, India Dec 2010 – Mar 2011 Software Developer

Teaching Experience

University of Texas El Paso Jan 2019 – April 2022

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Computer Science

Fab Lab El Paso Microsoft TechSpark October 2021 – December 2021 Main Programming Instructor, Intro to Python for Business Publications

• On the Predictability of the Prosody of Dialog Markers from the Prosody of the Local Context, Speech Prosody 2022, Lisbon, Portugal, 664-668.

• Using Prosody to Find Mentions of Urgent Problems in Radio Broadcasts, Speech Prosody, 2020.

• Towards Naturally Responsive Spoken Dialog Systems by Modelling Pragmatic-Prosody Correlations of Discourse Markers, ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces Companion, 2020, Cagliari, Italy.

• Responding with Sentiment Appropriate for the User's Current Sentiment in Dialog as Inferred from Prosody and Gaze Patterns, ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, 2018, Boulder, CO, USA. Education

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Computer Science, University of Texas at El Paso, TX, 2017 – Current GPA: 4.0 / 4.0

Master of Business Administration (MBA) in IT & Systems Management, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, 2012 – 2015 GPA: 9.5 / 10 (Top 1% of Class)

Master of Computer Applications, West Bengal University of Technology, Kolkata, India, 2007 – 2010 GPA: 9.23 / 10 (Top 1% of Class)

Bachelor of Science (BS) in Mathematics, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India, 2004 – 2007 Certifications

• Machine Learning, Coursera, 2016

• VB.Net with Windows Application, CMC Academy Ltd.; UML, HP Education and Computer Applications in 2009; Webel Informatics, Ltd., 2007 Honors & Awards

• Speech Prosody Student Travel Grant and International Phonetics Association Student Award, 2022.

• Secretary, ACM-W UTEP Chapter, Fall 2021- present.

• Generation Google Scholar, 2020.

• Upsilon Pi Epsilon Scholar, 2019; President, Upsilon Pi Epsilon, UTEP (2019-2021); Officer, Golden Key International Honor Society, UTEP (2019).

• Offices.Net Academic Scholar, 2017 for the essay, How Does Technology Affect the Work Environment Today? Synergistic Activities

• Judge - Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair (2021-22); COURI Symposium, UTEP (2019-21); Student Panelist – ACM-IMS, San Francisco, CA, 2019.

• Presenter – Computing Research Association W Grad Cohort, Chicago, 2019 & 2021; International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, Boulder, CO, 2018. Community and Volunteer Activities

• Summer Volunteer Instructor, “Girls Who Code” Summer Program 2021, FabLab, El Paso, Texas.

• For UPE, UTEP, organized CS tutorial sessions; mock PhD. Dissertation Defense and Qualifiers; workshops on “Python Data Libraries” and “Research Poster Basics” together with CAHSI in 2021.

• Microsoft TEALS volunteer Computer Science teacher in El Paso high schools, 2019.

• Sponsor for PLAN India; Certified welfare activist for Astha, NGO in Kolkata, India (2016- present). Extra-Curricular Accomplishments

• Contributor for popular Indian news dailies and magazines viz., Statesman and Hindustan Times (English).

• Awardee in national (India) level Debate, Elocution, Recitation, Creative Writing, Quiz and Drama competitions in 20o2-2016.

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