Data Science Machine Learning

Sai Jahnavi Damacharla

+1-317-***-**** ********@**.*** linkedin portfolio Indianapolis, IN

EDUCATION

Masters in Applied Data Science Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN Aug 2024 - Present Relevant Courses: Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Deep Learning, Database Design, Cloud Computing, Statistics with R. Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science Engineering Bapatla Engineering College, Bapatla, India 2020 - 2024 Relevant Courses: C Programming, Data Structures & Algorithms, Computer Networks, Operating Systems, Python, AI&ML, DevOps. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Graduate Teaching Assistant Luddy School of Informatics, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN Sept 2025 - Present

• Supporting instructions and grading for a 60+ student course exploring the social, ethical, and policy impacts of IT.

• Facilitating weekly online discussions on topics like AI ethics, data privacy, and digital inclusion for critical thinking.

• Providing detailed feedback on assignments, trend reports, and projects of students in the course.

• Assisting in developing course materials and integrating current ICT trends and real-world case studies into lessons. GIS Analyst Summer Intern Christopher B. Burke Engineering, LLC. (CBBEL), Indianapolis, IN May 2025 - Aug 2025

• Worked with ArcGIS Pro to develop visual exhibits and perform advanced geospatial analysis for environmental planning and civil engineering projects to research how Data Science can help Planning and Constructions.

• Assisted in streamlining the process of flood storage calculation by enhancing existing geospatial tools and methodologies.

• Explored innovative approaches to integrate Deep Learning and advanced visualization techniques into GIS workflows. Research Assistant COMET Lab, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN Jan 2025 - May 2025

• Collaborated with faculty on lectures, research, data analysis, and technical documentation, contributing to publications and grant proposals in computer science.

• Conducted research and built statistical data models using geo-spatial and economic data to identify vulnerable communities and measure the risk of food-insecurity across different counties in the state of Indiana. PROJECTS

Spotify Music Tracks Data Analysis using R Language (project_link)

• Analyzed Spotify tracks dataset to uncover patterns in track popularity, artists, genre distribution, and audio features.

• Applied data wrangling techniques using dplyr and tidyverse to clean, filter, and group data for aggregations.

• Created visual summaries using ggplot2, like bar charts, plots & trend lines to identify correlations and trends over time. Digital Forensics and Cyber Security Threat Management Database Project (project_link)

• Designed and implemented a relational database in MS Access and SQL to manage cyberthreats, incidents and activities.

• Developed customized queries and forms for efficient data retrieval, evidence linking, and forensic incident tracking. New York City Transportation Data Science Project (project_link)

• Analyzed New York City Transportation Data to enhance road safety using time series and geospatial analysis.

• Cleaned and processed data with NumPy in Google Colab, developed Power BI dashboards.

• Applied Linear Regression and data visualization (Matplotlib) to uncover trends and biases.

• Used ML techniques- clustering, regression, classification for problem solving in the real-time dataset. SKILLS

• Programming Languages: Python(Pandas, NumPy, ScikitLearn etc.), R, SQL

• Tools and IDE: Power BI, Tableau, Jupyter Notebook, Google Colab, MSAccess, RStudio, VSCode, PyCharm

• Data Analysis: Data Cleaning and Preprocessing, EDA and Visualization, Statistical Modelling, Feature Engineering

• Machine Learning: PCA, SVM, Random Forest, k-NN, Regression, Deep Learning: CNN, RNN, BERT, GAN, GPTs, LSTM

• NLP & AI: Object Detection, Image Recognition and Captioning, Text Classification, Automation Techniques CERTIFICATIONS

• Google Cloud Certified Associate Cloud Engineer (certificate) Aug 2023

• Microsoft Certification for Introduction to Programming using Python (certificate) Jun 2022 LEADERSHIP

Professional Development Lead, Data Science & Machine Learning Club, IUI Oct 2024 - Present

• Working as a career-leader from the club of Data Science and Machine Learning at IUI.

• Designed and facilitated workshops, sessions to guide peer data scientists in building portfolios and resumes. PUBLICATION

• Research Paper Publication in JETIR for research work on Soil-Moisture based Motor Pumping for Agriculture Aug 2022 https://www.jetir.org/view?paper=JETIR2208501

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