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Hi Everyone, I am

Prajwal Anand

Machine Learning | Software Development

MS Computer Science & Engineering @ UC San Diego

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About Myself

Welcome to my page!
I am a Masters student at University of California, San Diego. I study Computer Science, with a specialization in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence.
I am seeking full time job opportunities in Software Development and Machine Learning/Data Science, starting from July 2021. Please feel free to reach out and connect with me!
During my MS program, I took up several courses on Machine Learning, such as Natural Language Processing (NLP), Computer Vision (CV) and Deep Learning. I also worked on related projects, which are listed below.
Prior to this, I worked at Curl as a Data Scientist, where I worked on drone-based analytics and computer vision.
I did my undergrad in Computer Science at PES Institute of Technology, India. I also interned at USC Viterbi School of Engineering, and Societe Generale, which helped me develop my skills in Machine Learning research.

My Skills

Python

Java

C/C++

R

Golang

SQL

Numpy, Tensorflow, Keras, Scikit-learn, PyTorch

HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP

Linux

  • Education

  • Sept 2019 - Jun 2021

    University of California, San Diego

    Master of Science in Computer Science & Engineering
    3.79/4 GPA

  • Aug 2014 - Jun 2018

    PES Institute of Technology, India

    Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science & Engineering
    9.74/10 GPA

Experience

University of California, San Diego

Graduate Research Assistant
Feb 2021 - Present
  • Actively contributed to a research project under the supervision of Prof Gerald Soosairaj on studying the programming practices followed by new programmers, and analyzing how to incorporate best programming practices into formal education
  • Conducted 10 student interviews and performed qualitative analysis of student coding practices as observed through 4-5 different programming problems

University of California, San Diego

Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Graduate Teaching Assistant
June 2020 - June 2021
  • Taught introductory programming courses in Python and Java to about 80-100 students with little to no prior programming experience
  • Led weekly discussion sections attended by about 20-30 students, and designed programming assignments
  • Earned the highest rating across 10-12 different categories based on feedback from the students

Curl Analytics

Data Scientist
July 2018 - June 2019
  • Led 5-member team that developed an end-to-end drone-based surveillance product for automatic assessment of road quality
  • Successfully contributed to building a working prototype, as a result of which the World Economic Forum (WEF) invited Curl to be the first Indian startup to partner in the Center for Fourth Industrial Revolution (C4IR)
  • Implemented computer vision and deep learning algorithms for real-time video and LIDAR processing, mainly using Python (Tensorflow, Keras, OpenCV), and achieved an overall accuracy of 90%

Curl Analytics

Data Scientist Intern
Jan 2018 - June 2018
  • Built a real-time traffic monitoring system for tracking vehicles and identifying traffic rule violations, based on a combination of the YOLO CNN architecture for object detection and Kalman Filter for tracking, using Python and C
  • Obtained a detection accuracy of 92%






University of Southern California

Viterbi School of Engineering
Summer Research Intern
June 2017 - July 2017
  • Assisted Prof Yan Liu and postdoc Dr Natali Ruchansky with research on Fake News Detection using hybrid deep learning
  • Constructed a large dataset of news articles for the purpose of fake news detection, using Python

Societe Generale

Summer Intern
June 2016 - July 2016
  • Developed a monthly rainfall forecasting model using a combination of time series modeling based machine learning algorithms
  • Obtained a final model accuracy of 84%

Projects

Visual Question Answering

Detecting Cardiac Problems with Deep Learning

Semantic Question Similarity