P G, KEERTHANA

+1 4126208037  keerthanpg@gmail.com  gitHub: https://github.com/keerthanpg  Seeking full time positions in machine learning
EDUCATION
MS in Robotics Systems Development, Carnegie Mellon University, GPA-3.95/4.0 Dec 2018(Expected)
MTech & BTech (Hons.), Indian Institute of Technology(IIT), Kharagpur, GPA-8.35/10.0 2012 - 2017
RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT
Cuberover: A private 2kg rover for lunar exploration Aug 18 - Present
· Flight software student lead at the Cuberover project in a NASA-CMU-Astrobotic collaboration to landscape the moon
· Establishing efficient & augmented radio communication to send images & interrupts between rover and lander using Wi-Fi module
Efficient Communication among Multi-Agents using Shared Memory Jan 18 - Apr 18
· Adapted asynchronous advantage actor critic agents to learn on multiple minigames in Deepmind-Blizzard StarCraft 2 environment
· Applied transfer learning to beat known baselines and publish an early paper on StarCraft2(Arxiv no.: 1807.08217)
Multimodal Machine Learning for Emotion Recognition Sep 17 - Apr 18
· Managed team of 3 in collaboration with Emotech, an AI company to build a multimodal emotion recognition system
· Co-invented gated recurrent attention(patent pending), beat human performance on CREMA-D and paper accepted at CoNLL ’18
Humanoid Balancing Using Reinforcement Learning Nov 16 - Apr 17
· Designed humanoid leg modeled as inverted pendulum using Q-learning and extracted optimal design parameters for balancing
· Implemented zero moment point stabilization of cart and table formulation of mechanical leg using ROS Gazebo
Natural Language Processing using Deep Learning Methods Aug 16 - Nov 16
· Implemented stack-LSTM and studied child-sum tree LSTM for linear-time semantic parsing using dependency trees
Impostor Recognition from Keyboard Strike Patterns Aug 15 - Nov 15
· Trained a Gaussian Mixture Model with 98% accuracy to authenticate users from typing patterns, namely latencies & hold times
PROJECTS
· Built a decentralised app for secure and dynamic vehicle identity, finalist at World Blockchain Hackathon 2018, San Francisco
· Led a group of 4 to build a self-parking tank from scratch on ROS for collision avoidance using magnetic guidance fields
· Implemented RL methods(REINFORCE/A2C/Imitation) to solve OpenAI Gym Frozenlake/CartPole/MountainCar environments
· Implemented dense point cloud reconstruction using epipolar geometry and video tracking of objects using Lucas Kanade method
· Coded a greedy AI on ROS and C++ that fends off projectile missiles in a game akin to Atari Missile Command
· Built a Twitter based real time sentiment analyser based on IBM Watson API at ICACON ’16
· Used Active Shape Models to train a feed-forward network to classify facial expressions in JAFFE dataset with 93% accuracy
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Mercedes Benz R&D, Machine Learning Intern May 18 - Aug 18
· Built first prototype of intent classification subsystem to provide self-driving car intuition about intents of other dynamic agents
· Conceptualized the problem and implemented software pipelines for data generation and prediction using Tensorflow and C++
University of Alberta, Data Science Research Intern May 16 - July 16
· Mapped pediatric cancer incidence to carcinogenic industrial emissions in a Canadian Institute of Cancer Research project
· Derived insights relevant to guide environment policy, developed data visualizations & modeled background pollution levels
Commbuyn, Co-founder and CEO Jun 15 - Mar 16
· Created a subscription based e-commerce demand aggregator, won Start-Up Weekend at IIM Calcutta, sponsored by Google
· Associated with 6+ investors
Schlumberger, Engineering Intern Dec 15 - Jan 16
· Initiated automation in high voltage insulation testing of bulk heads by building low-cost circuit based on Arduino and C++
General Electric Aviation, Engineering Intern May 15 - Jul 15
· Corrected life estimation of critical parts in commercial aircraft engines by modelling seal teeth coating mass using ANSYS
SKILLS
Tools: Python, C++, C, ROS, MATLAB, SQL, R, Arduino, HTML, Javascript, CSS, EAGLE
Courses: Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Deep RL, Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence, Robot Autonomy, Algorithms,
Mobile Robot Development, Computer Systems, Applied Data Science(Graduate Teaching Assistant)
LEADERSHIP & FELLOWSHIPS
· Fought section 377 of constitution in the Supreme Court leading to historic verdict decriminalising alternative sexuality in India
· Elected representative of Robotics Institute in the Graduate Student Assembly at CMU serving on Student Concerns Committee
· Led a team of 30 journalists as Executive Editor of student-run campus newspaper at Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
· Founded volunteer organization to tutor and fundraise for school hosting 300+ underprivileged kids in West Bengal, India
· KVPY Fellowship: Awarded by Dept of Science & Technology, Govt of India with a rank of 248 among 100000+ applicants
· JBNSTS Fellowship: Awarded by Govt. of West Bengal State, India for selected 54 students after screening 20000+ applicants
· Achieved a rank of 1460 in Joint Entrance Examination in India taken by 1.2 million applicants