Education

  • Ph.D. candidate, Department of Computer Science

    Stony Brook University (Jan 2017 – Dec 2022, New York, USA)
    GPA: 3.95/4
    Adviser: Prof. Fusheng Wang
    Thesis: Histopathology Image Analysis: from 2D Segmentation to 3D Registration

  • M.Tech., School of Computer and Information Sciences

    University of Hyderabad (June 2012 – July 2014, India)
    GPA: 3.76/4, Rank: 1st, Gold Medalist
    Thesis: A Study of Fuel Air Explosive (FAE) Cloud Dynamics - Image Processing Approach

  • B.Tech., Department of Computer Science and Engineering

    Institute of Engineering and Management (June 2005 – July 2009, Kolkata,India)
    GPA: 3.42/4
    Thesis: Thesis Topic: Building Air traffic control system using genetic algorithm techniques

Experience

  • Research Summer Intern: Machine Learning

    IBM Research Lab - Almaden, June 2020 – Aug, 2019, San Jose, USA
    Developed fully convolutional autoencoder based segmentation model for viable tumor regions in liver cancer histopathology images.

  • Software Engineer

    VJ Technologies, Nov 2016 – Dec 2016, New York, USA
    -Developed algorithm to detect objects using MATROX imaging library. -Built custom form in C# for image analysis.

  • Graduate Student

    Indian Institute of Technology, Jan 2014 – Jan 2015, Mumbai, India
    -Performed image reconstruction for sparsely acquired frequency-domain image data. -Implemented a Bayesian framework to de-noise ultrasound images.

  • Assistant System Engineer

    Tata Consultancy Services, Nov 2009 – Sept. 2011, Chennai, India
    -Worked on a data warehousing project for maintaining client data. -Used SQL, PL/SQL in TOAD environment to analyze data.

Honors & Awards

  • Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) Fellowship Award (2019-2020)
  • Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC) 2019 Student Scholar (April 2019)
  • Finalist of 2019 NCWIT Collegiate Award (April 2019)
  • Travel Awards:
    - Association for Pathology Informatics: Pathology Informatics Summit 2019 Travel Award, Pittsburgh, 05/06/2019-05/09/2019
    - ACM Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing 2019
    - CRA-W Grad Cohort for Women 2019
    - IEEE EMBC 2018
  • Excellent student award of University of Hyderabad (October 2014)
  • SBH Gold Medalist for securing 1st rank in M.Tech. program (2012-2014)
  • Merit certificate & National Prize winner for rank 50 (among 10K participants) in school final (2003)

Technical Skills

  • Programming: Python, C, C++, R, SQL, PL/SQL, Matlab
  • Python Data/ML Libraries: OpenCV, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Numpy, Pandas, Scipy, Scikit-learn, Tensorflow, Keras, PyTorch
  • Web development: HTML, Flask, D3
  • OS: Linux, MacOS, Windows

Service

  • Teaching Assistant:
    - Stony Brook University: Computer Game programming & Introduction to Computational and Algorithmic Thinking (2017)
    - IIT Bombay: Data Structure & Discrete Mathematics (Undergraduate) (2015)
  • Reviewer: BigSpatial 2018, DAPD Journal, SIGSPATIAL, PAKDD, IEEE BigData, eScience2021, Scientific Reports, ISBI
  • Mentor & Recruiter:
    - Recruit and mentor graduate students and high school students for K12 summer research projects CSIRE at Stony Brook University (2017-18, 2022) - Mentor of Graduate Women in Science and Engineering (GWiSE) at Stony Brook University (2017-2021)
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