Get To Know Me

Technical Skills

• Programming languages: JAVA, Python, C, SQL, JavaScript, HTML, CSS.
• Database Systems : MySQL, MongoDB.
• Frameworks/Technologies: Agile, Linux, React.js, Node.js, Bootstrap, NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, Tweepy, Selenium, JUnit, PyUnit, Git, PyGame.
• Certifications: Lyft Mobile Engineering Android - Kotlin, Lyft Mobile Back-End Engineering, Advanced Python, Advanced Java, Data Structures and Algorithms.

Work Experience

Research Apprentice – Voice Assistants User Profiling Voice             June 2022 – Present

Northeastern University

• Investigated the impact of voice assistant interactions on user profiling activities, the associated risks, and if there is disclosure of the same on privacy policy of leading technologies- Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant and Apple Siri.
• Designed test environments using Selenium and Python to probe the voice assistants for evidence of customization.
• Created control experiments to detect profiling and evidence of targeted advertising beyond third-party perspective.

Graduate Research Assistant – Ethics in Computer Science              June 2022 – Present

Northeastern University

• Examined how systemic-structural stereotypes from history have influenced the design of technology in the present.
• Investigated how bias permeates through algorithmic designs at different stages of developing predictive models for machine learning and examined existing models for improvements to prevent marginalization through skewed data.

Graduate Teaching Assistant                           January 2022 - Present

Northeastern University

• Tutored over 250 students for Data Structures, Algorithms, Computer Systems, Object-oriented Design courses.
• Collaborated with the teaching team to maximize efficiency and learning patterns for students by adding visual components and interactive group assignments to the courses, increasing overall performance score by 49.5%.

Lead CS Instructor                               May 2022 – Present

SMASH x Northeastern, Boston

• Designed an interactive curriculum for 47 Boston high school scholars from underrepresented groups for the CS elective of the program focusing on Power of Algorithms and Potential for Equity and Inclusion.
• Led a team of 5 to teach coding projects/content to increase interest and exposure to STEM careers among scholars.

Diversity Engagement

• Microsoft TEALS - Technical Instructor Volunteer

Technology Education and Literacy in Schools is a Microsoft Philanthropies program that builds sustainable CS programs in high schools. The focus is on serving students excluded from learning CS because of race, gender, or geography.
I would be working with Fenway High School, Boston, for a year to help design an interactive, accessible, credit-based CS Electvie while simultaneously setting benchmarks for better diversity, equity, and inclusion in the program.

• Women's Community of Code - Computer Science Instructor

Women's Community of Code offers free computer science workshops for girls*,women*, trans women, non-binary individuals, and any others who identify as a woman in a way that is significant to them, to spark engagement and interest in Computer Science. I contributed to :
Workshop for girls : where we focused on building websites from scratch.
Workshop for women : where we focused on analysing and visualizing big data using Python

• Others - AnitaB.org , Rewriting the Code, Active member of Women in Tech NEU, Graduate Women Coders NEU.

Awards

Grace Hopper Conference Scholarship Recipient - 2022

AnitaB.org, the global nonprofit focused on intersectional gender and pay parity in tech, hosts the Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC), the world's largest gathering of women and non-binary technologists.

CS + Ethics Research Award Recipient - 2022

Khoury College’s first ever independent research program at the intersection of computer science and ethics (with faculty mentorship and peer group).

Indian Association of Public Health Dentistry Endowment Award and Arya Publishers Endowment Award - 2020

IAPHD Endowment Award and Arya Publishers Endowment Award UG Marks Topper- Category All- India Rank: 2 for securing highest marks in Public Health Dentistry.