Education

• 2019 - Masters, Computer Science, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, USA, GPA: 3.9/4
• 2017 - B Tech, Computer Science, IIT Kanpur, Kanpur, India, CPI: 8.2/10

Work Experience

June 2021 - Current

Apple, AIML, Siri Performance and Reliability

Software Engineer

• Building and analyzing metrics that define Siri Performance and Reliability at scale to improve overall quality of the assistant using big data solutions.

June 2019 - June 2021

Microsoft, Windows, Platform Health

Software Engineer (Data & Intelligence)

• Building debugging tools to analyze large scale windows telemetry and diagnostics data.
• Worked on a Trace Analysis platform, a combination of simple linear models and heuristics, which brought down mean time to root cause performance issues in Windows from 2 weeks to 3-5 days and patented the technology.
• Optimizing various metrics (loss functions/scores) to improve existing anomaly detection.
• Correlating different metrics with performance to identify optimization opportunities

Aug 2018 - May 2019

Project Tesserae: Multi University Research | IARPA

Graduate Researcher | GaTech

• My work draws on applying Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning and Statistical modeling techniques to develop computational methods to draw inferences from large scale social media data.
• Co-authored 8 Publications in Major journals and top conferences.

May 2017 - Aug 2018

Microsoft, Core Services Engineering

Software Development Engineer

• Worked for Core Services Engineering (CSE) with the Customer Account Life Cycle (CALC) tool, that serves the Sales Personnel of Microsoft and ensures they generate revenue as quickly as possible.
• Designed and built a scalable and reliable API that brought down a process churning 25 million requests from 2 weeks to 5 days with 0.1% failure rate.

Skills

Academic Courses

Scholastic Achievements

• 2013 Secured AIR 121 in IIT JEE an entrance exam given by over 150,000 aspirants.
• 2011 Awarded Gold Medal in IGNOU-UNESCO Science Olympiad
• 2015 Awarded Gold Medal and placed 1st in the 3rd Inter IIT Tech Meet held in IIT-KGP
• 2012 Placed 37th in the KVPY Merit list and received a Monetary Scholarship from IISc
• 2013 Nominated for Aditya Birla Scholarship, one among 40 students from all of India
• 2013 Selected in top 40 and attended Orientation Camp of International Astronomy Olympiad
• 2011 Ranked 10th in the state in the prestigious South Indian Physics Olympiad
• 2011 Selected in top 40 and attended the Orientation Camp of International Junior Science Olympiad

Patents

• Trace identification based on wait chain coverage analysis

  Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC US11157388B1

Publications

• Modeling Organizational Culture with Workplace Experiences Shared on Glassdoor

  Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems [DL]

• LibRA: On LinkedIn based Role Ambiguity and Its Relationship with Wellbeing and Job Performance 

  Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, CSCW (PACM HCI) [DL]

• Birds of a Feather Clock Together: A Study of Person–Organization Fit Through Latent Activity Routines

  Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, CSCW (PACM HCI) [DL]

• The Language of LGBTQ+ Minority Stress Experiences on Social Media 

  Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, CSCW (PACM HCI) [DL]

• A Multisensor Person-Centered Approach to Understand the Role of Daily Activities in Job Performance with Organizational Personas

  Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies [DL]

• Imputing Missing Social Media Data Stream in Multisensor Studies of Human Behavior

  2019 8th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII) [DL]

• JobLex: A Lexico-Semantic Knowledgebase of Occupational Information Descriptors

  In Proceedings of 11th International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo)
  Poster Presented at SocInfo (Doha, Qatar, Nov 18-21, 2019)  One Page Abstract [PDF]

• Differentiating Higher and Lower Job Performers in the Workplace using Mobile Sensing 

  Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies [DL]

• The Tesserae Project: Large-Scale, Longitudinal, In Situ, Multimodal Sensing of Information Workers

  Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems [DL]

Volunteer

2018

Full Stack Developer

Hyderabad Center for Human Welfare (HCHW)

• Built a Secure Cloud driven platform based on .NET, SQL & Angular stack for mobile clinics to sync sensitive patient data and for inventory management.
• HCHW is an NGO driving mobile clinics, that provide medical facilities by taking the clinics to the masses.

Dec 2016

Grader

Academic Team, International Olympiad on Astronomy & Astrophysics

• One among 60 members of the Academic Team responsible for Grading the submissions of the prestigious Olympiad

2014-2015

Senator

Student Gymkhana, IIT Kanpur

• Elected by an Electorate strength of over 800 students as their representative to the student senate

2015-2016

Club Coordinator

Astronomy Club, IIT Kanpur

• Planned and raised Finances, to ensure participation of students in the institute and managed logistics of the club
• Actively involved in the construction and management of India's First student built and run Observatory

Hackathons

June 2018

DigiPrint

Whack-A-Thon, Microsoft

• An AI-powered extension that helps readers to better analyze their reading and plan their writing through sentiment analysis
• Placed second among all of Microsoft India Hires.

May-Aug 2016

DeepInsight

Code.Fun.Do, Microsoft

• Built a Microsoft Office Add-In to assist users in their text writing tasks. It uses Machine learning APIs to ease the routine tasks of researching and make them more interesting.
• The AddIn received critical acclaim on the Finalist Forum of Code.Fun.Do.
• It has been awarded the Top Design Idea and Top Coding Team and stood as Overall Winner.

Oct 2015

Share Journey

Google Dev Fest

• Built a comprehensive portal on NodeJS, Express Framework with an AngularJS front end to provide for easy sharing of taxi rides between students of the institute
• Placed 1st in the Google Developer Group Hackathon.

Other Academic Projects

Nov 2018 [PDF]

An Analysis of Performance and Complexity of Supervised Learning Algorithms

Machine Learning, Georgia Institute of Technology

• Implemented Supervised Learning Algorithms under various hyper parameters to understand how these hyper parameters affect the algorithm's performance

March 2018 [PDF]

A Deep Q Learning Experiment: On the mechanics of Landing a module on Moon

Reinforcement Learning, Georgia Institute of Technology

• Built a deep neural network to train an agent to successfully land a module on moon in a simulation
• Surveyed various algorithms to solve the complex problem and benchmarked them.
• The Analysis and Paper Report was awarded Exemplary Status in the class of 300+ students.

March 2018 [PDF]

Correlated Q Learning: On Multiagent Reinforcement learning in a Zero Sum Markov Game

Reinforcement Learning, Georgia Institute of Technology

• Studied generalization of multi-agent Q-Learning methods, Correlated Equilibrium which encompasses Nash-Q and Friend-Foe-Q.
• Applied the algorithms to a simulated game of Soccer, a Zero Sum Game for which no deterministic equilibrium policies exist.

Apr 2019 [PDF]

Discrete Event Simulations of Traffic Flow

Modeling and Simulations, Georgia Institute of Technology

• Simulated traffic flow using various models and validated with real world data

Jan-Apr 2017 [PDF]

Fishy Cyber attack detection

Prof. Sandeep K. Shukla, IIT Kanpur

• Developed a new approach to detect cyber attacks in Industrial systems through LSTM models
• The sequence learning LSTM based model encapsulated principles of Zone division in ICS, capable of pinpointing a breach.
• Tested the model on a simulation of an Industrial plant

Aug-Nov 2016 [PDF]

On segmentation of Ultrasound Images of the Neck

Prof. Harish Karnick, IIT Kanpur.

• Worked on segmenting ultrasound images to accurately identify Brachial Plexus
• Implemented a model based on Autoencoders with redesigned connections to boost high resolution features in the output
• Dream analysis revealed significant improvement in the learning over conventional autoencoders
• Proposed a faster second model based on Proposals by sliding windows
• Devised a hack based on PCA to clean the binary outputs without loss in accuracy

Jan-Apr 2016 [PDF]

Multilingual Text to Text similarity

Prof. Arnab Bhattacharya, IIT Kanpur

• Devised a algorithmic pipeline to estimate semantic relatedness between multilingual articles over wikipedia without any dictionary based sub systems for translations

Jan-Apr 2016 [PDF]

Dynamic Video Synopsis

Prof. Vinay P. Namboodiri, IIT Kanpur

• Generated a dynamic video synopsis with a stroboscopic effect as opposed to a key frame based method by solving a minimization problem over an energy equation
• Implemented iterative graph cuts and Loopy belief propagation to optimize the minimization

Dec 2015 [PDF]

On Variables In Globular Cluster NGC 2419

Prof. Priya Hassan, National Initiative on Undergraduate Science(NIUS Astronomy)

• Developed automated methods for registering images of NGC2419 from Himalayan Chandra Telescope
• Implemented a Discrete Fourier Transforms based algorithm to align and stack images even with inaccurate prior WCS data
• Propsed ways to identify gravitational microlensing events in light curves for discovering potential Planets in NGC 2419.

Dec 2013 [PDF]

Analyzing VHE Gamma Rays From Markarian 421 And Crab

Dr. K. K Yadav and Dr. R. C. Rannot, Bhabha Atomic Research Center (BARC), Department of Atomic Energy

• Worked on Very high energy Gamma Ray Telescopy to understand phenomenon in a different spectrum of light.
• Developed methods to cleanse low resolution data from TACTIC on Crab Nebulae and MRK421, of cosmic ray events and to estimate the signal parameters and temporal distribution of VHE Gamma Rays from the sources
• Presented a possible verification of current theoretical models of VHE Gamma ray sources