I am a Doctoral student in the Computational Intelligence Laboratory (CILAB), South Asian University, New Delhi, India. I work in the area of Deep Learning, Computational Linguistics, Fuzzy Logic and Data Science.
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I am a Ph.D. student at the Computational Intelligence Laboratory (CILAB), South Asian University, New Delhi, India. My main research areas are deep learning, computational linguistics, fuzzy logic and scientometrics. I research on and develop new models that bring machines closer to humans, either by considering the language or the vision aspect of us humans. Working in the above areas, I gained (and still am gaining) knowledge about linguistic information under uncertainty due to perceptions, deep learning and other real-life processes under uncertainty. Additionally, I work extensively with generative deep models such as Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBM), variational autoencoders (VAE) and generative adversarial networks (GAN). I also like to study the publication landscapes of important research domains. This study is called the scientometrics and bibliometrics, which is basically a subset of the domain of Data Science.
I am a strong advocate of diversity in technology. Therefore, I contribute to this notion as much as I can. Focussing on the 'Women in Tech' aspect, I have conducted multiple sessions in my current organization, alma-mater as well at various other community events. I am also associated with various such communities like Google WomenTechmakers, Women Who Code, Systers, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, AnitaBorg etc. I am also thankful to each of them for helping me grow.
Keeping the tech side aside, I am equally into painting, music and dance. Possessing proffessional training in all of these, I spend my off-time from work getting engaged with any of these activities. I have recently entered into the domain of graphic designing and have also designed logos for multiple organizations and campaigns.
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Bachelors in Science, with Honors
Major in Computer Science
Shaheed Rajguru College of Applied Sciences for Women
University of Delhi
2012-15
Grade: 88.7/100, Equivalent GPA: 3.3/4.0
Masters in Science
Major in Computer Science
South Asian University
2015-17
UNIVERSITY GOLD MEDALLIST 🥇
Grade: 8.65/9, Equivalent GPA: 3.84/4.0
Ph.D. in Computer Science
South Asian University
2017-ongoing
Ph.D. coursework Grade: 8.37/9, Equivalent GPA: 3.72/4.0
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Perceptual computing with comparative linguistic expressions
2020 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (FUZZ-IEEE 2020), Glasgow, Scotland
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Generating quality IF-THEN rules for diabetes using linguistic summarization
2020 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (FUZZ-IEEE 2020), Glasgow, Scotland
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A bibliometric overview of the field of type-2 fuzzy sets and systems
IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, 2020 (IF:9.083)
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A linguistic decision making model for psychometric tests
2019 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, New Orleans, USA
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Interval type-2 fuzzy restricted Boltzmann machine for the enhancement of deep learning
2019 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, New Orleans, USA
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Global distribution of google scholar citations: A size-independent institution-based analysis
Journal of Scientometric Research, 2020
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A novel solution approach for fuzzy linear bilevel multi-follower programming problems
2018 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets for group decision making in supplier performance evaluation
2018 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Interval type-2 fuzzy sets for enhanced learning in deep belief networks
2017 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, Naples, Italy
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Optimizing hyperpameters in CNNs using bilevel programming for time series data
Data Science Meets Optimization Workshop, IJCAI-PRICAI 2020
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- April 2015
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Senior Research Fellow, INSPIRE
I was promoted as a Senior Research Fellow under the INSPIRE Fellowship programme offered by the Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India.
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Grace Hopper Celebration 2020 Scholar
I am one of the 1300 Grace Hopper Celebration Scholars for the year 2020. My scholarship was generously sponsored by Nuance Communications. Grace Hopper Celebration Scholars are enthusiastic young women who are committed to grow in their technical careers while contributing to increasing diversity within technology. Grace Hopper Celebration is the flagship event of AnitaB.org that brings interests of women in computing to the forefront. Grace Hopper Celebration went virtual in 2020 for the first time.
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IEEE Computational Intelligence Society 2020 Full Registration Grant
The IEEE CIS 2020 full registration grant was awarded to deserving students to cover their entire full registration costs for the 2020 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, which was held virtually. The students were selected on the basis of paper quality and reviews.
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Junior Research Fellowship, INSPIRE
The INSPIRE fellowship, under the "Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research" scheme of the Government of India is awarded to Masters first rank holders, for carrying out doctoral degree in engineering sciences. This fellowship is awarded directly by the Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India.
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IEEE Computational Intelligence Society 2019 Travel Grant
The IEE CIS 2019 travel grant was awarded to deserving students to cover their travel costs of upto 800 USD for the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, organized at New Orleans, USA. The students were selected on the basis of paper quality and reviews.
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Generation Google Scholar, APAC
I was one of the ~70 Generation Google Scholars (previously Women Techmakers Scholars) from the Asia-Pacific Region, awarded by Google in the year 2018. This scholarship is awarded to young female students within technology to recognize their outstanding contributions towards increasing diversity in technology. This scholarship included a monetary award along with a fully paid trip to the Google APAC headquarters in Singapore to attend the Scholarship retreat.
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IEEE Computational Intelligence Society 2018 Travel Grant
The IEEE CIS 2018 travel grant was awarded to deserving students to cover their travel and registration costs of upto 800 USD for the 2018 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, organized at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The students were selected on the basis of paper quality and reviews.
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IEEE Women in Engineering 2018 Travel Grant
I was awarded the IEEE WiE 2018 travel grant to cover my travel and registration costs of upto 750 USD for the 2018 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, organized at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The selection criteria was based on my papers' quality, reviews and involvement in technology and engineering.
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Winner, Your Thesis in a Dram Contest
I was declared as the winner amongst 9 participants, in the YTD contest at the III European Summer School on Fuzzy Logic and Applications (SFLA) organized by University of Santiago de Compostela and European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology (EUSFLAT) in 2017. It focussed on the dissemination of the ongoing research of the participants in their course of study. The award, which was generously sponsored by Vodafone, included a one-month visting research program under the eminent researchers of University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
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EUSFLAT Registration Grant
I was selected as one of the 9 students worldwide to receive the EUSFLAT registration grant to cover the registration and accomodation expenses towards the III European Summer School on Fuzzy Logic and Applications (SFLA) organized by University of Santiago de Compostela and European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology (EUSFLAT) in 2017. The grant was awarded on the basis of merit of research study.
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University Masters Gold Medallist
I received the Masters Gold Medal for securing the first position in Masters in Science, Computer Science as the University academic topper.
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ACM-W Scholarship
I received the ACM-W scholarship, an equivalent of 1200 USD to cover miscellaneous expenses while participating in the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, held at Naples, Italy in 2017. The selection was made on the basis of academic merit, as well as contribution towards increasing diversity in technology.
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Grace Hopper Celebration India, Women in Computing Scholar
I was one of the recepients of the GHCI 2016 scholarship to attend the Grace Hopper Celebration in Bangalore, India in 2016. The scholars were selected on the basis of multiple criteria such as academic merit, contribution to technology etc.
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South Asian University Merit Scholarship
I was awarded the Merit Scholarship from South Asian University for securing first position in the first year of Masters in Science, Computer Science.
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All Rounder Student Award, Shaheed Rajguru College of Applied Sciences for Women
I received the all-rounder student award at Shaheed College of Applied Sciences for Women, on the basis of participation in various cultural activities, administrative tasks as well as academic merit.
Here's some more information about activities that I have involved myself with, beyond my regular curricular activities. Click on the headers to know more about each.
Since childhood I have been extremely involved with extra-curricular activities (as you might already know by now) like music, fine arts and dance. I have also gained professional training in all of these activities. Additionally, I have obtained professional degrees for completing courses in various Indian styles of music. As a result, I have performed at various events such as the closing ceremony of the XIX Commonwealth Games, 2010 (a dance piece choreographed by Shiamak Davar), inaugural ceremony of the art exhibition of Kirti Chandak (an Indian Classical piece in music, Raag Malkosh), etc.
As an artist, I have participated in multiple art-exhibitions and have also won numerous awards for the same till date. I love to draw pencil-sketches (inanimate objects, especially complex objects and those made of steel), realistic landscapes.
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I contribute to the New York University's Deep Learning course taught by Yann LeCun and Alfredo Canziani, as a language translation volunteer and coordinator. I am responsible for coordinating (the translations) and coordinating the course materials to Bengali language.
I successfully completed the HacktoberFest 2020 challenge.
Recently as a virtual Grace Hopper Celebration (vGHC) 2020 scholar, I participated in the Open Source Day organized at vGHC and contributed to the OpenStreetMap. Since then, I have been an active "Mapper" in the organization.
I also am an active contributor to the datascience package which was written for use in Berkeley's DS 8 course. Till date I have written numerous doctests for various methods within the package.
I have been appointed as a Committee Member at AnitaB.org for organizing the Open Source Day related events at Grace Hopper Celebration 2021. More details to be added with time.
As a reviewer at the ML Reproducibility Challenge 2020, I reviewed the reproducibility reports of two well-known papers from CVPR 2020 and ICLR 2020.
I call this one of my 'lockdown projects' because this website is one of the major projects that I took up during the COVID-19 lockdown in 2020, for enhancing my own skills. I created this website from scratch using HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript and JQuery.
I was a speaker at Shrinkhla 2020, the online alumni series by Shaheed Rajguru College of Applied Sciences for Women. In this hands-on session of 100+ participants, I introduced the attendees (including faculty members, sophomores, juniors and seniors) with Google Colaboratory. Additionally, the attendees were given a hands-on experience on basic Machine Learning and Data Science projects within the same session.
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Object Study 1 Composition Drawing 1 Object Study 2: Pencil Object Study 2: Color Composition Drawing 2
I was responsible for demonstrating various painting techniques as a part of the MOOC for the Painting Course in NIOS. The course instructor is Prof. K.M. Chaudhuri.
Being the winner in the Your Thesis in a Dram contest at III European Summer School on Fuzzy Logic and Applications (SFLA) 2017, I worked as a visiting researcher on project based on Natural Language Generation (NLG). Within this project, automatic explanations were generated for solutions to linear programming problems (LPP) using the SimpleNLG API. The project was implemented in JAVA and MATLAB.
Volunteering is my passion, and I consider it as one of the best sources for learning. Till date I have volunteered in various kinds of activities and in diverse organzations. A small list of my volunteering experiences is given below:
- Volunteer, Open Data Science Conference (ODSC East 2021): As a volunteer at ODSC East 2021, I was responsible for the EMCEE support provided to speakers during the conference.
- Volunteer, 29th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and 17th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-PRICAI 20): I volunteered at IJCAI-PRICAI 2020 where I was responsible for handling miscellaneous logisitics based activities.
- Volunteer, NeurIPS 2020: I was a volunteer at NeurIPS 2020, where I was responsible for multiple logistics based activities at event, while also being a reviewer for the poster session at the conference.
- Student Volunteer, Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing 2020 (EMNLP): I volunteered at EMNLP 2020 where I was responsible for handling miscellaneous logisitics based activities.
- Former Chapter Leader, GirlScript: I helped set-up the Delhi Chapter of GirlScript, while representing the same to various outreach events.
- Former Outreach Manager, Lean In India: I served as the outreach manager for the Indian chapter of the organization to manage the social and outreach aspects.
- Founder, Lean In, South Asian University Circle: I set-up the Lean In circle for South Asian University to motivate the members to contribute towards diversity in technology.
- Founder, SAU Programming Club: I founded the SAU Programming Club with a bunch of enthusiastic members that were responsible for contributing to enhance the technical knowledge of everyone within the University.
- Former Community Head, Women in Machine Learning and Data Science (WiMLDS), Delhi: I served as the Community head for the organization. My responsibilities involved managing the connected community through proper outreach while also organizing successful technical events.
- Admissions Volunteer, South Asian University: I volunteered for this role twice, where I was responsible for guiding new applicants about the admission process to South Asian University, while helping new aspirants witht their doubts and queries.
- Volunteer, First Convocation of South Asian University: I was responsible for ensuring the smooth flow of the large scale event that was held in Vigyan Bhawan in 2017.
- Volunteer, The Role of The Media in South Asia: This was a conference organized at South Asian University, where I was responsible for managing the schedules and whereabouts of high-profile guests such as Subina Shrestha.
