Skilled at applying Machine Learning to garner insights from multiple sources. Past experience includes the application of Machine Learning to problems as varied as Software Engineering, Educational Data Mining and Music Signal Processing. Currently working on Natural Language Processing and Social Network Analysis based approaches to Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining.
Cloud Computing Center for Mobile Applications
Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan
May 2014 - July 2014 (3 months) | Hsinchu, Taiwan
Worked in the Cloud Applications Division (Division C) of the Cloud Computing Center for Mobile Applications on the Social Opinion Analysis Platform (SOAP) project. Assisted the team as a Crawler and a Linguist. Agile and Scrum methodologies were followed throughout the software development process.
Global Touchpoints Inc.
May 2014 - July 2014 (3 months) | Bangalore, India
As a Data Science intern for Global Touchpoints Inc. (India), I was involved in a project consulting for the startup GOQii. The objective of the project was to build a Motivation Mining Engine to determine the motivation of device users from various indicators collected by both the device and the associated application.
Microsoft India
May 2014 - Present (3 months) | Surathkal, Karnataka, India
As a Microsoft Student Partner (MSP), I build apps and demonstrations for Microsoft's latest technologies, host technical events and symposia, represent my university at Microsoft events, enhance my knowledge in cutting edge technologies and connect with like-minded students and faculty from around the world.
Student Activities Committee (SAC) 2014
IEEE Bangalore Section
March 2014 - Present (5 months) | Mangalore, Karnataka, India
The Student Activities Committee (SAC) coordinates interaction among various student branches IEEE. I am in charge of coordinating activities among over 30 student branches in the Mangalore Area.
NITK IEEE Student Branch
IEEE Bangalore Section
March 2014 - Present (5 months) | Surathkal, Karnataka, India
My responsibilities include coordinating the activities of the IEEE NITK Student Branch with IEEE Bangalore Section, IEEE R10, IEEE International as a part of the Global Integrated Network of IEEE(GINI). I also represent NITK IEEE at major conferences and congresses.
Ubiquitous Learning Research Lab
National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal
November 2013 - Present (9 months) | Surathkal, Karnataka, India
The Ubiquitous Learning Research Lab (http://ulrl.nitk.ac.in) is a multi-disciplinary group that focuses on designing and developing educational technologies for the future. The lab has collaborations with researchers from Carnegie Mellon University, Microsoft Research, Xerox Research and Google. As the Research Engineer, I focus on providing and validating research goals for every project. As the Data Scientist, I am mostly involved in Data Wrangling and Analysis.
OfficeHours and Georgia Institute of Technology on Coursera
January 2014 - March 2014 (3 months) | Online
Served as an OfficeHours TA for the online course "Games without Chance: Combinatorial Game Theory" offered by Dr. Tom Morley from Georgia Institute of Technology on Coursera.
Theory Group
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
May 2013 - July 2013 (3 months) | Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Worked under Professor C. Pandu Rangan on "Provably Secure Aggegate Signcyption Schemes". The work undertaken entailed a literature survey on various aggregate signcryption schemes to ascertain their relative advantages. The literature survey will then be used to ascertain applications of these schemes.
Hsinchu Science Park Industrial Tour 2014
Science Park Administration
July 2014 | Hsinchu, Taiwan
Attended the annual Hsinchu Industrial Science Park Tour. Attendees were allowed to visit and interact with various companies housed in the Science Park including Siliconware Precision Industries Co., Ltd. (SPIL), Realtek Semiconductor Corp., Epistar Corp. and Hermes-Epitek Corp.
Asian Conference on Education (ACE) 2014
International Academic Forum (IAFOR)
May 2014 | Osaka, Japan
Was provided an opportunity to review abstracts submitted to the IAFOR ACE2014 conference as part of a reciprocal system instituted, encouraging authors of accepted papers to contribute as reviewers. A senior reviewer is credited with reviewing 6 or more abstracts.
Asian Conference on Society, Education and Technology (ACSET) 2014
International Academic Forum (IAFOR)
May 2014 | Osaka, Japan
Was provided an opportunity to review abstracts submitted to the IAFOR ACSET2014 conference as part of a reciprocal system instituted, encouraging authors of accepted papers to contribute as reviewers. A senior reviewer is credited with reviewing 6 or more abstracts.
International Summer School on Leading Edge Software Engineering (ISS-LESE) 2014
National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal
March 2014 | Surathkal, India
Attended ISS-LESE 2014. Topics covered included Agile Development, Recent Trends in Model Driven Development, Data Analysis Patterns in Software Engineering, Code Refactoring and Code Slicing among others with speakers from the University of North Texas, the University of South Australia, Indian Institute of Science, Dell R&D and Singapore Management University. Also presented a poster titled "Demonstration of MapReduce for Mining Software Repositories" at the same venue.
Microsoft Research Winter School on Theoretical Computer Science 2012
International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad
December 2012 | Hyderabad, India
Attended the 5 day winter school on Theoretical Computer Science organized by Microsoft Research India and IIIT Hyderabad. Topics covered included Machine Learning, Approximation Algorithms and Differential Privacy.
Ashwin Kalyan V, Sreecharan Sankaranarayanan, Vinay Sundarrajan, Dr. Sumam David S
Midwest Music Information Retrieval Gathering (MMIRG) 2014, Northwestern University, Illinois
June 14, 2014 | Evanston, Illinois
A poster titled "Music Transcription in Carnatic Music through Classification of Gamaka" was presented at MMIRG 2014 at the Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.
Raghavendra SH, Sreecharan Sankaranarayanan
International Humanitarian Technology Conference (IHTC) 2014, Montreal, Canada
June 4, 2014 | Montreal, Canada
A full paper titled "SmartSlate: Rethinking Tactile Interfaces for the Blind" was presented at the International Humanitarian Technology Conference (IHTC 2014) and published as a part of the proceedings. The paper has been submitted to IEEE Xplore for indexing.
Sreecharan Sankaranarayanan, Siddharth Santurkar
International Summer School on Leading Edge Software Engineering (ISS-LESE) 2014, Surathkal, India
March 7, 2014 | Surathkal, India
A poster titled "Demonstration of MapReduce for Mining Software Repositories" was presented as a part of the International Summer School on Leading Edge Software Engineering (ISS-LESE 2014) and published as a part of the summer school proceedings.
Bachelor of Technology, Computer Engineering, 9.32/10, 2011 - 2015 (4 years)
Activities and Societies: NITK IEEE Student Chapter, EFOREA (E-Cell NITK), SPIC MACAY Mangalore, Star Gazing Club (SGC), NITK Computer Society Chapter, Codechef Campus Chapter.
Pre University Education, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics and Electronics (PCME), 94.67%, 2009 - 2011 (2 years)
Activities and Societies: Science Club.
Awards: Institute Merit Award for Academic Excellence.
CBSE, 97.2%, 2008 - 2009 (1 year)
Activities and Societies: School Choir.
Awards: Placed third in the state of Karnataka.
Executive Member, GINI Coordinator, Mangalore Hub Leader
Member Number: 92129339
The NITK IEEE Student Chapter is recognized among the most active student chapters in the world and has received numerous accolades. Notable among these include -
IEEE Regional Exemplary Student Branch Award (Asia-Pacific)
IEEE R10 Darrel Chong Student Activity Award - Silver
IEEE R10 Student Enterprise Award
Student Member, Volunteer
Member Number: 92129339
Volunteer for the IEEE Computer Society Membership Growth and Sustainability Committee (MGSC). Worked as a part of a four member team from the Bangalore Section of the IEEE Computer Society.
Student Member
Member Number: 7257782
Score: 330/340
April 2014
Quantitative Section - 170/170
Verbal Section - 160/170
Analytical Writing Assessment - 4.0/6.0