Anushka Sandesara

About

Passionate Programmer with a curious mind, Loves to solve complex problems,Optimistic : Concludes me

I am an aspiring Data Scientist because I believe that data tells us more than just numbers, it helps us understand people and their desires. We're creating more than 2.5 exabytes of data every day, which contains all information, from private to professional. It needs someone to harness and make sense of it all. There is no doubt that data has been called "the oil of the digital economy" because of its immense potential. In this technological era, everything is changing continuously so it is necessary to stay updated as what is unconventional today is obsolete tomorrow. I am currently a final year B.Tech student enrolled in the Charotar University of Science and Technology with the current CGPA:- 9.32.

Project Work

I have always been fascinated by the novel and groundbreaking applications of Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, and Data Science. I have opted for a diverse number of courses and projects during the term-work that have helped me immensely to enhance my understanding. Unsatisfied, I keep on exploring the field more by studying recent innovations thoroughly.

  • City: Ahmedabad,India
  • Degree: B.Tech in Computer Engineering (Pursuing)
  • Latest Work: Data Science, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing, Data Analysis
  • Email: anushkasandesara@gmail.com

I have mostly worked on projects related to Python and Machine Learning with data visualization and analysis. A few projects that I have worked on during my undergraduate study are as follows:-

Face detection using Python and OpenCV

  • ->The technique which I implemented here is a specific use case of object detection technology that deals with detecting the instances of semantic objects such as humans.
  • ->OpenCV grabs each frame from the webcam and then detects faces by processing each frame. I implemented it using Haarcascades which is a machine learning-based approach.

Question Answering using Self-Attention with BERT approach

  • -> The main purpose of this project was to make the existing system less tedious by reducing the amount of time required to find the answer.
  • ->The whole system worked on the BERT model released by Google research. The model worked on the SQUAD dataset and is trained on it.

Document Summarization with Machine Learning

  • ->It consumes a lot of time in reading the entire book which has many repetitions so it would be beneficial if there is something that can summarize the document with the relevant information and removes the repeated and unnecessary information.
  • ->The system summarizes by copying and rearranging passages then generates new phrases by rephrasing or using words that are not in the original text.

Personality Prediction System

  • -> Five basic characteristics of individuals are taken into consideration- openness, neuroticism, conscientiousness, agreeableness, and extraversion.
  • -> Model implemented to predict test data is Logistic Regression as it is an effective model for predicting output class labels for dependent categorical data.

Speech Emotion Recognition using Deep Learning

  • ->Deep learning techniques provide advantages over traditional methods as it can detect complex structures and features.
  • -> Studied various approaches such as SVM, MLP, CNN, RNN and lastly implemented it using Deep neural networks (DNN) with convolutional, pooling, and fully connected layers.

Customer Segmentation using K-means Clustering

  • ->Division of customers into groups based on interests and characteristics
  • ->It works by finding the groups based on Euclidean Distance which is a measure of distance. Then the user selects k groups to cluster and the algorithm finds the best centroids for the groups.

Stock Market Prediction

  • ->To determine future market trends of stock by evaluating past data and news headlines.
  • ->Developed a model using NLP that will be able to buy and sell the stock based on the predictions without human intervention.

Company Projects- Improving Cross-Border Child Protection, Improving the Lives of Cancer Patients by Identifying Existing Non-Cancer Generic Drugs, Mentor-Mentee Recommendation System

Skills

Programming Skills:-Java, Python, C, C++, R 85%
Front End Technologies:-HTML, CSS, JavaScript, BootStrap 90%
Back End Technologies: PHP, Django 75%
Operating System: Linux (Ubuntu), Windows (XP, 7 and 10) 100%
Key Skills: Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Data Analytics, Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing, Predictive Modeling 80%

Resume

I am a final year Computer Engineering student always diligent and curious to explore and work at the intersection of innovation, cutting-edge technology and creativity to make human lives better. Here is my attached Resume.

Portfolio

  • Research Paper Publications
  • Internships
  • Blogs
  • Volunteer
1. Facial Mask Detection using Stacked CNN Model [Link].

In this paper, we propose a stacked Conv2D model that is highly efficient for the detection of facial masks. Such convolutional neural networks work effectively as they can deduce even minute pixels of the images. The proposed model is a stack of 2-D convolutional layers with relu activations as well as Max Pooling and we implemented this model using Gradient Descent for training and binary cross-entropy as a loss function. We trained our model on an amalgam of two datasets which are RMFD (Real World Masked Face Dataset) and Kaggle Datasets. Overall, we achieved a validation/testing accuracy of 95% and a training accuracy of 97%.
2. A Comparitive Study on Speech Emotion Recognition [Link].

In this paper, we tried to discuss the different approaches through which speech emotion recognition for audio file type can be implemented and have provided a comparative analysis of these different approaches. We discussed basically 4 main classifiers i.e. SVM, MLP, RNN-LSTM, and CNN, these classifiers are said to be most accurate than others.
3.Network Intrusion Detection using Linear and Ensemble ML Modeling.
Status:- Submitted Under Review
Currently, we are thriving in a world that is limitless and with no boundaries. With the augment in advances technologically and scientifically there are high chances of attacks, breaches, and other vulnerabilities in the network. So developed an intrusion detection system using linear and ensemble models such as Logistic Regression, Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD), Naive Bayes, Light GBM(LGBM), XGBoost and Stacked Model.
ISRO-Indian Space Research Organisation   January2021 - Present [Link]
Role:- Machine Learning Research Intern
->Working with satellite images and data obtained from remote sensing to build machine learning and deep learning models.
->Researching the existing approaches and models that use satellite images to predict the outcome.
Omdena (California, USA)   October2020 - Present [Link]
Project:-Improving the Lives of Cancer Patients by Identifying Existing Non-Cancer Generic Drugs  (January2021- Present)[Project Link]
->Clinical studies, like clinical trials and observational studies, assess whether a drug intervention is effective for treating a disease.Reboot Rx is interested in synthesizing information from publications describing these studies in order to identify the most promising repurposing opportunities.
->Developing machine learning models and information extraction rules to extract numerical data from clinical study abstracts and classify them with specified outcome labels
->Training datasets with curated labels used for model training and Code for wrapper functions is extracted so it can be stor data in a structured format
 
Project:-Improving Cross-Border Child Protection (October 2020- December 2020)[Project Link]
-> Worked on International Social Service Cross-Border Child Protection Project as a Machine Learning Engineer with 50 collaborators across the world
-> Started working as a Junior Machine Learning Engineer then collaborated as a task leader by managing coding and tasks
->Dynamically analyzed data and better organized intervention in real-time to avoid unnecessary delays in service
->Provided ISS caseworkers a model with expert guidance on children issues and better visualization of the cases they handle
Clique Community (A project based STEM community)  (3-week program) [Link]
Project Name:- Recommendation Engine and Conversational AI
-> Worked on a basic Mentor-Mentee recommendation engine, which is capable of understanding users history and preferences to recommend a mentor to mentee and a mentee to mentor by continuously updating feedback and outcomes into the recommendation engine
->Moreover, developed a basic conversational AI that talks to mentors and mentees to figure out what their needs are, what kind of help they want to offer and do all sorts of information collection, from a chat interface
Sparks Foundation (Singapore)   September2020-October2020 [Link]
-> Worked on Projects related to Data Analysis and Machine Learning
-> Completed Stock Market Prediction of SENSEX using Numerical and Textual Analysis
Exposys Data Labs (Banglore) - Data Science Internship   July2020-August2020 [Link]
-> Worked on machine learning and artificial intelligence projects as well as upskilled my data science skills
-> Looked over analysis of customers and developed customer segmentation project for the company
InsideSherpa-Forage - Virtual Internship   March2020-April2020 [Link]
-> Completed practical task modules in Data Quality Assessment, Data Visualization, and Data Insights
Anstel Pvt. Ltd   March2019 -June2019 [Link]
-> Exploring Python and visualization of datasets by implementing face recognition using python and OpenCV
-> Also, tried to gain more accuracy in the recognition system
1.Language Model -GPT3 [Link]
-> GPT-3 is a third-generation, autoregressive language model that makes use of deep learning to produce texts similar to those thought by humans, or if said in simple words it is developed to produce code or other data, the sequence of words beginning from a source input.
2.Introduction to Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) [Link]
-> This robust class of neural networks are used to generate images and text that never existed before.
-> Generative models consisting of 2 sub-models-Generator and Discriminator are one of the most promising approaches to understand the vast amount of data that surrounds us nowadays.
3.Global Coronavirus Datasets [Link]
-> The world is currently witnessing one of the worst-hit pandemics and the problem doesn't seem to be eradicating.
-> Using these datasets on COVID-19 available for different countries, people can increase their analysis and visualization skills by developing predictive models.
4.Data Analysis and Data Analysts: A Big Confusion [Link]
-> People tend to use both the terms interchangeably but both the terms are quite different.
-> To put it in a limpid manner, one method looks towards the past and the other towards the future.
Muskurahat Foundation-NGO [Link]
-> Looked over indigent children as well as their basic necessities.
-> Helped the children regarding their education and living to augment the quality of their life.
Charitism [Link]
-> As COVID-19 situation prevails, I started helping the needy people by donating food packets.
-> I will keep contributing by distributing food and other resources, in the hope that my modest efforts will give comfort to underprivileged people.
Core ML Team Member of Amazon Student Club (ASC Charusat) [Link]
-> Providing a platform for all the interested students to learn about AWS and other cloud services.
-> Collaborating on various machine learning projects that help the club to prosper effectively.
-> Hosting various webinars and coding events.
Coding Ninja- Campus Ambassador [Link]
-> Motivated students of various colleges to learn the basics of coding and developing algorithms.
-> Hosting various webinars and coding events where students beginning their journey in computer engineering can solve their problems.
Cognizance Technical Festival- Central Volunteer [Link]
-> I conducted a coding event called #coder wherein I provided small code snippets of various algorithms to all the participants, and they searched the location in the college based on the given code.
-> This event helped students brush up on their coding basics and start working on advanced algorithms.

Contact

Location:

Gujarat, India

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