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Divya S

- Research Program Mentor

PhD candidate at University of Cincinnati

Expertise

AI and Machine Learning

Bio

I currently work as a Lead AI/ ML Engineer at Nike. Previously, I was a Senior Data Scientist at Teradata Corp. I have a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Cincinnati, OH. My dissertation in the area of Graph Mining received the Best Dissertation award in the CS department at University of Cincinnati, 2017. My research interests encompass developing end-to-end machine learning and deep learning solutions to solve real world problems in interdisciplinary areas such as Bioinformatics, Social Networks, Manufacturing and Crime Prevention. I am actively involved in the peer review of journals and books in the area of Machine Learning. I have also served as a Session Chair in machine learning conferences such as ICMLA 2021 and BDA 2021. In my free time, I love to cook, go for long drives and attend meetups in Machine Learning and Data Science.

Project ideas

Project ideas are meant to help inspire student thinking about their own project. Students are in the driver seat of their research and are free to use any or none of the ideas shared by their mentors.

Question and Answering System for school

Have you joined a new school? Or remember starting a new school year? Let's say you need to check some basic questions about school procedures. You could design a question and answer based chatbot for your school's website. This will involve developing a machine learning model that can understand and answer questions based upon all text sections included in your school website. Furthermore, there will be tasks involving data collection and preparation, some basic web development, model evaluation, deployment and monitoring. It can be a very practical project that can benefit the school community by providing quick and accurate answers to common queries, thereby helping the parents, staff and students.

Coding skills

python, java, c++, scala

Teaching experience

I was awarded a Graduate summer mentorship scholarship during my PhD where I mentored an undergraduate student on a project in Machine Learning. He was from Electrical Engineering and wanted to do a project in Computer Science in order to apply for Masters in Computer Science in the top 10 schools in the US. I helped him complete his project and later he got admitted into University of Michigan and is now working as a Deep Learning Researcher at Apple. I have taught courses in Machine Learning and mentored women members in Bay area meetups organized by Women in Data Science organization. During my graduate studies, I have taught courses in Computer Science and Embedded systems. Further I taught programming in summer camps organized for high school students.

Credentials

Work experience

Nike (2021 - Current)
Lead AI/ML Engineer
Teradata (2017 - 2021)
Senior Data Scientist

Education

University of Delhi
BTech Bachelor of Technology (2006)
Information Technology
University of Cincinnati
MS Master of Science (2009)
Computer Science
University of Cincinnati
PhD Doctor of Philosophy candidate
computer science

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