Shishira R Maiya

Shishira R Maiya

College Park, Maryland, United States
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Computer Science graduate student with interests in Machine Learning, Computer Vision and…

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Experience

  • University of Maryland Graphic

    University of Maryland

    Washington D.C. Metro Area

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    Santa Monica, California, United States

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    New York City Metropolitan Area

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    United States

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    Washington D.C. Metro Area

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    Bangalore

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    Bengaluru Area, India

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    Bengaluru Area, India

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    Bengaluru Area, India

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    Bangalore

Education

  • University of Maryland Graphic

    University of Maryland

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    Activities and Societies: Quiz Club MSRIT

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    Activities and Societies: Quizzing team & Chess team.

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    Activities and Societies: Quizzing team (National Level - twice) Member of the chess team (State level - thrice) Boy scouts - Governor's award.

Volunteer Experience

  • Head

    Quiz Club RIT

    - 1 year 3 months

    Served as the head of Quiz Club.
    I was responsible for hosting/coordinating all quizzing events on campus including high profile quizzes at major fests.

Publications

Courses

  • Artificial Intelligence

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  • Computer Organization

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  • Data Structures

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  • Discrete Mathematical Structures

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  • Introduction to Deep Learning

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  • Machine Learning

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  • Operating Systems

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Projects

  • Mumbai Slum Segmentation

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    Other creators
    See project

  • ModiScript: An esoteric programming language

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    Created as a project for the compiler design course.
    "ModiScript" is an esoteric language created with the sole intention of making use of quotes by our beloved PM Narendra Modi. The star feature of this language is that the language consists entirely of remarkable statements made by the PM. The language is dynamically typed and turing complete, sprinkled with words of wisdom by our PM.
    ModiScript also features in the Wikipedia's list of esoteric programming languages!

    Other creators
    See project

Honors & Awards

  • Winner: AI Hackathon by TargetHR

    Binary Fountain

    * Worked on emotion classification using a CNN-LSTM architecture
    * Worked on text data to identify corresponding aspects and sentiment scores using LSTM+dependency tree combination.

  • BMSCE Utsav Quiz: Winners

    BMSCE

    Won first place in general quiz at BMSCE's annual fest Utsav.
    We also finished second in the India Quiz.

  • IBM Hackathon - Pravega 2018 : Winners

    Indian Institute of Science

    The objective of this hackathon was to build a product prototype using Watson's API's.
    We utilized the Sentiment analysis and tone analyzer API's of Watson and worked on it to build an aspect level sentiment engine. This was used to provide valuable insights to restaurant owners based on Zomato reviews.

  • Awesummly - What the heck 1.0 : Winners

    Awesummly

    A 24 hour hackathon organized by awesummly.
    The teams had to pick one of the 3 problem statements and present a solution. The problems and our solutions were:
    Pronoun resolution : Used stanford's Core NLP.
    topic extraction : Using LDA along with customized heuristics.
    generative summarization : Used sequence to sequence GRU model with attention.
    Our team was able to solve all 3 problems and were declared as winners.

  • Pragyaan - Hackathon 2017 : Third place

    NIT Trichy

    Finished third at the hackathon conducted as a part of NIT Trichy's Tech fest Pragyaan.

  • Winner: SnS Hackathon

    Phase Shift: BMSCE

    A 3 hour coding challenge where the participants are expected to debug and provide a working piece of software from a pile of bug ridden stub code with no internet access.

  • NASA Space Apps Challenge 2017 - Bangalore Winners

    NASA

    A 24 hour hackathon conducted by NASA in association with SAP. Our team built a predictive model for fighting wildfires, using MODIS satellite data from NASA.

  • Microsoft Data Science Hackathon- Runners

    Microsoft

    Data science hackathon organized by Microsoft at IISc. Built a portal that enables one to access the patent journal published by IP India, in a smart way. The portal enables you to search for a filed patent via names of any entities or even keywords.

  • Career Launcher Young India Challenge: Bangalore Winners, South India 3rd Place

    Career Launcher

    National level quiz competition conducted by Career Launcher, featuring a dash o general knowledge and math aptitude. The competition progressed in city, regional and national levels. We finished as winners at Bangalore level, 3rd in South India regional level and 5th in the National Finals.

  • MVIT Competitve coding - Winner 2016

    Sir M. Visvesvaraya Institute of Technology

    A Competitve coding challenge for college students.

  • SAP UI5 and Hana Hackathon

    SAP

    A fast paced hackathon where we were expected to come with an innovative UI using the SAP's UI5 tool and deploy it on the HANA platform.

  • Abai Fest Hackathon - Winner 2016

    KAVGC

    This was a 24 hour hack in which the participants were expected to solve an algorithmic simulation problem using openGL in C++

  • Under the peepal tree India Quiz - 2016

    RVCE

    Won the second prize in the prestigious and Asia's largest quiz fest at RVCE.

  • MVIT Competitive coding - Winner

    Sir M. Visvesvaraya Institute of Technology

    A competitive coding challenge featuring a variety of problems to be solved in the given time.

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