Saumya Shah
With these varied experiences, I also strongly believe in giving back to my alma mater. I am still heavily involved with a committee that I led in my undergrad called Unicode, that encourages budding CS sophomores and juniors to contribute to open source projects and find their calling in tech. This initiative has garnered great success, where many of our students receiving offers from international research internships, getting selected for Google Summer of Code and winning national-level hackathons.
In my spare time, I like to dabble in stuff far from the tech space, to conciously build an all-round personality. Since my move to the US, I have been a very avid cook and love whipping up new recipes and trying different cuisines. Lately, I have been very interested in calligraphy, sketching and bullet journaling. I am a big productivity and minimalism nerd, often reading up or trying out productivity tricks in an attempt to achieve a more balanced and mindful life.
Education
University of Washington
Dwarkadas J. Sanghvi College of Engineering
Experience
Machine Learning and NLP Engineering Intern
I was responsible for revamping and redesigning the Showtimes feature for Siri where a user can ask Siri about theaters nearby. I was responsible for the new workflow and implementation of the feature along with developing a new UI also compatible with the Siri Jr. interface. My code went into the Siri pipeline at the end of my internship. I also presented my work to the head of Siri Experience who was impressed that I developed a shippable product at the end of 10 weeks of my 12 week internship.
Machine Learning Intern
Worked on projects in Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing. Created a probabilistic Gamma-Poisson classifier for record linkage which has now been taken into production. Also worked on supervised topic modeling and attribute-metric extraction to automate compliance checking of ESG reports.
Student Developer at Google Summer of Code 2018
Worked with Free UK Genealogy where I developed a framework that performs Named Entity Recognition on data present in wills and probate books from 18th century England.
Machine Learning Intern
Created Machine Learning and Deep Learning models for classification on a highly skewed dataset of identity cards
Research Experience
A collection of articles, presentations or published articles.
Graduate Research Assistant - Family History Extraction using Clinical Narratives
Journal Paper - Automated Question Generation and Answer Verification using Visual Data
Journal Paper - Optimization of Rainwater Harvesting Sites using GIS
Creations
Automated Topic-Based Extractive Summarization System
My team and I built a summarization system which extracts sentences from multiple documents that best represent the topic as its summary. This was a part of my LING 573 course on NLP Systems.
Named Entity Recognition using BERT and ELMo
As a part of my LING 575 course on Neural Language Models, my team and I built a Named Entity Recognizer using BERT and ELMo
Automated Question Generation and Answer Verification using Digital Data
My final year undergraduate project which aims at automating question generation for images and verifying the result using Visual Question Answering techniques. Thus, jointly learning through these two tasks can bring improvements to Visual Question Generation (VQG) and also solves a significant issue of dataset annotation. The thesis proposes to integrate a VQG module with a VQA architecture to give an end-to-end architecture that performs self-evaluation of questions by creating QA pairs.
Gammalink
Built a Gamma-Poisson graphical model to present a supervised solution for fuzzy matching of record pairs aka record linkage.
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Open Source Contributions
Probate Parsing
Built as a student developer for Google Summer of Code for the organization - Free UK Genealogy.I created an end-to-end system that could extract the text from probate books and seed them into a database with entities such as name, county, date, relationships, etc.
leadership
Senior Mentor
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Skills
- Python
- Java
- JavaScript
- linux
- Ubuntu
- Windows
- git
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- MongoDB
- SQLLite
- Redis
- HTML5
- CSS3
- jQuery
- Bootstrap
- Django
- Heroku
- Travis
- AWS
- Google Cloud Platform
- Trello
- Scrum
- NumPy
- Pandas
- PyTorch
- Keras
- Scikit Learn
- NLTK
- OpenCV
- Genism
- SpaCy
- Tesseract-OCR
- ArcGIS