About Me

I am a Computer Science graduate student at USC. I like to design and build deploy Machine Learning applications to solve real-world problems empirically. I have a strong background in programming and Web Application Development. I am looking for full time positions starting May 2019 where my strong analytical and programming skills would be utilized in a mutually beneficial manner.

Contact Details

Gayathri Ravichandran
710 W 27th
Apartment 13
Los Angeles, CA 90007.

(310)920-2955
gravicha@usc.edu

Education

University of Southern California

Masters in Computer Science May 2019

I am pursuing my graduate studies in Computer Science at the University of Southern California.
Relevant Coursework : Artficial Intelligence, Algorithm Design , Applied Natural Language Processing , Web Technologies

Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India

B.E in Computer Science June 2017 GPA: 3.7

Completed a 4 year BE program at the Ramaiah Institute of Technology.
Relevant Coursework: Machine Learning, Data Mining, Big Data Management, Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, Algorithms, Data Structures, Introduction to Microprocessors,Theory of Computation, Discrete Mathematics, Web Development and Design, Operating Systems, Databases,Digital Electronics and Logic Design.

Work

IBM Research

Software Intern in Research May 2018 - August 2018

  • Developing a personalized witty line generator system in Python.
  • Engineering a predictive model to detect subtleties in language using SpaCY, Word2Vec , IBM Watson Tone Analyzer and ConceptNet
  • Using BeautifulSoup and Scrapy for data extraction and scraping from HTML and XML documents.
  • Extracting semantic relations from text datasets through the ConceptNet knowledge graph.
  • Performing predictive analysis with Logistic Regression, Decision Trees, Random Forests and XGBoost.
  • Adapted to version control (GitHub), performing code reviews and maintaining the code as it evolves

SCSK Corporation

Project Intern November 2016 - January 2017

Successfully aided the completion of the "Global Business Project" that helped SCSK identify the marketing opportunities for their software (OrfeG) in India. I collaborated with the management team in identifying potential new segments in the Indian market.

My Skills


  • Python
  • Java
  • Data Science
  • Machine Learning and AI
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Web Development

Programming Languages

Python, C++, C, JAVA

Software

Apache Lucene ,Tensorflow, MATLAB, Tesseract, WEKA, OpenCV, Android Studio , Corona SDK ,Jenkins

Cloud Platforms

AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform

Web Technologies

JavaScript, AngularJS, HTML, PHP, jQuery, CSS, JSON, REST

Databases & Platforms

MySQL, MongoDB, SQL Server, Windows, LINUX, UNIX

Libraries

NLTK , TextBlob, Pandas, Numpy, Tkinter, BeautifulSoup, Scrapy , Keras

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Client Testimonials

  • Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.

    Steve Jobs
  • The rise of Google, the rise of Facebook, the rise of Apple, I think are proof that there is a place for computer science as something that solves problems that people face every day.

    Eric Schmidt


Publications

Mining Student data by Ensemble Classification and Clustering for Profiling and Prediction of Student Academic Performance

Fall 2016 Mid Atlantic ASEE Conference

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dBot: AI Based Conversational Agent

International Journal of Science and Research

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Big Data Processing with Hadoop: A Review

International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology

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