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Prishita Ray

Deep Learning Researcher and Open Source Developer

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Currently

Working at the Center for Digital Health and Artificial Intelligence, John Hopkins University.

Education

Jan 2022- Dec 2022

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
MEng, Computer Science (spec. in ML/AI)

Jul 2017- Jun 2021

Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore
BTech, Computer Science and Engineering

Research Experience

Feb 2022- Present

Human-Robot Collaboration and Companionship Lab, Cornell University
Master of Engineering Project I, Graduate Researcher
Mentor: Prof. Guy Hoffman
Topic: ShadowSense

Sep 2022- Present

Autonomous Systems Lab, Cornell University
Master of Engineering Project II
Mentor: Prof. Mark Campbell
Topic: Reinforcement Learning Testbed for Autonomous Robot Navigation

Carboncopies Foundation - BrainGenix
Research Volunteer
Mentor: Thomas Liao
Topic: BrainGenix-NES: A Novel Neuron Simulation Architecture for Whole Brain Emulation

Dec 2020- Feb 2021

Indian Space Research Organization
Research Intern
Mentor: Dr. Santhi V.
Topic: Speckle Noise Removal in SAR Images using Wavelet Transform and Neuro-Fuzzy Techniques

May 2019- Jul 2019

Stochastic Systems Lab, CSA, Indian Institute of Science
SRFP Scholar
Mentor: Prof. Shalabh Bhatnagar
Topic: Stochastic Game Frameworks for Efficient Energy Management in Microgrid Networks

Research Projects conducted under VIT faculty (School of Computer Science and Engineering):

Jan 2021- Jun 2021

Undergraduate Capstone Project
Mentor: Prof. Geraldine Bessie Amali D.
Topic: Efficient Renewable Energy Powered Automatic Water Dam Control System

Dec 2019- Feb 2021

Academic Research Project
Mentor: Dr. Kakelli Anil Kumar
Topic: A New Combined Model with Reduced Label Dependency for Malware Classification

Apr 2020- June 2020

Academic Research Project
Mentor: Prof. Rajesh Kaluri
Topic: Contemporary Developments and Technologies in Deep Learning-based IoT

Engineering Experience

Apr 2023- Jan 2024

American Express, New York, United States
Engineer III

Sept 2021- Jan 2022

Harman International Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore, India
Associate ML Engineer

May 2020- Jul 2020

Visa Inc., Bangalore, India
Software Engineering Intern

Feb 2020- Jun 2020

Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Bangalore, India
HPE CTY Program Intern

Dec 2019- Jul 2020

Samsung R&D Institute, Bangalore, India
PRISM Project Developer

Notable Open Source Contributions:

Jun- Aug 2020 Google Summer of Code (2020), FrameNet Brasil UFJF

Charon
Charon is a preprocessing and reporting Module for the FNBr Webtool developed during GSoC. It serves as a tool for preprocessing text and image data in videos for multimodal annotation.

BrainGenix-NES
BrainGenix-NES or NES is the Neuron Emulation System division of the BrainGenix department at Carboncopies. NES is a distributed biological neuron simulator designed for the emulation of human minds.

BrainGenix-STS
BrainGenix-STS or simply STS is the Scan Translation System division of the BrainGenix Department. The main goal of STS is the functional translation of architectural data from scans of brain tissue and the to-be-developed generic working model of the human brain.

Service:

Peer Reviewer: Journal of Network and Systems Management (2020)
Served as a reviewer in their special issue for Cybersecurity management in the era of AI.