Hey there,

I am Pavitra Kadiyala

My Journey

About Me

I am a

I am a passionate Data Science Explorer, constantly on the search for new insights and knowledge. My interest in this field is backed by several relevant projects and a research background, which has given me a good background on the developments in data science.

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Education

August 2022 - May 2024

Carnegie Mellon University

M.S. in Artificial Intelligence and Innovation
CGPA: 3.93/4.00

July 2018 - June 2022

VIT Vellore

B.Tech in Computer Science Engineering
CGPA: 9.21/10.00

experience

September 2023 - May 2024

BNY Mellon

Data Scientist (Capstone)
Designed and developed a visualization platform using Neo4j, Cypher, and NeoDash, streamlining data summarization, analysis, and visualization of earnings calls. Leveraged Prompt Engineering and RAG techniques on Large Language Models to create a Topic Modeling tool and a QA chatbot, enabling efficient and insightful data retrieval from a Financial Knowledge Graph.

August 2023 - May 2024

Carnegie Mellon University

Teaching Assistant
Crafted assignments, organized Kaggle competitions, and structured course content for 400+ students under Prof. Bhiksha Raj. Presented recitations, managed office hours, supported term projects, graded assignments, and quizzes, covering topics like MLP, CNN, RNN, Transformers, and Attention using PyTorch.

June 2023 - August 2023

Juniper Networks

Software Engineering Intern
Built a knowledge graph for supply chain network data, for understanding interdependencies between multiple components, SKUs, manufacturers, etc. Implemented Graph Neural Networks to create an AI-based solution for scenario analysis within supply chain, enabling predictive insights into node-based risk for fluctuations in supply chain data, thus enhancing supply chain resilience.

January 2023 - May 2023

Bosch

Web Development Intern
Identified potential customers, conducted competitive analysis, analyzed product-market fit, and mapped stakeholders. Facilitated over 15 interviews with multiple stakeholders and delivered weekly product updates to the client.

Jan 2021 - July 2021

TECH MAHINDRA

Data Science Intern
Analyzed potential fraudulent claims and processed comments to classify issues for warranty analytics. Developed a resume ranker system by curating and refining information from various files, streamlining the hiring process.

October 2020 - December 2020

GLOBAL CERT

Web Development Intern
Worked on building the company website using HTML, CSS, JS.

Publications

Phishing Website Detection

Compared 9 Machine Learning Algorithms for predicting if the given website is a phishing website or not based on the given details of the website. Presented this paper at a conference(ICSMDI).

Disease Detection and Assistance

A framework that assists people afflicted with a particular disease and also displays relevant doctor details based on the given location. A chatbot is assists the users with health-related queries. Book chapter accepted for a book by Bentham Science.

Machine Anomaly Detection

Predicting the Anomaly in a machine, given the details about its engine and sensors using Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Autoencoders. Chapter published for a Springer book: DeepIoT2021.

Projects

Face Classification and Verification: Trained a CNN model [ConvNext] from scratch, with an accuracy of more than 90%, for classification on an Image dataset and used arc face loss for verification of unknown faces.

MLOps for Movie Reccomendation: Implemented and evaluated surprise models and tracked provenance for a movie streaming service. Performed unit testing and data quality checks for input data.

Scientific Entity Recognizer: Scraped and parsed papers from multiple conferences and manually annotated files. Trained a BERT models to accurately identify entities.

On-Device Voice Enhanced QA: A voice-enhanced insights system on Nvidia Jetson Nano. Applied optimization techniques, including quantization and pruning.

EXTRA-CURRICULAR

Dec 2018 - Dec 2020

ISTE-VIT

Organized various technical and non-technical events and was a Coordinator for a national level fest and a hackathon. Publicity and Marketing Head for the year 2020.

Dec 2018 - Feb 2021

LEO CLUB

Volunteered and Organized various events such as Diabetes Camp, Education sessions, Women's Gully Cricket.

July 2020 - May 2021

SKILLSHIP VELLORE

Chapter Manager for Editorial, Publicity and Marketing, Events and Public Relations. Led a team along with other managers and board members and organized various events.

Dec 2019 - Feb 2020

RIVIERA'20

Publicity and Marketing Committee volunteer. Worked to publicize the event and bring in participants from across the country.

April 2020 - Dec 2020

SKILLENZA

Worked as a campus representative(Hustler) and helped publicize and maximize student participation for Skillenza events.

Patents

Sign Language Interpreter

An application for ease of sign language detection with advanced features.

Human Trafficking and Missing People Detection

Main goal of this idea is to overcome these two challenges by using NLP and Image Processing techniques.

Mental Health and Workload Management

An application for easing the mental health crisis along with managing workload.

Achievements

Achiever Certificate for 2020-2021 by VIT for exemplary performance at various National events.

Second Runner up in FinTech Domain in Think with Terra Ideathon for the Farmezee project (Feb 2021).

Second Runner up in FinTech Domain in VIT Hack for the Farmezee project (October 2020).

contact me

Email

pavitrakadiyala@gmail.com

Instagram

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