Hasitha Chikkala

Actively looking for Full-time Data Scientist or Software Engineer roles

Goal-Oriented and Research-driven computer science student pursuing Masters in Computer science in Arizona State University with extensive developmental experience aimed at Data Science and Software Development.

Expertise

Full-Stack Application Development

Designing and Developing technical solutions for real-world problems on Mobile and Web platforms.

Data Science

Working with varied datasets into visualising, analysing and answering queries about the data.

Technology Enthusiast

Quickly learn required technologies, research them and design solutions according to the user requirements.

Workaholic

Love working with interesting teams on challenging projects; Workaholic in a positive sense.

Skills

Programming : Java, Python, R, C
Database Management: SQL, Neo4j, MongoDB, Json, XML, Column-oriented
Big Data Analysis: Data Preprocessing, NLP, Weka, Hadoop, Apache Spark
Data Visualization: HTML, CSS, JS, D3js, Tableau
Application Development: Laravel, Github pages, Jekyll, Web2py, Android Studio
Machine Learning: Tensorflow, Theano, pandas, Jupyter

Work Experience

2018 - Present

Digital Asset Developer

Prof. Jesse Lecy @ASU, Downtown campus, Tempe, AZ

Designed an open-source skeleton course website with user-specified syntax parsing using JS, R markdown, Jekyll. Testing and maintaining the environment for a Fall-18 course - “https://ds4ps.github.io/course_website/”

2016 - 2017

Software Development Intern

@At Aham Learning Hub, Hyd, India

Designed responsive dashboards for a website using latest data visualization tool D3js- “https://ahamlearning.com/”. Tested the environment for efficiency with Neo4j (graphDb) instead of Mysql (RDBMS)

2015 - 2016

Research Intern

Prof. Vinay Kumar Mittal

“Gesture Signals Processing for a Silent Spybot” - IEEE-SPIN-2015, 19th-20th Feb 2015

Education

2017 - 2019

Masters in Computer Science

Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

CGPA: 3.33/4.00

2013 - 2017

Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering

IIIT Chittoor, India

CGPA: 9.22/10.00

Portfolio

Column-Store Database for more optimal DBMS

Designing a dbms by extending Java Minibase (open source row-store dbms Implementation) to develop a fully functional column-store database capable of query evaluation, optimization and buffer management functionalities.

Bitcoin price prediction using historical data and twitter sentiment

Experimented with LSTM, Regression models for the application to predict Bitcoin trading rates using a decade’s historical trading data. Also taking into account twitter sentiment on the same topic, collectively achieving a prediction accuracy of 72%.

American Sign Language gesture recognition

Developed a model to understand ASL by training features like DWT, FFT on raw sensor data from EMG, orientation, gyroscope, accelerometer to analyze the semantic meaning of a test gesture, attaining an accuracy of 82%.

User Personality Detection (NLP) - on Mobile data

Developed a program that analyzes the user's personality traits based on his/her whatsapp text messages and internet browser history on a personal crowdsourced dataset with an accuracy of 78%.

Automated Collage Generation (Computational Creativity)

Designed a program that generates automated collages on social events by retrieving data from social media.

Find my Parking Lot

Developed an android application to load and retrieve parking spaces nearer to the user (Admin and User).

Interest

Research

I enjoy reading technical articles and researching about latest technologies and reading research papers related to the fields of Info viz and NLP

Art

I love painting and sketching in my leisure. It keeps me calm and focussed.

Achievements

  • Participated in Hack Arizona and worked on developing a AI based model for screening resumes.

  • Teaching Assistant for Theory of Computation, Computer Organization, AI and ML @IIIT Chittoor.

  • Earned a place in the Dean’s list for 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th semesters @IIIT Chittoor.

  • Member of the Placement Committee (2016 - 2017) @IIIT Chittoor.

Contact

Address
1255 East University Drive
Tempe, AZ 85281
Phone Number
+1 480 577-1390
Email
hchikkal@asu.edu