PRIYANKA KUKREJA

About Me

I am a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University pursuing MS in Computer Science. My interest lies in computer vision and building scalable systems for visual computing tasks

Education

M.S. Computer Science

Carnegie Mellon University

2016 - 2017

M.Sc. (Honours) Economics

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

2011 - 2016

B.E. (Honours) Computer Science

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

2011 - 2016

Projects

Optical Character Recognizer using Neural Networks                                Fall 2016

• Built a classifier to categorize the 26 letters and 10 digits using a single hidden layer fully connected feed forward neural network
• Obtained an accuracy of (approximately) 91% on the NIST dataset

Facial Expression Recognition in real time using Neural Networks                Fall 2016

• Designed a 4-layer neural network using Torch and Lua to classify a human emotion as: happy, surprised, neutral, sad and angry
• Obtained an accuracy of 51% on a corpus of 28,709 48X48 grayscale images

Scene Classification using Spatial Pyramid Matching                                Fall 2016

Built a scene classifier for the following categories: aquarium, beach, bridge and waterfall using Spatial Pyramid Matching, an extension of the Bag-of-Words approach

Image Stitching tool based on Feature Matching and Homography                Fall 2016

• Implemented Binary Robust Independent Elementary Features  (BRIEF) descriptor to detect and describe the features in an image
• Stitched together different images using feature matching and homography to create a panorama

Inverse Compositional Lucas Kanade (LK) tracker                                Fall 2016

• Developed the LK tracker with a single template and generalized it to accommodate for large appearance variance
• Implemented motion subtraction to track moving pixels in a scene

3D Reconstruction                                                                        Fall 2016

Utilized multiview geometry to obtain 3D reconstruction of the Middlebury multiview ‘temple’

 dataset

Compiler Construction                                                                  Spring 2015

• Built a Compiler targeting the Intel 8086 architecture for a self designed language in ANSI C
• Used dead code elimination and common sub-expression elimination to produce an optimized 3-address target code

Experience

Qubole                                                                                   Bangalore, India

Software Engineering Intern                                                        Jan 2016 - Jun 2016

• Designed an API for open source query engine Presto to access databases stored on multiple platforms on the AWS cluster
• Made improvements to the Qubole’s Presto, Spark and Zeppelin offerings and data import/export tool based on Sqoop

Microsoft                                                                          Hyderabad, India

Software Engineering Intern                                                        Jan 2015 - Jun 2015

• Automated the deployment of an application to AWS Beanstalk as a part of Release Management hub in Visual Studio Online
• Engineered the Release Management hub in Visual Studio Online to work on Linux platform

Ludwig Maximilian University                                                 Munich, Germany

Research Intern                                                                Jan 2014 - Jun 2014

• Modeled super resolution nuclei images using co-localization and spatial statistical analysis in R
• Results will be made available as a part of the public package called 'bioimagetools'

Bhabha Atomic Research Centre                                                           Mumbai, India

Software Engineering Intern                                                         May 2013 - Jul 2013

Built an application in JavaFX and Python Django to create and manage the 2D layout of a workspace and store the information at a centralized repository using PostgreSQL

Skills

Languages: C, Java, Python, R, Torch, Lua, C#

Frameworks: Linux, Windows, MATLAB, CUDA, IBM SPSS Modeler, Microsoft SQL

Scholarships

• Awarded Merit Scholarship by Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani for 9 consecutive semesters and a summer term from January 2012 to June 2016
• Awarded Merit Scholarship by DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) in 2014
• Awarded Merit Scholarship in Class 11th and 12th in the form of 95% fee waiver

Contact Me

priyankakukreja267@gmail.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/priyanka-kukreja/