I’m currently a MSCS student at Georgia Tech, specializing in Social Computing.
My interest is in looking for empirical ways to study and define social phenomena, especially using
social media.
I do research at the Technologies and
International
Development Lab where I work on Community-Based
COVID-19 Social Media Monitoring.
My Background
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May 23 - PresentResearch Assistant @ Technologies and International Development LabWorking on Social Media Analysis for COVID-19 Testing in Atlanta. Experimented with multiple models like LDA, HDP, BERT with different clustering methods. Currently working on a BERTopic + Chat GPT model.Created infrastructure to extract large number of Facebook, Instagram and Twitter posts automatically. Currently working on analysing reasons for COVID testing hesitance. Using COM-B framework to analyze social media data.
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Jan 23 - May 23Graduate Teaching Assistant @ Georgia TechGTA for 6550 Continuous Algorithms: Optimization and Sampling taught by Prof. Santosh Vempala. Contributed to his textbook.
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Apr 22 - Aug 22Software Engineer @ Microsoft Edge, Web-Assist TeamShipped feature Autofill from Outlook which allows users to complete Web-Checkin in a single click and automatically extracts flight details from Outook. Added Digital Signature to Microsoft Edge's PDF interface.Member of the Performance team and Telemetry team. Onboarded performace tests for many Edge teams and added novel telemetry to estimate feature precision. Used performace tests to reduce memory footprint by 24%
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Jul 20 - Apr 22Software Engineer @ Microsoft Edge, Autofill TeamDeveloped features like Custom Data Autofill, Date of Birth field, Data-list view. Conducted A/B tests to verify increased user adoption. Shipped Autofill for Linux.Was a member of the Accessibility Team. Reviewed many features to ensure compliance. Solved long-time accessibility bugs and introduced new narrator interface for Edge-specific pop-ups.
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Jun 19 - Jun 20Software Intern @ Microsoft Edge, Educational TeamCreated an Assignment Helper for students using a Flask server with a ML model trained to pick up sub-topics from Bing using NLP.
Developed an caption generator that provides closed captions for any video played in Edge using Azure Cognitive Services. Worked on Chrome audio buffer to reduce video lag. -
Jun 18 - Jul 18Software Development Intern @ Renalyx Health SystemsCreated Pump calibration modules for Dialysis Machine. Used a JTAG interface to debug the module.
