Apoorva Krishnamurthy

MS CS @ Georgia Tech | Prev: Data and Applied Science at Microsoft, Software Engineer at Google



Experience

Microsoft, Data Scientist Intern (Applied Research)

May, 2024 - July, 2024
Developed a classifier for sensitive documents based on metadata in a semi-supervised learning (PU learning) scenario with only 1% labeled samples. Applied traditional and state-of-the-art techniques, including non-negative risk estimation. Authored a paper on the methodology, submitted to Microsoft Journal of Applied Research.

Google, Software Engineer

July, 2021 - July, 2023
Worked on Cloud Data Fusion under Google Cloud which is a cloud-native, enterprise data integration service for building and managing data pipelines.

Siemens, Research Intern

Aug, 2020 - Dec, 2020
Worked with the Research and Automation Team to develop an interactive tool to query and traverse knowledge graphs effectively. Leveraged technologies such as Neo4j graph database, Blazegraph, SPARQL, Cypher, Protege.

D. E. Shaw and Co., Software Engineering Intern

Apr, 2020 - Jun, 2020
Enriched the authorisation scheme in the Kafka cluster using Python to provide access to resources based on UNIX group and mailing list. Created RESTful services to allow developers to provide resource access to other developers and let non-superusers create topics based on custom configuration.

Google Summer of Code, Student Developer at Mifos Initiative

May, 2019 - Aug, 2019
Developed a computer vision-based Android app in Kotlin which allows users to click pictures of households, detects objects and fill the Poverty Probability Index(PPI) survey using Google Cloud APIs. Handled the small dataset size by applying image augmentation and pre-processing techniques using TensorFlow and Scikit-learn.
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Summer Research Fellow, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

May, 2019 - June, 2019
Worked on improving the statistical algorithm to remove noise and refine images captured in low-light. Decreased execution time by 83% by restructuring iterative sections as matrix operations in the MATLAB implementation.
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Operations Research Intern, Optym, India

Dec, 2018
Redesigned the machine learning model for carrier truck halt-time prediction, which improved accuracy by 16%. Leveraged Python and Scikit-learn library.

Achievements

  • Achieved a rank of 169 out of 4400+ teams across India in ACM-ICPC Online Round and qualified for Asia-Amritapuri Regional Onsite Round.
  • Winner of Facebook Hackathon Messaging 2020 out of 1900+ participants
  • Selected for Indian Academy of Sciences - Summer Research Fellowship ‘19 awarded to only 365 students nationwide in India.
  • Recipient of NTSE Scholarship 2015 awarded to 1000 students all over India.
  • Qualified the Regional Math Olympiad '15 (Rank 14), attended INMO training camp at Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore.

Invited Talks

Facebook Messenger Chatbots Bootcamp, Jamaica, Guest Speaker

  • Invited as a speaker for the topic "How to build a messenger chatbot and win a hackathon" for Facebook’s Messenger Bootcamp

Activities and Societies

  • Grace Hopper Celebration ’20, Open Source Day - Mentor, October 2020
  • Chairperson at ACM-W NITK (Association for Computing Machinery - Women), July 2019 - July 2020
  • Co-curator, TEDxNITKSurathkal (2020-21)

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