Sai Aditya Chitturu

Sai Aditya Chitturu

Machine Learning Researcher

Resume

About Me

Greetings! Yours truly is a graduate student at University of California, San Diego (UCSD), pursuing his Masters degree in Computer Science (with a focus on Machine Learning). My main research interests revolve around Deep Learning, General Intelligence and Computer Vision :)

Since the past few months, I got to work on fun stuff (Action recognition for Smart homes, SMART Natural Products Identification, etc.) as a Graduate Student Researcher at The Cottrell Lab (GURU).

I am actively seeking out full-time opportunities in Machine Learning and am also looking for collaborations on cool projects / hackathons. Please don't hesitate to reach out.

To make this more about me, here's what I've been doing over the couple of years.

Work Experience

Graduate Teaching Assistant - CSE @ UCSD
(Jan 2018 - present)

  • Assisting with the course "Neural networks" for Computer Science graduate students (~400 students)
  • Held tutorials on PCA, LSTM, PyTorch, etc. and helping students with their projects and understanding
[Python, PyTorch, NumPy, TensorFlow]

Graduate Teaching Assistant - CSE @ UCSD
(Oct 2018 - Dec 2018)

  • Assisted with the course "Recommender Systems" for Computer Science graduate students (~410)
[Python, NumPy, Pandas, TensorFlow, scikit-learn]

Graduate Student Research Assistant - The Cottrell Lab (GURU)
(Jun 2018 - present)

  • Working on Action Recognition for a SMART Home project and another project(SMART) aimed at speeding up natural parts discovery using deep learning
[Python, NumPy, PyTorch, Keras, C++]

Graduate Teaching Assistant - Rady School Of Management
(Apr 2018 - Jun 2018)

  • Assisted with the course "Data Science for Finance Using Python" for Senior year management students
  • Held tutorials on Pandas, NumPy, SVM, etc. and aided student with projects and kaggle competitions
[Python, NumPy, Pandas, scikit-learn]

Application Developer - JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPMC)
(Jul 2014 - Jul 2017)

  • Worked in a core team of 6 to develop and test a resilient web application in an agile manner, using JAVA Spring MVC, AngularJS, Bootstrap and Oracle DB
  • Mentored interns and a University Outreach Program(UOP) team at JPMC. Runner-up Team in UOP contest 2015
  • Developed components and functionalities for Claims suite of applications, which handle Debit Card claims for the firm
  • Identified and implemented changes that eventually reduced the operations time by 10 min a day / operations engineer
[Java, JavaScript, AngularJS, SQL, Eclipse, Git, SVN, JIRA, ALM, Spring MVC]

Research Analyst Intern - NetApp
(Jan 2014 - Jun 2014)

  • Worked at Advanced Technologies Group on “In Memory Hot and Cold Data Tagging”
  • Implemented data mining techniques to determine spatial and temporal re-access patterns
  • Implemented an ensemble of scheduling algorithms aimed at obtaining higher hit rates and a better caching technique when in-memory databases are used for OLTP. Arrived at a model with a better hit-rate than the LRU standard
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[Python, AWK, Splunk]

Projects


Action Recognition for Smart Homes

  • Detecting and classifying actions based on skeleton joint locations. Employed echo state networks to identify the transition of an action to another
  • Employed existing architectures including a ResNet, a CNN + LSTM model, Echo State Networks and Graph Convolutional Network
  • Currently working on novel architecture to recognize actions capable of running on a Raspberry Pi

Layerwise (Divergence) Analysis of Adversarial Perturbations

  • Performed a causality analysis and layer-wise divergence analysis of the adversarial perturbations on a deep network.
  • Explored the characteristics of the adversarial perturbations and thier effect on various layers of standard neural network architectures.
  • Tested defense strategies (preprocessing, entry network) which can aid in making the network more robust.
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Music Generation using RNN Architectures

  • Experimented with different architectures of Recurrent Neural Networks to generate music at a character level using ABC notation.
  • Utilized LSTM and GRU architectures with varying levels of hidden units and layers to get the best performing model which could generate respectable music.
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Prediction of Salary Income Ranges using Supervised Learning

  • Built a predictive model that predicts the possible salary range of a user based on a few selected features.
  • We used the Stack Overflow 2016 data-set which provides a myriad of features for the said task. Used various Supervised Classification Learning Algorithms like Random Forests, XGBoost, LightGBM, Neural Networks and compared the performances.
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Image Captioning using Deep Neural Networks

  • Developed a novel architecture where an additional RNN layer was introduced in between the CNN and LSTM layers for image captioning.
  • The advantages and disadvantages of the new architecture were analyzed in detail using metrics like BLEU score. Further details in the report.
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