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I am Nithiya Shree Uppara.

About

I am Nithiya Shree Uppara, currently pursing my Masters in Computer Science at Arizona State University. I completed my Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) with Honors in Cognitive Science from International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad.

Education

  • Masters in Computer Science (Present)
    Arizona State University, Tempe.

  • Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) in Computer Science with Honors in Cognitive Science, 2017.
    International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad.

  • Intermediate, State Board
    Narayana Junior College.

My Interests

  • Human Computer Interaction
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Pattern Recognition
  • Cognitive Science
  • Computer Networks
  • Experimental Research
  • Machine Learning

Work and Teaching Experience

August 2018 - December 2019

IIIT Hyderabad

Research Assistant

Discriminating color ensembles with different numbers of colors: The objective is to form a model that gives an estimate of optimal gaze patterns and time duration.

August 2017 - Present

VISA Inc. Technology Center

Associate Information Security Analyst

Automated data loading for all the disconnected application enrolled in Oracle Identity Manager (OIM). Developed a website to manage the different OIM servers. Worked as a key member in conducting the User Access Revalidation (UAR).

January 2017 - May 2017

IIIT-Hyderabad

Teaching Assistant

Worked as a TA for Functional Analysis course under Prof. Lakshmi Burra.

August 2016 - December 2016

IIIT-Hyderabad

Teaching Assistant

Worked as a TA for Operating Systems course under Prof. P. Krishna Reddy.

August 2015 - December 2015

IIIT-Hyderabad

Teaching Assistant

Worked as a TA for Introduction to Theater Arts.

May 2015 - July 2015

Centre for Good Governance

Software Developer Intern

Built a website which manages Income Tax cases using PostgreSQL for the database and MyEclipse for the rest.

Research

May 2017 - August 2017

Decoding (un)known opponent’s game play, a real-life badminton eye tracking study

Research Assistant at Centre for Cognitive Science, IIIT-Hyderabad

The objective is to form a model that gives an estimate of optimal gaze patterns and time duration. Studied the differences in the decision making process in badminton players, when they are playing against professional and amateur opponents, by using their visual information obtained from eye-tracking glasses.

August 2015 - August 2017

Building Games for Pattern Recognition Intelligence

Research Project (HONORS) guided by Prof. Kavita Vemuri, IIIT-Hyderabad

Conducted Standard Raven’s IQ test on 4th and 5th standard students. Designed and implemented an online serious game correlating some of the patterns from Standard Raven’s IQ test questions to the patterns in nature, using Unity. Analyzed the scores obtained in the game and relating it with the scores obtained in the Standard Raven’s IQ set.

August 2016 – December 2016

Algebra Game

Research Project guided by Prof. Kavita Vemuri, IIIT-Hyderabad

Studied the ability of students to learn abstract mathematics through a game, in comparison with classroom teaching. The study is done in an environment with three sets of students. First set is taught orally by the teacher, second set is taught through the algebra game and in the third set, the student is allowed to learn independently

May 2015 – July 2015

Analyzing the abilities of Dementia patients

Research Project guided by Prof. Kavita Vemuri, IIIT-Hyderabad

The main motive of the project is to help dementia patients remember some basic information about themselves such as their phone number and address. Designed a serious game to enhance the abilities of Dementia patients.

Projects

Wikipedia Search Engine

Semester Project under Prof. Vasudev Varma Spring 2016

Designed and developed an efficient search engine to query archived Wikipedia documents of 42GB size using secondary indexing and two-phase merge-sort. Developed and tested TF/IDF-based heuristics to rank relevant Wiki pages and achieved mean response time of 500 milli seconds.

Reverse Auctioning Engine

Semester Project under Prof. Vasudev Varma Spring 2016

Implemented a reverse auctioning engine which identifies the auctioning agents that are software robots.Analyzed the bidding data and extracted distinguishable features that help us differentiate between a human and robot.Designed an ensemble of three classifiers i.e, Random Forest Classifier, Bagging Classifier and Logistic Regression, and trained the classifiers according to these features and tested them.

Automated Tag Recommendation for Stack Overflow

Semester Project under Prof. Avinash Sharma Monsoon 2015

Implemented an Automated Tag Recommendation System using a reference paper by Avigit K. Saha, Ripon K. Saha, Kevin A.Schneider.

Artificial Intelligent Agent for playing Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe

Semester Project under Prof. Praveen Paruchuri, Artificial Intelligence Monsoon’2015

Designed and developed an efficient search engine to query archived Wikipedia documents of 42GB size using secondary indexing and two-phase merge-sort. Developed and tested TF/IDF-based heuristics to rank relevant Wiki pages and achieved mean response time of 500 milli seconds.

Enterprise Database Design

Web and Database Design Development

Designed and developed an efficient search engine to query archived Wikipedia documents of 42GB size using secondary indexing and two-phase merge-sort. Developed and tested TF/IDF-based heuristics to rank relevant Wiki pages and achieved mean response time of 500 milli seconds.

Pacman Game

Course Project under Prof. Raghu Reddy, SSAD course Moonson 2014.

Implemented a multi-daemon Pacman game in Python using OOPS concepts.

File Sharing Protocol

Course Project under Prof. Shatrunjay Rawat, Computer Networks Spring 2015

Implemented a file and folder sharing protocol between two users in C which allows to upload and download files from remote server.

User Defined Shell

Semester Project under Prof. Suresh Purini, Operating Systems Monsoon 2015

The goal of the project is to create a user defined interactive shell program that can create and manage new processes. The shell should be able to create a process out of a system program like emacs, vi or any user-defined executable.

Mini SQL Engine

Semester Project under Prof. P Krishna Reddy, Database Systems Monsoon 2015

Implemented a mini-SQL engine in Python which runs a subset of SQL queries using command line interface.

Instant Insanity Game

Semester Project under Prof. Ganesh Iyer, Game Theory Monsoon 2015

Implemented a mini-SQL engine in Python which runs a subset of SQL queries using command line interface.

Publications

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unithiya1994@gmail.com
unithiya1994@yahoo.co.in

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Kukatpally,
Hyderabad, Telangana
India, 500072.