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Crafted with precision and passion, my CV showcases a journey of expertise and achievements, painting a vivid picture of my skills and potential contributions.
General Information
Full Name | Niharika Shrivastava |
Date of Birth | 25 May 1998 |
Languages | English, Hindi |
Education
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2024 Master of Computing (AI Specialization)
National University of Singapore, Singapore - GPA - 4.4/5. Honours (Distinction).
- Key courses.
- Trustworthy ML.
- Natural Language Processing.
- AI Planning and Decision Making.
- Uncertainty Modelling in AI.
- Neural Networks and Deep Learning.
- Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining.
- Teaching Assistant.
- Software Engineering (CS3203).
- Foundations of AI (CS3263).
- Big Data Systems for Data Science (CS4225).
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2020 Bachelor of Technology in Information Technology
Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad - GPA - 9.23/10. First Class Honours.
- Recipient of the Prof. Dr.-Ing. Matthias Kleiner University Gold Medal for academic and innovative excellence.
- Thesis - “Congestion-Aware Routing for Multi-class Mobility-on-Demand Vehicles”.
Experience
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2024 Data Scientist
Workforce Optimizer, Singapore - Spearhead short-term labour demand forecasting for hospitals' large and complex workforce.
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2023 Graduate Research Assistant
NUS Sound and Music Computing Lab, Singapore - Explored multi-modal LLMs with MIDI data to extract hierarchical musical structures in pop songs.
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2023 Data Science Intern
Synapxe, Singapore - Modelled a framework with large language models (LLMs) for generating synthetic clinical reports.
- Evaluated zero-shot, few-shot, and chaining prompt techniques using LangChain to generate medical reports for 5 major domains given a public dataset (MIMIC-III).
- Performed fine-tuning of WizardVicuna 13B using QLoRA and increased semantic utility by 7%.
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2020-2022 Software Engineer II, Software Engineer I
GoTo (Gojek) - Maintained the Order Management System and related micro-services of GoFood mobile app to ensure reliable ordering at a scale of 1M+ orders/day.
- Built high-throughput systems and enhanced system reliability by adopting high-availability solutions such as Patroni PostgreSQL to remove single-point failures.
- Led the architectural and design decisions for 3+ key customer-facing issues for the GoFood app.
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2020 Undergraduate Research Assistant
SUTD Robotics Lab, Singapore - Developed a socio-optimal vehicle path-planning framework leveraging Constraint Satisfaction Problems to provide congestion-free routes in a city; with an 84% increase in network utilization.
- Proposed a novel algorithm for optimal path selection in a multi-class set-up (combination of cars, public transport, walking) to dissipate traffic in a capacity-bound transportation network; 64% decreased travel time.
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2019 Software Research Intern
Outreachy (The Fedora Project)
Honors and Awards
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2023 - Best Paper Award, Advanced Reinforcement Learning (CS6284)
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2022 - University of British Columbia Master of Data Science International Scholarship
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2020 - Runner-Up, Red Hat Women in Open Source Academic Award
- Best Undergraduate Thesis Award
- Dean's Merit List
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2019 - Winner, Smart India Hackathon
- The Linux Foundation Diversity Scholarship
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2018 - Mozilla Open Source Recognition
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2017 - Dean's Merit List
Academic Interests
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Natural Language Processing.
- Large Language Models (LLMS).
- Search and Recommender systems.
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Trustworthy Machine Learning.
- Robustness.
- Privacy.
- Fairness.
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Applied Machine Learning.
- Robotics.
- Data Science.
Other Interests
- Hobbies: Singing, Swimming, Reading, Cooking.