Pavithra Ezhilarasan

College Park, MD 20740 || +1(240) 779-1503

pavithra@umd.edu || http://pavithraezhil.weebly.com || https://www.linkedin.com/in/pavithraezhilarasan
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EDUCATION
University of Maryland College Park, MD Expected May 2018
Master of Science, Telecommunications Engineering
Coursework: Machine Learning, Internet of Things, Cloud Computing, Decision Support Methods, Networks and Protocol

PES Institute of Technology -Bangalore, India June 2015

Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics & Communication Engineering
Coursework: Probability and random process, Calculus, Signal processing, Speech signal processing, Information Theory Coding
Coursera certifications: Algorithms, Python for Data Science, Cloud Computing
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WORK EXPERIENCE
Paradyme Management, Greenbelt, MD
Corporate Technical Intern September 2017- Present
Responsible for developing Python code for resume parsing as part of Resume Skill Repository tool project
Enhanced parsing of education and skills extraction fields using tools like Pytesseract, Wand, RegularExpression

PES Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India

Research Associate (Professor V.Ramasubramanian), Text-To-Speech Laboratory August 2015-July 2016
Research Paper: Mixed-Viterbi unit-selection and variants for syllabic TTS with optimal monophone back-off
Enhanced speech recognition algorithm for Text-To-Speech system for Kannada, an Indian language
Developed a variant of mixed Viterbi algorithm in MATLAB for speech recognition
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SKILLS
Programming: Python, C++, Java, MATLAB
Software Package: TensorFlow, Weka, Spark MLLib, NLTK,AWS, Linux, Cassandra, Django, Eclipse IDE, MS Excel
Machine Learning skills: Bayes, K-NN, PCA, LDA, K-means, Perceptron, SVM, CNN,LSTM-RNN, HMM, NLP, MFCC features
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PROJECTS
Sophos Firewall Application setup on Amazon Web Services (AWS) University of Maryland, December 2016
Features like EBS, S3, access management, privacy were explored and implemented to setup application on AWS

Face recognition using Machine Learning classifiers University of Maryland, March 2017
Implemented Nave Bayes(NB) and K-Nearest Neighbour(KNN) algorithm using Liner Binary Pattern(LBP) features on datasets
with pose, illumination variation
Implemented dimensionality reduction algorithms: Principal Component Analysis(PCA), Linear Discriminant Analysis(LDA) which
decreased computation time and further increased the accuracy by 45%

Digit classification using SVM and CNN University of Maryland, April 2017
Trained MNIST dataset on RBF kernel based SVM to achieve accuracy of 98.4%
Trained MNIST dataset on CNN using LeNet-5 and batch size=128; Accuracy of 98.44%

Text generation using LSTM Recurring Neural Network University of Maryland, March 2017
Created a generative model for text in a book, character-by-character in Python using Keras
Implemented the model for a batch size of 128 and 20 epochs

Twitter Sentiment Analysis using Twitter API in Python University of Maryland, May 2017
Crawled Tweets related to the specific subject using tweepy
Processed the data and classified the tweets according to POS (Part of Speech) tagging using textblob

Real-time localization of a moving acoustic source in MATLAB PESIT, March 2015

Estimated the gross location of an acoustic source using Generalized Cross Correlation with Phase Transform (GCC-PHAT) on a
pair of microphone
System used to steer camera towards the dominant speaker for better conference recording
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ACTIVITIES
Director of Public Relations, American Society for Engineers of Indian Origin (ASEI) August 2017-Present