About Myself

I am a fourth-year Electrical Engineering Undergraduate at IIT Bombay, pursuing dual minors in Computer Science & Engineering, and Artificial Intelligence & Data Science. I have worked as the Non-Technical Subsystem Head and Communication Subsystem Head at IIT Bombay Student Satellite Program (IITBSSP). I have a keen interest in Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Data Analytics and PCB design. You can find my CV here.

Jaipur, India

16 November 2000

Skills


Programming Languages

Python, C++, C, Java, MySQL, Julia, HTML, CSS, JavaScript

Softwares and Tools

GNU Radio, Scilab, MATLAB, Keil µVision, Quartus, Proteus, Postman, ns-3, Wireshark, Burpsuite, EAGLE, SDR console, Unity, Saturn PCB toolkit, Solidworks

Development

Node.js, Tensorflow

My Experience

Summer Analyst

Goldman Sachs (Jun' 21 - Jul '21)
  • Developed a vector-based search framework, using BERT and Elasticsearch, built on similarity between documents and queries
  • Evaluated the efficacy by comparing BERT-based and Lucene-based search results on a manually compiled dataset of 5k documents

Software Engineer Intern

ZLevelApps (Dec' 20 - Jan '21)
  • Developed a RESTful API for group chat backend (server-side) of Card Game 29 app in Google Play Store using Node.js + Express
  • Integrated Firebase authentication (middleware) and Redis (cache) with MongoDB (database) for storing and updating group details

Natural Language Processing Research Intern

Praxis Business School (May' 20 - Aug '20)
  • Developed a feature extraction pipeline for extracting frequent features from customer review corpus using Apriori algorithm and pruning.
  • Built opinion mining pipeline for extracting customer opinions on features and scoring features based on sentiment scores using VADER.

Embedded Firmware Development Intern

Avrio Energy Ltd. (May' 20)
  • Explored HSDC, SPI and I2C communication of electricity metering SoC (ADE7880) with Raspberry Pi to get real time power data.
  • Worked remotely on research, development and evaluation of SPI/I2C libraries supported in Python/C language for Raspberry Pi.

Data Analytics Intern

Edelweiss Financial Services Ltd. (Dec' 19)
  • Worked in Credit Department of 10+ members and acquired knowledge about credit analysis of loans especially SME Business Loans
  • Analysed banking and financial details provided by the customers and developed 600+ features to be used by the loan default prediction model

My Projects

PathFinding.js

Microsoft Engage 2020

Smart UI

Generate JSON & HTML from wireframe

KMR

Digital repository to store documents

Reviews Analysis

Opinion mining & sentiment analysis

Iris Recognition

Using Phase Based Matching

AI Email Classifier

Categorize customer query mails

Hangman Game

Play hangman on pt-51 microcontroller

Fake News Classifier

Deep learning classifier model

Filter Design

Design & comparision of FIR and IIR filters

Link Budget

For uplink, downlink and beacon

CC1125 PCB

PCB for peripheral circuit of CC1125

AquaGerator

System that creates water from air

My Publications

Knowledge Graph – Deep Learning: A Case Study in Question Answering in Aviation Safety Domain

Ankush Agarwal, Shreya Laddha et. al.
Accepted at Language Resources and Evaluation Conference 2022, Marseille

In the commercial aviation domain, there are a large number of documents, like accident reports of NTSB and ASRS, and regulatory directives ADs. There is a need for a system to efficiently access these diverse repositories to serve the demands of the aviation industry, such as maintenance, compliance, and safety. In this paper, we propose a Knowledge Graph (KG) guided Deep Learning (DL) based Question Answering (QA) system to cater to these requirements. We construct a KG from aircraft accident reports and contribute this resource to the community of researchers. The efficacy of this resource is tested and proved by the proposed QA system. Questions in Natural Language are converted into SPARQL (the interface language of the RDF graph database) queries and are answered from the KG. On the DL side, we examine two different QA models, BERT-QA and GPT3-QA, covering the two paradigms of answer formulation in QA. We evaluate our system on a set of handcrafted queries curated from the accident reports. Our hybrid KG + DL QA system, KGQA + BERT-QA, achieves 7% and 40.3% increase in accuracy over KGQA and BERT-QA systems respectively. Similarly, the other combined system, KGQA + GPT3-QA, achieves 29.3% and 9.3% increase in accuracy over KGQA and GPT3-QA systems respectively. Thus, we infer that the combination of KG and DL is better than either KG or DL individually for QA, at least in our chosen domain.

Survey and Analysis of Payloads for Missions on PSLV’s Orbital Platform

Aniruddha Ranade, Shreya Laddha et. al.
Presented in American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) SciTech Forum 2021, Nashville, TN

In this paper, prospects of the utilization of the 4th stage of ISRO’s PSLV, after the completion of the launch mission, as an orbital platform, to host scientific payloads have been discussed. Payloads from 4 domains-Technological Demonstration, Earth Observation, Microgravity, Biology Experiments and the associated mission concepts have been surveyed, and comments have been made on their suitability to be launched onboard the orbital platform. Technological challenges in achieving these have been highlighted. Based on this analysis, two technology demonstration missions have been proposed by the team.

Sanket -Technology Demonstration of Antenna Deployment System on PSLV Stage 4 Orbital Platform

Karan Jagdale, Shreya Laddha et. al.
Extended abstract presented in National Conference on Small Satellite Technology and Applications (NCSSTA) 2020, Trivandrum, India

An Antenna Deployment System has become an essential component of any pico-or nano-satellite design due to space constraints during launch. The Sanket mission is a technology demonstration designed to be flown on the Indian Space Research Organization's PSLV Stage-4 Orbital Platform (PS4-OP). It aims to qualify the team's Antenna Deployment System (ADS) in Ultra High Frequency (UHF) band to a Technology Readiness Level (TRL)-7 in Low Earth Orbit (LEO). Sanket comprises of an ADS and an Auxiliary system. The purpose of the auxiliary system is to test the ADS on PS4-OP simulating a 1U CubeSat mission life cycle and conditions. Sanket will be mounted on PS4-OP which remains in LEO for around six months. Our Antenna Deployment System is developed as an independent module that is compatible with standard CubeSat sizes 1U, 2U, and 3U.

My Achievements

Microsoft Engage 2020

Top 3-member team in Mars Colonization Program

See the submission here

Smart UI

First in Smart UI Competition of Techfest, IIT Bombay

See the submission here

Site Developer

Third in Site Developer Competition of Techfest, IIT Bombay

See the submission here

Flipkart Grid 2.0 Robotics Challenge Level1

Rank 164 out of 6061 teams in Intelligent Picking

See the submission here

Testimonials

"I mentored Shreya for an Internship Project. She was very quick to ramp up with Tech Stack and was productive in a week. The dedication and ownership shown was amazing. She came up with production quality code in a short span of time and when above and beyond to make the project successful. I highly recommend Shreya and would love to work with her again. I wish her all the best in her career."

- Ritesh Ranjan


[ZLevelApps]

"Shreya is a meticulous student and a lovely person. She worked as a Research Intern at Praxis Business School in the summer of 2020 under my guidance. She worked on a project in the areas of NLP and Machine Learning. The problem focussed on mining the opinions of different customers on different product features of a product. She is a quick learner. Although she had no prior knowledge of NLP, she took almost no time to learn what was needed and jumped right into the problem. She is also very open to suggestions and new ideas. During the project, she came up with some noteworthy thoughts based on the outcomes of her experiments. I enjoyed working with her. We did several experimental studies to figure out various advantages and the limitations of the algorithm we were using. I am sure Shreya will do very well wherever she goes."

- Gourab Nath


[Praxis Business School]