My 2021 Highlights

YouTube tutorial video on building Alexa Skills - I was invited as a guest speaker by Shibam Dhar, founder of Codentech, for a beginner-friendly session on 'Getting started with Alexa Skills' and learning more about Voice Technology as a part of his initiative, 'Tech Weekends'.
 

Got selected as the Google Developer Student Clubs Lead of Noida Institute of Engineering and Technology for the academic year 2021-22.

Became a top writer in 'Women In Tech' on Medium.

Received the APAC Generation Google Scholarship: for women in Computer Science'21.

I was one of the 74 scholars across Asia Pacific region who received this prestigious scholarship along with a virtual retreat.

Served as a mentor and judge for the SITCOE Hackathon, organized at Sharad Institute of Technology, Yadrav, by the faculty of their CSE department and COMPESA team.

Mentored and judged the hacks of the participants in the hackathon - Hack the Space organized by DSC-RJIT, in collaboration with GitHub education.

YouTube video on GitHub Campus Experts - I was invited as a guest speaker by Kirat Alreja, to share my experience as a GitHub Campus Expert and to share some best practices to help students applying to be GCEs in the next cohort.

Wrapped up my Machine Learning internship of 10 weeks at Omdena where I worked on implementing various methodologies to leverage AI to map land ownership to restore degraded land in Kenya in an equitable way.

It involved extracting required information from publicly available
documents in Kenya such as government gazettes, court records,
government procurement and analyzing it using Natural Language Processing techniques and researching and analyzing the processed data to understand the political economy of natural resource management and key bottlenecks for forest and landscape restoration.

Highlights of my work -

- Creating a Knowledge Graph of land ownership in Kenya.
- Generating a list of 'Watch List' organizations to identify corruption with land ownership.
- Understanding different networks in the open-source land documents.
- Geo-tagging network data & making it easily accessible to social-activists, journalists.