V V S Aakash Kotha Email & Phone Number

Davis, CA, US

Davis, California, United States

• Served as a Teaching Assistant for ECS 122A: Algorithm Design and Analysis under Prof. Zhaojun Bai.Course Description: Complexity of algorithms, bounds on complexity, analysis methods. Searching, sorting, pattern.
• Facilitated interactive learning for 180+ students by leading engaging discussions.
• Conducted live debugging sessions, offered one-on-one assistance during office hours.
• Administered stay-late-and-code sessions, effectively enhancing their coding proficiency and debugging expertise.
• Crafted challenging assignments and collaborated with faculty to enhance the curriculum.

Davis, California, United States

• Contributed to the development of black-box attack using a vanilla GAN, exposing critical vulnerabilities within SOTA deep clustering models, resulting in a significant 25% performance decline across diverse datasets.
• Analyzed the black-box attack thoroughly, revealing its ability to bypass established defenses like Deep Learning Based Anomaly Detection (DLBAD), detected only 15% of the adversarial samples generated by the attack.
• Engineered optimization strategies to reduce query complexity to less than 4,000 queries per model. Leveraging this expertise to enhance the resilience of video fair summarization models through diffusion model.

Davis, California, United States

• Served as a Teaching Assistant for DES 111: Coding for Designers under Prof. Tanuja Mishra.Course Description: Programming concepts/skills for design. Algorithm-based design and development flowcharts. Pseudo-code.
• Assisted the professor with organizing coursework & Assignment rubrics.
• Performed live tutorials on fundamentals of coding (Processing language - Java based).
• Assumed responsibility for evaluating assignments, offering prompt and constructive feedback to assist students in their growth and enhancement, Kept track of student progress.
• Offered additional assistance to students during designated office hours.
• Provided support for in-class questions.

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• Enhanced 400+ articles and published ten pieces on the GeeksforGeeks platform, focusing on Python, Java, Machine Learning, and Web Mining topics, ensuring that concept is explained clearly and in a simple way

• Played a key role in improving students’ learning experiences by giving expert guidance & answers to their Computer Science Domain related Queries, contributing to their academic progress and self-assurance.

• Led the development of a Covid-19 assistance website, enabling real-time interaction with the Microsoft Healthcare Bot service with a response time of under 1.5 secs, and integrated Azure Web App services for latest.
• Implemented a Twitter API-based feature to aggregate relevant tweets by city and service type, aiding users in locating nearby Covid relief services, and subsequently recognized in Microsoft Future Ready Talent’s Hall.

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Science, 3.94/4

Relevant Coursework: - Distributed Database Systems - Machine Learning & Discovery - Software Engineering - Data & Web Technologies for.

Bachelor Of Technology - Btech, Computer Science, 3.86/4

(1) Department Rank: ‘5th’ out of 2100 (2) Awarded with “Achiever 2021-22 Certificate” based on my performance at various National events.