Sharmistha S. Gupta Email & Phone Number

Kirkland, Wa, Us

Greater Seattle Area

Industry Mentorship ProgramData Dependent Invariant/Equivariant Network Architectures◦ Proposed a generic architectural design using MLPs for translation invariance in image classification tasks.◦ Achieved an accuracy of 83.68%, against a baseline accuracy of 88.04%, on the MNIST dataset

Advanced Agent - Robotics Technology LabAdvisor: Prof. Katia SycaraInverse Reinforcement Learning (IRL) in Human-Robot Collaboration◦ Implemented learning of reward parameters from an online IRL policy to describe human behavior.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Advanced Agent - Robotics Technology LabCarnegie Mellon Robotics Institute Summer Scholar, 2019 (35 students selected worldwide)Advisor: Prof. Katia SycaraImitation Learning in Human-Robot Collaboration◦ Simulated human preferences in a collaborative game between a human and an AI agent.◦ Introduced latent factors in OpenAI Gym environments and employed the PPO and MADDPG algorithmsto generate multiple expert policies (human preferences).

New Delhi, India

CORAL - Collaborative Robotics Laboratory[B.Tech. Thesis] Virtual Reality Based Control of Robotic SwarmsAdvisor: Dr. P. B. Sujit◦ Developed a system to control a simulated swarm led by a quadrotor (hardware) virtually, in real time.◦ Achieved similar plots for the position coordinates of the virtual and the real swarm leader.

New Delhi, India

Publication: Mahika Wason*, Sharmistha Swasti Gupta*, Shriram Venkatraman, and Ponnurangam Kumaraguru. 2019. Building Sociality through Sharing: Seniors' Perspectives on Misinformation. In 11th ACM Conference on Web Science (WebSci ’19), June 30-July 3, 2019, Boston, MA, USA.Laboratory of Social SciencesPerception of Fake News on Social Media Advisor: Dr. Shriram Venkatraman◦ Worked on data analysis to determine the trends in the perceptions of people with respect to fake news stories that are in circulationn

New Delhi, India

Graphics and Vision Lab Fisheye Vision in Self-Driving Cars Advisor: Dr. Chetan Arora

New Delhi, India

Open Source Project - Tessel◦ Establishing communication protocols on Tessel 2, a robotics and IoT development board.◦ Developing ’Reach’, a topology with Tessel 2 as the hub and ESP-32 modules as nodes.

Hyderabad, India

Publication: Tanmay Joshi, Sharmistha Swasti Gupta, Nimmi Rangaswamy. “Digital Wallets ‘Turning a corner’ for Financial Inclusion: A Study of Everyday PayTM Practices in India”. In the 15th IFIP WG 9.4 International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (May 2019).Kohli Center on Intelligent SystemsEvaluating Trust in Automated SystemsAdvisor: Dr. Nimmi Rangaswamy◦ Studied trust in automated systems like PayTM in making it a formal banking system.◦ Analysed data with respect to financial inclusion in developing economies

Master'S Degree, Computer Science, 3.89/4

Activities and Societies: MS Graduate Representative: 2021-22 Graduate Student Senator: 2021-22Grader: Machine Learning - COMPSCI 689

Bachelor Of Technology, Electronics And Communications Engineering, 7.71/10

Activities and Societies: ◦ President: Student Senate, 2019-20 ◦ Coordinator: The 65th Square (Chess Club), 2016-20 ◦ Batch Representative.

High School, Mathematics

Activities and Societies: ◦ House Captain: Prakriti House, 2015-16 ◦ Captain: Chess Team ◦ Member: Badminton Team ◦ Member: Absolute Zero.