Sinchana Nama Email & Phone Number

Fremont, Ca, Us

Curating entrepreneurship opportunities and experiences for students of all backgrounds https://sparksc.org/

Spearhead Arts, Grooves, and Foods, a music and arts festival for 300+ students designed to empower and elevate USC’s performing arts community while fundraising to bolster the creative endeavors of under-resourced communities in the greater LA area

Product Manager in charge of re-building and implementing new product features for NGO Asian-American National Committee, Inc.'s official website

Generated emotionally congruent music using a Siamese neural network in Python under the guidance of Dr. Yiqiao Yin, Columbia University Ph.D.

Co-led summer camp, introducing elementary and middle schoolers to artificial intelligence (classification and regression models, recommender systems, & ethics) using AI Club’s navigator

- Completed 10+ hours of training under Board-Certified Music Therapist Ranjani Sukumaran, founder of Healing and Wellness Music Therapy - Observed and contributed interventions during the clinic’s individual and group sessions to gain field insight, built song repertoire, and implemented marketing strategies

- Development of scaled autonomous vehicles using GPU accelerate artificial intelligence models running in the robot- Used deep learning and ROS2 to program Amazon’s DeepRacer model autonomous vehicles - Gained exposure to cutting-edge technology including JetSim and Donkey Car, and raced both virtual and physical autonomous vehicles around a model track as part of the summer program from UCSD- Selected as a finalist for my paper, “Ethical Issues of Autonomous Vehicles”

Produced a literature review research paper, “Applications of AI-Generated Music to Music Therapy and Mental Health,” in which I explored how automatically generated music can be leveraged to aid a multitude of mental ailments using the neuroscientific foundation of music therapy

Bachelor Of Science - Bs

Activities and Societies: SPARK SC, Avenues Consulting Group, USC Asli Baat (South Indian Fusion A Capella)

Education record

Activities and Societies: MSJ Interact Club, Women in STEM, Syncopasians (A Capella)