SHARMILA UPADHYAYA

Lalipur, Nepal
(+977) 9840095686sarmilaupadhyaya43@gmail.com

LINKS

Github: sarmilaupadhyaya Linkedin:sharmila-upadhyaya-462692a
Kaggle:sharmilaupadhyaya Website:sarmilaupadhyaya.github.io

EDUCATION

Institute of Engineering, Tribhuvan University December 2013 - September 2017
Bachelor of Engineering, Computer. Overall Percentage: 74.

CAREER OBJECTIVE

Carrying out research in Artificial Intelligence. Exploring deep learning models and its implementation in the
field of Natural Language Processing.

PROJECTS

Language Models for different languages
Worked in Morphological Analysis of Text in English, Japanese and Nepali Language. Trained and analyzed
word embeddings for Nepali and Japanese words using Skip-Gram, Glove, C-Bow models.

Deriving Care methods for Dementia Patients
Presented a core workflow and algorithms engineering for deriving care method from the conversation of nurse
with doctor about patients.

Question answering Chat bot
Built an architecture for question answering chat-bots with the section including intent detection, entity ex-
traction, data extraction followed by response generation which is applicable in different field.

Nepali Language Speech to text
Implemented state of art speech to text model for Nepali language.

Nepali NLP Pipelines
Text classification, POS Tagging, NER for Nepali languages.

Labor Productivity Prediction
Implemented Multi layer Perception model to predict the productivity of labor in construction sites.

Co-reference resolution for relation extraction
Implemented algorithm for co reference resolution in story and extracting relation between characters.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Institute of Engineering, Tribhuvan University August 2019- Present
Research Assistant
Working as research assistant to Prof. Dr. Subarna Shakya.Analysis of multi class News Classification in
Nepali language.

Ekbana Solutions Pvt. Ltd., Lalitpur April 2018
Natural Language Processing Engineer
Delving into machine learning model implementation, deep learning implementation in Natural Language
Processing including engineering of features and its analysis.

Tech Vortex Pvt. Ltd., Lalitpur Dec 2017 April 2018
Quality Assurance Engineer Tech Vortex Pvt. Ltd.
Maintaining quality of projects and carrying out different types of tests.

SCHOLARSHIP

Merit based full tuition waver 2013-
Pulchowk Campus,Tribhuvan University.

TECHNICAL STRENGTHS

Natural Language Processing Spacy, Gensim, Scikitlearn
Technical Python, Flask, SQL, Tensorflow, Keras, Numpy, Pandas,
Matplotlib,Scikitlearn, Mongdb, Elastic Search, Pyspark, Phoenixdb
Social Public Speaking, Teamwork, Leadership

PUBLICATION

Published
Automated Character Recognition and Family Relationship Extraction from Stories 2018
A. Bajracharya, S. Shrestha, S. Upadhyaya, B. Shrawan and S. Shakya,”Automated Characters Recognition
and Family Relationship Extraction from Stories,”2018 8th International Conference on Cloud Computing,
Data Science and Engineering (Confluence), Noida, India, 2018, pp. 14- 15.doi:10.1109/
CONFLUENCE.2018.8442732.

Working On
MultiClass News Classification for Nepali Language using ELMO, Bilstm and its analysis.

CERTIFICATION

Neural Networks for Machine Learning, University of Toronto
Explored about Artificial Neural Network and its usage in machine learning, applied to speech and object
recognition, image segmentation, modeling language and human motion, etc.

LEADERSHIP

Organizer - 3 Days AI session August 2019
Given three days of Artificial Intelligence session to Bachelors in IT students of IIMS college.

Participant - Confluence 2018 Jan 2018
Presented paper in Conference on Cloud Computing, Data Science and Engineering in Amity University Noida,
India.

Event Coordinator - Hack a Week 2017 Jan 2017
Organized event and managed participants.

MSP 2015 - Microsoft Innovation Center 2014-
College Microsoft Student Partner (MSP) Program representative.