Harrsha Gudupudi

About Me

Heyyo! I am Harrsha, and I am a Dual-Degree student at IIIT Hyderabad, working towards bachelors [B.Tech(with Honors)] and masters [MS (by research)] degrees, majoring in Buidling Science, with a focus on Structural Optmizations and Machine Learning. I expect to graduate by June 2021.

I am a member of the Earthquake Engineering Research center, and advised by Prof. Pradeep Kumar and Sunitha Paliserry. I have served as a Teaching Assistant for undergrad and graduate level courses.

Research interests:

Structural Engineering
Machine Learning

I am currently actively looking for Full Time Software Development or Machine Learning roles (June 2021 start), so if you have a position available or just want to say hi, my inbox is always open!

Work Experience

EERC lab, IIIT-Hyderabad

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Publication: World Conference in Earthquake Engineering :Design Optimization of 2D Frames, (Paper Link)
Under the guidance of Professor Sunitha Palissery and Pradeep Kumar Ramancharla

International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Hyderabad

Head Teaching Assistant

Head Teaching Assistant for the Graduate level, Multivariate analysis course (covers Hypothesis testing, regression techniques,classification and discrimination problems) taken by PhD, Masters and Undergraduate (senior/junior) students.

Responsibilities included setting & grading assignments, grading of exam papers, hosting tutorials and mentoring course projects, mostly related to Question Answering & Machine Translation.

International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Hyderabad

Teaching Assistant

Course about database and its applications, taken by 200+ undergrads

Responsibilities includes setting & grading assignments, grading of exam papers, hosting tutorials and mentoring course projects.

Education

International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Hyderabad

July 2017 - Present (Expected June 2021)

BTech(with Honors) + MS (by research) in Buidling Science Engineering

Fiitjee Junior College, Hyderabad

Maths,Physics and Chemistry(IPE)

Indus World School,Sainikpuri

Primary and Junior High (CBSE)

Projects

WikiPedia Search Engine

Created a search engine that uses Block-Sort-Based-Indexing to create the inverted index of the entire WikiPedia dump (73.3 GB), queries on the index and retrieves top 10 results via relevance ranking of the documents, implemented using tf-idf scoring.

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Linux Shell

Implemented a command line interpreter in C which supports background jobs, environment variables, piping and redirection with extensive error-handling.

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Story Graphs

Developed a novel way to automatically summarize and represent the story line of a TV episode by visualizingcharacter interactions as a chart.The implementation mainly involves 3 stages Scene Detection, Face Detection andGraph Layout.

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Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe bot

Built a bot for 4x4x4 ultimate tic-tac-toe game which decides the next move on the computer generated board. Was among the Top 8 bots in a class of 120 [AI bot tournament]

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Mini-projects

Some of the mini projects that I have worked on are: Pacman killer like game (2-D) & Legend of Zelda (3D) like game (C++, OpenGL), Quiz webapp (Ruby on Rails).

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