Nipuna Chhabra

Software Engineer

Accomplished Software Engineer with a strong foundation in software development and machine learning. Graduated in Computer Science from Manipal Institute of Technology in 2023. Experienced in developing iOS apps, full-stack web development, training and deploying ML models, embedded development (Linux/C) and writing testing suites. Quick-learner passionate about leveraging different technologies to solve complex problems.

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    • PUBLICATION: “Something Something Hota Hai ”, - An Explainable Approach towards Sentiment Analysis on Indian Code-Mixed Data

    accepted at Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (W-NUT), EMNLP 2021.
    discusses the implications model-agnostic explainable methods(Lime and Shap) for hindi-english code-mixed data. Models compared - SVM, Random Forest, CNN, CNN with Glove Embeddings, LSTM, LSTM with Glove Embeddings, XLMRoBERTa.

    Lumos

    iOS App(Swift5)

    Worked with UIKit, to deliver responsive UI with dark mode (for easy reading) support; implemented secure user authentication and fetched data using a RESTful API backend.
    The app was designed programmatically, following MVC architecture for modularity and improved upon multiple times to get better compile-time efficiency.

    The MIT Post - IOS App

    Worked in a team of 3 to develop an app for The MIT POST, the official media body of MIT to share regular blog posts

    Embedded Software Intern- Hewlett Packard Enterprise

    Developing a testing suite for Kernel Migration.
    Developing a Lab Maintainance Script for Aruba Switches.
    Development experience with bootloaders, watchdog, EMMC.

    CVIT Summer School, IIIT Hyderabad

    Provided a comprehensive understanding of 3D computer vision,
    from the basics of geometry processing algorithms and tools to cutting-edge deep learning techniques

    Research Intern at IIT-Hyderabad

    Worked under the guidance of Dr Jyothi Vedurada
    Developing a graph neural network model for NL-PL task.
    Building the pipeline for java code snippets to be fed into the model.

    NLP+Chatbot Developer at GravitasAI

    Designed and extensively documented chatflows.
    Developed a chatbot using python, AWS LexV2, Lambda, S3bucket , and CloudWatch.
    Deployed ML model on AWS using flask

    Research Intern at Manipal Institute of Technology

    Worked under Prof. Prakash Kalingrao Aithal. Learned to scrape data, perform preliminary EDA, text-preprocessing, NLP and build an ML pipeline

    Vice President at Apple Developers Group, Manipal

    Organised workshops and mentored over 30 students in getting started with iOS development. Oversee development and maintainance of different iOS applications.

    Head of iOS development at MIT POST, official media body of Manipal Institute of Technology

    Developed the iOS App in a team of 5 people.