About

Soumya Sharma is a Research Consultant at CNeRG, IIT KGP, where she is currently working on Knowledge Base in the Medical Domain. She is working under the guidance of Dr. Nilroy Ganguly and Dr. Pawan Goyal. Soumya has a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Engineering from IIIT Delhi, and she is currently pursuing a Master of Science in Natural Language Processing from IIT. Soumya has a diverse range of skills and experiences in the field of technology. She has worked as a Software Developer at Myntra, where she applied NLP and ML techniques to predict fashion trends ahead of time. She has also worked as a Research Intern at Microsoft, where she worked on project Ezpc, a language for secure machine learning, under the guidance of Dr. Aseem Rastogi. Soumya has achieved several accolades in her career, including being an Anita Borg Scholar'16, achieving 113th global rank in Google Code Jam for Women, and being a finalist in Microsoft Build The Shield Competition. She has also won the Pebble sponsorship award in HackIndia (Bangalore), where she made an app to understand the motions of the wrist using Pebble watch according to which configurable actions were performed, making it hardware based IFTTT. Soumya has a strong technical background, with expertise in Research Science, ML, NodeJS, Java, Android, and NLP. She has also worked on several projects, including the browser sharing application for better collaboration for projects, work, etc. in NodeJS, WeBrowse for Angel Hack, Delhi – 2015, and FoosBall, a project in Java which used Swing API for a course project. Soumya is a Teaching Assistant for DSA & System Programming Refresher course, where she has taught M.Tech students in her institute. She has also given a talk on Git - Byld and organized Procon Jr [IIIT Delhi, Coding] and Reverbe [IIIT Delhi, Fashion Parade]. All of Soumya's pet projects can be found on GitHub.