Sriram Nagaraja Rao
Graduate Student
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Joined department: Fall 2021
Education
Junior software engineer pursuing a master’s in computer science with 2+ years experience at top networking, security, and cloud companies. Conceptualized and implemented 3 major first-of-their-kind applications at Cisco and Aviatrix that won international hackathons and received funding for further development. Seeking to leverage proven cloud, network, and ML engineering skills to become a valuable senior software engineer.
Selected Publications
Bangalore Vision: Road Quality analysis using Android and Stereo Camera
- Technical paper "Road quality analysis and mapping for faster and safer travel" published in IEEE ICECDS conference, 2017.
- One of the 210 teams selected worldwide by the OpenCV AI competition in 2021 to implement this solution using the Luxonis Stereo Camera.
- Developed a road pothole detection system using MaskRCNN pretrained model. Created a React Native mobile application to expose the pothole data to the general public and government authorities.
Brain-Computer Interface controlled Wheelchair
- Research paper "Using virtual reality to boost the e???ectiveness of brain-computer interface applications" published in the IEEE CSITSS conference, 2019.
- Developed a Brain-Computer interface controlled Wheelchair using Emotiv Insight, Unity, and Arduino.
Smart Router Initiative: Developed a hardware failure prediction system using LSTM networks and Cisco router telemetry data. The research and development culminated in a research paper - "Time Series Forecasting methods suitable for prediction of CPU usage" published in IEEE Conference of CSITSS, 2019.