a little about me

About

Kavin Chandrasekaran

I am a PhD student in the data science program at Worcester Polytechnic Institute where I work under the guidance of Dr. Emmanuel Agu and Dr. Elke Rundensteiner.

I started my career using data analysis and visualization for solving security concerns, performance enhancements and infrastructure management. I joined the PhD in Data Science program in 2016. My research interests are in sensor driven complex human activity recognition and generative models to be used in patient monitoring, ailment predictions and overall healthcare improvement.

Skills

Languages

  • Python
  • Java
  • SQL

Big Data Frameworks

  • Hadoop
  • Spark
  • MongoDB
  • PyTorch
  • Scikit-learn
  • Streamlit

Data Visualization Tools

  • Tableau
  • iDashboards

Relevant Coursework

  • Big Data Analytics
  • Big Data management
  • Machine Learning
  • Deep Learning
  • Information Retrieval
  • Business Intelligence
  • Artificial Intelligence

Experience

  • Data Science Intern

    Clean Crop Technologies - (May 2022 to August 2022)

    Built an end-to-end data science framework to aid in adaptive design of experiments for research in sustainable food production

  • Research Assistant

    Prof. Emmanuel Agu

    Worcester Polytechnic Institute - (May 2018 to Present)

    Developing machine learning and deep learning architectures for sensor driven complex human activity recognition and generative models to be used in patient monitoring, ailment predictions and overall healthcare improvement

  • Sr. infrastructure Services Engineer

    National Government Services - (July 2013 to December 2015)

    Pioneered an effort to integrate OEM into daily monitoring workflow and created a centralized dashboard for monitoring and troubleshooting the application using the product iDashboards

    Responsible for creating and maintaining scripts to monitor the performance and availability of the application and create automated reports using data from Patrol, OEM and BAC (Business Availability Center)

  • IT Intern

    National Government Services - (January 2013 to April 2013)

    Worked on a CSR Staffing analysis to predict the CSR staffing requirements, based on previously known staff availability, requirement and their efficiency

  • Junior Support Engineer Intern

    LikeMinds Consulting Inc. - (May 2012 to August 2012)

    Worked on a CSR Staffing analysis to predict the CSR staffing requirements, based on previously known staff availability, requirement and their efficiency

  • Associate Instructor

    Indiana University - (March 2012 to May 2012)

    The course revolved around the economics of security and influence of security in business decisions and its impact in organizations. Was responsible for organizing the group discussions on various topics, assisting in preparing the exam and grading

  • Project Mentor

    Indiana University - (January 2012 to May 2012)

    Guided a team of undergraduate students through a research project called Facebook FakeFinder. The research was focused on finding fake profiles in Facebook using different metrics like the number of friends, relation with the friends, number of photos, tags on photos, privacy settings of photos, etc.