Shusma Balaji
Milton Keynes, England, United Kingdom
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About
Data Scientist at BSI
MEng Graduate from University of Cambridge
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Meta FAIR researchers have developed a novel approach called "Self-Taught Evaluators" that could significantly accelerate AI development. This…
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Honored that Citadel AI received the 2024 Japan-U.S. Innovation Award from Stanford and the Japan Society of Northern California! It's great for our…
Honored that Citadel AI received the 2024 Japan-U.S. Innovation Award from Stanford and the Japan Society of Northern California! It's great for our…
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A great venue for a great annual event! The #BSI Innovation team will be showcasing the products and services we are developing across #AI, Digital…
A great venue for a great annual event! The #BSI Innovation team will be showcasing the products and services we are developing across #AI, Digital…
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Experience
Education
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University of Cambridge
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Activities and Societies: CUES Diversity Officer 2017-2018, HackBridge Vice President of Sponsorship & Events 2018-2019
Master’s Project: Developing Brain Machine Interfaces - Real-time Neural Decoding of BMIs - Awarded First Class
Apply Machine Learning algorithms to Neural Signals from Rat's Hippocampus/MEC to predict the animal's behaviour.
Final Year Modules: Probabilistic Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Deep Learning and Structured Data, Software Engineering and Design, Design Case Studies, Management of Technology, Strategic Management
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Activities and Societies: First Lego League Team Lead, Senior Choir
10 GCSEs - Maths, Further Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Technology, English Literature, English Language, French, Religion - 10A*s
Licenses & Certifications
Volunteer Experience
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Generation Innovation Volunteer
Catalyst Inc HQ
- Present 8 years 6 months
Science and Technology
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Diversity Officer - Member in SSJC (Student Staff Joint Commitee)
Cambridge Univeristy Engineering Society
- 1 year 1 month
Education
Collaborating with the Department of Engineering and the Industry to increase the impact of outreach. As part of the diversity role, I was a member in the departmental committees - the Athena SWAN Charter and Student Staff Joint Committee(SSJC). I launched the Journey To Success Series of Inspirational Talks inviting one of ARM's Senior Director and also hosted a Panel Discussion reflecting the reality of diversity in various different Engineering industries.
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Vice President of Sponsorship & Events
Hackbridge.io
- Present 6 years
Education
Hackbridge is a student society that aims to encourage students to work together on the practical side projects and develop both their technical and collaborative skills in the process. The vision is to connect researchers with ideas to students who are keen to work on them and help them collaborate on cool projects that could potentially lead to research publications especially in the field of Engineering.
I've specifically been involved in contacting relevant companies for project…Hackbridge is a student society that aims to encourage students to work together on the practical side projects and develop both their technical and collaborative skills in the process. The vision is to connect researchers with ideas to students who are keen to work on them and help them collaborate on cool projects that could potentially lead to research publications especially in the field of Engineering.
I've specifically been involved in contacting relevant companies for project proposals and sponsorship. I organised Aspirational Talks inviting entrepreneurial experts such as the CEO & co-founder of Entrepreneur First to share the key traits in a Founder Mindset. I have been involved with web development of the Hackbridge Website and Marketing our events to the greater University Student Community. I helped setup the team and research the use cases of our first blockchain project which required building an Ultra secure access system using Hyperledger Fabric.
Projects
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Master’s Project - Developing Brain Machine Interfaces
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Master’s Project Dissertation - Awarded First Class
The ideation of this project originated from collaborating with the Neuroscientists at Krupic Lab from Cambridge University’s PDN Department, whose research focuses on the brain’s spatial navigation system, specifically the place and grid cells, neurons related to spatial memory and recognition. After evaluating the Lab’s research experiments, an idea was proposed to investigate Real-time Neural Decoding of rat’s behaviour from the…Master’s Project Dissertation - Awarded First Class
The ideation of this project originated from collaborating with the Neuroscientists at Krupic Lab from Cambridge University’s PDN Department, whose research focuses on the brain’s spatial navigation system, specifically the place and grid cells, neurons related to spatial memory and recognition. After evaluating the Lab’s research experiments, an idea was proposed to investigate Real-time Neural Decoding of rat’s behaviour from the Neural Response in the Hippocampus/Entorhinal Cortex (MEC) area.
1. Extracting Neural and Position Data (supplied by the Krupic Lab)
2. Initial Data Pre-processing (using Matlab)
3. Neural Decoders (using Python)
Traditional Decoders - Linear Regression, Non-linear Support Vector Regression (SVR) and Kalman Filters
Deep-Learning Decoders - Recurrent Neural Networks (Gated Recurrent Units GRUs and Long-Short Term Memory cells LSTMs) run on Google Colab’s Free GPU. -
Wearable Technology Product Design
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Design Case Study (MEng Coursework Module) - Awarded First Class
I designed a device to monitor and manage stress in commercial and professional environments. This pitch deck details the product lifecycle from Ideation to Embodiment Design with specific focuses on what technologies and algorithms to leverage. -
Probabilistic Machine Learning
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MEng Coursework Module (Awarded First Class)
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Project Lightbulb (D3 Allstate)
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The Allstate D3 Department also allotted Project Lightbulb time for personal development which I used to explore and understand Deep Learning. By presenting the findings from my investigation to members in the Data Science Team and seeking advice I was able to fuel further exploration. Firstly, I began by researching how to build Neural Networks for Deep Learning with TensorFlow. I experimented with building Word Embeddings with Word2Vec Continuous Bag Of Words & Skip-gram models for Sentiment…
The Allstate D3 Department also allotted Project Lightbulb time for personal development which I used to explore and understand Deep Learning. By presenting the findings from my investigation to members in the Data Science Team and seeking advice I was able to fuel further exploration. Firstly, I began by researching how to build Neural Networks for Deep Learning with TensorFlow. I experimented with building Word Embeddings with Word2Vec Continuous Bag Of Words & Skip-gram models for Sentiment Analysis. I built Recurrent Neural Networks with LSTM (Long Short Term Memory) cells to perform Sentiment Classification on IMDB Reviews, then compared performance when using a pre-trained GloVe Neural Network. Played around with Optical Character Recognition using Bidirectional Recurrent Neural Networks on the MIT OCR Dataset.
Honors & Awards
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Runner Up for Ford Prize For Women In Stem Study 2017
Ford
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Finalist in British Education Awards 2017
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One of 4 Nominees in the Northern Ireland - A Level Category
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IET IngeNIous Female Student Award 2015
Institute of Engineering and Technology
I was invited to speak in the BelTech Conference to promote Engineering as a career path for school pupils.
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Gold CREST Award
Nuffield Trust
Carried out a 4-week Nuffield Research Placement building and testing different versions of Digital-to-Analog Converters using an Arduino UNO.
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Arkwright Scholarship
Arkwright Scholarship Trust
Languages
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Tamil
Native or bilingual proficiency
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English
Native or bilingual proficiency
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