Vinayak Sharma

Arizona State University supports its students with various assistantship positions

[RA] Dec 2024-Aug 2024 Under Professor Prof. Aviral Shrivastava:

• Reasearching how to improve current NISQ Quantum Computers using SOTA Machine Learning

[TA] Dec 2024-Aug 2024 486: Capstone Project under Prof. Helen Chavez:

• Helping final year undergraduate students with any issues they face in their ‘Capstone Project’

[TA] May 2024 - Jan 2024 CPI 111:Game Development I under Prof. Yoshihiro Kobayashi:

• Proving in-class support during game development.
• Working with a team of 2 graders and 5 UG-TAs.

[TA] Dec 2023 - Aug 2023 CSE 598:Quantum Computing under Prof. Zilin Jiang:

• Graded and provided feedback on assignments related to randomized classical algorithms, basics of qubits and quantum computing systems, quantum cryptography and QML.

[TA] Dec 2023 - Aug 2022 486: Capstone Project under Prof. Helen Chavez:

• Helping final year undergraduate students with any issues they face in their ‘Capstone Project’
• Teaching the fundamentals of ‘Agile Development’
• Giving guidance on the job search, interview and salary negotiation process

CSRMP matches students from historically marginalized groups with peers and a Google mentor to support their pursuit of computing research pathways.

Accepted to a three month program that matches students with Google mentors and peers to support their pursuit of computer science research pathways. (research.google/outreach/csrmp)

Myelin Foundry is a deep tech product start-up that transforms human experiences and industry outcomes by building Artificial Intelligence algorithms on video, voice, and sensor data, for edge devices.

At Myelin Foundry I worked on :
June 2022 - Aug 2020

• Creating novel new architectures and training pipelines to create higher detail SR outputs.
• Created an end-to-end enhanced data loader pipeline in tf.data to enable rapid prototyping
• Co-ordinating the comapny hackathon in partnership with NASSCOM
• Tested out deep learning based audio enhancements for improved user experiences
• Working on solutions to employing media super resolution on edge devices with higher fidelity
• Redesigned container based server managment pipeline to allow for faster prototyping of models

July 2019 - June 2019

• Created an end-to-end speech to text system for Pashto - A challenge due to the extreme data scarcity associated with the language
• Tested & evaluated the viability of Tensorflow.js for the deployment of the organizations product stack
• Helped set up the company servers for model training

Samsung is a South Korean multinational conglomerate headquartered in Samsung Town, Seoul. It comprises numerous affiliated businesses, most of them united under the Samsung brand, and is the largest South Korean chaebol.

As part of a team of student researcher under the Samsung PRISM program, I worked on:

• Online Handwritting Recognition in Bengali and Tamil.
• The dataset was collected by us on campus and comprised of 1300 Handwritting samples.
• The data was in the form of XML Files with (x,y,t) information.
• The model we chose to use was an attention based LSTM to learn more information.
• This model was combined with a pre-trained language model - BERT to improve the accuracy of our predictions.

Tata Elxsi is amongst the world’s leading providers of design and technology services across industries including Automotive, Broadcast, Communications and Healthcare.

As an intern for Tata Elxsi, I was tasked with :

• Creating an API to perform object detection in identifying humans from video footage and estimating their distance.
• One of the many proposed applications for the API was to enforce Social Distancing protocols to assist clients better ensure safe working conditions.
• The API was packaged into a Docker container to maintain stability and ease of sharing.

The mission of Make Programming Simple Lab is to investigate novel architectural, compiler, runtime, and system operation mechanisms to make the task of programming these ambitious applications easier on complex, distributed, and heterogeneous computing platforms.

• Submitted a paper to Design and Automation Conference, 2024 titled QPMeL(Quantum polar Metric Learning).
• Researching a new approach to Physics Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) used for system identification based on TinyML models for more lightweight and efficient models.
• Founded the Quantum-Machine Learning research vertical.
• Built a wavelet-convolution layer for the TinyML contest, ICCAD 2023.

We believe everyone has the capacity to be creative. Next Tech Lab is a place where people use design to develop their own creative potential . Yes, we need to come up with a better mission statement.

As the Head of Research at our college's premier research lab, I am incharge of mentoring our students, conducting interviews for new recruits, managing research budgets. These are on top of the research projects that I undertake myself. I also take part of all administrative duties of the lab such as : approval of equipment & managing partnerships with other organizations.

I pioneered Quantum Computing Research at the Next Tech Lab. My work here was acknowledged by my university and for my work I was interviewed by them.

The Association for Computing Machinery is a US-based international learned society for computing. It is the world's largest scientific and educational computing society. The ACM is a non-profit professional membership group, claiming nearly 100,000 student and professional members as of 2019

As Vice Chairperson of our college's ACM Student Chapter, I am incharge of conducting interviews for new recruits , managing events. I am tasked administrative duties such as : approval of equipment, managing partnerships with other organizations, approving events & get sponsorships.

I served as the secretary here till Jan 2020. My work here was acknowledged by ACM Global and I was sent a letter of appreciation. Under my term, our team grew from 18 people to 250 people. The growth was accompanied by a growth in our number of events.