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Sai Smruthi Reddy Kallu

Atlanta,GA

Overview

3
3
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Teaching Assistant

University of Memphis
Memphis, Tennessee
01.2023 - 01.2024
  • Assisted in delivering lectures and guiding 50+ students through key machine learning concepts such as supervised and unsupervised learning, neural networks, and model evaluation techniques.
  • Established a structured support program during office hours, addressing diverse coding inquiries from 20+ students each session and driving a remarkable 15% increase in student engagement with course materials.
  • Innovated a suite of creative solutions that streamlined communication between departments, resulting in a measurable increase in project turnaround times by 40%, and improved interdepartmental satisfaction ratings to 95.

Data Science Intern

Detect Technologies
Hyderabad, Telangana
05.2021 - 06.2022
  • Developed a predictive model with Python and scikit-learn, boosting sales forecast accuracy by 15% and enhancing inventory management.
  • Optimized SQL queries and cleaned over 1 million rows of customer data, reducing processing time by 20% and accelerating decision-making.
  • Conducted sentiment analysis on feedback data, increasing customer satisfaction by 12% through targeted marketing initiatives.
  • Designed and implemented A/B testing frameworks with the marketing team, raising conversion rates by 11% and improving product effectiveness.
  • Leveraged Power BI to create interactive dashboards and reports, providing actionable insights and supporting data-driven decision-making across various business units.

Education

Master of Science - Data Science

University of Memphis
Memphis, TN
05.2024

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Sphoorthy Engineering College
Hyderabad, India
07-2022

Skills

Programming Languages: Python, SQL, R

Machine Learning: Regression, Classification, Clustering, Natural Language Processing (NLP)

Data Analysis Tools: Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn

Data Visualization: Matplotlib, Seaborn, Tableau

Tools & Technologies: Git, Jupyter Notebook, TensorFlow, PowerBI, Ms Excel

Tools & Libraries: Pandas, NumPy, SciPy, Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, Keras

Database Technologies: MySQL, MongoDB

Statistical Analysis: Hypothesis Testing, A/B Testing

Certification

  • Power BI Essential Training
  • Cloud Computing
  • AWS Academy Cloud Foundations

Professional Projects

Fake News Detection in USA

  • Improved the accuracy of fake news detection by 15% by developing a machine learning model using Python, TensorFlow, and NLP techniques, resulting in a 85% overall accuracy rate.
  • Processed and analyzed over 100,000 news articles through data cleaning and feature extraction, enhancing the model’s ability to distinguish between fake and legitimate news.
  • Reduced false positives by 20% by fine-tuning the model’s hyperparameters, leading to a more reliable detection system that improves trust in content delivery platforms

Flight delay Prediction Using Machine Learning

  • Enhanced data-driven decision-making by analyzing flight data and building five predictive models, identifying Random Forest Regressor as the most effective model for minimizing prediction errors.
  • Reduced departure delay prediction errors by 15% by processing large datasets and optimizing the Random Forest Regressor, which achieved the lowest Mean Squared Error (2261.8) and Mean Absolute Error (24.1) among all models.
  • Generated actionable insights by comparing model performance across various metrics, demonstrating that the Random Forest Regressor provided the most accurate arrival delay predictions with an MSE of 3019.3 and an MAE of 30.8.

House Price Prediction

  • Developed a predictive model for housing prices by analyzing 18 key variables from a dataset of 21,613 observations, resulting in accurate price predictions to assist potential homeowners.
  • Evaluated multiple modeling techniques, including Generalized Additive Models (GAM), Bagging, and Boosting, identifying the Boosting model as the best performer with 90% variance explained, improving predictive accuracy.
  • Streamlined data analysis by applying Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to reduce dimensionality, enhancing model efficiency while retaining core variance and patterns in the data.

Timeline

Teaching Assistant

University of Memphis
01.2023 - 01.2024

Data Science Intern

Detect Technologies
05.2021 - 06.2022

Master of Science - Data Science

University of Memphis

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Sphoorthy Engineering College
Sai Smruthi Reddy Kallu