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background
Hi 👋🏻
I'm a master's student at the University of Southern California. Currently, I work at the USC Information Sciences Institute under the supervision of Dr Pedro Szekely.
My interest lies in solving complex problems that leverage technology and available resources.
Talking about my experience with different technologies, I have worked with Java Server Pages, Servlets, J2EE Enterprise Java Beans and Flask framework to build scalable web applications. I also have some experience of using Artificial Intelligence to solve some common problems like text summarization, scene understanding, question answering etc.
Being an avid learner, I love exploring new technologies which help me to build better software with clean, efficient and scalable code. Adding to that, I am a firm believer of experiential learning and I'm always open to working with people who bring out the best in me.
Apart from work, I love to watch TV shows and to photograph this world on my camera.
education
Jan 2019 - Present
USC Viterbi School of Engineering Master of Science, Computer Science GPA: 3.50/4.00
July 2014 - June 2018
experience
May 2019 - Present
Student Worker Roles & Duties:
Developed T2WML - a cell-based language to map tabular data to Wikidata records
Collaborated with a frontend developer to build a web application based on Flask server for users to leverage T2WML
Analyzed and optimized runtime processing of T2WML; reduced data processing delay by 10x
May 2017 - July 2017
Technology Intern Roles & Duties:
Integrated Unified Payments Interface (UPI) as a new and secured pay-through-chat service
Implemented a recommender system to suggest shuttle boarding points to users; reduced time to book a shuttle by 20%
Increased expressiveness of Niki chatbot by adding support for UTF-8 emoticons; improved user experience and engagement by 10%
skillset
Here are the domains I have been working on from past few years.
Here are the skills that I have acquired in the above mentioned domains.
projects
May 2019 - Present
T2WML- Table to Wikidata Markup Language
Project pursued at USC Information Sciences Institute
It's a cell-based language to map tabular data to Wikidata data model. It is designed to identify and map data and their context qualifiers in arbitrary data layouts found in Excel and CSV files without the need of complex preprocessing steps to transform tables into a canonical "Database" representation.
Aug 2017 - May 2018
AI Game Agent
An AI-based game agent based on minimax adversarial search with alpha-beta pruning algorithm for a two-player zero-sum game.
Aug 2017 - May 2018
Scene Understanding for Visually Impaired People using Deep Learning
BTech Major Project
I built this application for the visually impaired people to help them observe the scene around them. The app uses deep learning and computer vision algorithms to analyze the visual features of an image or video and generate a vocal response to describe the scene. The tool can detect places (Ex. Classroom, Gymnasium, Park etc.), objects and people and is also capable of predicting their gender and age.
Jan 2017 - May 2017
Extractive Text Summarization using Word Vector Embedding
BTech Minor Project - II
This application focuses on providing a solution to the extractive text summarization problem using word vector embedding and machine learning algorithms. The algorithm has Rouge-1, Rouge-2 and Rouge-L F-Scores equal to 0.38249, 0.2256 and 0.27486 respectively (tests performed on DUC 2002 Dataset).
Jan 2017 - May 2017
Remarque ― Cloud Based Notes Taking Application
A simple Java-based SaaS application for taking notes. The application uses concepts of J2EE and uses Enterprise Java Beans for processing data requests.
Aug 2016 - Dec 2016
Quewer ― Factoid Question Answering System
BTech Minor Project - I
A web-based application for answering questions whose answer is a concise fact. The application uses ML & NLP algorithms to analyze and understand the question and uses DBpedia knowledge base to answer it.
Jan 2016 - May 2016
Mobile Phone Recommender System
A web application which suggests different mobile handsets to users based on the tasks for which they use their mobile phones. Recommendations were made using a scoring system which gave a cumulative score to every feature of a phone based on the user reviews.
Dec 2015 - Jan 2016
ebook-shala ― Online Book Store
This online library provides a plethora of books, divided into different categories based on stream, course etc., to download. The application also features a local search engine to search a book using its name, author name, ISBN number, stream etc. I developed this website to learn how a web application works.
research
19-21 Nov 2019
T2WML: Table to Wikidata Mapping Language
Tenth International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-Cap 2019) Marina del Rey, California, United States Pedro Szekely, Daniel Garijo, Divij Bhatia Jiasheng Wu, Yixiang Yao and Jay Pujara
26-30 Oct 2019
T2WML: A Cell-Based Language To Map Tables Into Wikidata Records
Eighteenth International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2019) The University of Auckland, New Zealand Pedro Szekely, Daniel Garijo, Jay Pujara, Divij Bhatia and Jiasheng Wu
14-15 Dec 2017
Extractive Text Summarization using Word Vector Embedding
International Conference on Machine Learning & Data Science (IEEE ICMLDS 2017) Bennett University, India Aditya Jain, Divij Bhatia, Manish K Thakur View Paper
volunteer experience
Aug 2017 - May 2018
Advisor Roles & Duties:
Formed a new team of coordinators by interviewing candidates
Mentored and counseled coordinators for the smooth functioning of the organization
July 2016 - Aug 2017
Coordinator Roles & Duties:
Started a new DSC chapter at sector-128 campus of JIIT
Interviewed candidates for the sector-128 DSC team
Conducted workshops on Web Development and Android App Development
Organized annual technical fest - DevFest 2016, hackathons, tech talks etc.
Mentored sophomores on their web-development project
July 2016 - Aug 2017
testimonials
"Divij is a smart, diligent and a fast learner. He demonstrated to implement the interpreter for a new language using a compiler generator and the ability to design APIs for a new system. He works well with others, always willing to help. Based on his performance as a summer intern, I renewed his appointment as a student worker to continue the work on our tool to map tabular data to Wikidata."
"During our undergrad, being members of the Developer Students Club JIIT Noida I got a chance to work with him closely. One of the things that amazed me the most is his attention to details. Be it designing an event poster, or conducting a technical workshop, he reviewed every part of the event to make it a perfect show. These incidents show his commitment to the organization. Apart from this, his technical acumen and go-getter nature make him a great asset to the team."
"I have known Divij for the past 4 years as we were batchmates at Jaypee Institute of Information Technology. During our undergrad, we did many academic and research projects together across varied domains. I was always impressed by his technical acumen and strong practical knowledge but even more by his leadership skills which were reflected when he used to lead the group throughout the project timeline. Based on my experience of working with him closely, I can say that he is intelligent, hard working and dedicated towards his work and will definitely be a great asset to the team."
"In his tenure as a coordinator in Developer Student Club JIIT Noida, Divij was extremely enthusiastic, dedicated and efficient. He actively participated in meetings and came up with innovative ideas. His strong technical fundamentals and creative insights to apply them, made him an amazing mentor. He successfully mentored juniors in projects and took workshops in his interest fields. Along with his astounding presentation skills, he's a very good listener. His amiable and problem-solving attitude always made him the go-to person in case of any required help. His proactive nature, which made him pick even the smallest tasks with full responsibility, his confidence which helped him to take criticism positively and his observation and analysis skills, which helped him to analyze each action to be taken - these qualities make him an irreplaceable member of the team."
"Divij is one of the most industrious person I have ever come across. Having collaborated with him on various software development projects during the course of our undergraduate study, I can tell that he has brilliant analytical and problem solving skills, a solid foundation in data structures and the ability to make sound technical decisions. Besides his technical acumen, his co-operative nature makes him an effective team-player and therefore a real asset to the team."
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