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Portrait of Pracheta Sahoo

Honor Society® member

Pracheta Sahoo

graduate teaching assistant at university of texas at dallas

  • The University of Texas at Dallas
  • computer science
  • Class of 2021
  • plano, texas, Texas

Member since January 2017

About

I am a first year PhD in Computer Science student at University of Texas at Dallas. I am mainly interested in the research domain of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing. Utilizing the opportunity I am willing to explore the research domains of machine learning and natural language processing effectively by scrupulous performance and sincere hard work.

Education

  • University of Texas at Dallas

    computer science

    2016 – 2021

  • Indian Institute of Technology, Patna

    Mathematics and Computing

    2014 – 2016

  • in Govt. College of Engineering and Leather Technology

    computer engineering

    2010 – 2014

Honors and awards

  • DAAD IIT Master Sandwich Fellowship 2015-2016

    I received this fellowship to pursue research for 7 months from Leibniz University Hannover, Germany as a part of my masters' thesis

  • Received Best Student Paper Award sponsored by Philips North America

    Received this award for for Semi-supervised Clustering of Medical Text in Clinical NLP workshop co-located with COLING 2016

  • 3rd position in WIZARD OF MATHS

    Stood 3rd in team in the City finals of ‘WIZARD OF MATHS’ contest organized by Vista Mind in November 2012.

  • Completion certificate for completing CS50x: INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER SCIENCE I of HarvardX

    Awarded a certificate for successfully completing CS50x: INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER SCIENCE I of HarvardX with a grade of 100% , an online learning initiative of Harvard University through edX

  • Completion certificate from USABLE SECURITY from University of Maryland, College Park

    Awarded certificate with a grade of 80.5%.

Goals and interests

Career goal

Research labs or academia

Graduate school interests

Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Programming skills

Outside the classroom

Reading books, Travelling, Collecting information about WildLife

Experience

  • graduate teaching assistant

    university of texas at dallas

    Sep 2016 – Dec 2016

  • intern

    Leibniz University Hannover, Germany

    Sep 2015 – Mar 2016

Volunteering

  • Online contributor in Tiger Project

    World WildLife Fund

    Nov 2015 – Jan 2017

Languages

  • English (US) Advanced
  • Bengali Advanced
  • Hindi Fluent
  • German Beginner