Shefali Tushar Kulkarni <br/> (शेफाली कुलकर्णी)

Shefali Tushar Kulkarni
(शेफाली कुलकर्णी)

Network researcher; CS PhD student at USC

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Education
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Ph.D. in Computer Science
August 2021 -- Present
Advisor: Prof. Shri Narayanan
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
M.Sc. in Computer Science
August 2021 -- Present
Current GPA: 4.0 / 4.0
Coursework: CSCI-670 (Advanced Analysis of Algorithms), PSYC-626 (Computational Social Sciences),
... CSCI-699 (Grounding Natural Language), CSCI-534 (Affective Computing),
... EE-546 (Math of High-Dimensional Data), CSCI-535 (Multimodal Prob Learning of Communication),
... CSCI-654 (Crafting a Research Agenda), CSCI-699 (Science of LLMs),
... CSCI-699 (History of Language and Computations; ongoing)
National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece
Joint B.Sc. & M.Eng. in Electrical & Computer Engineering
September 2015 -- October 2020 (5yrs)
Major: Computer Science
Cumulative GPA: 9.56 / 10
Thesis: Using Artificial Neural Networks for Zero-shot Learning
Advisor: Prof. Alexandros Potamianos
Selected Coursework: Neural Networks and Intelligent Systems, Pattern Recognition, Computer Vision,
... Advanced Computer Architecture, Advanced Algorithms, Distributed Systems, Information Theory,
... Advanced Topics in Databases, Operating Systems Laboratory, Robotics I: Analysis-Control-Laboratory
Work Experience
Amazon Web Services, Bellevue, WA, U.S.A.
Applied Science intern
May 2024 -- August 2024 (3mos)
Duties: Developed methods for robustness in audio-textual classification.
Amazon Web Services, Santa Clara, CA, U.S.A.
Applied Science intern
May 2023 -- August 2023 (3mos)
Duties: Developed methods for robustness in audio-visual representation learning (paper)
Behavioral Signal Technologies, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Machine Learning engineer
December 2020 -- July 2021 (6mos)
Duties: Speech Diarization in phone calls, Feature engineering and modeling of speakers in phone calls
SCiO P.C., Athens, Greece
Machine Learning intern
July 2019 -- August 2019 (2mos)
Duties: Feature Engineering and Predictive Modeling for rice production in India
Body of Work: code
Supervisor: Dr. Pythagoras Karampiperis
Research Experience
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Graduate Research Assistant at the Signal Analysis and Interpretation Lab
May 2021 -- Present
Duties: Multilingual & Multimodal Affective Analysis on Social Media
... Resurrected the reading group of the lab with 15-20 active members
... Actively mentoring undergraduate and graduate students
... IEEE K-12 Outreach programs: Presented in Spring 22 to approx. 90 students, *Team Lead* in Fall 22 for approx. 90 students
... Google ExploreCSR: Student mentor in Spring 23
Advisor: Prof. Shri Narayanan
National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece
Undergraduate Research assistant at the Speech and Language Processing group
March 2020 -- November 2020 (9mos)
Duties: Sample-efficient Learning research
Body of Work: paper (preprint) with code
Advisor: Prof. Alexandros Potamianos
Demokritos National Center for Scientific Research, Athens, Greece
Research intern at the Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications
October 2019 -- June 2020 (9mos)
Duties: Remote Sensing applications of Computer Vision and Deep Learning
Body of Work: paper with code
Advisor: Dr. Eleni Charou
Honors & Awards
CapitalOne
2025
Fellowship
Gerondelis Foundation
2023 -- 2024
Scholarship
NeurIPS 2022
Top reviewer
National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece
2019 -- 2020
Highest GPA in school of ECE, Thomaidis Foundation Grant
National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece
2020
Publication Award, Thomaidis Foundation Grant
Publications

Languages

🇬🇷 Greek (Native), 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 English (Fluent), 🇫🇷 French (Paris-Sorbonne C1), 🇪🇸 Spanish (Elementary)

Skills

Miscellaneous