Hello there! Utkarsh Chhapekar here.

I have over a year of experience in building lean and scalable websites using React and Node with various use cases, including E-Commerce, Customer Resource Management, and Portals. I also have a go at projects in Computer Vision and NLP by implementing ideas that come to mind.

Currently I'm a CS grad student at the University of California - Irvine, and love building novel products with a visible impact on people who use them. Besides this, I partake in observational astronomy, hiking, and annoying my cat.

Check out my projects below!

Projects

Project RHAIN 

An intelligent healthcare analytics platform that leverages machine learning and statistical techniques to provide actionable insights and metrics for county health evaluation, aiming to improve healthcare policy decision-making and reduce wasteful expenditure.

Voting System 

An android application which uses facial detection to ensure fraud free and secure voting. Made for the publication - Coercion Resistant Remote Electronic Voting, Engineered Science

Disastron 

A crowd sourced disaster management application which provides real time weather maps through the OpenWeather API and notifications through the National Disaster Management Authority of India.

Maze DUKS 

A Java based video game where you have to navigate to the end of the maze. It contains many game modes to choose from, and multiple options to play with

HAL-Mimic 2.0 

An improvement over my previous chatbot, this one uses an encoder-decoder architecture along with an attention layer to provide more accurate responses based on your Whatsapp data

HAL-Mimic 

A chatbot that trains itself on your Whatsapp chat history and learns to reply as you would reply in a text conversation. The model uses two bi-directional LSTMs

Roomway 

A social network that allows people to easily and effectively find new roommates or flatmates through a personality based recommendation system. Developed using Django, Postgres, Redis and Celery

Stonks 

An application that combines the use of Twitter sentiment analysis and time series data prediction to forecast stock market prices on a given day

Alzheimer's Prediction

Implementation of a paper published in the Nature journal that uses multi-modal neural networks to predict the progression of Alzheimer's disease in patients

Experience

Amazon

SDE Intern

June 2023 - September 2023

Currently working with the Alexa Mobile Application Development Team

Deloitte

Analyst

Jan 2021 - July 2022

Designed and developed production level e-commerce and customer management websites using ReactJS and NodeJS for a top telecom client in the United States. Awarded the "Applause Award" for exceptional performance in a project through weekly deliverables and client demos. Collaborated on an application development effort for a client that reduced prepaid cellular activation times to 5 minutes and improved their play store ratings to 4.5 stars

BoloMeet

Data Science Intern

June 2020 - July 2020

Developed a feature for the video conferencing application BoloMeet, wherein the minutes of the meeting and action points are automatically generated at the end of a meeting by using speech to text APIs, then leveraged natural language processing techniques to accurately identify relevant information and filter the raw speech to text data

Virtual Labs, IIITH

Software development Intern

May 2019 - July 2019

Contributed to the development of open source software in Virtual Labs under mentorship from the Institute. Virtual Labs is an initiative by the MHRD, Government of India, which provides remote access to engineering labs for students. I collaborated with other interns and developed the UI for a circuit and waveform simulator

Skills

Python

Java

C/C++

Web development

Machine learning

Android app development

Computer Vision

Education

University of California, Irvine

Master's in Computer Science
GPA : 4.0/4.0

2023

Manipal Institute Of Technology

B.Tech - Computers and Communication Engineering
CGPA : 9.14/10

2021

Deeksha Integrated PU College

12th - PCM and Computer Science
Percentage - 93.5%

2017

Extracurricular

Vice President,
The Astronomy Club

2017 - 2020

Actor,
Naqaab Filmmaking

2018 - 2019

Management Committee,
IEEE Student Body

2018 - 2019

President,
Deeksha Integrated PU College

2015 - 2016

Contact

utkarshchhapekar@outlook.com 
Utkarsh Chhapekar 
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