Hi! I'm Shreeya Khurana.

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About Me

Hi! I'm a Masters in Machine Learning student at Carnegie Mellon Unversity with a BS in Artificial Intelligence, also from CMU. My primary goal is to apply my skills to developing solutions to real-world problems, with a focus in machine learning, artificial intelligence, and software engineering. In my free time, I enjoy ice skating, reading, and learning dance choreographies.


Contact Details

Currently, I'm seeking a New Grad Full Time position. If you think I'm a good fit, feel free to contact me:
NAME:
Shreeya Khurana
EMAIL:
srkhuran@andrew.cmu.edu
LINKEDIN:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/shreeya-khurana-cmu/

Education

Carnegie Mellon Unviersity

M.S. Machine Learning December 2024

Carnegie Mellon University

B.S. Artificial Intelligence December 2023

Experience

Stripe

Software Engineering Intern May 2024 - Present

• Interned on the ML Exploration team under the ML Infrastructure Organization
• Built an interactive debugger on ML workflow orchestration platform, saving MLEs 20 min per iteration cycle
• Performed prompt engineering and benchmarked LLMs for query intent classification, and gauged performance-cost trade-offs

CMU HARP Lab

Research Assistant September 2023 - Present

• Developing a model which learns a driver's situational awareness through eye-gaze tracking.
• Constructed a driving dataset with continuous per-object situational awareness labels, traffic agent states, and driver eye-gaze collected using a protocol in a VR driving simulator
• Developed a gaze-based ML model of a driver’s per-object situational awareness in various traffic scenarios
• Paper accepted for presentation at 2024 Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL)

Amazon Robotics

Software Development Engineering Intern May 2023 - August 2023

• Built a Python package for input validation and manipulation for simulation of a robotic fulfillment center
• Reduced simulation time significantly by catching errors in 48GBs of required data before a simulation job is launched
• Improved interpretability and user experience of simulation tooling and reporting

10-315: Intro to Machine Learning

Teaching Assistant January 2023 - May 2024

• Teaching Assistant on the course staff for CMUs Introduction to Machine Learning class for students in the School of Computer Science (10-315).
• Developed and taught weekly recitations covering lecture material for that week and walking students through relevant practice problems.
• Hosted weekly office hours to help students with homework and conceptual questions, graded homework, and developed and graded exam questions

Cruise

Software Engineering Intern May 2022 - August 2022

• Implemented NPC (non-player character) intent conditioning in trajectory prediction ML model
• Trained, deployed, and tested model on internal simulation dataset, achieving >5% increase in collision recall

07-180: Concepts in Artificial Intelligence

Teaching Assistant January 2022 - May 2022

• Teaching Assistant on the course staff for CMUs Concepts in AI class (07-180).
• Taught Recitations, held weekly office hours, wrote and graded homework and exam problems.

Embodied Computations Lab, CMU School of Design

Independent Research September 2021 - December 2021

• Improved upon a system for AI mediated collaboration in hands-on craft learning with computer vision

U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, NREIP Program

Summer Research Intern June 2021 - August 2021

• Improved upon system for Video Object Tracking with Deep Reinforcement Learning

U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, SEAP Program

Summer Research Intern June 2019 - August 2019

• Developed an algorithm for site-selection in autonomous swarms for use in humanitarian assistance and disaster-relief missions
• First author paper accepted for presentation and publication in the Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART 2020) - all papers accepted to ICAART 2020 were peer reviewed by at least two experts from the International program committee, in a double-blind review process.

Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, ASPIRE Program

Summer Intern June 2018 - August 2018

• Developed an algorithm to analyze large datasets using parallel computing
• Identified problems in collaboration tools used by scientists at JHU-APL and recommended solutions

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Student Research June 2017 - August 2017

• Compared different models available for prediction of magnetopause location changes
• Invited speaker at the 9th Community Coordinated Modeling Center Workshop held at College Park, Maryland (April 2018)

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Student Research July 2015 - June 2017

• Worked on Geomagnetic Storms: A Study of Relationship between Geomagnetic Storms and the Interplanetary Magnetic Field, and Monitoring Geomagnetic Storms in the Ionosphere with GPS Errors
• Invited speaker at the the 8th Community Coordinated Modeling Center Workshop held in Annapolis, MD in 2016
• Poster presentation: Geospace Environment Modeling Summer Workshop, Portsmouth, Virginia (June 2017)

Publications

Modeling Drivers' Situational Awareness from Eye-Gaze for Intelligent Alerts (2024) – paper accepted for CoRL 2024

S. Khurana and D. Sofge. (2020). Quorum Sensing Re-Evaluation Algorithm for N- Site Selection in Autonomous Swarms. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART, 193-198. https://www.scitepress.org/Papers/2020/89578/89578.pdf

Collado-Vega, Y. M., Dredger, P., Lopez, R. E., Khurana, S., Rastaetter, L., Sibeck, D., & Anastopulos, M. (2023). Magnetopause standoff position changes and geosynchronous orbit crossings: Models and observations. Space Weather, 21, e2022SW003212. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022SW003212

Dredger, P. M., Lopez, R. E., Collado-Vega, Y. M., Khurana, S., & Rastaetter, L. M. (2023). Investigating potential causes for the prediction of spurious magnetopause crossings at geosynchronous orbit in MHD simulations. Space Weather, 21, e2022SW003266. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022SW003266

Skills

My areas of expertise are computer science, specifically AI and ML. Here is a summary of the languages and libraries I have worked with.

  • Python
  • NumPy
  • Tensorflow
  • PyTorch
  • OpenCV
  • C
  • Java
  • C++
  • MATLAB
  • R
  • HTML, CSS, JavaScript

Positions Held In Organizations

Author image ScottyLabs: September 2020 - Present Director of Outreach (Former Chief of Staff)

ScottyLabs Website
Current member of Senior Advisory Board and former Director of Outreach and Chief of Staff of ScottyLabs at CMU. ScottyLabs is and student run organization devoted towards helping students learn about and explore interesting topics in technology and design and apply them to develop products and applications that have an impact. Lead a team to organize a number of events, specifically Tartanhacks, Portfolio Development Friday, Crash Course, and more.

Author image Women@SCS/SCS4ALL: September 2020 - Present Member

Helped organize various events such as upperclassmen panels and a course pre-registration event for students in the School of Computer Science. Also designed an taught a lecture style presentation on Swarm Robotics for TechNights, an event series which works towards educates young girls in middle and high school about Computer Science topics in an engaging way.

Author image MATHgirls: 2016 - Present Founder and President

Founded this program in high school to motivate and empower middle school girls, especially underprivileged girls, to pursue a career in STEM. During this time, I mentored three cohorts of girls (22 girls) for the high school magnet exam and the SATs. All the girls were accepted into the magnet and IB programs; three girls scored more than 700 on the math section of SAT. Additionally, I was invited to the Governor's P-20 Leadership Council meeting in 2018 to talk to leaders in education and workforce development about the MATHgirls program, and received a grant of $500/year from the Governor's Workforce Development Board.

Author image Code Girls: 2017 - 2020 Founder and AspireIT Program Leader

Founded this club to excite high school girls about coding and to inspire them to major in STEM fields. Prepared grant applications and submitted annual reports to National Center for Women & Information Technology and received a grant of $3000/year Taught and organized sessions, invited speakers, organized field-trips, and motivated over 30 girls to follow a career in tech

Author image Maryland Special Olympics Figure Skating Team: 2015 - 2020 Coach and Webmaster

Coached skaters of special-needs to prepare them for Special Olympics and other figure skating competitions. Designed a website to promote and better organize the team