Upa Gupta

EDUCATION

University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas

Doctoral Candidate in Computer Science

• 3.8/4.0 GPA, August 2016(Expected)

• Thesis: Distributed Graph Computation

• Advisor: Dr. Leonidas Fegaras

Panjab University, Chandigarh, India

B.E. in Computer Science & Engineering

• 1 st Class, 2006-2010

Prabhu Dayal Public School

• Higher Seconday School (CBSE) 2006

• Secondary School (CBSE) 2004

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Instructor

Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington

Web Data Management and XML(Summer 2016)

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington

1. Web Data Management and XML(Spring 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, Fall 2014)
2. Methods of Knowledge Discovery in Databases in health care (Summer 2015)
3. Cloud Computing (Summer 2013)
4. Web Programming (Fall 2015, 2014)
5. Database and File Structures (Fall 2011, 2012, 2013)

Data Scientist Intern

Verisign, Reston, Virginia, United States, Summer 2014

Analyzed the trends in the registrations of the domains and developed a system for predicting the quantity of future registrations for Verisign based on yearly registrations.

Data Analyst Intern

CapitaLogix Trading, Summer 2012

1. Analyzed the behavior of automated trading systems (bots) and cluster them using clustering techniques into groups like high risk high profit, low risk low profit and high risk low profit.
2. Developed a system to predict the nature of the automated trading systems (bots) for the upcoming week using classification and prediction techniques. The testing of system on historical data produced 70% accuracy.

Research Intern

Jawaharlal Nehru University, India, Summer 2009

Studied Support Vector Machines and performed experiments on SVM-Light developed by Thorsten Joachims at University of Dortmund under the supervision of Dr. Ramesh Agrawal.

Research Intern

Jawaharlal Nehru University, India, Summer 2008

Completed two months research-training to study and implement Back-propagation classification algorithm for Binary Classes in C++ under the supervision of Dr. Ramesh Agrawal.