Aarathi Raghuraman
Data Scientist at LexisNexis
An accomplished data scientist with 2+ years of industry experience looking for Full-time opportunities starting Summer 2021
An accomplished data scientist with 2+ years of industry experience in effectively integrating data analytics, machine learning and bioinformatics for accurate, sustainable, and revenue-generating products. I build solutions to bridge the gap between vision and design, performing the role of an architect, analyst, modeler, software engineer, or product owner for healthcare and technology industries.
LexisNexis
https://www.linkedin.com/company/lexisnexis
Applying Nature Language Processing for Named Entity Recognition
United States
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Data Scientist
Virginia Tech Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Diversity
https://www.linkedin.com/company/virginia-tech-center-for-the-enhancement-of-engineering-diversity
Blacksburg, VA, USA
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Graduate Teaching Assistant
GSK
https://www.linkedin.com/company/glaxosmithkline
Successfully applied chemometrics to generate about 5% increase in product yield with a corresponding 36% decrease in variability for Biopharma manufacturing process. Performed Multivariate Root Cause Analysis (RCA) using statistical methods including Random Forests and Partial Least Squares (PLS). Utilized Gini and PLS based variable importance, and Permutation Importance for feature evaluation.
Rockville, Maryland, United States
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Data Science Intern
J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc
https://www.linkedin.com/company/jb-hunt-transport-services-inc
Promoted within 1.5 years of full-time employment due to my initiative and commitment to design & deliver an end-to-end machine learning pipeline: Data Wrangling, Feature Engineering, Training/Testing/Validating Analytical Models, Interpretation & Business Insight, Continuous Improvement and Deployment (CI/CD).

Project: Load Recommendations Model
•	Applied Deep Neural Network to build a Hybrid Recommendation Engine that predicted & prescribed shipments to carriers and increased customer satisfaction.
•	Acted as a Liaison between Developers and Data Scientists to implement & consume a REST API to enable recommendation visibility through J.B. Hunt 360 Applications.
•	Initiated Phase II using an ensemble method including Clustering & Classification based on the data generated from Phase I insights.

Project: Shipper Revenue Prediction Model
•	Predicted Market Price from historical prices, weather and capacity using Support Vector Regression.
•	Facilitated development of an Enterprise-wide Web scrapping tool to help connect interested Shippers to J.B. Hunt’s 360 Bidding Platform; Proof Of Concept: doubled revenue for targeted customer branch.
•	Built REST API to report predicted Market Price to business engines.

Professional and Recruitment Liaison
•	Organized hackathons, campus visits, K-12 outreach activities and internal team-building activities. 
•	Enlightened Sales Representatives about latest Technological Disruptions at J.B. Hunt’s Sales Summit.
•	Recognized for Building a Positive Culture, Enabling Others & Fostering Collaboration.
Lowell, Arkansas, United States
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Associate Data Scientist
Virginia Tech
https://www.linkedin.com/company/virginia-tech
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Student
Virginia Tech
https://www.linkedin.com/company/virginia-tech
Data mining of human responses to exposure to odors; statistical analysis of resulting data.
Phetxumphou, K., Raghuraman, A., Dietrich, A.M. Evaluating Consumer use of taste-and-odor lexicon for
describing odors in drinking water. Journal of the American Water Works Association, in review.
Software: RStudio; Languages: R, CSS, HTML
Undergraduate Research Analyst
Master of Science - MS
Computer Science
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Virginia Tech
https://www.linkedin.com/school/virginia-tech/
Bachelor of Science (BS)
Minor in Biomedical Engineering
Computer Science
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Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
https://www.linkedin.com/school/virginia-tech/
3.99
Nanoexplorers Summer Research Program - 2012 - A program to initiate interest in Nanotechnology for high school students. Worked on making Photo-Acoustic Speakers using carbon nanotubes in different orientations and analyse the effect of the orientation to the digital output of sound.
Broad Run High School
Workshop on Fundamentals of Robotics and Electronics - 2009 - An introduction to basic electronic components in a robot including NOT gates, AND gates and various sensors
Lilavatibai Podar High school
Scholarship offered based on participation in AWC and Academic record.
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Anne and George Gorsline Scholarship
Scholarship offered based on academic record.
Virginia Tech's Computer Science Resources Consortium
Computer Science Resources Consortium Scholarship
GPA above a 4.0 during Junior Year in High School
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Academic Letter
A competition held to motivate students to build robots and innovate new technology as well as enlighten them in the latest Technology
Lilavatibai Podar High School
Gizmo Geeks Robotics Competition - Placed 1st
Implemented a genetic algorithm for motif finding
Implemented an intuitionistic scoring algorithm and parsed output files for our motif finding package
Software: Decod, Weeder, CMF, Bioprospector; Languages: Java, Perl, HTML
Motif Finding - Bioinformatics
An android app that was designed to help start-ups analyze the field they were jumping into before delving deep, by comparing the start-up's predicted financial ratios to the big 5's and low 5's in the field chosen, financial ratios.
IdeaToMarket
Taking into consideration the data available from the car and the data that is accessible from the Android API, my team came up with a design to prevent texting while driving. Our app prevents users from getting any notification while driving, including calls except in states where taking calls is permitted. Also, an auto-matted message is sent to the sender informing that the receiver is driving. The app will run in the background and check for the location of the car as well as turn on when the speed is above a certain limit.
TesLock
https://github.com/raarathi/TesLock
Develop 3D virtual world for robot movement through a naval ship (USS Shadwell) to evaluate robot
performance during a simulated ship-board emergency as part of the DARPA Robotic challenge.
Software: Gazebo & Ros; Languages: XML, Bash Scripting.
Terrestrial Robotics Engineering and Controls Lab (TREC)
An android app that lets student in the same class form study groups and interact.
Worked on the front-end
OutClass
https://github.com/dpatuwo/OutClass
NASA Great Moonbuggy Race Team - 2012/2013 - A Race held by NASA every year to engage high school and college students to design buggies that would potentially be able to survive the terrain on the moon
Moonbuggy 2013 Race Team
http://brhsmoonbuggy.com/
Few high school students from schools that were a part of the Microsoft Initiative to encourage computer science and some college students were invited to attend an event to innovate ideas taht would bring a change to the community.
I had a chance to lead and brainstorm on creating a non-profit that would bring Technology to Autistic children and get together researchers to cure autism.
Innovate for Good - Microsoft YouthSpark and TakingItGlobal
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Applying and implementing knowledge gained through Technophilia, an organization for stimulating interest in robotics in students.
Robotics Gizmo Geeks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb4ALNXgoK8
https://www.linkedin.com/in/priyanshu-jha-7961721b6
Washington DC-Baltimore Area
Priyanshu Jha
Incoming SWE @ Appian | CS @ Virginia Tech
https://www.linkedin.com/in/eles-jones
Blacksburg, VA
Eles Jones
Graduate Research Assistant at Virginia Tech
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rosella-li-9a1583173
Pittsburgh, PA
Rosella Li
Master in Data Analytics at Carnegie Mellon University
https://www.linkedin.com/in/deepthi-peri
San Francisco, CA
Deepthi Peri
Product @ Aktify | MS-Computer Science and Applications, Virginia Tech 2020 |
https://www.linkedin.com/in/zakary-ramsis
Aldie, VA
Zakary Ramsis
Software Developer at Case Consulting, Inc
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-owens-8a75b8198
Greater Roanoke Area
Alex Owens
Machine Learning Researcher at Virginia Tech
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tyler-albert-693852a6
Raleigh, NC
Tyler Albert
Lead Software Engineer at Sciome LLC
https://www.linkedin.com/in/louiszhangg
Blacksburg, VA
Louis Zhang
Software Development Intern at Exelaration
https://www.linkedin.com/in/seymour-mark
Blacksburg, VA
Mark Seymour
Industrial and Systems Engineering | Computer Science Minor | Virginia Tech Class of 2022
https://www.linkedin.com/in/aushim-mittal
United States
Aushim Mittal
Industrial & Systems Engineering with Finance @ VT | Interested in Supply Chain & Manufacturing
https://www.linkedin.com/in/naylle
Blacksburg, VA
Naylle Pando
Computer Science Student @VT | Incoming Computer Science Intern @MITRE
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kelson-gent-38400954
Waltham, MA
Kelson Gent
Principal Software Engineer at Mentor Graphics
https://www.linkedin.com/in/clinton-burns-634a4984
Ashburn, VA
Clinton Burns
Software Engineer at BLUE RIDGE ENVISIONEERING
https://www.linkedin.com/in/custerk
Blacksburg, VA
Kenny Custer
Data Analyst at Virginia Tech Transportation Institute
https://www.linkedin.com/in/eduard-laurito-43b065135
Lorton, VA
Eduard Laurito
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Alumni
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashita-anuga-1590a1197
Blacksburg, VA
Ashita Anuga
Student at Virginia Tech College of Engineering
https://www.linkedin.com/in/priyanshi-sharma-b5a364b9
Blacksburg, VA
Priyanshi Sharma
CS Grad at Virginia Tech
https://www.linkedin.com/in/colin-welborn-17b260127
Blacksburg, VA
Colin Welborn
Serial Entreprenuer at Self employed

Leadership Consulting and Personal Development
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New Kent, VA
Abigail Bushhouse
Student at Virginia Tech
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