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Current Occupations
Occupation is a good alternate word for jobs because these are certainly occupying my time at the moment rather heavily. Full-time at being a struggling human being though.
portfolio completion status:
Brief Description:
I am a computer science & engineering undergrad as well as a CS master’s and quantum coder that is passionate about creating applications that will have real world impacts in the quantum industry. A computer science by training in undergrad and in my master’s, I am hoping to do my research in quantum algorithms so that I may best understand ways in which to code that is best compatible with the reality of quantum mechanics. I am currently the curriculum developer and Quantum Education Fellow at global non-profit Qubit by Qubit which has served to educate over 50,000 children globally to learn quantum computing and to train for a diverse quantum workforce tomorrow. I started the interdisciplinary Quantum Computing Club at my university at NYIT which had no quantum information curriculum in 2019 and presented the outcomes of this at the Max Planck Institute DCURQ2020. For my master’s work, I outlined how classical computing transitioners can learn quantum programming through a simple roadmap that outlined tips, tricks, best practices, as well as sample code and the most current quantum software tools to assist of the time.
In 2020, I was chosen as a top 5 out of all applicants for the NNSF Fellowship and interviewed with various national laboratories. I have participated in and won several hackathons and enjoy learning and creating new tools for people to use. I have machine learning experience having underwent the experience of creating a climate technology wind prediction system in 2022 and having interned on the machine learning team in 2021 at a fantastic Materials science and Bio-chem science company called Schrodinger where I assisted in developing their protein prediction software. I have hosted the NASA Space Apps Hackathon in New York City in 2022 and hope to impact others in positive ways as I grow in the future. In my free time, I make things at my local makerspace Hack Manhattan & enjoy listening to others to exchange ideas.
Previously:
- QED-C 2022 Participant & Attendee at Quantum World Congress
- LaunchHouse Hackthon winner for creating wind prediction app Windtelligent.ai 2022
- Y-Combinator interview 2022
- Start-up School Summer2022
- TechCrunch attendee 2022 to meet Q-CTRL , quantum error correction
- Quantum.Tech 2022 attendee
- President of Quantum Computing Club 2020-2022
- Board of Directors at Hack Manhattan, 2021-2022 Secretary, 2022-2023 Director-at-Large
- ML Intern at Schrodinger Inc., 2021
- Academic Computing Lab, NYIT, 2019-2021
- Society of Women Engineers, ACM, IEEE
- Winner of Nasdaq Equalithon for Women in AI 2019
- Aetna IT Analyst, 2018-2019
- Corporate Trainer, 2018
- T-Mobile, Mobile Expert - 2017-2018
- Digital technician, Special Collections & Archives University of Connecticut , 2016-2017
Obviously this gets edited with time & as life goes, but right now (Dec 2022) I am :
- Apparently I am NYC NASA local lead for the global Space Apps hackathon
- Director-at-Large of Hack Manhattan
- Doing my master's project at NYIT which relates to the QRG & the Quantum Realm
- A Quantum Education Fellow for the international non-profit The Coding School. Teaching & Developing.
Professional Sites:
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/shwethajayaraj
- https://elpha.com/members/shwetha
- https://meritpages.com/shwetha
Things I’m Good at:
Just because i've done those above things doesn't mean that I think I'm necessarily good at it or the best at it even though I may be educated on it or spent quite a bit of time doing it. Things I'm good at are mainly the things I enjoy.
These include:
- Doodling & drawing
- Singing & listening to music
- Collective teamwork & cooperation
- Trying to do what is ultimately ethical to do
- Being understanding to circumstances
- Trying new things that I don't understand (which is a lot!)
- Playing games (not at winning but playing for fun)
- Connecting different things from different topics
- Trying to fix things or repurpose them into something else.
- Reading
My Writing:
Due to my commitments to education & community service, I am typically un-financially wealthy. Consider buying me a coffee.
Coding Projects:
A list + description of all the repositories I've done in the past or just forked for future programming when I have time:
**Projects:
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https://github.com/shwetha729/careerconnect - desktop and mobile application project developed as a career fair connection applications for users to log into at conferences they attend in person for software engineering & management course, programmed in PHP, Javascript, SQL, and JustinMind mobile mockup software
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https://github.com/shwetha729/ErrselaPie - python file used to move NYIT’s ETIC center robot E.R.R.S.E.L.A. For more information, visit our robot : E.R.R.S.E.L.A. ETIC Research Robot for Student Engagement & Learning Activities
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https://github.com/shwetha729/Python-Peon - a collection of python examples, knowledge base, self-made tutorials, and references of commonly used code to come back to, could have put this on gists but this was made before github gists was a thing.
- https://github.com/shwetha729/Java-jester- same thing as above except for Java
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https://github.com/shwetha729/Storm-Station-App - an app that was designed to be programmed for the storm station project we worked on in puerto rico for climate disasters and resilience
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https://github.com/shwetha729/Contract_Bridge-Card_Game - I wasn’t able to find a contract bridge card game online after learning more about the game during my time at Schrodinger so I wanted to try making the game.
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https://github.com/shwetha729/Siena-and-Shwetha - one of the first Java software engineering projects made at UCONN with Sienna, a catering & dining application with GUI for multiple orders
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https://github.com/shwetha729/fmi-pediatrics-oncology - FAIR data hackathon project with OntoForce where we won runner-up in the competition with 23&me taking first place in 2017.
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https://github.com/shwetha729/RobotPathPlanning - forked and implemented for work in Algorithms course at Uconn to demonstrate Djikstra’s algorithm when I was 19, here used for robot path planning
**Quantum projects:
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https://github.com/shwetha729/quantum-sky-oracle - github for final CS master’s thesis project, a platform for educational resources for quantum-curious as well as roadmap methodology for general outline flow instead of just resources thrown at students. This is no longer where the updated repo lives
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https://github.com/shwetha729/quantum-go-fish - a YQI hackathon project creating a quantum version of the go fish game. Can read more about gameplay concept here.
- The further repo ahead of commit found here: https://github.com/shwetha729/Feynmans-Fish
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https://gitlab.com/shwetha729/lisp-in-quantum/-/blob/main/How_does_Lisp_work.md - a gitlab project outlining how quantum programming works in LISP - a much more intuitive language for quantum computing paradigms.
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https://github.com/shwetha729/qrg-2022- website for the NYIT Quantum Computing Club, formerly known as the QRG (quantum research group), now NYIT Quantum seems to be catching on.
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https://github.com/shwetha729/DualUnitaryCircuits- constructing dual unitary quantum gate circuits in hilbert space, learn more about how quantum architecture works this way when designing yourself**