Shansita Sharma

Hi, I’m a senior at Vanderbilt University, majoring in Computer Science and Mathematics with minors in Data Science and Scientific Computing.

My research interests center on combining mathematical foundations and empirical validation to better understand and improve deep learning, with a focus on designing efficient and reliable learning methods with theoretical guarantees.

I work on representation, compression and optimal transport with the Machine Intelligence and Neural Technologies (MINT) Lab under Dr. Soheil Kolouri and physiological signal modelling with Neuroimaging & Brain Dynamics (NeurdyLab) Lab under Dr. Catie Chang. I have previously also worked with the Modeling and Analysis of Complex Systems (MACS) lab under Dr. Gautam Biswas on a transfer learning project for energy efficiency.

This past summer, I was a software engineering intern at Google working on efficient media processing for AI features on Meet. I previously also interned at Johnson & Johnson working on computer vision.

I enjoy playing badminton, producing music and learning random bits from different languages!