Aakriti Upadhyay

PostDoctoral Fellow, Colorado School of Mines (CSM)

Nov 2023 - Present

My research work at CSM focuses on developing a complete motion planning algorithm that utilizes the topology of a robot's configuration space to prove infeasible motion plans for manipulator robots.

Teaching Assistant (TA), Department of Computer Science, CEAS, University at Albany, SUNY

2018 — 2023

I have assisted in teaching and grading work for graduate and undergraduate-level courses. I have handled courses like Discrete Mathematics, Algorithms and Data Structures, Finite Automata, and Principles of Programming Languages.

Research Assistant (RA), Department of Computer Science, CEAS, University at Albany, SUNY

2020 — 2022

I have worked in the RACS (Robotics Algorithms and Computable Systems) research lab and my duties involved research work-related activities like grant proposal writing, paper submissions to conferences and journals, research work presentations, and peer-reviewing of scientific papers. I also assisted undergraduate students with their capstone projects.

Technology Intern, Living Resources Company (LRC)

May - August 2020

I worked as a technology intern for the Misty project team. The project aims to bring a home assistant robot to help in serving people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. My responsibilities included development of Misty robot skills (emotion detection skills, speech analysis, etc.), maintenance of development plan and attendance to technical meeting to gather Misty’s inventory skills.

Summer Research Intern, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)

June - August 2019

I worked as a summer research intern in the Department of Computer Science and Mathematics Division (CSMD) at ORNL for the Discrete Computing Sciences (DCS) group. My responsibilities included development of a graph visualization algorithm that determines the difference between two time-series graphs over a time period, working on combinatorial integer optimization to solve sparse matrix multiplication problem using Nvidia CUDA, applying NLP (Natural Language Processing) technique to perform the semantic mapping between two cyber-physical documents.

Web Developer Intern, Association for the Cooperative Advancement of Science and Education (ACASE)

December 2017 - May 2018

I developed an online application on the WordPress platform for teachers to help improve evaluation and assessment skills at high school level education. My responsibilities included development and maintenance of organisation's IDE (Internship Demonstrative Event) webpage and participation in the publicizing activities of book "Knowing the Learner".

Software Engineer, NetCracker Technology

2015 - 2016

I have worked as a back-end developer for NetCracker's Product Development and Integration team. I designed applications using Java, JavaScript, PL/SQL, Regex, XML, REST/SOAP User Interfaces with NetCracker’s well-structured database, allowing service providers to improve end-user relationships by consolidating real-time customer data into a user-friendly ecosystem that is accessible across all customer touch points.

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