Samanvitha Sateesha is a graduate student pursuing her masters in Computer Science at the University of California, San Diego. She graduated from Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering, JSS Science and Technology University, Mysuru in 2022. During her undergrad, she initially worked on full-stack development and designed websites for various clubs in her college. She also assisted a team to revamp a website during her first internship and managed a software development project. Her primary research is in areas related to artificial intelligence and machine learning. She has worked on text, image and speech data. Her major projects include identifying and classifying depression using textual data and MRI images, extracting information from resumes and matching them with a job description, etc. Ms. Samanvitha has co-authored a paper titled “Naive Bayes Classifier for depression detection using text data” at ICEECCOT-2021. She has interned at Blueyonder,
Reap Benefit and Sitex Digitech. She aims to leverage technology to solve problems in society. She believes that true learning happens when one steps out of comfort zone and is willing to embrace the unknown. Ms. Samanvitha has also served as a student coordinator and SPOC of the Institution’s Innovation Council, JSSSTU.