Hi, I'm Simha Kalimipalli

Honors B.A.Sc. in Systems Design Engineering at the University of Waterloo

• Relevant Coursework: Digital Computation, Data Structures and Algorithms, Differential Equations (I,II), Linear Algebra (I,II,III)

• Relevant Projects:

  • Solar Tracking Charging Facility - Made Mechnical 3D printed structure, Electrical Circuit with motors and ESP32 and Algorthm for automated tracking using latlong data.
  • Tidal Prediction Algorithm - Used Analog tide prediction machine and pythonic prediction method using Fourier tranform to predict tides in Prince Rupert, B.C..
  • Spring Systems Modelling - Modelled physical spring response using differential equations and Systems Modelling principles in Matlab.

• Relevant Extrcurriculars:

  • Machine Learning - WAT AI (Technical Program Manger), Data Science Club (LLM Reading Group Presenter, Computer Vision Group Presenter)
  • Transportation - Institute of Transportation Engineers Member, TriTAG
  • For Fun! - Socratica (S23 Presenter), Quizbowl

Smart City: a case study of Toronto

• Performed machine learning algorithms such as clustering, classification, regression and language processing on Toronto open-source and AirBnB data .

• Identified trends of various neighborhoods.

• Achieved 95% accuracy in algorithms.

Game of Cadillac

• A card game that uses OOP Principles and Min/Max AI.

Envisioning Waterloo 2030

• Performed Data and Geo analytics to find patterns and to provide insights on active and public transportation.

• Proposed and presented plan of action for increasing sustainability in the ROW to Sustainable Waterloo and Climate Action Waterloo.

• Created the open-source Waterloo Regional Project Database, containing 400 projects with over 10,000 online impressions.

Check out the Project website!

COVID-19 Misinformation Tweets and Network Structures are Highly Similar to Factual Tweets

• The team used network analysis, regression, and dimensionality reduction techniques to predict the veracity of tweets.

• Contributed to text feature extraction to obtain the final datasets for the analysis.

• First place (among 100 teams from 39 universities), awarded the Overleaf Outstanding Science communication award.

• Published in STEM Fellowship Journal.

Gaggle [Hack the North 2021 submission]

• Collaborated with a team to develop an app that helps connects STEM events to students at Canada’s largest hackathon.

Sleepifier.AI [New Year NewHack 2021 submission]

• Collaborated to develop an app that helps improve your sleep with advice from a neural network trained on your sleep data.

Investigating Effects of Climate Change on Atlantic Ocean Hurricanes

• Developed a predictive model for estimation of frequency and intensity of hurricanes based on ocean heat content.

• Finalist in Big Data Challenge (BDC). Published in STEM Fellowship Journal.

Dodgeblock

• An arcade roam game with an interactive GUI with sound and time module utilization.

Bata-Quiz

• Utilized Project Management techniques such as Pert and Gant Charts to create an interactive arcade quiz game.

• Presented at Google Kitchener in 2019.

Prediction of Sinkhole Occurrences using Geo-Analytics

• Developed ArcGIS layers to analyze the primary factors that influence sinkhole formation.

• This study will aid policy makers to predict future sinkhole occurrences and to minimize damage to life and property.

• Awarded silver medal at Waterloo Wellington Science Fair, 2019.

Rentap, MIT LaunchX Entrepreneurial Challenge

• Collaborated with a team to design and develop “Rentap”, a P2P mobile app that allows individuals to rent their tools and services.

Artifical Intelligence Reseacher

• Developed a LLM system with RAG to expedite project management of research work

Data Scientist - Bank of Canada

• Developed Ensemble Bayesian inference Methodology for predicting time series variables.

• Used Explainable AI concepts to increase interpretability of time series model results.

Data Scientist - Natural Resources Canada

• Worked on various machine learning models for geo-spatial image processing using TensorFlow. (Publishing Pending)

• Developed several analytical pipelines using Google Earth Engine API that will extract, transform, and analyze petabytes of data.

Data Analyst - Ontario Ministry of Energy

• Worked on several regression, auto-regression and clustering models for estimating the electricity usage in the province of Ontario.

• Created several customer analytics dashboards for providing geo-demographic actionable insights for the ministry.

Automation Developer - AGFA Healthcare

• Created a windows application that analyzes the testing logs and creates statistical reports for managers to understand the performance of software product increasing the efficiency of software release by 10%.

• Designed, upgraded and tested Java classes using Agile methodologies increasing team productivity by a factor of 58 times.

Design Optimization Software Developer - University of Waterloo

• Designed and developed a Python-based web application that runs a linear optimization model that will aid in minimizing the carbon emissions for vegan food choices.

• Created a novel approach to connect to back-end scientific models.