Jul 2022 – Nov 2023 · 1 yr 4 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · On-site

• I was a part of the Apple Websites' Search team, in Applied Machine Learning Division. I played a role in
• Ensuring the wellness of the infrastructure supporting Search functionality on apple.com and other Apple websites
• Cooling the system fires and P0s
• Displaying the newly released products as soon as WWDC talks about them!
• My techstack consisted of AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Solr database, Jenkins, Java.

Apr 2021 – Jul 2021 · 3 mos

• Mentor: Dr. John Jose, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering
• Paper Title : Packet Header Attack by Hardware Trojan in NoC
• based TCMP and its Impact Analysis
• Authors : Vedika Kulkarni, Manju R, Ruchika Gupta, John Jose and Sukumar Nandi
• [Accepted At 15th IEEE/ACM NOCS2021]
• To analyse the impact of Packet Header Attacks, more specifically the Destination Changing Hardware Trojan in NoC in Tiled Chip Multi-core Processors at core level, cache level and NoC level.
• Gem5 simulator is used for experimentation. Memory is modelled as a Ruby Model and Garnet Network is used for Network-on-Chip.
• Contribution accepted at NOCS2021 (To be presented in Oct 2021). [https://esweek.org/nocs/]. NOCS is a very competitive peer reviewed international symposium which accepts only 5 full papers worldwide.

Jun 2020 – Dec 2020 · 6 mos

• Mentor: Gargi Mitra
• Blockdeliver is involved in the creation of a global ecosystem for web content delivery, powered by AI and Blockchain technology. Anyone can join in the network and rent out their infrastructure such as bandwidth, and become a mini-CDN provider and earn revenue in exchange of infrastructure.
• My responsibilities as a Researcher at Blockdeliver included:
• Working on the product architecture for decentralised CDN networks
• Formulating Research Proposals for experimentation in the current system : I have contributed to 3 major proposals to be tested in the network
• Improvising Algorithms for Cache Efficiency in the network
• Analyzing technology of similar products

Apr 2020 – Apr 2020 · 0 mo

• Qualified for the finals being in top 15 teams after three intense rounds involving 800+ teams across India. Among top 3 student innovators. Developing CoroMed - an end-to-end platform that brings together the requirements from the Hospitals and Health Care Centers and the availability of supplies from the Manufacturer's side. The special feature in our system is priority based sorting of hospitals. This will ensure that the most critical hospitals get supplies faster and thus save more lives and attain better control over the pandemic.

Mar 2020 – Jun 2020 · 3 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

• Mentor: Dr. Kalyani Kulkarni
• (Paper accepted and presented at peer-reviewed international conference icSmartGrid2020, June 17-19, Paris, France)
• We proposed a novel Blockchain-based Smart Grid Model for Rural Electrification in India.
• Conducted intensive research on Rural electrification, particularly in India and existing challenges in power grids, reasons why Indian rural population is hesitant towards the installation of grid electricity and how blockchain technology can solve these particular issues and make electricity available and affordable.
• Research on combination of blockchain with distributed energy resources, smart meters and energy trading in the Indian scenario.

Jan 2020 – Mar 2020 · 2 mos

• Mentor: Dr. Vidy Pordar, Director, Blockchain R&D Labs
• Studied how blockchain will change the future of cybersecurity. Also worked on the integration of Blockchain and Risk management frameworks.