Pranav Rajan

machine learning engineer in stockholm | sf bay area, he/him/his

About

machine learning student at KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Work Experience

2024 — Now
Barista at Peet's Coffee and Tea
San Francisco Bay Area
  • Handle financial transactions and mobile orders efficiently including use of the rewards programs and doordash

  • Prepare and serve coffee beans, drinks and food, maintained workspace cleanliness and kept displays stocked

  • Engage with customers answering product and promotion questions

2021 — 2022
Graduate Teaching Assistant at University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT
  • Graduate Teaching Assistant for CS 6630 Visualization for Data Science, CS 1420 Accelerated Introduction to Computer Science, CS 6017 Graduate Data Analytics and Visualization

  • Assisted and taught 300+ students by holding office hours, teaching labs, grading and creating assignments

  • Reinforced data science and software engineering skills through teaching OOP, Java, Visualization, Machine Learning and Data Science Labs

2022 — 2022
Software Engineering Intern at Rocket EMS
Santa Clara, CA
  • Developed efficient complex SQL queries for 10,000 row dataset size using stored procedures and temp tables.

  • Implemented new visualizations and KPI Report templates using PowerBI for quality, operations and supply chain data analysis

  • Contributed to company efforts to improve manufacturing process using SQL, PowerBI, DAX and Python to mine company data for critical insights.

2021 — 2021
Software Engineer at Utah Transportation Group, Advanced Visualization
Salt Lake City, UT
  • Built a set of command line tools to parse and transform raw text data files into geo-json and JSON for data wrangling in python and visualization with d3.js

  • Developed a interactive multi-view web visual analytic prototype enabling domain experts to interactively analyze geographical and time-series data concurrently

2021 — 2021
Software Engineer at Huntsman Mental Health Institute, Advanced Visualization
Salt Lake City, UT
  • Developed a suite of different patient feature data point clouds to apply different different visualization and dimensionality reduction strategies to help domain experts identify features of interest

  • Developed visualizations, data wrangling methods and a set of recommendations for domain experts to review for analyzing their patient datasets

2020 — 2021
Research Assistant at University of Utah Visualization Design Lab
Salt Lake City, UT
  • Worked on integrating and refactoring VDL Origraph Project into a domain agnostic feature in MultiNet for wrangling multivariate network datasets as part of the MultiMatrix app in the MultiNet toolkit

  • Investigated and developed interaction and visual encodings based on visualization literature and visual analytics tools to develop features for MultiMatrix

2020 — 2020
Research Assistant at Cuppa: Tea-lang, Tisane and other tools for data analysis
Remote
  • Worked on a project to develop a set of guidelines for determining the appropriate visualization and encoding types based on the output of Tea-Lang programs
2019 — 2019
Software Engineering Intern at Honeywell Inc.
Bangalore, India
  • Area of Work: Numerical Methods, Data Wrangling, Data Analysis

Speaking

2021
Integrating Origraph into MultiNet: Aggregation for Multivariate Networks at University of Utah Undergraduate Research Symposium (Virtual)
Salt Lake City, Utah
2021
MultiAggr: A Technique for Aggregating Multivariate Networks at Proceedings of IEEE VIS 2021 InfoVis Posters Session (Virtual)
New Orleans, Louisiana

Awards

2020
  • Awarded a Fall 2020 UROP grant to work on integrating the Origraph tool into the MultiNet toolkit in the Utah Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute.
2020
NSF REU Supplement Grant NSF OAC 1835904 from National Science Foundation
  • Awarded NSF REU Supplement Grant NSF OAC 1835904 to work on integrating Origraph tool into the MultiNet Toolkit in the Utah Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute
2017
University of Utah College of Engineering 4-year Non-Resident Academic Achievement Scholarship from University of Utah College of Engineering
  • Awarded a 4-year merit scholarship for non-residents of the state of Utah based on high school academic record

Volunteering

2020 — 2022
Salt Lake City, Utah
  • Created tutorials teaching python programming, visualization(observable notebooks, altair, matplotlib)

  • Prepared questions and invited guest speakers from industry and academia to present to the Utah Center for Data Science community

2022 — 2022
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

Education

2024 — Now
MSc. Machine Learning at KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Stockholm, Sweden
2021 — 2022
Master of Science Computing at University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT
  • Human-Centered Computing Track - visual analytics and data interaction focus
2017 — 2022
Bachelor of Science Computer Science at University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT

Contact

GitHub