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Stunning evidence backs the argument that our world of the present and the future will run on AI and data science. And Isha Chaturvedi echoes its potential, too.
An excelling data scientist by profession, Chaturvedi bagged her education in Data Science from New York University (NYU). Her projects have centered around dealing with various societal issues, maintaining an impressive diversity of the solutions she delivers. Her works span the landscapes of automation, public health, climate change, public behavior and opinion, and many other sectors.
The 2020 pandemic, AI, and the Altering Statuses of the Sectors
The COVID-19 pandemic thrashed us at a time when global anxieties were already escalating. And although now, after more than a year, the return to normalcy is nearing, the sight of the sectors has been metamorphosed entirely. The crisis, which totaled global systems and lives, at least boosted the work in data science. And since it was a health emergency, numerous remarkable contributions resided in the landscape of the healthcare sector. Already, machine learning has improved the quality of our lives. “It can be employed to demonstrate and educate patients on potential disease pathways and outcomes, given different treatment options”, she elucidates. One of Chaturvedi’s projects has been on detecting breast cancer from ultrasound images using machine learning.
Complementing this, the pandemic also accelerated the efforts in bestowing the necessitated pool of resources to support the research and academic groups – authenticated, updated literature, online platforms, data mining tools, and the like.
Companies are also relying on automation and robotics heavily. Autonomous vehicles lead the sector. Chaturvedi recounts the emergence of newer applications like detecting masks on people’s faces and examining the 6-feet distance between individuals were some of the innovative, creative developments during the course of international wreckage. Further, there were intelligent systems built for the COVID-19 prognosis. There was also a breakthrough in the protein-folding prediction system which will help in faster vaccine development in the future.
Moreover, she argues, the COVID-19 pandemic revealed to the world a glimpse of what the future holds: the growth of and reliance on data science.
Chaturvedi’s Vast Array of Stellar Works
Isha Chaturvedi holds an expansive collection of data science and machine learning projects. Working at Ericsson, she worked on the intelligent development of 5G networks to expand the 5G network base in the US.
She has also worked extensively in the sphere of urban intelligence. She built an urban sound classification to reduce sound pollution in cities and urban areas. One of the projects also dealt with automated detection of street-level tobacco displays which was presented at Applied Machine Learning Days 2019 at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland – a global innovation-leading hub. Her final year work in bachelors from Hong Kong University (HUKST), revolved around studying the factors that impact indoor air quality in buses, utilizing different data visualization and core machine learning techniques. Interestingly, at Capital One, she participated in the virtual AWS DeepRacer Competition of 2020 – an automated car racing league – with her fellow and made it to the finals.
In a thoroughly intricate study, Isha Chaturvedi examined travel behavior on NYC public transit (MTA) through a complex analysis of ridership volume to identify chief factors and their impacts on weather and travel volumes. Similarly, during her undergraduate, she scrutinized 70 Asia-Pacific cities’ data to study the altering trends of emissions, climate change hazards, anticipated social risk, and economic opportunities due to climate change. In another project, she attempted to predict changing weather patterns using air quality data.
Presently, Chaturvedi is involved in a project on machine learning in the banking sector. Having caught sight of the potential of AI, she divines it to be the future of the world. A key to the longevity and effectiveness of the developments, she thinks, rests in provisioning solutions to problems. Her own record of projects attests the same.
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