Farwa Iftikhar
Farwa Iftikhar
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EDUCATION & ACHIEVEMENTS
• NYU School of Engineering, New York, NY
BS in Computer Engineering – Class of Fall 2018
• WiML/NeurIPS 2018 – Presented a poster at WiML 2018.
? Merit Scholarship for all four years of BSCE at NYU
? NYU Community Service Award 2016
RELEVANT COURSEWORK
? Signals and Systems
? Object Oriented Programming
? Artificial Intelligence
? Data Structures and Algorithms
? Operating Systems
? Fundamental Electronics
SKILLS
Python • C++ • OpenCV Python • Drupal • MS Office • Essay & Report Writing • PHP • MySQL • LabVIEW software • Lego Mindstorms software • AutoCAD • Xilinx • MATLAB• Arduino • Unix/Linux
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
NYU Gallatin, New York, NY | June, 2018 – December,2018
Web Development Student Assistant
? Maintained & updated website code for accessibility remediation and WCAG 2.0 AA Compliance.
? Created Drupal Custom Modules and modified the core to introduce essential accessibility features.
? Accessibility QA tested website for Desktop, Android and iOS and made a remediation report.
NYU Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis New York, NY | August 2017– December,2018
AEM Specialist/Student Aide
? Created and managed web content for the department using Adobe Experience Manager.
? Digitized the department’s paper and DVD based resources.
Renly.Co, Los Angeles, CA | May – June 2017
Software Engineering Intern
? Generated site maps for data extraction increasing customer inquiries by more than 1,000/day.
? Developed a PHP based data scrapping tool to store data from CSV files directly into the database.
? Developed a relational database for the company using MySQL and PHP.
PROJECTS
Machine Learning: Working on Multimodal Emotion Recognition for Customer Contact Centers using Audio-Visual analysis through Ad hoc facial and voice emotion recognition techniques. Presented the work at WiML’18/NeurIPS’18.
Computer Vision: Developed Advanced Lane Line Detection program for NYU Self Drive (IGVC’18 3rd place) in OpenCV python. It took in real time video feed, outputting video stream with straight/curved lane lines and position of the vehicle.
AI Chess Game: Developed a three difficulty level computer vs human chess game in Python using Alpha Beta pruning and a combination of various heuristics to implement the program.
Game Chip Development: Developed a reconfigurable FPGA game chip using the CAD tool Xilinx ISE 14.7 and FPGA board Diligent NEXYS-4 DDR FPGA board.
Databases: Developed a Website based on the concept of ------------ using NYU’s database and PHP.
Capstone Course: Developed the course work of pre-capstone Electrical Engineering course. Wrote lab manual for the lab experiment and helped design and test the Arduino based course work.
VOLUNTEER WORK
? NYU SOCIETY – Volunteer • Rainbow Belt, Pakistan – Founding Member
Farwa Iftikhar
------------ | Willing to relocate | ------------ |
EDUCATION & ACHIEVEMENTS
• NYU School of Engineering, New York, NY
BS in Computer Engineering – Class of Fall 2018
• WiML/NeurIPS 2018 – Presented a poster at WiML 2018.
? Merit Scholarship for all four years of BSCE at NYU
? NYU Community Service Award 2016
RELEVANT COURSEWORK
? Signals and Systems
? Object Oriented Programming
? Artificial Intelligence
? Data Structures and Algorithms
? Operating Systems
? Fundamental Electronics
SKILLS
Python • C++ • OpenCV Python • Drupal • MS Office • Essay & Report Writing • PHP • MySQL • LabVIEW software • Lego Mindstorms software • AutoCAD • Xilinx • MATLAB• Arduino • Unix/Linux
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
NYU Gallatin, New York, NY | June, 2018 – December,2018
Web Development Student Assistant
? Maintained & updated website code for accessibility remediation and WCAG 2.0 AA Compliance.
? Created Drupal Custom Modules and modified the core to introduce essential accessibility features.
? Accessibility QA tested website for Desktop, Android and iOS and made a remediation report.
NYU Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis New York, NY | August 2017– December,2018
AEM Specialist/Student Aide
? Created and managed web content for the department using Adobe Experience Manager.
? Digitized the department’s paper and DVD based resources.
Renly.Co, Los Angeles, CA | May – June 2017
Software Engineering Intern
? Generated site maps for data extraction increasing customer inquiries by more than 1,000/day.
? Developed a PHP based data scrapping tool to store data from CSV files directly into the database.
? Developed a relational database for the company using MySQL and PHP.
PROJECTS
Machine Learning: Working on Multimodal Emotion Recognition for Customer Contact Centers using Audio-Visual analysis through Ad hoc facial and voice emotion recognition techniques. Presented the work at WiML’18/NeurIPS’18.
Computer Vision: Developed Advanced Lane Line Detection program for NYU Self Drive (IGVC’18 3rd place) in OpenCV python. It took in real time video feed, outputting video stream with straight/curved lane lines and position of the vehicle.
AI Chess Game: Developed a three difficulty level computer vs human chess game in Python using Alpha Beta pruning and a combination of various heuristics to implement the program.
Game Chip Development: Developed a reconfigurable FPGA game chip using the CAD tool Xilinx ISE 14.7 and FPGA board Diligent NEXYS-4 DDR FPGA board.
Databases: Developed a Website based on the concept of ------------ using NYU’s database and PHP.
Capstone Course: Developed the course work of pre-capstone Electrical Engineering course. Wrote lab manual for the lab experiment and helped design and test the Arduino based course work.
VOLUNTEER WORK
? NYU SOCIETY – Volunteer • Rainbow Belt, Pakistan – Founding Member