Kshitijaa Jaglan

I am Kshitijaa Jaglan - a graduate research student at International Insitute of Information Technology, Hyderabad. My interests lie in Networks (graphs), AI+ML (and ethics), data engineering, MLOps, open source, oh and yes definitely [TW?] cats too.

Given enough food and time, I also enjoy making seemingly random tools out of boredom/utility. Check out this if you want to learn Hiragana, or this if you want a WhatsApp desktop app for Linux.

Fun fact: I also discovered a bug leaking data of 100,000+ students (reported and mitigated). The data included personal information like address, phone number, email, parent’s name etc. As you might’ve gotten a hint already, one of my other domains of interest is privacy (and fairness!).

Going towards a formal introduction, please find a few details about my education and work history below!
Or, feel free to reach out at kshitijaa.jaglan@research.iiit.ac.in for more info!

Education 🔗

• ETH Zurich [Jul 2023 - Dec 2023]
  • Project mobility student working on predicting hidden user attributes in networks under Prof. Ulrik Brandes
  • Project grant: Homophily and Spread of (Dis)Information in Social Media
  • Pubication: Tight Sampling in Unbounded Networks. Accepted at ICWSM’ 24
• International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad [2019-2024]
  • MS by Research in Computing in Human Sciences + B.Tech in Computer Science
  • Research Advisor: Dr. Ponnurangam Kumaraguru “PK”
• Amity International School, Gurgaon [2017 - 2019]
  • Class X: CGPA 10
  • Class XII: 94.8%

Experience 🔗

• Google - Strategic Cloud Engineering Intern (Data)
  ^{May 2022 - July 2022}
  Engineered ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) data pipelines using Apache Beam and Dataflow to read, process and write data from Google customers

• Tensorflow (Outreachy) - Software Engineering Intern
  ^{May 2021 - September 2021}
  Designed components like feature selection and schema curation for TFX ML pipelines to address use cases not currently covered by TFX.

• Indian School of Business - Research & Development Intern
  ^{February 2020 - September 2021}
  Led data scraping, extraction, analysis and visualisation as a part of Digital Identity and Research Initiative (DIRI). Implemented different NLP algorithms for privacy-related projects

• Major League Hacking - MLH Fellow
  ^{January 2021 - April 2021}
  Collaborated and created real world projects like VSCode Extension for Spotify, Code Typewriter, Port Scanner etc. Selected in a batch of 150 from over 10,000 applicants

• CAPTL - Frontend Developer
  ^{December 2020 - February 2021}
  Worked with the early stage startup to create their SaaS platform from scratch in a team of two. Used React to implement different webapp components based on Figma mockups.

• CareYear - Frontend Developer
  ^{December 2019 - April 2020}
  Implemented different visual algorithms related to mathematics, physics and computer science for a webapp that can be used by educators to create animated educational videos.

Talks and Workshops 🔗

• Building Custom Components with Tensorflow Extended at Google on July 21, 2022. Slide deck and presentation for the same have been published on an internal website for Global Tech Talks initiative!
• Introduction to MLOps and Tensorflow Exntended at Felicity@IIIT-Hyderabad on March 20, 2022. Presented as a part of college’s annual tech and cultural fest - Felicity.

Awards and Honours 🔗

• Zonta International Women in Tech Scholar: One of 20 scholars from all over the world
• Merit List [Monsoon 2020] at IIIT Hyderabad
• Merit List [Spring 2020] at IIIT Hyderabad
• vGHC Student Scholarship: Selected as one of ~1300 scholars from all over the world to attend the (virtual) Grace Hopper Celebration 2021 organised by AnitaB.org
• WiCyS (Women in CyberSecurity) Student Scholarship: Selected as one of 750 global scholars to attend the largest women in cybersecurity conference (WiCyS 2022) in Cleveland, OH. Could not attend due to COVID restrictions.
• Generation Google Scholar 2021: Selected as one of the 70 scholars for 2021 Generation Google Scholarship (Asia Pacific region)
• Google Code-In 2017: Global Finalist with Liquid Galaxy Lab
• NTSE Scholar 2017: Received scholarship from the Government of Haryana for classes XI and XII

Extra-Curriculars and Committees 🔗

• September 2020 - January 2022: Open Source Developers’ Group, IIIT Hyderabad - Administrator
• December 2019 - May 2021: E-Cell, IIIT Hyderabad - Full Stack Developer
• June 2021 - December 2020: Ping! IIIT Hyderabad - Web Administrator
• Aug 2019 - June 2020: Ping! IIIT Hyderabad - Full Stack Developer

Volunteering 🔗

• Vyartharth (2018-2019): Co-Founder – Efficient Waste Management ‑ 100+ volunteers ‑ 200+ activities ‑ with 10+ NGOs
• Jalanjali (2017-2018): Volunteer, documentation head – Water Management