Simran Saxena
Graduate student at University of Washington, GIX, USA
Coder | Innovator | Researcher | Photographer
“Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful”
I am a Computer Science major, with my Bachelor's (Honors) and Master's degrees in Computer Science and Engineerin from IIIT Delhi, India. I also hold a Minor in Economics. I'll be joining the University of Washington, USA for MS in Technology Innovation (Computer Science major) starting Fall'22. I am particularly interested in the domains of HCI, Social Computing, Privacy and Security, and Social Sciences. I love working on interdisciplinary challenges which impact the lives of people.
I have been fortunate to be advised by amazing mentors: Dr. Andrea Hartzler , Dr. PK , Dr. Alpana Dubey , Dr. Pushpendra Singh , Dr. Akrati Saxena , Dr. Puneet Goyal , and Prof. Pankaj Vajpayee .
Awards and Achievements
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University of washington MS in Technology Innovation Scholarship
Awarded a scholarship of $20,000 based of the strength of my application for the graduate school at UW.
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Google WomenTech Makers Scholarship
Google WomenTech Makers Scholar (Anita Borg Scholarship) for demonstrating outstanding academic achievement, leadership and community involvement. Invited for an all funded Scholar's Retreat at Google, Seoul, South Korea and received $1000 scholarship
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Grace Hopper Conference India
Received invitation and travel grant from Google to attend the Grace Hopper Conference India Celebration.
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Google Firebase Summit, Prague, Czech Republic
Awarded Women TechMakers Travel Grant from Google to attend Firebase Summit in Prague, Czech Republic.
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International Women's Day Celebration @ Google Bangalore
Invited for International Women's Day Celebration 2018 at Google Office, Bangalore. Google supported me through a travel grant to attent the event.
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Google Developer's Days Conference, Bangalore
Invited for the 1st Google Developers Days Conference India at Bangalore
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Fellow @GPODS
A three-month intensive program involving a host of lectures and skill workshops to build a foundational understanding of global governance, public policy, sustainable ecosystems, and strategic issues from a multidimensional perspective
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Making a Difference
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Summer Camp for Children
Organized summer camps for children of domestic helpers in my residential colony
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Founder, Women in Tech @ IIIT Delhi
Co-founded the Women in Tech Club at IIIT Delhi. It's now a community of over 3000 people.
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Talk on How to ace your essays and sops
Gave a talk in the International Women's Day Celebration hosted by Google Women TechMakers and Google Developers Groups Communities
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Live on Google Student's YouTube Channel
Invited by Google to talk about my Women TechMakers Scholarship application process and experience live on YouTube from Google Office
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YouTube Live
Invited by CodXCrypt to talk live about Google Generation Scholarship Applications and guiding students
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HEAD OF RESEARCH - TECHNOLOGY POLICY @ Rising Gaea
Enabling change while contribtuing through my skills in Research, Technology, and Policy
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Projects
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Confidentiality Protection in Crowdsourcing
The project aims to study the process of crowdsourcing thoroughly, identify points from where confidentiality leaks could occur, the types of vulnerabilities, and suggest solutions to ensure confidentiality of data before it is posted on a crowdsourcing platform by an organization.
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Android App for IIIT Delhi
The project aims to successfully build an Android Application which would serve as a single platform to view all activities at IIIT Delhi. It makes use of Android Studio, Java Programming, JSoup Library, few APIs and Firebase Cloud Platform. Few of its features involve: viewing the seminars, adding them to the calendar, reading the research related news of the Institute, a directory of the Institute with one tap calling and emailing facility, project management and advertisement interface etc.
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Photo Identifying Facebook profiles from Tinder Profiles
Studied the linkability issue that exists in the world of social networks. Linked Facebook profiles using the information given on Tinder Profiles of people and found out more about them than that they intended to reveal. Highlighted the privacy concern that exists in such cases.
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Bye Burns
Automated Timely First-Aid Treatment of Burns
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Hestia
For the love of home-made food
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Blue Bells School
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