curriculum vitae

General Information

Full Name Pranjli Khanna
Personal Pronouns She/her/hers

Experience

  • Oct 2024 – Present
    Data Scientist
    Carnegie Learning
  • Jun 2024 - Oct 2024
    Data Science Intern
    Carnegie Learning
  • Sep 2022 - Jun 2024
    Undergraduate Writing Consultant
    Teaching & Learning Commons, UC San Diego
    • Conducted over 100 individualized sessions to enhance students' writing and critical-thinking skills, and created structured technical documentation to simplify complex concepts.
  • Jun 2023 - Sep 2023
    Sofftware Engineering Intern
    Marble Collective (early-stage startup)
    • Led full-stack development of an innovative social media platform, translating user feedback into a 45% surge in engagement through front-end refinements and back-end optimizations.
  • Jan 2023 - Oct 2023
    Machine Learning Engineer
    UC San Diego School of Medicine
    • Developed a machine learning framework to decode cell signaling in Eosinophilic Esophagitis, revealing fibroblasts' key role and setting a reproducibility standard for future biomedical research.
  • Jun 2020 - July 2020
    Software Engineer Intern
    Square Corporation
    • Led a successful overhaul of inventory software, enhancing efficiency by 45%, and crafted business intelligence dashboards that elevated inventory management strategies.

Education

  • 2021-2024
    Bachelor of Science
    University of California, San Diego
    • Cognitive Science specializing in Machine Learning and Neural Computation
  • 2013 - 2021
    High School
    Welham Girls' School, Dehradun

Certifications

  • 2024
    Statistics with Python Specialization
    University of Michigan (Coursera)
  • 2024
    ChatGPT Prompt Engineering for Developers
    DeepLearning.AI
  • 2023
    Mathematics for Machine Learning and Data Science Specialization
    DeepLearning.AI
  • 2023
    Intermediate SQL
    DataCamp
  • 2023
    Joining Data in SQL
    DataCamp
  • 2022
    Applied Machine Learning in Python
    University of Michigan
  • 2020
    Machine Learning Certification
    Stanford University
  • 2020
    Philosophy and the Sciences - Introduction to the Philosophy of Cognitive Science - Coursera
    The University of Edinburgh

Technical Skills

  • Programming
    • Python, SQL, R, Java
  • DS/ML Libraries
    • scikit-learn, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Pandas, NumPy, Matplotlib, Seaborn
  • MLOps & Data
    • Git, Docker, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Jupyter, Tableau
  • AI/LLMs
    • Hugging Face Transformers, LangChain (prototyping)

Honors and Awards

  • 2023
    • Provost Honors
  • 2022
    • Provost Honors
  • 2021
    • Provost Honors
  • 2020
    • AP Scholar with Honor Award
    • Gold Standard - International Award for Young People

Other Interests

  • Hobbies: Running, Cooking, Yoga, Reading