About me

My name is Shivani Chauhan and I'm originally from Colorado. I'm currently a student at MIT earning my Master's degree in Computer Science and Engineering. This website showcases some of my personal projects and hobbies which include reading, writing, hiking and cooking! Find my resume here!

Personal Projects

Popular YA

One fun project I recently worked on is PopularYA, a website where I review recent books that I've read. This was a really great way to learn more about creating a personal website and the challenges/considerations that go into building a website from scratch. I started with a Bootstrap template that I liked, Avilon, and then customized it to fit my needs. I connected a Mongo database and used Node.js and Express on the backend. The coolest part of this website is that I just have to add my review to the Mongo database and it populates the review onto my website, which is super convenient. I also went through the process of buying a domain and deploying the application through Heroku. I want to add more features in the future such as more reviews, a Hall of Fame section for my favorite books, better analytics, search functionality and so on. I know I still have a lot of work to do on this but please feel free to check out the website at www.popularya.com!

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Question Answering

This is another partner project I did for a final project in a class, Natural Language Processing. where we implemented a variety of models, including an LSTM and CNN, to try to find similarities between questions, specifically StackExchanged Android questions. This has real-world importance because one way of answering someone's question is to find whether someone else has asked it before (and use the corresponding answer). The full report we turned in for the final project can be found here. And the code for the final project is here.

Image Colorization

This project was part of my final project in my Computer Vision class. My partner and I used a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) to colorize black and white images. The code can be found here. Enjoy some of our results below, the image on the left is the colorized image produced by the CNN and the image on the right is the actual image. The final project paper is here.

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Future Plans

Currently, I'm working towards my Master's degree. My thesis work focuses on improving diabetes screening in India by utilizing mobile devices. Afterwards I'll be focusing on finding full-time opportunities in machine learning, artificial intelligence and backend engineering!