Parth Patwa

About Me

I am a 1st year Masters student at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), pursuing MS in Electrical and Computer Enginnering (ECE). I completed my Bachelors In CSE with honors and a minor in AI/ML from Indian Institute of Information Technology Sri City. I am a researcher and a learner. My interests are Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Social Computing, and Computer Vision. I am passionate about research in the aforementioned fields. I believe that grit, tenacity, and determination are my biggest strengths.

I am working as a researcher at the PathCheck Foundation advised by Dr. Ramesh Raskar. At PathCheck, I work on COVID-19 outbreak prediction, ML for digital contact tracing, and writing survey papers related to vaccine and testing challenges. I have been fortunate to be advised by Dr. Amitava Das throughout my undergraduate studies. Under his guidance, I worked on aggression, hate-speech, and misogyny detection in social media. I hope this work takes a step towards making social media a safer place for women and minorities. I also worked on sentiment analysis of code-mixed tweets and COVID-19 fake news detection. Previously I interned at Hike Messenger where I worked on clustering semantically similar chat messages to improve sticker recommendation.

I was the President and Founder of Epoch, which is the AIML club at IIITS. At Epoch, we give talks on ML topics, conduct paper reading sessions, hands-on tutorials, organize hackathons, workshops, and paper reading sessions. We also take efforts to encourage female participation in our events.

I like to read fiction (thrillers, mystery, fantasy, drama) and sometimes non-fiction. I have been playing chess for almost 10 years. Earlier I used to play professional chess, now I play it for fun. Currently, I am learning to play the guitar. I love to travel to and explore new destinations. I also enjoy watching cricket, trekking, running, and adventure sports.

Interest

Machine Learnging and Deep Learning
Natural Language Processing
Computational Social Science
ML for HealthTech
Computer Vision

Education

MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering 2021-2023
University of California Los Angeles

Fighting an Infodemic: COVID-19 Fake News Dataset

in proceedings of CONSTRAINT Workshop at AAAI 2021.

Parth Patwa, Shivam Sharma, Srinivas PYKL, Vineeth Guptha, Kumari Gitanjali, Md Shad Akhtar, Asif Ekbal, Das Amitava, Tanmoy Chakraborty

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Can Self Reported Symptoms Predict Daily COVID-19 Cases?

3rd Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Social Good, IJCAI

Parth Patwa , Viswanatha Reddy, Rohan Sukumaran, Sethuraman TV, Eptehal Nashnoush, Sheshank Shankar, Rishemjit Kaur, Abhishek Singh, Ramesh Raskar

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Proximity Sensing: Modeling and Understanding Noisy RSSI-BLE Signals and Other Mobile Sensor Data for Digital Contact Tracing

Machine learning for mobile health workshop at neurips 2020

Sheshank Shankar, Rishank Kanaparti, Ayush Chopra, Rohan Sukumaran, Parth Patwa, Myungsun Kang, Abhishek Singh, Kevin P. McPherson, Ramesh Raskar

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COVID-19 Outbreak Prediction and Analysis using Self Reported Symptoms

Jounral of Behavioural Data Science

Rohan Sukumaran, Patwa Parth, T V Sethuraman, Kanaparti Shankar Sheshank, Joseph Rishank, Bae, Yash Mathur, Abhishek Singh, Ayush Chopra, Kang Myungsang, Priya Ramaswamy, Ramesh Raskar

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