Ashmi BanerjeeHeiglhofstr. 64/0018,81377 Munich,Germany.

8 ashmi.banerjee@tum.de m ashmibanerjee ( https://ashmibanerjee.github.io

EDUCATIONOct’16–Sept’19

MSc. in Informatics (Computer Science), Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany.

2012–2016 B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering., Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata, India, CGPA– 9.14/10.00.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCEMay’19–present

reINVENT: Working Student, Munich, Germany.Backend Support using Git, JavaScript, Node.JS, KOA, Sequelize

Mar’19–May’19

LearnIT, Girl: Mentor.Mentoring a female candidate to develop an application in Python

Nov’18–July’19

Max Planck Institute of Software Systems: Internship/Master’s Thesis: Networked Systems,Saarbruecken, Germany .Advisor: Dr. Krishna P. GummadiQuantifying Exposure Bias from Location/Geography-Based Searches using several Data Analytical and MachineLearning strategiesTools/ Technologies used: Python, Data Mining, Information Retrieval, Machine learning, Social Computing

Nov’17–Sept’18

Fortiss: Landesforschungsinstitut des Freistaats Bayern: Research Assistant(Student): Model-based Security Engineering, Munich, Germany, .Supervisor: Dr. Vivek NigamExtending the Security plugin for the tool AUTOFOCUS-3 using JavaTools/ Technologies used: Java, UI development, Object-oriented programming

Mar’18–May’18

Max Planck Institute of Software Systems: Visiting Scholar (Student): Networked Systems,Saarbruecken, Germany .Advisor: Dr. Krishna P. GummadiCharacterized discrimination and proposed mechanisms for detecting whether an ad is discriminatory as well asmitigation by expanding the ads targeted audience to include under-represented groupsTools/ Technologies used: Data Analysis, Social Computing, Machine learning-Logistic Regression, FrequentItemset Mining etc., Python

PUBLICATIONS2019 Can Location-Based Searches Create Exposure Bias? , Gourab K Patro, Ashmi Banerjee, Niloy Gan-

guly, Krishna P. Gummadi, Abhijnan Chakraborty, 1st Workshop on Fairness, Accountability, Transparency,Ethics and Society on the Web (FATES-2019), In conjunction with The Web Conference 2019.

2019 End-User Position Driven Small Base Station Placement for Indoor Communication, Anindita Kun-du, Shaunak Mukherjee, Ashmi Banerjee, Subhashis Majumder, 6th International Doctoral Symposiumon Applied Computation and Security Systems (ACSS-2019).

2015 Computational Search for Gaussian Perfect Integers, Ashmi Banerjee, Shaunak Mukherjee, SomjitDatta, Subhashis Majumder, IEEE International Conference on Control, Communication and Computing(ICCC-2015).

SELECTED UNIVERSITY PROJECTSSept’18-Oct’18

Think. Make. Start. Classic Edition Batch 8: Team Aucuro, Technical University, Munich, Germany.Built the first functional prototype for an automated cucumber harvesting system using a robotic arm and suctiontubes. Worked with an interdisciplinary team of five students from TU Munich for two weeks, using agilemethodologies to make the product successful and pitched it to potential customers.

Oct’16–Feb’18

MOVE-II SPACE : Automated Analysis of the MOVE-II Slack for Bugs and Missing Documen-tation: Interdisciplinary Project (IDP), Technical University, Munich, Germany.MOVE (Munich Orbital Verification Experiment) is TUM’s initiative to launch an artificial satellite which is createdand operated by the students. The satellite was launched with a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in 2018. Created aSlackbot to automatically analyze the bugs and missing documentation from the Slack channel

SKILLSSoftware : Python (Proficient), MATLAB (Intermediate), Java (Intermediate), C (Intermediate), HTML

(Proficient), CSS (Proficient), LaTeX (Proficient) .Linguistic : English, Bengali (native speaker), Hindi, German (intermediate).

SCHOLASTIC ACHIEVEMENTS2019 Grace Hopper Down Under Student Scholarship 2019, Anita Borg , to attend the 2019 Hopper Down

Under celebrations, Brisbane, Australia.2018 Google WomenTechmakers and Firebase Travel Grant 2018, Google WomenTechmakers, to attend

the Google Firebase Summit 2018 in Prague, Czech Republic.2018 IFF(Informatik-Forum Frauen) Gender & Diversity Grant 2018, Technical University of Munich,

Munich, Germany, to attend European Women in Technology conference 2018 in Amsterdam, Netherlands.2018 Research Fellowship as a Visiting Scholar, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Saarbruecken,

Germany, in the field of Networked Systems.2017 The Cornell, Maryland, Max Planck Pre-doctoral Research School (CMMRS) 2017, Max Planck

Institute for Software Systems, Saarbruecken, Germany, Selected among 1000 applicants to attend thesummer school in Software Systems, Social Systems, Security and Privacy.

2016 Best Overall Performance (B.Tech) Award 2016, Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata, India, inrecognition of the academic and extra-curricular excellence as adjudged by the institute.

2016 The Telegraph YOU Scholarship Finalist 2016, The Telegraph, Kolkata, India, Finalist (top 5) for theThe Telegraph YOU Scholarship which is awarded to 2 students every year for pursuing graduate studiesfrom universities outside India..

2016 Best Student Award 2016, Tata Consultancy Services, India, for being the best student at HeritageInstitute of Technology, in terms of both academic and extra-curricular excellence.

2016 Dewang Mehta Award for Excellence 2016, National Association of Software and Systems Company(NASSCOM), Kolkata, India, for being among the top 3 students of the department (Top Rankers’Award).

MISCELLANEOUS2018 Panellist: Nokia Annual Greenhouse Event 2018, Invited as a panellist at Nokia Deutschland to speak

about under-representation of women in tech at Nokia’s exclusive annual Greenhouse event on November15, 2018, Munich. Was the youngest and only student in the panel..

2017 Female Tech Leaders Munich, Volunteer, Part of the organizing team (Team Hackathon), Munich,Germany.

2015 Chairperson at Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Student’s Chapter, HeritageInstitute of Technology, Kolkata, India.

2014 Webmaster at Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Student’s Chapter, Heritage Instituteof Technology, Kolkata, India.

2013 Teaching the under-privileged children of the workers of the red-light areas, S.B Devi Charity Home,Kolkata, India, worked as a part time teacher working for the under-privileged children of the workers ofthe red-light areas at a non-profit organization..

Munich, 4th August, 2019