Hi! I am Surya Narayana Akella. I am an incoming CS Grad at USC. I am interested in AI and Full Stack Development. I am also a Musician/Singer/Guitarist. Check out my music 📸. I also do competitive Programming for fun!. I am currently working in a startup where I work 60+ hrs a week working and learning on frontend and backend web frameworks and designing systems.
News
- Jan 2021: Top 5% rank Codechef Cookoff challenge.
- Jan 2021: Top 12% rank Codeforces Div2 challenge.
- Dec 2020: Graduated with a gpa of 9.15, Department Rank 2.
- November 2020: I submitted my work on undergraduate thesis on Diabetic Retinopathy Detection.
- Feb-July 2020: I had a lot of fun in my summer internship at Samsung Reseach where I improved the on Automatic Object Removal Techniques using State of the art methods fot the Software Engineering and Innovation Department.
- Jan 2020: I have been awarded the Institute of Academic Excellence award for Dept. Rank 2 by Director of the institute for the academic year 2018-19!
- June-Aug 2019: Research Intern @ Spectrum Lab, Indian Insitute of Science, Bangalore under Prof. Chandrasekhar Seelamantula where I worked on Image Denoising using Deep Learning where I proved some interesting results.
- June 2019: Attended Caltech Professor Venkat Chandrasekharan's talk on Optimization at IISc.
- Feb 2019: (2x Time Top 400 candidates all over India, acceptance rate < 10%) Summer Research Fellowship, Awarded by Indian Academy of Sciences (Started in 1934 by Sir. C.V.Raman(Nobel Prize Winner))
- Jan 2019: I have been awarded the Institute of Academic Excellence award for Dept. Rank 1 by Director of the institute for the academic year 2017-18!
- June-Aug 2018: Research Intern @ WSN Lab, Indian Insitute of Technology, Hyderabad under Founding Director IIT-H Prof. Uday B. Desai where I worked on optimizing HVAC power usage using classical Machine Learning.
- Feb 2018: (Top 400 candidates all over India, acceptance rate < 10%) Summer Research Fellowship, Awarded by Indian Academy of Sciences (Started in 1934 by Sir. C.V.Raman(Nobel Prize Winner))