Nandana Sheri
computer science student interested in software engineering and natural language processing
studying at the university of michigan, ann arbor
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I'm Nandana (nun-the-nah) and I am an incoming MS student to the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
I recently graduated from the University of Illinois Chicago with a BS in Computer Science & as a Bell Honor Recipient. I'm interested in Full Stack Development and exploring Natural Language Processing. I previously interned at CNA Insurance and won 1st place at Stanford's TreeHacks.
pictured at national cathedral, dc
I'm a strong believer in helping out the individuals who come after me and was able to do so through serving as President for Women in Computer Science. I also helped launch SparkHacks; UIC's own hackathon and served as Co-Director.
I love watching movies, exploring Chicago, rating experiences and occassionally reading!
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LLM Researcher
UIC CS Department - June 2025 to Present
Building a reproducible LLM evaluation pipeline using LangChain and Ollama, aiming to benchmark multimodal LLM accuracy in generating radiology reports across 50 X-ray scans, improving diagnostic reliability.
Head Teaching Assistant
UIC CS Department - Jan 2022 to May 2025
Guided over 300 students across 4 courses (Advanced Data Structures, Program Design I & II, and Discrete Mathematics) by debugging in C++ & Python through weekly office hours.
CS Enrollment Lead
Breakthrough Tech - November 2024 to May 2025
Promoted and recruited a cohort of 25 students for the CS111 Summer Program under Professor Shanon Reckinger through regular mass emails and development of the CS111 Summer Website with Astro and Tailwind (111-summer.cs.uic.edu).
Curriculum Design Assistant
UIC Linguistics Department - December 2024 to February 2025
Developed an assignment on Google Collab to assist over 30 students in analyzing and visualizing speech data from Praat using Pandas, Seaborn, and Matplotlib, for LING220 under Professor Carrie Pichan enhancing their ability to explore phonetic and phonological patterns.
SWE Intern
LitPath - June 2024 to Aug 2024
Designed and developed an in-house Therapist Admin Portal with React.js and MySQL for a nonprofit health provider (litpath.org), empowering staff to efficiently create, edit and search across 40,000+ therapist profiles.
Research Assistant
Northwestern University - April 2024 to Aug 2024
Implemented machine learning models using Hugging Face's Wav2Vec2Phoneme Transformer for speech disorder classification in children aged 3-5, achieving a 20% increase in diagnostic accuracy.
SWE Intern
CNA Insurance - June 2023 to Aug 2023
Enhanced user experience for 43,000+ insurance agencies by migrating legacy jQuery-based components to React.js for the CNA Surety Portal