About Me

Hi, I’m Pravallika Myneni — someone who thrives on curiosity, collaboration, and creativity. I earned my Master’s in Artificial Intelligence at Northwestern University, after completing my Bachelor’s in Computer Science. Over the years, I’ve discovered that what excites me most is the process of learning, building, and connecting with others through shared ideas.

I’m a passionate data enthusiast, a continuous self learner and an active collaborator, with experience participating in 60+ hackathons and datathons. One of my most memorable moments was being featured by WiDS (Women in Data Science) for my datathon journey, which reinforced how much I value problem-solving within a community of inspiring people.

At the heart of everything I do is my personal mantra: CLASP — Curiosity, Learn, Apply, Share, and Practice. It’s how I approach challenges, embrace opportunities, and keep growing both personally and professionally.

For me, enthusiasm isn’t just a feeling — it’s the energy I bring into every project, collaboration, and experience.

Interests

Machine Learning

Computer Vision

Software Development

Natural Language Processing

Software Engineering

Visualization

Algorithms

Image Processing

Education

Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence

September 2022 - December 2023
Relevant Coursework
  • Machine Learning
  • Data Science Pipelin
  • Intro to Artificial Intelligence
  • Human Computer Interaction
  • Deep learning

B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering

July 2017 - August 2021
Relevant Coursework
  • Database Management Systems
  • Data Analytics
  • Machine Learning

Starter's Academy

June 2021 - Present
Relevant Coursework
  • Data Wrangling
  • Time Series
  • Text classification
  • Recommender Systems

Online Certification

Programming Essentials in Python

Python for Everybody - Specialization

Applied Data Science I: Scientific Computing & Python (with honors)

Devnet Associate

Oracle Database SQL Certified Associate

Experience

CDW

May 2024 - Present/h5>

Software Engineer I, Data

  • Leveraging AI and machine learning knowledge to design and optimize scalable data platforms such as Fabric, enhancing cloud computing solutions and improving platform performance while delivering cost-efficient, self-service capabilities.
  • Brainstorming and implementing new generation ideas such as creating a tutorial series on Fabric, teaching cloud computing concepts and scalable data system design, helping peers and teams streamline development processes.

Northwestern University Institute for Policy Research

June 2023 - March 2024/h5>

Research Assistant

  • Developed interactive dashboards using Streamlit and Plotly to address Native issues, enhance understanding while also aiming for a 30% increase in GIS data accessibility for Indigenous communities through local-level analysis.
  • Implemented Selenium to scrape courtroom data from YOLO County, enhancing case prioritization.

Ulta

Sept 2023 - Dec 2024

Data Analyst - Capstone, Strategic Analytics

  • Spearheaded a machine learning project aimed at identifying High-Value Members beyond traditional yearly net sales.
  • Employed clustering algorithms, including K-means, within Google Cloud Platform using BigQuery to categorize a dataset of 8.9 million customers into four optimal clusters.

CDW

April 2023 - June 2023/h5>

Data Scientist, Practicum

  • Designed a personalization engine implementing hybrid collaborative filtering, targeting a 15% improvement in sales.
  • Utilized similarity matrices and Non-negative Matrix Factorization to capture latent factors influencing customer 
preferences and purchasing patterns.

Facebook Research

Oct 2022 - December 2022

Open Source Contributor – AEPsych

  • Contributed to AEPsych, an open-source Python framework for adaptive experimentation in psychophysics, enhancing server functionality and trial workflows.
  • Collaborated with a teammate to improve configuration handling, data logging, and documentation for easier adoption.

CURVEX

Jan 2022 - April 2022

Machine Learning Intern

  • Analysed the brain activity through different frequency bands and Electroencephalogram
  • Applied different data processing and machine learning techniques to time-series data

Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services

Feb 2021 - July 2021

Research Intern

Predicting Temperature Anomaly in Indian Ocean using Long Short Term Neural Network

  • Extracted anomaly information from satellite images
  • Devised a univariate time series model based on neural networks to estimate anomaly

Hackathon Experience

Women in Data Science Datathon

Jan 2022 - June 2022

Phase I

  • Compared regression models such as Support Vector Regressor, Linear Regressor, Decision Tree Regressor, Random forest Regressor, Lasso Regression and GradientBoostingRegressor to predict based on Root Mean Squared Error

Phase II

  • Collaborated with international researchers to understand usage of energy consumption in France

World Data League

April 2021 - July 2021

Secured Fourth Place

  • Model of integrated transports for senior citizens
  • Identifying road segments with potential safety hazard
  • Predicting the demand for shared bicycles
  • Attracting population to green spaces in metropolitan areas

Women/Hacks 3.0 by University of California, Santa Barbara

April 2021

Posture Analyzer

  • Posture analyzer captures your video using webcam to analyze your posture and displays whether it is good or bad.
  • Won Best Hack in Overall Category
  • Won Best Physical Health Hack

She Codes by IEEE CIS, G H Raisoni College of Engineering

August 2020 - October 2020
  • Deep dive into python programming
  • Introduced to Supervised Learning, Unsupervised Learning
  • Worked on first Machine Learning project

WinHacks 2021 by University of Windsor

March 2021

Health Bill Estimator

  • Developed a regression model to predict the health bill
  • Designed the prototype using Figma and then website using HTML and CSS
  • An API was developed using Flask to serve the prediction model
  • Deployed the web app on Heroku

Hacklytics 2021- Datathon by Georgia Tech

Feb 2021

Covid-19 and Mobility

  • Data gathering and Preprocessing
  • Performed Time Series Analysis
  • Developed a predictive model for estimating the impact of mobility on covid
  • Gained an accuracy of 90.6% for the model

WiCS Hacks 2021

Feb 2021

Moodify

  • Developed a open cv based mood detector that uses various libraries to play the song as per your mood

VenusHacks 2021 by University of California, Irvine

Feb 2021

EZ-Write

  • Developed a Webpage(HTML, CSS, Flask), which allows user to upload a audio notes
  • Converted the audio to a transcript using python audio and text libraries
  • The text is converted into handwritten text in pdf format using tensorflow

Projects

  • All Projects
  • Data Science Projects
  • Other Projects

Ocean Wave Modelling using Data Assimilation

Presented at 2nd International Conference on Data Science and Applications

Quest Companion - A discord bot

Mood Prediction based on song name

RUYO - ReUse at Your Own Pace

Detecting Poachers in drone imagery

In Progress

Volunteer Experience

Omdena

Volunteer Junior ML Engineer

  • Circular Economy - Improving Food Security and Crop Yield
  • AI for Road safety in India
  • Building Tunisia Renewable Energy Map

DataKind

  • DataDiveSeptember 2021 -- See the Girl

Data for Good

  • Vancouver Chapter -- Brightside Homes

CoronaNet

  • Research Assistant -- Policy Coding, India

48in48

  • UI/UX designer-- Tapestri