Taniya S
Teaching Fellow at South Asian University
Delhi, India
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Top SchoolTaniya S is a Teaching Fellow and computational intelligence researcher with 8 years of experience focused on making AI understand language more like humans by integrating cognitive insights and human-centered design. Awarded the competitive DST INSPIRE Fellowship, she has advanced NLP, computational semantics, and decision-making under uncertainty with applications in healthcare and mental health. Her work spans rigorous research, teaching, mentoring, and community leadership—roles at South Asian University and contributions as reviewer and organizer for major AI and reproducibility forums reflect her commitment to reproducible, impactful science. She also contributes to open-source documentation (e.g., improving the popular datascience Python library docs) and has practical experience delivering AI for social good, such as COVID-19 resource allocation and assistive tech for the visually impaired. A classically trained musician and dancer with 20+ years of practice, she brings creative perspectives to technical problems and prioritizes diversity in STEM through sustained community building. Based in Delhi, she seeks collaborations that push the boundaries of human-like AI and real-world impact.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
PCM- Physics, Chemistry, Maths with Computer Science, 92.3%, PCM- Physics, Chemistry, Maths with Computer Science, 92.3% at Salwan Public SchoolUniversity of DelhiIndian Classical Vocal, Rabindra Sangeet, Nazrul Geeti, Indian Classical Vocal, Rabindra Sangeet, Nazrul Geeti at Prayag Sangit Samiti, AllahabadDoctor of Philosophy - (pre) PhD, Computer Science, 8.37/9, Doctor of Philosophy - (pre) PhD, Computer Science, 8.37/9 at South Asian University
Github Skills (5)
documentation10
python9
numpy7
pandas7
data-science6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
data-8/datascience
Oct 2020 - Jun 2022
A Python library for introductory data science
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:2 reviews, 25 commits, 3 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Taniya primarily contributed to the documentation of the `datascience` library. Their commits focused on updating docstrings for multiple methods, including `from_records`, `read_table`, `from_df`, and `from_array`. The user added example usages and corrected formatting and spacing issues within the documentation to improve clarity and prevent build failures.
python-librarydata-analysispythonsciencedataframes
CodTan/CodTan.github.io
Sep 2020 - Apr 2021
Contributions:70 commits, 15 PRs, 63 pushes in 6 months
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