Akshat
Kalra

I am a third year Statistics student at The University of British Columbia

Web Dev, Data Science, Stats and more...

Helpful Links:

Experience

Software and Firmware Co-Lead

UBC Subbots [Engineering Design Team] | Vancouver, BC

Sep 2024 – Present

Co-leading the Software team developing an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle for the RoboSub competition in California.
Spearheading the development of a real-time perception system integrating a custom computer vision model.

Undergraduate Teaching Assistant

University of British Columbia, Vancouver | Vancouver, BC

Sep 2023 – Present

Current Teaching Assistant for CPSC 121 - Models of Computation [Discrete Mathematics], focusing on proofs, combinations logic circuits, functions, sequential circuits and finite state machines
2x TA for PHIL 220 - Symbolic Logic, covering first-order logic and proofs.
CPSC 121: Leading a weekly discussion section and co-leading 2 lab sections, facilitating students’ understanding of discrete mathematics and computational theory.
PHIL 220: Led 2 hours of office hours weekly to support students. Graded 200+ exams and assignments with detailed feedback on logical proofs and reasoning.

PROJECTS

Tranquilo

AI-powered mental health journal that provides therapist-like responses by leveraging Retreival Augmented Generation (RAG), BERTopic modeling.

Predicting Revenue Impacts of Vancouver's Airbnb Policy

Won 1st Place at the UBC WiDS Case Competition. Developed an end-to-end ML pipeline using scikit-learn, reducing MSE by 27.4% over the baseline.

Scikit-learn | Pandas | NumPy

Secured 3rd place at the UBC CIC x AWS Gen AI and Sustainability Hackathon. Built an AI-powered marketplace for sustainable buying and upcycling, leveraging the Llama 3.1 70B Instruct model and an AWS-based architecture integrating Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway, Amazon Bedrock, and S3.

AWS | Next.js | Python