My Experience

Oct 2022 - Present

Qualcomm Innovation Center - San Diego, CA


  • Camera Software: Developed Linux kernel drivers for premium-tier Snapdragon chipsets used in high-end Android mobile phones.
  • Complex Software Architecture: Demonstrated proficiency in scalable software architecture tailored for managing diverse hardware in camera systems.
  • Image Processing and System Cache: Contributed to system cache optimization and custom query cap capabilities for camera chipsets, ensuring top-notch memory management for image processing.
  • Optimization and Debugging: Proficient in identifying and rectifying issues within the image post-processing engine and optimizing the codebase with feedback from Klockwork.
  • Clock & BW Voting: Played a key role in clock voting essential for camera chipset operations, ensuring seamless image processing and delivery.
  • I2C Communications: Optimized and debugged I2C drivers within the Linux kernel, facilitating robust communication between the kernel and camera module components such as image sensors and lens controllers.
  • High-Level Operating System: Worked with HLOS layers, enhancing the integration and performance of camera functionalities in complex multimedia software frameworks.
  • Collaboration and Communication: Proven track record in dynamic teams, effectively communicating and collaborating to enhance camera software performance.

My Projects

Object Detection in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV)

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I developed a computer vision model designed specifically for high-altitude drone imagery using Google Colab for training. The dataset for this project was obtained in collaboration with Stanford University, with all imagery captured on their campus. This work resulted in a publication, one of only a few in this specialized area at the time. Technically, the model is built upon the RetinaNet architecture and uses a feature pyramid network to efficiently pinpoint and extract relevant features from the drone-captured data. Paired with my drone simulation software that accurately maps to real-world coordinates, this combination holds promise for various applications. It can be utilized for tasks such as crowd monitoring, search and rescue operations, and enhancing delivery services.

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Realistic Drone Simulation Software

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This is an Android based search and rescue drone simulation application, a publish-subscribe model is used to communicate with a server over ROSbridge to obtain useful info such as coordinates, battery life and objectives. Using Google maps API, info is displayed on an XML‐based UI that enables users to control the drones in a realistic simulation. Also, to allow for simultaneity, parallel programming was used to control and display drones using multi‐threading.

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Facebook Image Analyzer Using Google Vision

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Web‐ based app which uses Servlets (JSF framework) to authenticate users then retrieve their Facebook images using Facebook’s API. These images are then analyzed using Google’s Cloud Vision API and the returned data is stored in a database. Data feedback from Google cloud vision is stored onto FireStore’s database to optimize API running times. TinEye API (free version of Pinterest) queries relevant postings to the user’s Facebook image based on Google visions AI analysis. The web app is developed and hosted using Google App Engine, however, I also have another version hosted using Firebase. I also set up google analytics for the hosted website.

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RoR PhotoSite

    Made with:

A Ruby on Rails application that implements a photo sharing site. The app uses a MVC design pattern for the User Interface. The website uses a SQLite database to store comments from users. While the images are stored into Amazon’s S3 bucket. The app is deployed onto a Docker Container, and the container is run in Amazon’s AWS EC2 instance.

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Celebrity Deathmatch

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For this game the Unity game engine was used to develop a 2D fighter game. The game features two characters, Hillary and Trump, the skeletons, hit boxes and AI of the characters was coded from scratch. The C# language was used for almost all scripting, including various combat movements as well as sound feedback and winner celebrations.

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Inventory Manager

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A database intensive software that manages retailers’ inventory, both admin and member users have various functionalities. MySQL is used to manage the data; a user‐friendly UI allows users to perform a variety of actions to the data using self‐built query builder. The software also allows for generation and manipulation of CSV reports which include cost, quantity, retail price...etc.

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Agricultural Vision Back End

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This project extends the work of this research paper. I, along with a team of 3, worked on a PyTorch implementation of the model architecture of the paper for a computer vision project. We ended up facing a lot of troubles with the code base due to lack of documentation and refactoring the code was harder. This allowed for an immersive learning experience of PyTorch, and machine learning models used in this architecture. The obtained model was trained on the Agriculture Vision dataset and uses a mixture of Multi-view Self-Constructing Graph Convolutional Network and an Adaptive Class Weighting Loss. The result is a high accuracy for the field of Agriculture with 68% detection accuracy. Due to the high RAM usage, the model had to be trained on one of the team member’s gaming PC, rather than Google Collaboratory.

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Agricultural Vision Front End

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This an Android app that uses the PyTorch Mobile framework to implement the model obtained from Agricultural Vision Back End. The app allows for segmentation and detection of the 6 mentioned features and uses the model to obtain the results of the displayed images. This app was a way to get introduced into PyTorch Mobile and get familiarized with mobile development for machine learning frameworks.

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Canny Edge Detector

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This is an android app that uses the OpenCV library along with other python libraries to implement a Canny Edge Detector. The app offers the ability to disable / enable the detector as well as a threshold slider. The edge detection is happening live on each from of the camera.

Demo Code

Digits Classifier

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This is a Jupyter notebook where I hard-coded a clustering algorithm and a dimensionality reduction approach. These machine learning algorithms were used on the digits dataset and I was successfully able to classify the digits in the dataset with a high accuracy.

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Iris Multi-Variate Classifier

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This Jupyter notebook works with the Iris dataset and classifies the different types of flowers using Bayesian Decision Theory, Parametric Methods and a Multivariate Classifier. Different Python libraries were used such as NumPy and Scikit-learn.

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My Skills

My Education

2022

California State University, East Bay - Master's of Computer Science


  • Major in computer science
  • Research in Machine Learning, specifically Computer Vision
  • Working on a pyramid network to develop an object detection model for aerial imagery
  • The object detection model works on-board UAV's, specifically drones, and detects urban artifacts such as pedestrians, buses and cars... etc.

2019

New Mexico State University - Bachelor's of Computer Science


  • Major in computer science
  • Hadley full ride scholarship
  • Crimson scholar and Meritorious scholar(Top 10%)
  • Honors graduate and Dean's list 2018 and 2019

2017

Arrowhead Park Early College High School - Associate of Science


  • Dual Credit student, graduated with 66 college credits
  • High School Diploma
  • Associate of Science
  • Associate of Arts

Contact Me

Email

atiya.kailany(AT)gmail.com

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