Portrait of Aishwarya Balaji

Aishwarya Balaji

I'm a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania's M&T Program (CS BSE & Finance at Wharton) with a masters degree in CS. I've built ML, path planning, geospatial, and systems services.

Experience

Roles

  1. Amazon — Prime Air

    SDE Intern · Environment Modeling & Mapping

    Built core tooling used across 5+ teams to access, inspect, and visualize diverse geospatial data sources.

  2. Amazon — Prime Air

    SDE Intern · Path Planning

    Researched & implemented path-planning strategies (visuals presented at IROS). Improved mission testing capabilities.

  3. Google

    CS Research Mentorship Program

    Paired with Google researchers; Invited back for alumni panel, Google’s PhD Summit, and Research@NYC.

  4. National Youth Science Camp

    North Carolina Delegate

    Represented NC; Presented research findings and introduced a guest lecturer.

  5. FinTech Focus — Bank of America Cohort

    Fellow

    Built a financial sentiment visualization linking social sources via API.

  6. Apple — Engineering & Technology Program

    Participant (1 of 25 nationally)

    Explored engineering at Apple; Collaborated with SWE, MEAM, CE engineers to build a product.

  7. North Carolina State University — DST Program

    Data Science Research Intern

    Modeled links between cognitive health and dementia using PCA and non-parametric smoothing.

Education

Degrees

  1. School of Engineering & Applied Science

    M.S.E. Computer Science · Philadelphia, PA

  2. School of Engineering & Applied Science

    B.S.E. Computer Science · Philadelphia, PA

    Jerome Fisher Management & Technology Program

  3. The Wharton School

    B.S. in Economics, Finance · Philadelphia, PA

Teaching

Courses

  1. CIS 5800 — Machine Perception

    Teaching Assistant · University of Pennsylvania · Dr. Lingjie Liu

    Assisted with course content and student projects in machine perception.

  2. CIS 5120 — Human-Computer Interaction

    Head Teaching Assistant · University of Pennsylvania · Dr. Andrew Head

    Led TA team; coordinated assignments, rubrics, and student support.

  3. CIS 5120 — Human-Computer Interaction

    Head Teaching Assistant · University of Pennsylvania · Dr. Danaë Metaxa

    Course operations and pedagogy for HCI.

  4. M&T Immersive

    Teaching Assistant · University of Pennsylvania

    Annual Jerome Fisher M&T Immersive weekend; site visits incl. Tesla and Visa Lab.

  5. CIS 5120 — Human-Computer Interaction

    Teaching Assistant · University of Pennsylvania · Dr. Andrew Head

    Supported lectures, studio, and evaluations.

  6. CIS 2400 — Computer Architecture

    Teaching Assistant · University of Pennsylvania · Dr. Benjamin Lee

    Helped students with pipeline design, caching, and performance analysis.