Ahana Mahapatra

BTech in Computer Science (Data Science) (hons.)
Manipal University Jaipur
Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

Contact Information

Phone: +91 8866037414
Email: ahanamahapatra@gmail.com
GitHub: AhanaMahapatra
LinkedIn: Ahana Mahapatra

Education

Degree/Level	Institue/Board	Percentage/CGPA	Year
Bachelor of Technology (CSE) (hons.)	Manipal University Jaipur	9.79 (Till 4th Sem)	2024-2028
Senior Secondary (12th)	Green Valley High School, CBSE	72%	2024
Secondary (10th)	Aditya Birla Public School, CBSE	93.5%	2022

Projects

Federated Learning System - Security & Training Analysis

Self-Directed Research / Guided Exploration

March 2026 - Present

Building and analyzing a federated learning pipeline using the Flower framework to understand decentralized model training and aggregation. Investigating attack vectors such as data poisoning and analyzing defense mechanisms to improve robustness in distributed learning systems.

Miscellaneous Machine Learning Projects

Small Scraping and Data Analysis Tasks

January 2026 - Present

Learned how to scrape data from various sources and developed various machine learning models for different datasets and analyzed the results.

GitHub

ChronoMind - Emotion-Aware Scheduling Chatbot

Project Based Learning Research Project

August 2025 - Present

Developing an emotion-aware conversational AI system integrating EmoBERT for real-time sentiment and tone classification with an LLM backend for adaptive response generation and autonomous timetable scheduling based on user emotional state.
Prototype nearing completion; manuscript in preparation.

CheckMate - ChessBot

Hackathon Project

March 2025

Collaboratively designed and implemented a chess bot for an intra-college hackathon (2nd Semester), engineering the move generation logic to evaluate board states and select optimal moves in 1v1 matches. Secured 1st place out of all participating teams with a record of 50 wins, 15 draws, and 1 loss, zero token violations and avg move time of 0.004s.

GitHub

Technical Skills

Programming Languages: Python, Java, C
Tools & Technologies: MATLAB, Jupyter Notebook
Libraries: Numpy, pandas, Flower (flwr), PyTorch, TensorFlow

Key Courses Taken

Computer Science: DSA, OOPs (in Java), Data Mining, Machine Learning, Computer Networks, DBMS, Cloud Computing, Computer Architecture
Mathematics & Data Science: Computational Mathematics, Discrete Mathematics, Statistics

Certifications

Programming in Java (OOP), NPTEL
Introduction to Machine Learning, NPTEL
The Complete Full-Stack Web Development Bootcamp, Udemy

Honors & Awards

Student Excellence Award - 1st Place in Hackathon
Dean's List - Academic Excellence, Manipal University Jaipur (4 times)

References available upon request.