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Contact Information
| Name | Lalitha Evani |
| Professional Title | MS by Research, CSE — CVIT, IIIT Hyderabad |
| lalitha.e@research.iiit.ac.in |
Experience
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2023 - 2024 Hyderabad, India
Research Fellow
Centre for Visual Information Technology (CVIT), IIIT Hyderabad
Worked under the guidance of Prof. C. V. Jawahar and Dr. Ajoy Mondal.
- Domain: Optical Character Recognition (OCR).
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2022 - 2022 Bengaluru, India
Summer Research Fellow
Indian Institute of Science (IISc)
Summer Research Fellowship Program jointly sponsored by IASc (Bengaluru), INSA (New Delhi), and NASI (Prayagraj); mentored by Dr. Sandeep Prabhakar Chepuri.
- Worked on Graph Neural Networks (GNNs).
Education
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2024 - Present Hyderabad, India
MS by Research
International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIIT-H)
Computer Science Engineering — Centre for Visual Information Technology (CVIT)
- CGPA: 8.8 (current)
- Advisors: Prof. C. V. Jawahar and Dr. Ajoy Mondal.
- Focus: Optical Character Recognition (OCR), Indic handwritten text recognition.
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2019 - 2023 Andhra Pradesh, India
B.Tech.
Sree Vidyanikethan Engineering College
Information Technology
- CGPA: 9.06
Projects
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Summarizing Medical Documents Using NLP
Undergraduate team project (5 members), guided by Dr. K. Ramani, HoD, Information Technology. Used NLP models to summarize medical documents and conducted a comparative analysis of the results.
- Led to a publication at ICAAIC 2023 (see Publications).
Skills
Programming: Java, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, ReactJS, Node.js, SQL, HTML, CSS
ML & Research: PyTorch, OpenCV, scikit-learn, NumPy, Pandas, Hugging Face Transformers
Certificates
- Foundations of Modern Machine Learning - IIIT Hyderabad (2022)
- Deep Learning for Computer Vision - NPTEL
- Natural Language Processing on Google Cloud - Google Cloud (via Coursera)
Publications
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2025 SemiHastakshar: Generalizable Indic Handwritten OCR through Semi-Supervised Learning
Proceedings of the 16th Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing (ICVGIP)
ACM, pp. 1–9.
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2024 Enhancing Accuracy in Indic Handwritten Text Recognition
International Conference on Computer Vision and Image Processing (CVIP)
Springer Nature Switzerland, LNCS vol. 2473, pp. 234–248.
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2023 Text Summarization of Medical Documents using Abstractive Techniques
2nd International Conference on Applied Artificial Intelligence and Computing (ICAAIC), Salem, India
IEEE, pp. 939–943.
Languages
Telugu : Native speaker
English : Fluent
Hindi : Fluent