About

I graduated from Arizona State University, majoring in Computer science. For my master’s thesis, I worked on playlist representation techniques for search and recommendation purposes. Currently, I am working as a software developer at Axxess.

This blog is my journal as I explore the mystical world of binary, and attempt to rearrange 1s and 0s to create something meaningful. When not wrangling with bits, I’m likely reading blogs, running, or playing guitar.

The name, Bits And Music, comes from my interest in engaging in a bit of everything, and of course, music. Coz that’s what it’s all about.

Interests

Artificial Intelligence
Music Information Retrieval
Recommendation Systems
Web

Education

MS in Computer Science, 2019

Arizona State University
BTech in Information Technology, 2013

University School of Information and Communication Technology

Experience

Engineer

Axxess

Jan 2020 – Present Dallas, TX, USA

Researcher

Center for Cognitive Ubiquitous Computing, ASU

Jun 2019 – Dec 2019 Tempe, AZ, USA

Highlights:

Trained MobileNet, an object detection algorithm, on a custom dataset, and deployed it on a wearable device with real-time inference.
Collected and annotated the custom dataset using VGG image annotator.

Research Assistant

Center for Cognitive Ubiquitous Computing, ASU

Jun 2018 – Jun 2019 Tempe, AZ, USA

Highlights:

Devised a technique to optimally represent music playlists for music recommendation, using deep learning.
Partnered with a fitness-based company for music recommendation for workouts.
Built a website for collecting speech data from people with Spasmodic Dysphonia to create a dataset for training the speech-based AI algorithms.

Software Developer

ASU Decision Theater

Jun 2018 – Aug 2018 Tempe, AZ, USA

Highlights:

Prototyped a light-weight socket server framework to showcase the capabilities of Chainbuilder, Decision Theater’s core product serving prospective policymaking clients, using Python Django.
Designed reusable UI components for the Chainbuilder framework using HTML5, jquery, and D3.js

Software Developer

CWPS Lochbridge India Pvt Ltd

Aug 2015 – Jun 2016 Gurugram, India

Built the backend system for smart-car infortainment systems.

Software Developer

Newgen Software Technologies Ltd

Jul 2013 – Jul 2015 Noida, India

Developed Business Process Management based applications for two national banks in Africa, automating their workflows for processes like account opening, using Java.

Projects

Featured Publications

Piyush Papreja, Hemanth Venkateswara, Sethuraman Panchanathan

September 2019 ECML PKDD 2019 Music, Deep-learning, NLP

Representation, Exploration, and Recommendation of Music Playlists

With an aim towards playlist discovery and recommendation, we leverage sequence-to-sequence modeling to learn a fixed-length representation of playlists in an unsupervised manner.

PDF Dataset Project DOI Demo