Naren Sivakumar

1000 Hilltop Cir, Baltimore, MD 21250 · (667) 464-5954 · narens1@umbc.edu

I am a masters student at UMBC, and I work in natural language processing and computer vision. My current work is with Dr Lara Martin and as part of the LARA lab in applying language processing and game theory to real world events. Primary interests lie in the generation and evaluation of stories, object detection and identification with computer vision techniques, and combining large scale politics and NLP.

Research Work

Evaluating automated glacial annotations using machine learning models

University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Developed a system to accurately evaluate glacial annotations made by machine learning models by comparing them to expertly annotated images.

November 2023

GenBert+ : Tackling Numeracy using Natural Language Processing

SSNCE

Tackled issues with parsing and understanding numbers while using GenBert. Developed a unique system of training the model to understand numbers in sentences better.

November 2022

Classification of plant species using computer vision

CEUR and SSNCE

Classified more than 3,000,000 images of over 80,000 plant species using AlexNet architecture. Stood fifth internationally in the competition held by CEUR.

May 2022

Automated systems for large scale security

Chennai City Police and SSNCE

Developed two computer visions systems to identify perpetrators on foot or in a vehicle using an image of the person and the vehicle respectively.

May 2023

Education

University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Master of Science, Computer Science
2025

SSNCE

Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science
2023

Skills

Programming Languages and Tools

Interests

I love to game and read books in my spare time! I also listen to a lot of music, and watch movies.

When forced outdoors, I love to hike and cycle. I also love visiting modern monuments!

Awards

  • INR 50,000 cash prize in a hackathon for Patrol Pal, a facial detection model.
  • Fifth internationally in LifeClef -- Plant Clef segment
  • Best CS project for developing a Galaga clone in C++ 4.0 that used bitfields to manipulate the speed and randomness of the enemies