A desire to increase her volunteer hours motivated Nupur Banerjee \u201919 to apply for the VMware Achieve Scholarship, developed to inspire and support women pursuing a degree in computer science or computer engineering. Internships and work were making it difficult for Banerjee to spend as much time as she wished working on the community engagement activities she\u2019s passionate about.<\/p>\n
Now that she\u2019s received the one-time $10,000 tuition award\u2014VMware\u2019s first Achieve Scholarship\u2014she\u2019ll be able to work less and volunteer more.<\/p>\n
\u201cHelping the community surrounding Harvey Mudd is something I find rewarding,\u201d says Banerjee. \u201cWith the activities I undertake, I hope to be a role model to girls so that a professional life in technology seems more within reach for them.\u201d<\/p>\n
Banerjee says that some of her most rewarding experiences have come from community collaboration activities. For Science Bus (an HMC club), she was the group leader at an elementary school and served as vice president of Science Day, the club\u2019s annual activity for local elementary school students. As the events coordinator for the Society of Women Engineers club, she helped organize its annual Women Engineers and Scientists of Tomorrow (WEST) Conference that brings over 200 female high school students to Harvey Mudd College for a day of workshops and encouragement.<\/p>\n
Banerjee\u2019s desire to be a mentor and role model is apparent on campus as well. She\u2019s a tour guide for prospective students, a mentor in her dorm and a grader and tutor (grutor) in the Computer Science Department, where she is focusing on machine learning. She\u2019s done research with computer science professor Timothy Tsai in the Music Information Retrieval Lab and, most recently, was an intern at Facebook, where she worked with the computer vision team to improve video classification using machine learning. She\u2019s also interned at Google and Innovaspire.<\/p>\n
\u201cI’ve really enjoyed applying machine learning to different types of problems and seeing how we\u2019re able to achieve accurate results even at a large scale. I\u2019m excited to see how the field develops further and how we will be able to use machine learning to solve problems in many disciplines,\u201d Banerjee says.<\/p>\n
\u201cNupur embodies everything that VMware was looking for in the recipient of this scholarship,\u201d says Courtney Manning, global intern project manager, university talent, at VMware. \u201cShe is intelligent, involved, dedicated and committed to being a leader and innovator as a woman in tech. Her impressive accomplishments in the classroom and in the community are what truly made her application shine.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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