Charmi Chokshi
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[Sept - Oct] Mentor at Women Developer Academy, North America 
My role as a mentor of 5 women professionals will be to help them in various aspects via 1:1 mentoring calls throughout the months of September and October 2023. I will guide them on topics such as Selecting the right topic, Creating a great technical presentation, Delivering and Engaging Talk (Public Speaking Tips), Cultivating Confidence, etc.

[July 2023] Mentor at McMedHacks: Medical image analysis and deep learning 
I conducted workshops, tutorial sessions, and quizzes on Transformers for a global audience.

[Mar 2023] Mentor at Women at Mila Mentorship Roundtable
This event was designed to bring together a group of women to share their experiences on a range of topics, including job-search and networking, work/care-work/life balance, and working in Canada as Non-Canadian.
I spoke about various Google Developers led programs and encouraged young professionals and students to actively participate in GDG Montreal and advised them on fighting against imposter syndrome.

[2021] Mentor at Google for Startups - India

[2021 - Till date] Mentor at Road to GDE, Google Developers

Mentored a team in the NASA Impact Flood Detection competition who became runners up
The team also published a research paper at Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning workshop at NeurIPS 2021:

Interviewer of the Community Round for the upcoming ML GDEs in North America region

Judge at DSC VIT's TECHEDEN hackathon
The annual hackathon by Developer Students Club of Vellore Institute of Technology, India. 40+ teams made hacks in various categories including Fin-tech, Automation Tool, Health-tech, Transport, Cyber Security, and Education. I judged the final products based on Complexity, Scalability, Completion, and UI/UX.
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Judge at Ingenious Hackathon, Ahmedabad University
The Ingenious Hackathon is a 48-hour intensive coding competition partnered with IEEE. I Mentored and Judged 25 teams who participated in this from all over the state.

Mentor at India’s First-ever Women Developer Academy, Women TechMaker [10 days]
My role was to help women developers improve on their presentation, and soft skills and guide them on some of the ML topics. I am moved to see the mentees working hard on improving themselves based on my feedback.

Mentored a team that became the second runners-up in a 36-hour Tic Tech Toe hackathon organized by DAIICT, India among 30 teams from the nation.

Solution Reviewer at Mission Billion Challenge WURI West Africa Prize (World Bank and MIT Solve)
Worked on selecting the most promising, innovative solutions that will facilitate contributions from and payments to informal sector workers in West Africa.

Proposal Reviewer at PyCon India 2020 and 2021
Reviewed talk, session, and workshop proposals gave critical feedback, and selected the best CFPs to be included in the conference in AI, Data Science, Scientific Computing, Digital Signal Processing

Mentor for DSC - Solution Challenge 2020 [12 weeks]
Mentored an Indonesian team of 4 students to enable deaf people to communicate using AI and wearable devices (smart glasses, smart gloves) who became global winners.

Judged a 36-hour hackathon organised by Women in Engineering and i.fest '20 IEEE, DAIICT, Gandhinagar.
Selected top 3 winners out of 30 teams based on the Realistic & Creativity, Quality & Completion, and Clarity & understanding of the implementation.

Mentor for Machine Learning at GirScript foundations, India
Took 15+ hrs of sessions covering the fundamental and practical aspects of ML and DL. Received exceptional good feedback for my interactive activities and teaching methodology.

Mentored a 3-week long internship program with Clique, a community to empower Women in Tech. Worked with undergraduate and graduate female students to develop a Visual Question Answering System.

Mentor prospective ML GDE candidates at Google Developers | Planning of "Mentorship Program" for the prospect GDE Candidates for 2021
As a member of the Diversity and Inclusion Working Group of GDEs, I motivate & encourage females to contribute to the community, connect them with organisers for future events.

Global Ambassador at WomenTech Network
On a mission to unite 1,00,000 women in tech to discuss things that matter! As a member of the WomenTech Network, I am developing my leadership skills and expanding the network.
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