Devanshi Gupta

Lead Penn State's largest student-run hackathon, setting strategic direction and overseeing end-to-end operations for 800+ participants per semester. Manage and mentor a 10+ person executive board across education, sponsorship, logistics, and outreach teams. Drive partnerships with campus organizations and industry sponsors to expand technical access, programming quality, and event scale.

Develop a full-stack analytics dashboard to track and visualize social media performance across multiple platforms. Build machine learning pipelines using named entity recognition, clustering, and contextual analysis to extract trends from long-term newsroom data. Collaborate with editorial and business teams to translate insights into data-informed audience and growth strategies.

Lead the redesign and modernization of the publication's website using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Improved average session duration by 25% and increased accessibility from 70% to 95% through responsive, inclusive design practices. Work closely with editorial contributors to ensure visual consistency, usability, and alignment with branding goals.

Designed enterprise AI use cases supported by proof-of-concept documentation, vendor evaluations, and cost–benefit analyses. Assessed integration of AI tools within existing business workflows to identify efficiency and knowledge-sharing improvements. Secured $80,000 in executive-approved funding for pilot AI deployments supporting internal operations.

Developed a Python-based fairness evaluation pipeline integrating bias detection, mitigation, and explainability methods. Optimized interpretable machine learning models, improving fairness and recall by 18% while preserving transparency. Conducted automated error analysis to support responsible and accountable ML deployment.