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Ditthi Chatterjee

Nini · pronounced DEE-thee · she/her

I build. I translate. I convene.

My current working theory is that saying yes often enough eventually turns you into a polymath.

BSc Computer Science (Honours) with Co-op, plus a Certification in Business Administration. University of Prince Edward Island, CGPA 3.969/4.3.

Open to roles

I'm looking for roles in solutions engineering, developer relations, tech community events and technical product management, starting after I graduate in April 2027.

Ditthi, in a white blouse and maroon pinafore, turning her head toward the camera

Three threads

  1. 01

    Build

    The technical work: projects and internships.

    5 projects · 3 roles · 1 talk

  2. 02

    Translate

    Making a technical thing understandable to someone else: demos, docs, talks, workshops, teaching.

    4 projects · 4 roles · 2 events · 1 talk

  3. 03

    Convene

    Events hosted, communities led, people brought together.

    1 project · 3 roles · 5 events · 1 community

03 · Convene

Convene

Organized · Aug 2026 · The Foundry, Charlottetown, with the PEI IT Alliance

PEI TechWeek hackathon

President, SMCS Society

attendees
50+
hours
24
judges
4
mentors
6
in prizes
$470
sponsors
3

  1. 01 · The partner

    I co-lead the PEI TechWeek hackathon with the PEI IT Alliance.

    an organiser giving two thumbs up in a doorway at The Foundry, PEI TechWeek hackathon, August 2026
    an organiser laughing at the check-in table, The Foundry, PEI TechWeek hackathon, August 2026

  2. 02 · The brief

    Teams have 24 hours, noon to noon, to build AI agents at The Foundry. 50+ people take part, with 6 mentors.

    teams setting up at The Foundry under a wall of windows onto Charlottetown, PEI TechWeek hackathon, August 2026

  3. 03 · The demos

    Teams demo their agents live on stage. 4 judges score them.

    a speaker at The Foundry's lectern presenting to the room, PEI TechWeek hackathon, August 2026
    organisers and participants around a laptop during the demos, PEI TechWeek hackathon, August 2026

  4. 04 · The close

    First and second place win from a $470 prize pool. There are 3 sponsors.

    the room at The Foundry during the closing thank-yous, PEI TechWeek hackathon, August 2026

Organized · Jan 2026 · UPEI

HackWithSMCSS

Secretary, SMCS Society

attendees
80+
hours
24
judges
6
mentors
6
in prizes
$1,250

  1. 01 · The executive

    I am on the executive that ran HackWithSMCSS, UPEI's first student-run coding hackathon. I reach out to sponsors, secure the judges and mentors, and do the groundwork on the day.

    the SMCS Society executive with green and black balloons at HackWithSMCSS, UPEI, January 2026
    four organisers posing in front of the HackWithSMCSS whiteboard, UPEI, January 2026

  2. 02 · The room

    The hackathon runs for 24 hours on a sustainability theme. 80+ people are in the room, 50+ of them developers.

    the SMCSS banner by the door at HackWithSMCSS, participants out of focus beyond it, FSDE, UPEI, January 2026
    three participants waiting under the voting QR code, HackWithSMCSS, UPEI, 24 January 2026
    two participants watching a demo, phones in hand, HackWithSMCSS, UPEI, January 2026

  3. 03 · The judging

    Teams demo live. 6 judges score them, and there are 6 mentors.

    judges with tablets scoring a team at its table, HackWithSMCSS, UPEI, January 2026

  4. 04 · The prizes

    $1,250 goes out in prizes. One team comes over from Holland College.

    a winning team holding a 500 dollar cheque for the Innovation and Impact Award, HackWithSMCSS, UPEI, 24 January 2026
    the Audience Choice Award winners with presenters, HackWithSMCSS, UPEI, 24 January 2026
    everyone at HackWithSMCSS gathered at the front of the room for a group photo, UPEI, 24 January 2026

More events

  • the full panel and audience at the internship fireside chat, June 2026

    Organized · · UPEI

    Internship fireside chat

    President, SMCS Society

    A panel and Q&A with students who had done internships.

  • a full computer lab of students during the cybersecurity workshop, UPEI, November 2025

    Organized · · UPEI

    Cybersecurity workshop

    Secretary, SMCS Society

    A session on the MITRE ATT&CK framework, led by an industry security engineer. All 40 spots filled within the first hour.

  • students at long tables during trivia and networking night, October 2025

    Organized · · UPEI

    Trivia and networking night

    Secretary, SMCS Society

    Students, faculty and alumni, several rounds of trivia, and food.

Communities

  • Sep 2025 to present

    SMCS Society, UPEI

    President (May 2026 to present); Secretary (Sep 2025 to Apr 2026)

    • On the executive that ran HackWithSMCSS, UPEI's first student-run coding hackathon: 80+ people, 24 hours.
    • As President, co-led the PEI TechWeek hackathon with the PEI IT Alliance.
    • Organised a cybersecurity workshop whose 40 spots filled within the first hour, and planned the trivia and networking night.

Speaking

  • Talk · · Science Atlantic MSCS Conference, UNB Saint John

    Forecasting electric vehicle charging behaviour

    Machine learning

    My honours thesis, presented to the conference judges. A utility can estimate how much power a city's cars will draw. I wanted to know which cars will charge tomorrow, and when, so a demand-response program can ask only those cars to wait. Two stages, on 568 cars from two telematics providers: one model predicts whether each car charges the next day, the next predicts when it plugs in. For next-day charging the best model reached a ROC-AUC of 0.89, against 0.81 for a rule that averages the last four weeks (0.77 against 0.70 on the second provider's cars). Better features moved the score far more than switching algorithms did.

North

Actua

School Coordinator and Outreach Instructor · May to Aug 2024

  1. 01 · Actua

    I go to remote communities in northern Canada.

    Ditthi paddling a blue canoe on a wide river lined with spruce, in a red life vest, near Aklavik, summer 2024
    Aklavik, 2024

  2. 02 · What I bring

    I teach STEM to Indigenous children.

    Ditthi in an Actua T-shirt trying on a VR headset in a classroom, Paulatuk, 2024
    Paulatuk, 2024

  3. 03 · What I am given

    I learn from Elders.

    Ditthi sitting on a boardwalk looking out at a pingo, a grass-covered ice hill, Tuktoyaktuk, 2024
    Tuktoyaktuk, 2024

  4. 04 · The rest of the site

    The translating goes both ways.

    a signpost of distances to cities around the world against a deep blue sky, Pond Inlet, 2024
    Pond Inlet, 2024

Projects

  • Highway Watch

    A design for roadside sensors that warn drivers before a moose reaches the road, from UPEI's Animal Welfare Hackathon.

    I led the business case and financials and did much of the business research. I pushed for a vet student on the team, reached out to eight people myself for potential-customer interviews, deployed the demo dashboard and helped plan the software and hardware architecture. Afterwards we took it to transport-systems people and researchers who work on the problem, and to Spark Tank at the PEI IT Alliance.

    With five teammates

    Next: I want to work on it seriously after I graduate.

    • Radar
    • Thermal camera
    • Edge AI

    In progress

  • HydraClip

    A PPE-safe wearable hydration sensor for nurses. Audience Choice Award at Pitch Battles.

    Pitch Battles
    Audience Choice
    ventures picked from 42 for the Panther Pitch final
    1 of 9
    • TypeScript
    • React Native
    • Expo
    • Next.js
    • Supabase

    Paused

  • EV charging demand forecasting

    Models that forecast EV charging demand, and a Streamlit dashboard I built to demo each step and its results.

    • Python
    • scikit-learn
    • LightGBM
    • XGBoost
    • LSTM
    • Streamlit

    In progress

  • SMCS Society

    The UPEI student society behind HackWithSMCSS and the PEI TechWeek hackathon.

    Secretary from September 2025 to April 2026, President from May 2026 to now. Volunteer, unpaid.

      Volunteer, ongoing

    • Indian Ladies Association

      Four years of volunteer tutoring in Abu Dhabi, my longest commitment.

      Volunteer Tutor from April 2019 to August 2023. Community work, unpaid.

        Volunteer

      • ASL Translator

        American Sign Language to spoken text from a phone camera. Unfinished: the team fell apart mid-build.

        My part was the research.

        • Flutter
        • Firebase

        On hold

      • Ludo strategy experiment

        Three AI strategies over 960 simulated games. Defensive won most often, at 16.7%.

        games simulated
        960
        win rate, Defensive strategy
        16.7%

        With Mohammed Sahm

        • Java
        • Java Swing

      Scroll sideways for the rest.

      Experience

      Internships and research

      • May 2026 to present

        BluWave-ai

        ML Engineering Intern, Co-op to September 2026, then part-time and paid

        I came back to BluWave on a return offer. Since September the work has been integrating and deploying with BluWave's current production system.

        • Python
        • scikit-learn
        • LightGBM
        • XGBoost
        • LSTM
        • Streamlit

      • Jan 2026 to Apr 2026

        UPEI ITSS

        M365 Project Assistant, co-op

        We finished deploying Microsoft Teams Calling, with real phone numbers, to all UPEI staff and faculty, then started the documentation and project plans for Power Platform and Power Apps. I kept the records and tracking the team reported from, maintained its schedules, and coordinated updates between teams.

      • May 2025 to Aug 2025

        BluWave-ai

        Software Engineering Intern, co-op

        I built the email integration for an EV charging app: users grouped by their car, charger and utility, personalised emails, and flows that start from webhooks. Later in the term I moved to time-series forecasting: I forecast BluWave's BluScore with Prophet, and showed in an engineering demo that it did better than the persistence model the team was using.

        • TypeScript
        • Node.js
        • PostgreSQL
        • Jest
        • Jenkins
        • Python
        • Prophet

      • May 2024 to Aug 2024

        Actua

        School Coordinator and Outreach Instructor

        Robotics and coding with Spheros and Ozobots, taught alongside Indigenous knowledge. I brought Elders, mentors and parents into the program.

      Campus

      • Sep 2025 to Apr 2026

        UPEI Accessibility Services

        Student Assistant

        I supported day-to-day operations for students using academic accommodations.

      • Jan 2025 to Apr 2025

        UPEI SMCS Help Centre

        Tutor

        One-on-one and small-group tutoring in Calculus I and II and Computer Science I and II.

      • Jan 2024 to present

        UPEI Campus Life

        Campus Life Lead, Advisor from 2024, Lead from May 2026

        I run the day-to-day of the Campus Life Lounge: 20+ students a week, and at least three engagement events a semester.

      • Sep 2023 to Dec 2024

        UPEI Student Union

        Clubs and Events Coordinator

        I worked with 60+ student organisations on event planning, funding applications and process, and made the promotional material and social posts.