Puhabi Chakraborty, a student of class 10 KV NIT Agartala has been selected for a prestigious internship on ‘Improving the lung capacity of COVID patients using Machine learning, AI and deep learning interfaces’ in a university in California, USA. She is the only one selected for this prestigious internship from India and also the youngest one to get this internship.
Puhabi has been working under Prof. F. Farhamand, the department head of the university and an international specialist in the AI and deep learning fields. Puhabi along with her mentor have been working towards creating a software to control a spirometer which helps in providing adequate amount of oxygen and gas mixtures to COVID patients and eases their difficulty in breathing. The GUI software self-calibrates the amount of oxygen required for each COVID patients with varying lung capacities, using a database and AI, so that manual setting of the spirometer isn’t required time and time again. This saves a lot of time, effort and energy of the healthcare workers (doctors, nurses etc.) and also saves a lot of patients lives with accurate calibration and oxygen dispensing each time for each and every Covid patient.
Puhabi was the only one selected from the state of Tripura for the Intel AI for youth program earlier this February. She attended a two month long bootcamp where intel scientists taught her AI and machine learning coding which provided her the skills to acquire this prestigious internship in California. Puhabi also has numerous other internship offers for the next summer from various other institutions of New York, Boston as well as California.
Puhabi also represented the state of Tripura in the Wako open International kick boxing championship where she received 2 gold and 1 bronze medals in February 2020 .
She is daughter Prof Dr Prasun Chakraborty of NIT-Agartala and Sutapa Chakraborty , Seri Culture Development officer of the state government.
