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VMware Selects Harvey Mudd Student for First Achieve Scholarship

A desire to increase her volunteer hours motivated Nupur Banerjee 鈥�19 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鈥檚 passionate about.

Now that she鈥檚 received the one-time $10,000 tuition award鈥擵Mware鈥檚 first Achieve Scholarship鈥攕he鈥檒l be able to work less and volunteer more.

鈥淗elping the community surrounding Harvey Mudd is something I find rewarding,鈥� says Banerjee. 鈥淲ith 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.鈥�

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鈥檚 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 无忧视频 for a day of workshops and encouragement.

Banerjee鈥檚 desire to be a mentor and role model is apparent on campus as well. She鈥檚 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鈥檚 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鈥檚 also interned at Google and Innovaspire.

鈥淚’ve really enjoyed applying machine learning to different types of problems and seeing how we鈥檙e able to achieve accurate results even at a large scale. I鈥檓 excited to see how the field develops further and how we will be able to use machine learning to solve problems in many disciplines,鈥� Banerjee says.

鈥淣upur embodies everything that VMware was looking for in the recipient of this scholarship,鈥� says Courtney Manning, global intern project manager, university talent, at VMware. 鈥淪he 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.鈥�