1. Divya Kodali
International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad
Email: kdivya.iiith@gmail.com
Phone: + 91 9966659817
Objective:
I have a passion for learning new things and an equally strong zeal for their
application. I have always liked to be associated with anything that deepens the
understanding of the subject of my interest in conjunction with their applications
in real life scenarios.
Education Qualifications:
MS (by Research) + B.Tech,
Dual Degree in CSE
7.02 International Institute of Information
Technology – Hyderabad (2015)
Intermediate Board of
Education
92.8 Narayana College (2003-2005)
Central Board for Secondary
Education
80.2 Bhavan’s Sri Ramakrishna Vidyalaya
(2002)
Software Skills:
Operating Systems WINDOWS XP, 7 and Linux
Programming Skills C, C++, Data Structures and Algorithms
WEB Technologies HTML

2. Achievements:
 Won Silver Plaque Award for my project named ‘Rehab Electronics Calipers’ in
Medicall
Healthcare Innovations Awards, 2013 in Chennai
 Organized a talk by Roshanne Reeder (PhD student at the University of Trento) at
BVRIT, Narsapur
 Our poster on the BCI project won the second prize at ELAN at IIT-Hyderabad,
2013
 Mentored ‘Rehab Electronic Calipers’ (REC) project which was successfully
completed and was appreciated by the HOD of physiotherapy at Sweekar-Upkar
(one of the top rehabilitation centers in Andhra Pradesh)
 The project ‘Rehab Electronic Calipers’ won second prize in SRAJAN (a research
contest conducted by IEEE student branch, Bhopal)
 Guided 8 projects as a part of the Introduction to Cognitive Science course at
BVRIT, Narsapur
 Helped two batches from B.Tech-2008 batch in their final-year projects
 Helped 11 students get two-month summer internships at IIIT-Hyderabad
 Organized a talk by Dr. Bipin Indurkhya at BVRIT, Narsapur
 Secured a TOEFL score of 115 in the Internet-Based Test
 Secured a GRE score of 316 in the new format
 Secured an All India rank of 1968 in All India Engineering Entrance Examination
(2005)
 Secured a state rank of 453 in Engineering and Medical Common Entrance Test
(2005)

3. Publications:
 Farhan Mohammad, Alekhya Karavadi, Dixith Kumar, Divya Kodali, and Amitash
Ojha.
Indeed, colorful is more attractive in advertisements: an eye-movement study.
Published in the Second International Conference on Cognition, Emotion, and
Action,
IIT-Gandhinagar, 2013
 Prabhash Kumar, Lalith Varma, Divya K, and I A Pasha. Gaze Interaction based
Assistive Device.
Published in the Second International Conference on Cognition, Emotion, and
Action, IIT-Gandhinagar, 2013
 I A Pasha, Divya Kodali, Gaurav Anand, Geethamsi S. Eye-tracker based test for
Assessing Cognition.
Published in IEEE International Conference on Communication Systems and
Network Technologies (CSNT), 2013
 I A Pasha, Divya Kodali, Abhilash Kodi, Dixit Kumar Kurra. EEG-controlled
wheelchair for ALS Patients.
Published in IEEE International Conference on Communication Systems and
Network Technologies (CSNT), 2013
 Dr I A Pasha, Divya Kodali, Chandrakanth Aluri, Maithri Devi. P300-based assistive
technology for ALS Patients.
Published in International Conference for Biomedical Engineering and Assistive
Technologies (BEATS), 2012
 Mounik V, Sachin D, Divya K. Electronic Knee Brace
Published in International Conference for Biomedical Engineering and Assistive
Technologies (BEATS), 2012
 Amitash Ojha, Divya Kodali, Dr. Bipin Indurkhya. Do people use perceptual
similarity in imagery while comprehending textual metaphors? Published in
Researching and Applying Metaphors Conference, Amsterdam, 2010
 Divya Kodali, Amitash Ojha, Dr. Bipin Indurkhya. Visual Metaphors vs. Textual
Metaphors.
Published in the International Conference of Cognitive Science, Beijing, 2010

4. Projects:
 Mu-Rhythm Template Matching Classifier for One-Dimensional Cursor Control
Purpose: This project is a part of the project “Assistive Devices for ALS and
Quadriplegic Patients” which is funded by the Department of Science and
Technology, New Delhi. The aim of this project is to build a wheelchair that works
in accordance with the user’s thought that is communicated to the wheelchair
through his brain signals.
Guide: Dr. Bipin Indurkhya, Dr. I A Pasha
 Eye-Tracker for Quadriplegic People
Purpose: This project is a part of the project “Assistive Devices for ALS and
Quadriplegic Patients” which is funded by the Department of Science and
Technology, New Delhi. The aim of this project is to build a wheelchair that
moves with the user’s accord that the system understands through gaze
interaction and the user’s eye movement
Guide: Dr. I A Pasha
 Pictorial Metaphors in India Comics
Purpose: This experiment concentrates on investigating the role of the various
kinds of pictorial runes in comics. Current work in being done on the comic series
“Tintin and the Picaros”
Guide: Dr. Bipin Indurkhya
 Perceptual Similarity in Imagery while comprehending Textual Metaphors
Purpose: The main aim of this experiment was to check if perceptual features of
instantiated concepts from past experiences or memory play an important role in
anchoring the meaning while processing textual metaphors. And also, to see if
perceptual similarity between instantiated source and target concepts help in
creating conceptual associations
Guide: Dr. Bipin Indurkhya
 Visual vs. Textual Metaphors
Purpose: The major area of focus of this experiment is to examine the role of
perceptual features in both visual and textual metaphors hypothesizing that
perceptual features play a greater role than conceptual features in interpreting
both visual and textual metaphors
Guide: Dr. Bipin Indurkhya

5.  Music and Emotion
Purpose: This experiment was done to prove the hypothesis “A person tends to
swing to the mood of a particular song when he listens to it”. This involved using
the eye-tracker
Guide: Dr. Bipin Indurkhya
 Online Slam Book
Purpose: To implement all the principles of Usability and come up with a user
friendly online slam book
Guide: Dr. Bipin Indurkhya
 Efficient Crawling through URL ordering
Purpose: Since a crawler cannot visit the entire Web in a reasonable amount of
time, this project examines the order in which a crawler should visit the URLs it
has seen, in order to obtain the more important pages first
Guide: Dr.P.K.Reddy
 RNA Structure Database Query
Purpose: This project involved making a portal from where one could give the
properties of interest and the system would give the right structure of the RNA
Guide: Dr. Abhijeet Mitra
Conferences and Workshops attended:
 Attended a workshop on EEG and MEG Signal Analysis organized at University
of Hyderabad, 2013
 Organized an event “Ban these Bad Designs” during Promethean, 2013
(National Level Technical Workshop) at BVRIT, Narsapur
 Attended the 2nd International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and
Assistive Technologies (BEAT-2013) organized at Jalandhar
 Attended Mini-Seminar with international speakers from Germany at IIIT,
Hyderabad
 Attended Techease, 2012 (National Level Workshop on Usability Engineering)
at IIIT, Hyderabad
 Attended IEEE Conference on Teaching for Education at IIIT, Hyderabad

6.  Organized Techease, 2010 (National Level Workshop on Usability Engineering)
at IIIT, Hyderabad
 Attended IJCAI07 conference (International joint conference on artificial
intelligence).
 Attended COMAD08 conference
 Volunteered for Techease09 (National Level Workshop on Usability
Engineering) at IIIT
Work Experience:
 Research Associate cum Assistant Professor at Padmasri Dr. B V Raju Institute of
Technology, Narsapur from June 2012 to March 2014. I, majorly, worked on
“Assistive Devices for ALS Patients” which involved building a highly complicated
and advanced Brain-Computer Interface and Eye-Tracker. This project was
funded by the Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi.
 Co-instructor for “Introduction to Cognitive Science” course from August 2013 –
January 2014 at BVRIT-Hyderabad
 Research Assistant with Dr. Jean Francois Delvenne in the Department of Applied
Psychology at University of Leeds, United Kingdom, from January 2012 to March
2012
 Research Assistant from June 2008 to December 2011 in Cognitive Science Lab at
International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, under the
guidance of Dr. Bipin Indurkhya
 Teaching Assistant for ‘Introduction to Cognitive Science’ for one semester at
International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad