Shashwitha holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Visvesvaraya Technological University and earned her Master’s in Electrical Engineering with specialization in Computer Networks from San Diego State University.
In her role at GW, she works closely with scientists at the GW Nanofabrication and Imaging Center (GWNIC) to understand their workflow design issues, which includes complex data intensive research. She identifies new opportunities to leverage large data transfer and to provide end-to-end high throughput connectivity in an existing infrastructure.
Shashwitha is also primary lead on sensor data collection, which involves working with Internet of Things (IoT) sensors to develop data collection strategy, which in turn helps the DC government and researchers to analyze pressure, temperature, and gasses in the environment. Crucial to this task is providing secure data transfer She also helps with the automation of the Colonial One and Pegasus HPC cluster.
Prior to joining GW in 2019, she served as the Network Research Engineer at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), supporting and maintaining the production "Tier 2" computing and storage facility that is part of a 170-site worldwide ensemble of such facilities that support of the Large Hadron Collider physics program.
In 2019 Shashwitha received two awards:
- Internet2 Gender Diversity Award
- Innovations in Networking award for experimental application (as part of a Caltech team)