Farhat Tasnim Progga, a third-year doctoral candidate in the Department of Computer Science, was recently awarded Northwestern Mutual’s “Intern Achievement: Top Networker” award during her summer internship with the company. The award recognizes those who exemplify exceptional networking skills, build and nurture professional relationships with colleagues, and possess the ability to leverage connections with others to foster collaboration and enhance team dynamics.
In her summer internship with Northwestern Mutual, Progga worked as a data engineering intern. She collaborated closely with the UDP MLOps and artificial intelligence teams focusing on automating the evaluation framework for large language models. Her responsibilities included building a pipeline for finetuning and evaluating the LLM with customized metrics. Progga noted the internship gave her valuable insights into data science through an industry lens that is directly applicable to her academic and professional goals.
Progga’s research at Marquette University in the Department of Computer Science focuses on human-computer interaction and data science. She investigates the benefits of digital storytelling in the perinatal mental health context, which has the potential to assess social support for mothers who are going through perinatal mental health concerns. Currently, Progga is developing an evolving user-centered storytelling intervention to improve mental health outcomes for mothers navigating perinatal mental health concerns.
When Progga is not researching, she enjoys reading novels, cooking delicious meals for her loved ones, painting and roaming around Milwaukee. One of her favorite places to visit and walk is Lakeshore State Park.
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