Samprita Hegde is a Master's student in Computer Engineering at Rutgers University. Her research interests are Parallel and Distributed Programming, Software Engineering.

Prior to coming to Rutgers she was a software engineer at Delphi Automotive systems, Bangalore India. Her work there involved developing embedded software for Automotive Multimedia Systems (Eg; designing HMI for Car radios, Programming Digital Signal Processors,drivers for Audio amplifiers etc).

She is currently working on Hadoop -Map reduce framework , designing a pull based task scheduling mechanism using the Comet Co-ordination Engine.