Résumé
Academic Profile
Post-Graduate
- Institute: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
- Degree: Master of Science (M.S.)
- Discipline: Computer Science
- Period of Study: September 2016 - May 2018
- Grade: 4.0/4.0
Under-Graduate
- Institute: Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
- Degree: Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech)
- Discipline: Mathematics & Computing
- Period of Study: August 2010 - May 2014
- Grade: 7.92/10
High School
- Institute: Somerville School Noida
- Board: Central Board of Secondary Education
- Discipline: Physics, Chemistry, Maths, Computers (PCMC)
- Period of Study: April 2008 - May 2010
- Percentage: 94%
Secondary School
- Institute: Somerville School Noida
- Board: Central Board of Secondary Education
- Period of Study: April 1996 - March 2008
- Percentage: 86.2%
Fields of Interests
- Machine Learning
- Design and Analysis of Algorithms
Skills
Programming Languages
- C, C++ (proficiency 8 years)
- JAVA (proficiency 3 years)
- Python (proficiency 1 year)
- BASIC (proficiency 3 years)
- MATLAB (proficiency 1 year)
- Objective-C (proficiency 1 year)
- C# (proficiency 0.5 years)
- VB.NET (proficiency 0.5 years)
- R (proficiency 2 months)
Web Programming
(Proficiency 2.5 years)
- HTML
- CSS
- PHP
- JavaScript
- JSP and Java servlets (Proficiency 0.5 years)
Database Management
(Proficiency 1.5 years)
- Microsoft SQL-server
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
Operating Systems
- Ubuntu (Shell Scripting)
- Windows XP/VISTA/7/8/10
- OSX
Miscellaneous
- PyTorch/Torch and Tensorflow
- iOS/Android App development
- Apache Thrift
- Apache HTTP server management/administration
- UBUNTU server management/administration
- Memcache
- XAML (Extensible Application Markup Language)
- WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation)
- Jenkins
Teaching Experience
- Served as the recitation leader (Adjunct Faculty) for the course Programming Languages offered in Spring'18 at NYU by Prof. Benjamin Goldberg.
- Teaching Assistant to Prof. Victor Shoup for the course Basic Algorithms offered in Spring'17 at NYU.
Academic Achievements
- Recipient of Fall 2017 NYU MS in Computer Science Fellowship for outstanding performance in a Master’s Program.
- Part of team NYU DaD ranking 23 out of 1972 teams in Kaggle Data Science Bowl 2017 - Automated Lung Cancer Detection using CT Images
- Placed first in Adobe Systems NCG C++ Bootcamp competition
- Placed First in an Inter-Hostel Programming Competition in the year 2014
- Selected in the ACM-ICPC Amritapuri onsite regionals in the year 2013 (Team name: divideby0)
- Placed 135 in the ACM-ICPC Amritapuri onsite regionals 2012 (Team name: divideby0)
- Secured an All India Rank of 2610 in IIT-JEE 2010.
- Secured 100% in Computer Science in the Senior Secondary boards Examinations in the year 2010.
- Awarded the ‘Highest Percecntage in Physics’ award in the year 2010
- Stood First in an Inter-School C++ competition in the year 2010.
- Among the National top 1% in ‘National Standard Examination in Chemistry’ in the year 2009.
- Among the top 253 students across India to qualify for the Indian National Informatics Olympiad in the year 2009.
- Secured an All India Rank of 234 in the FIITJEE Talent Reward Exam 2009.
- Won the Silver Certificate (Among the top 250 all over India) in Technothlon held by Indian Institute of Technology in 2009
- All India Rank 309 in NSTSE(National Level Science Talent Search Examination) 2009
- Earned a certificate of distinction in the National Mathematics Olympiad contest conducted in the year 2007 and the year 2008.
- All India Rank 781 in NSTSE 2008
- Secured an All India Rank of 122 in the FIITJEE Talent Reward Exam 2007.
- All India Rank 452 in NSTSE 2007
- Secured an All India Rank of 245 in the FIITJEE Talent Reward Exam 2006.
- Earned a certificate of distinction for National Cyber Olympiad held in the year 2006.
- All India Rank 837 in NSTSE 2006
- All India Rank 381 in NSTSE 2005
- All India Rank 308 in NSTSE 2004
Major Non-Academic Achievements
- Started AI-Learning Lab/Forum in Adobe Systems as part of Adobe Illustrator Team as a platform to share knowledge.
- Also started Software Design Discussion Forum in Adobe Systems as part of Adobe Illustrator Team to encourage a collective review on Design Decisions.
- Technical Secretary of MATRIX, Student Body Association of Department of Mathematics, IIT Guwahati.
- Web Secretary of MATRIX, Student Body Association of Department of Mathematics, IIT Guwahati.
- Co-founder of Web development and designing pursuit “Rave Designers”.
- Active member of CADENCE, Choreography Club, IIT Guwahati.
- Organised events in the Cultural festival of the Institute (Alcheringa'2013).
- Organised events in the techno-management festival of the Institute (Tehniche'2012).
- Qualified in First-Aid and Resuscitation techniques as Certified by Rashtriya Life Saving Society
- Stood Second in an Inter-Section Quiz Competition in the year 2008
- Placed First in English Group Recital competition organized by Somerville School in the year 2004
- Placed First in Hindi Group Recital competition organized by Somerville School in the year 2003
- Placed Third in an Annual Art Competition organized by Somerville School in the year 2002
- Stood fourth in the Hindi Calligraphy competition among hundreds of students organized in the year 2001
Relevant courses
Under-Graduate Courses
Full Courses Structure is available here.
Computer Science
- Design and Analysis of Algorithms
- Introduction to Computing (with Lab)
- Object Oriented Programming and Data Structures (with Lab)
- Computer Organization and Architecture
- Digital Design
- Operating Systems (with Lab)
- Data Communications
- Computer Networks
- Databases
- Formal Languages and Automata Theory
- Functional and Logic Programming (+ SML)
- Theory of Computation
- Distributed Computing
Financial Mathematics
- Financial Engineering - I and Portfolio Management
- Financial Engineering - II
- Stochastic Calculus for Finance
- Monte-Carlo Simulations (with Lab)
- Statistical Analysis of Financial Data
- Computational Finance
Applied & Abstract Mathematics
- Optimization
- Scientific Computing (with Lab)
- Discrete Mathematics - Set Theory, Combinatorics , Graph Theory, Logic
- Probability Theory and Random Processes
- Linear Algebra
- Modern Algebra - Group, Field and Ring Theories
- Real Analysis with the application of Measure, Linear Algebra and Modern Algebra
- Single and Multi-variable Calculus
- Analysis of ODE's, PDE's and Numerical Analysis of PDE's
- Complex Analysis
- Game Theory
- Matrix Computation
- Graph Theory
Post-Graduate Courses (NYU)
- Convex and Non-Smooth Optimizations - Prof. Michael L. Overton
- Mathematics for Deep Learning - Prof. Joan Bruna
- Heuristic Problem Solving - Prof. Dennis Shasha
- Computer Vision - Prof. Rob Fergus
- Foundations of Machine Learning - Prof. Mehryar Mohri
- Programming Languages - Prof. Benjamin Goldberg
- Advanced Machine Learning - Prof. Mehryar Mohri
- Search Enging Architecture - Matthew Doherty
- Integrating Machine Learning to Computer Vision - Prof. Davi Geiger
Online Courses Taken (coursera.org)
- Design and Analysis of Algorithms-I (Stanford Univeristy)
- Internet History, Technology and Security (Univeristy of Michigan)
- Machine Learning Foundations: A case study approach (University of Washington)
- Machine Learning: Regression (University of Washington)
- Machine Learning: Classification
- Machine Learning: Clustering and Retrieval (University of Washington)
- Neural Networks and Deep Learning (deeplearning.ai)
- Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter tuning, Regularization and Optimization (deeplearning.ai)
- Structuring Machine Learning Projects (deeplearning.ai)
Hobbies
- Fitness: HIIT and Body-Weight Training.
- Writing: Developed an interest quite recently and tried my hands on writing technology articles for magazines, blogging.
- Dancing: Quite fond of dancing. have participated in many dance competitions at the institute level. Also, an active member of the choreography club of the institute.
- Painting & Sketching: Ever since my childhood, I was enthralled by the power of a brush, a set of paint and a canvas. The beauty it beholds. It was after 8 that I really cultivate my interest in painting. Over time, I have made a couple of paintings and sketches.