Internships
Samsung Research, Bangalore
May 2018 – Jul 2018 | Mentor: Dr. Pinaki Bhaskar
- Worked on “Intimacy Estimation for a Social Robo”
- Applied Deep Learning in Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing to analyze user behaviour
- Built head pose estimation and nod detection models to identify user’s interest in a conversation with the bot
- Trained an NLP model to detect Self Disclosure from conversations
- Used these features to improve “Intimacy” between the Human and Robot
Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute, Chennai 
May 2017 – Jul 2017 | Mentor: Dr. Bala Pesala
- Worked on “Detecting fatigue in car drivers using non-invasive methods”
- Designed and developed a blood pulse monitoring wearable device using Bluno Beetle and PPG sensors
- Developed an Android app with a multi-threaded architecture for realtime communication with the wearable device (github)
- Implemented efficient buffers for high speed data transfer between the Android App and the wearable device
Research Experience
Unsupervised Deep Learning, Video Analytics Lab, IISc Bangalore
Jan 2019 – Present | Mentor: Prof. R. Venkatesh Babu
- Pursuing my undergraduate thesis in unsupervised deep learning with applications to Knowledge Distillation and Domain Adaptation
Spoof Detection, CSIR-CEERI Pilani
Aug 2018 – Dec 2018 | Mentor: Prof. Santanu Chaudhury
- Implemented a stable face tracking using Haar Cascades & ROI thresholding
- Trained MobileNet on self-collected face spoof data which achieved less than 6% false acceptance rate on imposter detection in NUAA dataset
- Extracted motion-robust remote PPG signals from single RGB webcam for living skin detection
- Recreated RGB images from Hyperspectral images with applications to PPG signal generation
Deep Learning for Brain Computer Interfaces, BITS Pilani
Jan 2018 – May 2018 | Mentor: Prof. Vandana Agarwal
- Explored the EEG Confusion Dataset to identify learner’s confusion in MOOC videos
- Compared various classification methods such as like SVM, K-Nearest Neighbor, Gaussian Naive Bayes
- Built an end-to-end Deep Learning pipeline using features from Band Power Estimation and LSTM, and trained a model that achieves much higher accuracy than those achieved previously on the dataset.
Threat Detection in Baggages using X-Ray Images, CSIR-CEERI
Aug 2017 – Dec 2017 | Mentor: Dr. Dhiraj Sangwan
- Primary study on detection of harmful objects (such as knives, bombs etc.) from X-Ray images of baggages
- Implemented a bag-of-words model with sparse KNN classification
- Trained and achieved better detection accuracy with a combination of CNN & SVM
Advanced Data Analytics and Parallel Technologies lab, BITS Pilani
Aug 2017 – Dec 2017 | Mentor: Prof. Navneet Goel
- Studied Concurrent and Distributed Data Structures
- Parallelized algorithms using MPI and OpenMP in C++
Positions Held
AI Team Lead, Sally Robotics 
Jul 2018 – Dec 2018 | Center for Robotics and Intelligent Systems
- Sally Robotics is an Intelligent Mobility Research Team at CRIS, BITS Pilani
- Leading the AI subsystem with research focus on Autonomous Motion Control using Deep Learning
Design Chair, ACM-BITS Pilani
Mar 2017 – Mar 2018 | BITS Pilani
- BITSACM won the best student chapter awards for 3 consecutive years
- Lead the design team, building the front end for Checkmate 2017 – an interactive quizzing game
Chief Design Officer, Conquest 2017
Aug 2016 – Aug 2017 | India
- Conquest is India’s first student run start-up launchpad, organized by Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership (CEL), BITS Pilani
- Designed the branding for Conquest and CEL & was responsible for effective online campaigns to increase outreach
Co-Founder & Programming Lead, SoftSol 
Aug 2013 – Jul 2014 | Mount Carmel School, New Delhi
- SoftSol was established as the computer club of the school
- Lead the programming division brought accolades to the school
Service
Teaching Volunteer, NSS – Computer Literacy Programme
Aug 2015 – Dec 2015 | India
- Taught elementary computer science concepts to middle school & high school students
- Conducted hands on programming sessions in C++, Python & HTML/CSS at PRC
Associations
AI Subsystem Lead, Sally Robotics
Jul 2018 – Dec 2018
Core Team Member, Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership (CEL), BITS Pilani
Feb 2016 – Present
Core Team Member, ACM BITS Pilani
Feb 2016 – Present
Core Team Member & Design Associate, Aarohan 2016
Aug 2015 – Aug 2016
Teaching Volunteer, NSS – Computer Literacy Programme
Aug 2015 – Dec 2015
Member, Model United Nations, Mount Carmel School
Apr 2013 – Apr 2014
Member & Vocalist, Indian Music Choir, Mount Carmel School
Apr 2005 – Apr 2014
