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Email: vasus@iitk.ac.in
Phone: (+91) 9621364646
Address: Room 315,Hall 3 ,IIT Kanpur
Homepage: home.iitk.ac.in/~vasus
EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
Year
Degree/ Certificate
CPI/ %
Institute Rank 1
2012
97%
2010
CGPA=9.4/10
PUBLICATIONS
SCHOLASTIC ACHIEVEMENTS
The aim of this project was to design an Automatic Image Summarization software which would choose a
subset of a large collection of photos choosing only the best images representative of the entire set hence
automatically creating an image summary.
o Techniques Used: Scale Invariant Feature Transforms, Latent Dirichlet Allocation, K means clustering,
Bag of Words Model etc.
Learning Wagon An interactive Webapp for promoting Primary education
(Mar 14)
o Secured 2nd Position in El-Eduvate (Techkriti, Technical Festival, IIT Kanpur),
o The webapp was designed with several interactive applications and a highly attractive GUI to provide
primary school students an exciting platform to learn new things away from the monotonous classroom
environment.
o Used HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP to design webapp.
Karaoke Generator Webapp with vocal comparison
( Yahoo! s R & D team)
o Honorable mention.
(Oct 13)
o Given a song, the webapp muted the vocals, fetched the lyrics and allowed the user to sing along it.
o Techniques Used: Audio Processing, Vocals extraction and removal, Heuristic based vocal comparison.
Mobile Phone app for Content based Image retrieval
(Microsofts R&D team) (Jan 14)
o Techniques Used: Viola-Jones Face detection, Scale Invariant Feature Transforms, Image processing
o The app allowed the user to fetch specific images from a collection based on content specific queries
Minimizing edge intersections in planar Graphs (Mentor: Rizwan Hudda) (ACA project) (Jul-Dec 12)
o Designed software to draw a given planar graph in a way that it minimizes edge intersections.
Bidirectional Mechanical Odometer
(Mentor: Dr. Anish Upadhayaya) (Jan-Apr 14)
o Awarded the Best Sectional project in the course of Manufacturing processes(TA201)
o Manufacturing processes used: Drilling, fitting, Lathe etc.
o The project was aimed at reducing the malpractice of tampering with meter count in mechanical
odometers in automobiles
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Awarded the Outstanding Freshman of The Year by Student's Gymkhana, IIT Kanpur
(2012-2013)
Won a Silver medal in 200m Freestyle at Inter IIT Meet, IIT Roorkee, October 2012.
Felicitated by Director, IIT Kanpur for Outstanding Performance at the Inter IIT meet 2013 where IIT Kanpur
won the General Championship.
Awarded Sudarshan Kasturia Memorial Scholarship by IIT Kanpur for All Round Excellence and leadership
Won a Silver and a Bronze medal in Aquatics at Inter IIT Meets 2012,2013
The best ever individual performance by a first year student in the Inter IIT meet from IIT Kanpur
Received the prestigious Sports Scholarship from IIT Kanpur for leadership & excellence in sports
Awarded Best Incoming Sportsperson 12 by the Games and Sports Council, IIT Kanpur
National Cadet Corps(NCC)
1. Received the Sahara India Cadets Welfare Scholarship, 2009
2. Received the A Certificate on clearing the 'A' Certificate Examination
3. Highest Rank of Sergeant awarded
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5 position in The Oracle Think quest 09 (International Website Designing Competition)
Delhi State Swimming Championship - Won 1 Silver and 2 Bronze Medals
West Delhi Aquatics Championship- Won 1 Silver and 1 Bronze Medal
Received Raman Subramanyam Award for All Round Excellence and Vijay Srinivasan Award for Brotherhood
And Service from St.Columba's School
Won the programming competitions 'Fossdev','Blackbox' and 'Crypto' in Takneek 2012.,IIT Kanpur
2nd Position in Delhi State Chess Championship
2nd position in Botwinik Chess Championship
1st Position In Quiz held at National Science Center (Delhi)
2nd Position in Delhi State Chess Championship as well as in in Botwinik Chess Championship
Participated in the successful world record attempt to solve maximum number of Rubiks Cube
(Jan 13)
nd
2 Position In Poetry Writing in the Columban Fest
(Oct 10)
Successfully completed the Leadership Training Programme by the NGO Pravah
(May 09-Aug 10)
Successfully completed Sunday Club Theatre Training Part 1 and 2 and Summer Workshop from the
NATIONAL SCHOOL OF DRAMA. Also acted in 4 plays and 1 Telefilm.
POSITIONS OF RESPONSIBILITY
Programming Languages: C, C++,R, Python, SQL, HTML, Javascipt, PHP, BASH, Bluespec Verilog, Assembly
Software/Editors Knowledge: Matlab, Octave, Latex, MS Office, AutoCAD, VIM, Emacs, Git, Photoshop
Operating Systems: Windows, Linux (Ubuntu, Fedora, Centos, Mint)
Course Name
Fundamentals of Computing
Data Structures And Algorithms
Computing Laboratory
Linear Algebra and Ordinary Diff.
Eqns
Probability and Statistics
Computing Laboratory II
Advanced Algorithms
Theory of Computation
Machine Learning
Introduction To Python Programming
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Machine Learning
Deep Neural Networks
Artificial Intelligence
Audio and Speech Processing
Natural Language Processing
Grade
A*
A
A*
A*
Code
ESO 208
MTH101
CS 202
ESC201
Corse Name
Numerical Methods
Mathematics I (includes Calculus)
Intro. To Logic
Intro. To Electronics
Grade
A*
A
A
A*
A*
Ongoing
Ongoing
Ongoing
Distinction
Distinction
LIF101
CS201
CS330
EE200
ENG124
Coursera
A
A
Ongoing
Ongoing
A
Distinction
Image Processing
Web Application Development