Mohit Sharma

Third Year Undergraduate ‡ mohitms71 | Æ +91-9521866684

Department of Mechanical Engineering R mohitms@iitk.ac.in | ¯ MohitSharma
Academic Qualifications
Year Degree/Certificate Institute CPI/%
2019 - Present B.Tech Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur 8.2/10.0
2019 CBSE(XII) Maheshwari Public School, Kota 95.8%
2017 CBSE(X) Maheshwari Public School, Kota 10.0/10.0

Scholastic Achievements
• Secured All India Rank of 1671 in JEE Advanced 2019 amongst 2.45 lakh candidates
• Secured All India Rank of 2292 in JEE Mains 2019 amongst 11.47 lakh candidates
• Qualified the first stage of National Talent Search Examination (NTSE) conducted by Government Of India, 2016
Key Projects
• Mechanical Wrist Watch | Course Project, Prof. Nachiketa Tiwari, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering (Feb’21- Apr’21 )
◦ Designed a working model of a Mechanical Wrist Watch using Fusion 360 as a part of ME251 course project
◦ Successfully designed and modelled various components of a wrist watch and linked their motion together
◦ Analysed the material used in making various parts of the watch according to their utility in watch
• Computer Vision: A Classic and Modern approach ‡ | Statmatics, IIT Kanpur (May’21-July’21 )
◦ Studied and learnt various techniques related to Image Processing and Computer Vision
◦ Implemented and analysed Canny Edge Detection Algorithm, Hough Transform for lane detection, HOG (Histograms
of Oriented Gradients) and DPM (Deformable Part Models) for object detection
◦ Developed an Image Cartoonizer which cartoonizes an image using edge detection, image filtering and colour quantization
• ML@Kaggle ‡ | Programming Club, IIT Kanpur (May’20- July’20 )
◦ Applied various classification and linear models such as Ridge Regression, Linear Regression, KNN, Random Forest
Classifier, Logistic Regression on the datasets and achieved accuracies greater than 85%
◦ Performed model validation and hyperparameter tuning alongwith data preprocessing and data visualisations using Python
Self Projects
• Heart Failure Prediction mohitms71/Heart-Failure-Prediction ‡
◦ Created a model to predict mortality caused by Heart Failure using various graphical & ML techniques
◦ Tested various classification models and applied Logistic Regression to achieve a F1-Score of 88%
• Credit Card Fraud Detection mohitms71/Credit-Card-Fraud-Detection ‡
◦ Created a model for recognizing fraudulent credit card transactions using various data preprocessing techniques
◦ Applied SMOTE for handling imbalanced dataset and used RandomForestClassifier to get a F1-Score of 60%

Technical Skills
• Programming Languages: C, C++, Python, JavaScript, HTML, SQL
• Software and Libraries: NumPy, Scikit-Learn, Matplotlib, Pandas, Fusion 360
Positions of Responsibility
• Academic Mentor | Counselling Service, IITK (Oct’20-Apr’21 )
◦ Assisted the students academically in the course of Basic Chemistry (CHM102) through Academic Classes organized by
the Counselling service and One-to-One mentoring
◦ Personally mentored two first year students both emotionally and academically round the year
• Company Coordinator | Student Placement Office, IITK (Aug’20-Dec’20 )
◦ Acted as a point of contact for various companies during the Internship and Placement Season 2020-21
◦ Coordinated in the conduction of Interviews, Placement Tests of companies like LandRover, Graviton, Microsoft
◦ Acted as a link between Placement core team, companies and Students during placement and internship process

Relevant Courses *online

Thermodynamics Mechanics of Solids Fundamentals of Computing
Dynamics Fluid Mechanics Linear algebra & Differential Equations
Machine Learning* Neural Networks and Deep Learning* Introduction to SQL*

Extra-Curricular Activities
• Served as an NCC Cadet at 2-UP-CTR division in the first year as a Compulsory Physical Activity (CPA)
• Acted as a point of contact for 100+ colleges and brought participation from across the country in Antaragini
• Interacted various national and international renowned personalities and acted as their point of contact in Techkriti
• Participated in Group Dance and Dance Drama in Galaxy’19, the intra-IITK Cultural Championship