LETTER OF RECOMMENDATION

It gives me immense pleasure in recommending Aditya Chhetri for graduate

studies at your esteemed university. Aditya is naturally endowed with technical
soundness and intelligence, which most importantly, he puts to optimum use.
He combines imagination with practicality, a combination which is rare in this
world. It would be right to say that given his intrinsic character traits
(dedication, passion, commitment), he is bound to succeed.

I have known Aditya since 2016 when he enrolled into our undergraduate
program. I took lectures on Artificial Intelligence, Microprocessor, Cloud
Computing and Pattern Recognition and was also his mentor in his academic
projects. Besides the academic domain, I mentored Aditya and the Team
Voyager AI when they participated at the prestigious Bitgrit Competition, Japan
in 2018 & 2019. As the Faculty advisor for the student team and his course
instructor for a significant part of the curriculum I have been able to gauge his
capacity as an individual and am certain of his academic caliber.

Through my twenty years of formal instruction to undergraduates at this

institution, I would easily rate Aditya as one of my best students (in the top 1%)
and someone who always tries to imbibe an in-depth understanding of the
subject as well as its practical applications. One of his distinctive characteristics
is his eagerness in taking initiatives, which demonstrates his adaptability and an
inherent desire to excel. His etiquette and self confidence has helped him forge
strong relationships with his peers and members of our staff.

I clearly remember that he was among the very few students to understand
thoroughly the fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence. He used this knowledge
to design a Speech Translation system for the all the languages spoken in Indian
including different dialects used within the same language. And then analysed
the prototype using APIs built in python and Natural Language Processing,
impressing me with his commitment to learn and think innovatively. He was
keen on updating his knowledge by attending several conferences, seminars and
workshops. Some of these prominent workshops include a 5-day seminar by
IEEE on its future technologies at Delhi in 2019.

As faculty advisor for the team, I personally witnessed the perseverance and
dedication of Aditya. In his capacity as team head, Aditya had enormous
responsibilities and performed exceedingly well under pressure. One such
instance was in the year 2018, on the second day of Bitgrit Competition, the
team had difficulty in qualifying in the accuracy test and were on the brink of
being disqualified, undeterred Aditya spent that entire night studying the
algorithm, implemented new strategy and got them optimized with help from
other teams and reprogrammed the code by the morning. The team managed to
successfully clear the accuracy test and subsequently competed in all the
dynamic events. The effort and commitment displayed by Aditya was greatly
acknowledged by all other teams and judges at the event.
The student community benefited equally with him as the Head of Machine
Learning department of Voyager AI. He has been instrumental in defining a
strategic path on the future design, engineering and testing of optimized
machine learning models. His final year seminar centered on the design and
implementation of a “Reprogrammable Dynamic Machine Learning Model”
with a comprehensive document which now functions as the basis of all future
developments on machine learning development.

Lastly, he was also one of few students in India to be selected to undergo a 3-

month internship on JP Morgan – Investment Banking Analyst Summer
Internship, Bangalore and also received full scholarship of $ 58,535 at Curtis
Institute of Music, Philadelphia.

Overall, I am confident that he has undiminished zeal for higher academic

pursuits. In view of his genuine passion for engineering and unquestionable
thirst for learning, I recommend him for graduate studies with fitting financial
assistance.

With Best Regards,

Mrs. Sonam Lhamu Bhutia

Assistant Professor
Information Technology Department
Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology, Rangpo