Utkarsh Kandi

Third Year Undergraduate ‡ udkandi utkarshk20@iitk.ac.in

Department of Mechanical Engineering ¯ utkarsh-kandi Ó +91-8308109866

Academic Qualifications
Year Degree/Certificate Institute CPI/%
2020 - Present B.Tech. Mechanical Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur 7.0/10
2019 - 2020 HSC Maharashtra State Board(XII) Shiv Chhatrapati College Aurangabad 91.7%
2017 - 2018 CBSE(X) Dnyanada English School Aurangabad 89.4%

Scholastic Achievements
• Secured All India Rank 2318 in IIT-JEE Advanced 2020 among over 0.2 million shortlisted candidates
• Secured All India Rank 1882 in JEE Mains 2020 with 99.84 percentile score among over 1.2 million registered candidates
• Secured GEN Rank 186 in Maharashtra NTSE Stage 1 conducted by Maharashtra Education Board in Nov’17
• Secured National Rank 3 in SKCIPL National Competition of Abacus and Mental Arithmetic Program in Feb’13
Key Projects
• Reinforcement Learning: Learning from Errors (May’22 - July’22 )
Under: Brain and Cognitive Society, SnT Council, IIT Kanpur ‡ GitHub
– Developed analysis and Regression model on Hotel Booking dataset using Numpy,Pandas,Scikitlearn python libraries
– Trained a Q-Learning agent to play Frozen Lake Game in a created environment under defined Q-learning parameters
– Trained an agent to play Lunar Lander using Deep Q-learning in a environment which is classic trajectory optimized
• Movie-Recommender system (Dec’22 - Jan’23 )
Self Project ‡ GitHub
– Build a Machine Learning model that filters or predicts the user’s film preferences based on past choices and behavior
– Implemented content based filtration strategy on the TMDB 5000 movies data set from Kaggle website
– Implemented pre processing on dataset and text vectorization using bag of words model using python libraries
• Machine Learning Behind the Curtain (Apr’22 - June’22 )
Under: Stamatics IIT Kanpur ‡ GitHub
– Developed Neural Network model on the Flower dataset and estimated an accuracy of more than 90 percent
– Implemented the basic functions of the Gradient Descent Algorithm and calculated the boundary in a small dataset
– Worked on a 2-Class Classification Neural Network which had one hidden layer and computed the cross entropy loss
• Mathematical Tools and Algorithms for Data Science (Apr’22 - June’22 )
Under: Stamatics IIT Kanpur ‡ GitHub
– Developed data analysis on SF Salaries and Ecommerce Purchases dataset using Numpy, Pandas python libraries
– Implemented data visualization of customized data on Titanic dataset using Matplotlib and Seaborn python libraries
– Executed Linear Regression on Ecommerce Customer dataset and Logistic Regression on the Advertising dataset
Technical Skills
Languages C, C++, Python Softwares/Tools Git, Github, AutoCAD, Fusion 360, PowerPoint, Excel, SQL
Development HTML5, CSS, JavaScript Libraries NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, Scikit-learn, Seaborn, OpenCV
Positions of Responsibility
• Web Coordinator, Association of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur (July’22 - Present)
– Administering smooth conduct of 9 projects related to MATLAB, Robotics, Machine Learning, etc., with 300+ students
– Assisting the first-year students to get into academics smoothly and to get acclimatized with the college curriculum
– Designing the posts for the social media handle and managing the website of the Association of Mechanical Engineering
Relevant Courses
- Fundamental of Computing - Introduction to Machine Learning - Image Processing
- Mathematics I - Introduction to Electrical Engineering - Applied Numerical Methods
- Partial Differential Equations - Linear Algebra and ODE - Complex Variables
Extra-Curricular Achievements
• Represented IIT Kanpur in Chess in the 55th Inter IIT Sports Meet conducted by IIT Delhi and IIT Roorkee in Dec’22
• Won Gold medal in Chess in Udghosh’21 event, India’s biggest College Sports Fest conducted by IIT Kanpur in Apr’22
• Won Bronze medal as Captain of Chess team in Udghosh’22 event, India’s biggest College Sports Fest in Oct’22
• Runnerup in Chess Extravaganza event during Aagaz edition for freshers at IIT Kanpur in Dec’20
• Participated and got selected among the Top 20 Finalist in Ideathon, a competitive event conducted by Startup Masterclass,
India 2.0, an initiative of Alumni Association, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in Apr’21
• Worked in the Marketing team in the Win India 2.0 which was a PAN India event held in Apr’21 across 45+ colleges
including IIT’s, IIM’s and BIT’s, etc. Generated funds went for a noble cause, the education of underprivileged students