ACADEMICS


Education


MS in Computer Science (3.6/4)

Stony Brook University, New York (Aug 2017 - May 2019)

BE in Electronics & Communication Engineering (74.24/100)

Delhi College of Engineering, University of Delhi, Delhi (Aug 2009 - Jun 2013)


Skill Set

C, C++, Python, Java, Scala, Spark, SQL, Javascript, Django, HTML, CSS, Hadoop, MapReduce, D3.js, Tableau, Matplotlib, NLTK, Pandas, NumPy, SciPy, Scikit-Learn, TensorFlow, MATLAB, AWS, Databricks, Linux, Mac OS.


Independent and Academic Projects


Analysis of Cyberbullying against Women (Keras, Word2Vec)

Built a sentiment analyzer using Keras Library and Word2Vec, to classify a tweet as violent and non-violent against women and to further classify the severity of the violent tweet on a scale of 10 under the supervision of Prof H. Andrew Schwartz.



New York City Taxi Fare Prediction (Kaggle, Jupyter, Python, Scikit-Learn, Tableau)

Predicted the fare amount for a taxi ride in New York City given the pickup & dropoff longitudinal and latitudinal location and time stamp of the start of the ride. The best prediction model was based on Random Forest approach. More details here.



Women's Safety in Indian Railways

Using the Indian Railways Timetable Dataset, determined the need for special female security on railway platforms using the details of departure and arrival timing of the train, origin and destination cities and crime rate in those cities, using MapReduce. Data set was taken from here. Code of the project can be found here.



Web Application for Named Entity Recognizer (NER)

Developed a simple web application using Django framework for information extraction using NLTK library in python that identifies the named entities in the text submitted by the user and displays the result.


Classification of Breast Cancer Patients

Classified breast cancer patients into two categories from the dataset - having malignant and benign cancer, using Python and Scikit-learn. Results from various classification algorithms, such as Logistic Regression, LinearSVC, Perceptron and Naive Bayes were analyzed. Data Set was taken from University of California, Irvine Datasets available here. Code of the project can be found here.


Android Application for English Vocabulary (for GRE)

Developed an android application which provides the mnemonics and relevant images to learn new vocabulary, using Android Studio. The purpose is to help the students in improving vocabulary for GRE vocabulary section. Code of the project can be found here.


Skin Burn Analyses (Python)

June 2012 - August 2012

Implemented k-means clustering algorithm in Python on a dataset of over 5000 images, to classify the skin burns as first, second and third-degree burns.

Guide: Scientist Gulshan Kumar Singla, Deputy Director, CFEES, India

Online Polling System

As a member of Staff Recreation Club (SRC) in CDoT (Centre for Development of Telematics), came up with an idea of using online polling system. In a team of four, developed such a system for staff members of CDoT to provide response and feedback about management related survey questions, using Python and Django Framework. It expedited the decision making process by the management. The polling system is still in use at CDoT.


The Searchin' Pac-Man

Course: CSE-537, Artificial Intelligence

Developed general search algorithms (BFS, DFS, UCS, A*) for a pac-man agent to find path through a maze to reach a particular location and to collect food efficiently. It was a series of three course assignments based upon Stanford University Artificial Intelligence course work.


Hand Gesture based Mouse Control using MATLAB

Nov 2011 - Dec 2011

Three gestures were stored corresponding to left click, right click and double click. New gesture was captured through webcam of the laptop. An algorithm was designed which compared the freshly captured gesture and compared with three stored gestures to find the best match in order to proceed with the action as left click, right click and double click.


Academic Awards


Delhi NCR Topper (Rank-1) in CBSE Board tenth grade examination, 2007

Indira Award for Meritorious Students conferred for this achievement. Scored 100% marks in Mathematics.


All India Rank-4 student in CBSE Board tenth grade examination, 2007

Scored 97.4% aggregate in the examination. Felicitated by Government of Puducherry for securing rank 4.


Indira Award in Mathematics and Science, 2008

For being among top 0.1% students who scored maximum marks in Mathematics and Science Subjects, felicitated with two Indira Awards by Government of India in each subject


Science Stream Topper in North-West Delhi Zone, 2009

In 12th standard CBSE Board examination, scored highest marks in science stream especially in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics in North-West Delhi Zone


Ambedkar Ratna Samman, 2009

For scoring highest marks in 12th standard CBSE Board Examination among all the female candidates who appeared among the exam, honored with Ambedkar Ratna Samman.


Extra-curricular Activities

- Event Manager at International XIX Commonwealth Games held in New Delhi, India (2010).

- Organized Troika - Annual Technical Festival of IEEE student branch of Delhi College of Engineering (2011-2012).

- Successfully organized three consecutive Séance - Annual Day Event at Centre for Development of Telematics as Treasurer to the Staff Recreation Club (2013-2017).

- Monitors operations and events for the university students at the Campus Recreation Department, Stony Brook University (2018).

- Graduate Teaching Assistant for Big Data Analytics Course (CSE-545), Stony Brook University (2019).