Karan DwivediSecond Year Undergraduate

Computer Science and Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India

karandwivedi.iitd@gmail.com

cs1140227@cse.iitd.ac.in

Contact: +91-9711200437

Academic Details

Degree/Examination GPA/%age Institute Year

B.Tech, Computer Science and Engineering 9.12/10 Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi 2018 (exp)

Class XII, CBSE 97.4% Amity International School, Gurgaon 2014

Class X, CBSE 10/10 Amity International School, Gurgaon 2012

Scholastic Achievements

• All India Rank 31 in Joint Entrance Examination Main (JEE Main 2014) out of over 1.4 million candidates

• All India Rank 59 in Indian Institute of Technology Joint Entrance Examination (JEE Advanced 2014)

• Top 30 in the country at Indian National Physics Olympiad (INPhO 2014); attended International Physics

Olympiad Orientation cum Selection Camp 2014 at TIFR Mumbai

• All India Rank 24 in the National Talent Search Examination (NTSE 2012) conducted by the National

Council of Educational Research and Training

• All India Rank 140 in Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana (KVPY) scholarship, the highest award in the

country at school level by Department of Science and Technology (DST) in 2013

Major Projects

Smartphone Microscope Prof. Kedar Khare

Design Innovation Summer Award 2015 May 2015 – August 2015

• Designed a smartphone attachment that enables it to act as a digital microscope.

• Programmed image processing tool using OpenCV to remove aberrations and noise.

• Built android app with integrated OpenCV to obtain cell count in the sample for detecting anaemia.

• Optimised lens magnification and resolution through computer simulations to achieve 30x magnification.

• Utilized parabolic lens instead of spherical lens to reduce spherical aberration.

Other Projects

News Article Classifier Prof. Parag Singla, September 2015

• Implemented the Naive Bayes algorithm with Laplace Smoothing in C++.

• Developed a model for classifying a news article into one of the eight given categories.

Search Engine in Java Prof. Amitabha Bagchi, September 2015

• Implemented inverted index using Hash Table and AVL Tree data structures.

• Built a search engine that returns pages in the order of decreasing relevance for a compound search.

First Citizen Emergency Response System May 2015 – July 2015

• Prototyped an electronic device that sends alert of wearer’s location to guardians in case of emergency.

• Implemented using Arduino microprocessor with GPS, GSM and Bluetooth modules.

Rural Connect – Portal for Rural India June 2011 – August 2011

• Designed software to act as information and communication portal for rural India.

• Programmed Java based front-end and Python and MySQL based back-end.

Relevant Courses

Data Structures and Algorithms, Discrete Mathematical Structures, Programming Languages, Digital Logic

and System Design, Computer Architecture, Probability and Stochastic Processes, Calculus, Linear Algebra

MOOC: Machine Learning by Andrew Ng, Stanford University

Technical Skills

• Languages: C++, Python, Java, OpenGL, OpenCV, Ruby, HTML, CSS, MySQL, JavaScript

• Software: MATLAB, Linux, Solidworks, LTSpice, POVRay, Google App Engine

• Hardware: Arduino, VHDL, Verilog, XILINX FPGA

Extra Curricular Activities

• Robotics Club, IIT Delhi: Manufactured a robot to transport blocks to desired position via rope traversal;

secured 2nd position in Mechanical Design Challenge at Kshitij 2015, the technical fest of IIT Kharagpur.

• Prototyped 2 Electronic Games, Piano Tiles and Two Player Reactor, for the visually challenged; secured 5th

position in Hardware Modeling category at Inter IIT Tech Meet 2014.

• Developed a hands-on Science Activity Kit for underprivileged school students (Nov 2014 – Dec 2014).

• Member of Debating, Quizzing and Music Clubs of Udaigiri House, IIT Delhi.