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Nishant KumarContact Room Number: 8, M.Tech Hostel Mobile: (+91)8826570848Information Indian Statistical Institute Email : [email protected] 205, B.T Road Email : [email protected] Kolkata, Pin-700108Education Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata (July 2014 - July 2016)Research M.Tech in Computer Science Delhi Technological University, New Delhi (August 2010-June 2014) B.Tech in Civil Engineering Image Processing, Pattern Recognition, Computer Vision, Statistical Analysis Special Interests in the Application of Computer Science to solve Civil Engineering problemsAwards and - Secured Admission to the fully funded M.Tech programme with stipend at ISI, KolkataAchievements - Secured Rank 13 in Regional Mathematical Olympiad- Sponsored by the National Board for Higher Mathematics, Department of Atomic Energy, IndiaProfessional Army Welfare Housing Organisation(AWHO), New Delhi (May 2012 - July 2012)experience As an intern, I worked on the construction of Pile foundations and other Structural Elements Supervisor : Col. Balachandrudu Sahukara, Project Director, AWHOM.Tech Object Detection and Recognition from Images (December 2014 - till date)Dissertation Guide: Prof. Dipti Prasad Mukherjee (ISI Kolkata) We are developing feature descriptors to help in the identification of objects from images of shopping malls. The challenges involved are: - Extreme differences in resolution between query images and target images of objects, - Extreme variations in illumination - Presence of very small training data Worked extensively with SIFT(Scale Invariant Feature Transform) and SURF(Speeded Up Robust Features) Areas of Study: Image Processing, Machine LearningOther Finding Correlation between personality traits and psorodic features in speechProjects (July 2015 - till date) Supervisor : Dr. Garga Chatterjee (ISI Kolkata) We are trying to improve upon the work of Mapping Nonverbal Vocal Behavior into Trait Attributions, developed by G. Mohammadi, A. Vinciarelli and M. Mortillaro, with special emphasis on the possibility of achieving a higher correlation with respect to traits other than Extroversion, namely Openness, Conscientiousness, Agreeableness and Neuroticism Areas of Study: Cognitive Science, Support Vector Machines and Statistical Analysis Directory search routine for linux, in C (June 2015 - July 2015 ) Supervisor : Dr. Mandar Mitra (ISI Kolkata) My implementation of the directory search routine can perform search based on size, depth of search and regex based search Area of Study: Operating Systems I

Programming Programming & Scripting LanguageSkills • (Proficient): C, Java, Matlab R , Linux Shell Scripting • (Working Knowledge): Python, C++ Debugging Tools • GDB, ValgrindOther Public SpeakingSkills Writing about social, national and international issues Regular contributor at wakeindianow.com (www.wakeindianow.com/search/label/Nishant%20Kumar) Amateur Photographer (www.viewbug.com/member/nishantkumar)Reference Prof. Dipti Prasad MukherjeeAvailable to Professor & Head, Electronics and Communication Sciences Unit,Contact Computer and Communication Sciences Division, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India Email : [email protected] Ph: +91 33 2575 2913 Dr. Sushmita Ruj Assistant Professor, Cryptology Research Group R.C. Bose Center for Cryptology and Security Applied Statistics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India Email : [email protected] Col. Balachandrudu Sahukara Former Dean- Faculty of Civil Engineering, College of Military Engineering, Pune Former Project Director(High Rise Structures), AWHO Vice President (Technical Services & Procurement) KNK Nexgen Construction Pvt Ltd Email : [email protected] Dr. Sourav Sen Gupta Lecturer-cum-Post Dotoral Fellow, R.C. Bose Center for Cryptology and Security Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India Email : [email protected] II