Kushagra Singh

Curriculum vitae
W ORK EXPERIENCE P ROJECTS
P RESENT 2016 NLP tools for text on OSNs
Data Science intern Developing a suite of tools (Language identifi-
iRageCapital Advisory Pvt Ltd, Mumbai cation, POS tagging and Named Entity recog-
nition) for the analysis of code-mixed text on
Developing quantitative models and equity trading strate-
Online Social Networks.
gies using deep learning algorithms.
2016 Facebook Profile analyzer
(Taking a semester break from college, till April 2017) Analyzes your Facebook profile, and gives in-
sights based on activity pattern, likes and
content. precog.iiitd.edu.in/fbanalysis
M AY 2015 A UGUST 2015
Student Developer 2016 Finding Wally
Used Convolutional Neural Networks to solve
Google Summer of Code the popular game Wheres Wally?
Funded by Google to write mathematical software for the
2015 Unblur Scribd
open source C library FLINT - Fast Library for Number
A Chrome Extension to unblur blurred pages
Theory. Implemented the Lenstra ECM stage I and II
on Scribd, over 6000 daily users on the
algorithms for big-integer factorization. The algorithm
Chrome store.
factorised 240 bit integers (having 60 bit prime factors)
in 0.3 seconds. The work can be found on my Github 2015 AI solver for the 2048 puzzle
Profile Designed a solver for the 2048 puzzle
using depth bound expectimax search.
Mentor - Prof. William B. Hart (University of Warwick) www.iamkush.me/2048

R ESEARCH EXPERIENCE A CHIEVEMENTS

J AN 2016 P RESENT 2016 2nd position - ICON 2016 Shared task
Precog Research Group, IIIT Delhi 13th International Conference on Natural Lan-
guage Processing
Working on developing Natural Language Processing al-
gorithms for code-mixed textual content on Online So- 2014 Merit Scholar
cial Networks. IIIT Delhi
2014 JEE MAINS - All India Rank 2401
Core developer of a data analysis tool, that performs
Amongst over 13 Lakh students
real-time analysis of content on various Online Social
Networks (OSNs). This system predicts sentiment of 2014 KVPY Scholar
users about an event and detects users propagating spam Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
on OSNs. This project is funded by the Government of
2014 INSPIRE Scholar
India, and is today deployed at over 50 government se-
Ministry of Science and Technology
curity agencies across India.
2014 Member of Khemka Leaders Forum
Advisor - Prof. Ponnurangam Kumaraguru (Ph.D. CMU) The Global Education and Leadership Foun-
dation

G RANTS
P OSITIONS OF RESPONSIBILITY
2016 FOSSASIA 16, Singapore
Funded by Google 2016 Teaching Assistant
Introduction to Programming
2016 IASNLP 16, LTRC - IIIT Hyderabad
Funded by Precog Research Group, IIITD 2016 Teaching Assistant
Data structures and Algorithms Refresher
2015 Admin - Byld
E DUCATION Software Development club at IIIT-D
2014 2016 IIIT Delhi CGPA 9.16 / 10.0
BT ECH - C OMPUTER S CIENCE
Expected graduation - May 2018 S KILLS
S OFTWARE Git, Linux OS, MongoDB, Django,
Nginx, Keras, Scikit-learn
R ELEVANT C OURSEWORK
L ANGUAGES C, Python, Java, Bash Scripting
M ATH Linear Algebra, Probability & Statistics,
Multivariate Calculus, Discrete Math
CSE Machine Learning, Collaborative Filtering,
Data Structures & Algorithms