SAURABH SINGH | 16MI60R05

Computational Geomechanics Lab::Department of Mining Engineering

IIT Kharagpur::s.s.g2526@gmail.com::+91 7479024155

EDUCATION:
Year Degree/Exam Institute CGPA/Marks
2018 M.TECH IIT Kharagpur 9.44 / 10
2015 B.TECH VNIT 9.00 / 10.00

AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS:

- Holding the Department Rank 1 in M.Tech Mining Engineering Department, IIT Kharagpur. (Present)
- Awarded the Institute Medal for securing highest CGPA in B.Tech Mining Engineering Department, VNIT. (2015)
- Achieved an All India Rank 24 in graduate aptitude test in engineering (GATE) in the year 2016. (2016)
RELEVANT COURSEWORK INFORMATION:
M.Tech IIT Kharagpur (CGPA -9.44):
Computational Geomechanics using FEM (Grade A)
Computational Geomechanics (Achieved Highest Grade Ex)
Programming in C (Grade A)
Numerical Methods in subsurface environment (Achieved Highest Grade Ex)

B.Tech VNIT (CGPA-9.00):

Rock Mechanics (Achieved Highest Grade AA)
Rock Mechanics lab (Achieved Highest grade AA)
PROJECTS:
M.Tech Project, Prediction of Mine Roof Using Artificial Neural Networks (Present)
- Developed an Algorithm in C++ to detect pressure cycles of roof support from 1 million rows and 300 columns of sensor data.
- Provided weights to different types of roofs at various interval based on their pressure resetting values in the roof supports.
- Working on classification of pressures cycles using Support Vector Machines and generating clean data for training.
- Working on prediction of periodic roof fall interval based on the given weights in hidden layer and input layer using ANN.
Formation of Fundamental Mesh Matrix in ventilation Network (Jan'17-April'17)
- Implemented Prim's algorithm in C++ to obtain minimum spanning tree from the ventilation network and marked all the tree branches.
- Developed an algorithm to Identified the path taken by ventilating air in the ventilation network for each loop in the network.
- Formed Fundamental Mesh Matrix based on the direction of air flow in each spanning tree branch and in the corresponding chords.

PROJECTS IN NEUMERICAL MODELLING:

Equivalent Anisotropic Analysis of Rock Mass Using Ansys (jan17-April17)
- Considered an isotropic rock mass with two sets of joints and calculated the constitutive matrix.
- Developed an equivalent anisotropic constitutive matrix based on the joint properties.
- Using the anisotropic matrix developed a model in Ansys and obtained the displacement results.
- The obtained results were verified by hand calculations based on the joint properties using FEM.
INTERNSHIPS:
CSIR - CIMFR, Blast Fragment Optimization (July'14)
- Identified various parameters that are highly significant for rock fragmentation due to explosive blasting in an open-cast mine.
- Applied the Kuz-Ram model to obtain the function for calculating mean fragment size for the data collected from blasting.
- Implemented steepest descent algorithm in C++ to obtain optimum values for all the parameters considered for the analysis.
CERTIFICATIONS:
Machine Learning | Stanford University (present)
- Completed course on Machine learning that mainly consisted Regression Models, Neural networks, SVM, PCA and anomaly detection.
WORK EXPERIENCE:
Larsen and Toubro Limited (June'15 - May'16)
- Joined L&T ECC as a Graduate Engineer Trainee and worked in the Planning Department.
- Worked with the Costing and Quantity Estimation team for the ongoing as well as upcoming projects.

SKILLS AND EXPERTIES:

- Programming Languages: C, C++, MATLAB, Python - Operating System: Windows, Linux
- Software Packages: MS Excel, ANSYS 15.0, SURPAC, FLAC Slope - Version Control: Git/GitHub