WAYAL RUSHIKESH | 17EC10062

ELECTRONICS & ELEC. COMM.ENGG. (B.Tech 4Y)

MINOR in COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGG. (B.Tech 4Y)

EDUCATION
Year Degree/Exam Institute CGPA/Marks
2021 B.TECH IIT Kharagpur 8.80 / 10
2017 Higher Secondary Exam CBSE 84.6%
2015 Secondary Exam CBSE 10 / 10

COURSEWORK INFORMATION
Matrix Algebra | Probability and Stochastic Processes | Mathematical Methods | Semiconductor Devices| Network The
Electronics | Signals and System | Electronmagnetic Engineering | Analog Electronic Circuits | Digital Electronic Circu
Engineering | Analog Communications | Control Systems Engineering | Introduction to Wireless Communications | Alg
Learning | Neural Networks and its applications
SKILLS AND EXPERTISE
•Programming Languages: C,C++, Python •Softwares:Matlab, Deckbuild, Solidworks
•Skills: Machine Learning, Data Analytics,Deep Learning,Computer Vision •Libraries: Numpy, Pandas, Scikit Learn, OpenCV, Fas
TRAINING

•Machine Learning-Stanford University: Online course on basic algorithms and foundations of Machine Learning by Andrew NG
•Deep Learning-Specialization: Online course by Andrew NG, focused on neural networks, basic math behind them, convolutional
also covers basic ResNets and LSTM models.
•CS221n | Stanford University : Online course on Deep Learning focusing more on the mathematical part of neural networks and co
nets.
•Machine Learning(CS60050): Course based on staistical as well as mathematical aspects of Machine Learning and studying its var
coding them from scratch, taken at Department of Computer Science and Engineering , IIT Kharagpur (on going).
•Neural Networks and its Applications: Course with mathematical explanations behind the neural networks and also building the ne
from scratch taken at Department of Electronics and Electrical Communications Engineering IIT Kharagpur (on going)
•Algorithms-I: Design, analysis and coding of algorithms taken at Department of Computer Science and Engineering IIT Kharagp

COMPETITION/CONFERENCE
India Ml hiring Challenge(hosted on AnalyticsVidhya):
•Used undersampling, stacking, backward feature selection methods with xgboost as an fnal classsifer.
•Using baysian optimisation to tune the hyperparameters secure a rank of 9 among 1000 contestants .
Flipkart GRID Challenge(hosted on Kaggle):
•To predict the bounding box co-ordinates of objects in images with complexity and dataset size increasing with leve
•Build a neural net similar to VGG16, subsequently qualifying for level 3.
NetApp Data Challenge (hosted by Kshitij, IIT Kharagpur):
•News classifcation challenge with textual data (headlines and short description) provided.
•FinishedSecond, by using tf-idf, chi square analysis, and xgboost for classifctaion of 40 categories.
Instant Gratification(hosted on Kaggle):
•The task was to identify seperate 512 datasets hidden in the main dataset , removing redundant features and predi
•The smaller datasets has distribution in the form of n-dimensional hypercube with 3 clusters per class.
•QuadraticDistriminantAnalysis and Gaussian Mixture Models proved to be the best as the hidden dataset size was v
Data Tussle(hosted on Kaggle):
•The task was to predict height of sea waves with a dataset with 50k samples and nearly 55 features.Got selected fo
Build a Recommendation Engine(hosted on AnalyticsVidhya):
•To build a recommender system for retail stock unnsing collaborative fltering by using restricted boltzmann machin
ZS Data Challenge:
•Dataset of 30k samples with 30 features, task was to predict whether a football goal will be scored given the power
Intel Scene Classification (hosted on AnalyticsVidhya):
•Images denoting diferent city blocks were to be classifed. Used fastai library for pytorch implementation of ResNet
augementation.
Titanic: Machine Learning from Disaster (hosted on kaggle):
•Tabular data competition with binary classifcation problem, genetic algorithms proved to be very usefull especially
AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS

•Secured a rank of 690 in jee advanced and was among top 1% students to qualify for jee advance.
•Qualifed National Talent Seacrh Examination in 2015.
POSITIONS OF RESPONSIBILITY

Vice Captain | Data Analytics | Meghanad Saha Hall of Residence:

•Represented Meghanad Saha Hall of Residence in General Championship 2018-19.
EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
Data Analytics:
•Member of MS Hall Data Analytics Team, Inter Hall Data Analytics Championship.
NSO Health and Fitness:
•Completed the NSO Yoga which inncluded early excercise and meditation sessions

!self declaration by the student