Hi! I'm Veerendra
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I recently graduated with a dual degree (B. Tech. + M. Tech.) in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD), India. I am excited about using technology to solve challenging real-world problems. I am particularly interested in the applications of Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, with a special focus on socially relevant projects.
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My project Text2Narrative won fifth place in an international hackathon (AI for Education Global HackWeek, 2017). Text2Narrative is an educational tool designed for school students, it creates engaging instructional videos automatically from text (find my pitch of the project aired on NDTV here and sample output here). I also worked on pothole detection for the blind in the Indian context for my masters thesis.
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I am actively seeking software engineer and product manager roles in innovative and socially relevant startups. Find more about me from my resume, full CV & LinkedIn.
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INTERNSHIPS
Extreme Blue, IBM, Bangalore
May - July 2017
AUTOMATED REPLY SYSTEM:
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Implemented an automated reply system which learns on the job using user feedback, in Python
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Used NLP techniques, Rocchio algorithm and Learning to Rank framework to better show relevant results to user queries (Powerpoint presentation)
LAMA Capital Management, Delhi
May - July 2016
WEB APP DEVELOPMENT:
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Created a Django app for analyzing various companies' stock performance in the market
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Automatically creates and uploads an order-file daily
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Made an existing risk management system faster using MySQL database
Housing.com, Mumbai
May - July 2015
TEMPLATE ENGINE:
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Built a template engine which creates custom animations by processing HTML code instead of writing JavaScript for animation manually
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Helped create a server health monitoring system
MASTERS THESIS
Title: Pothole detection to assist blind people
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Supervisor: Prof. M. Balakrishnan, IIT Delhi
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Description: This project is a part of MAVI (Mobility Assistant for Visually Impaired) and aims to detect potholes by combining information from multiple sensors like RGB camera, Laser and IR and running computer vision algorithms. Also ported machine learning models on to Raspberry Pi to improve speed and reduce power consumption.
PROJECTS
Text2Narrative
July 2017 - Present
Built an educational tool to create engaging videos from text. The video narrates the text with subtitles while automatically showing relevant images (see sample output). This is achieved by extracting key phrases from the text and searching the web for relevant images, and combining these images into an engaging video. Built in Python. (GitHub link) (Powerpoint Presentation)
ArbIIT
March - April 2017
Created a Reddit-like web application for IIT Delhi which has topic-wise channels for users to subscribe to. The users can also add events from the application to their personal calendar to get notifications before the event. Built with Django and MongoDB.
Advertisement Classification
March 2016​
Built a machine learning classifier for web content to detect advertisements using Gaussian kernel soft margin SVM algorithm achieving 99.7% accuracy.
Bitonic Sort
February - March 2016
Implemented an efficient algorithm called Bitonic sort to sort numbers in parallel on multi-core machines. Built with OpenMP (C++).
AI bot for Game of Entropy
September - November 2015
Created an AI bot which excels in the game of entropy (computationally hard problem because the branching becomes exponential in the middle moves of the game) using Expectiminimax with alpha-beta pruning.
Multiplayer LAN game
March - April 2015
Developed a 2D real-time multiplayer shooting game with artificially intelligent bot players. Built for Linux in C++.
Dropbox
February - March 2015
Created a dropbox-like cloud based storage system. Built in C++ using Qt, OpenSSL, pThreads.
LZW compressor
October 2014
Implemented LZW data compression and extraction algorithm in C++.
SKILLS
C++, Python, JavaScript
Django, MySQL, MongoDB
Matlab, R
Network programming
TensorFlow, PyTorch
HTML, CSS, Shell scripting
Parallel programming
Git, Microsoft suite
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