MAKING
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Projects

• • MitoCell: Decentralised, Modular, Artificially Intelligent Lithium Ion Energy Storage Units (August 2019 - May 2020)

  • BioAcoustics: Using Signal Processing and Machine Learning to track bird populations in Urban Environments (April 2020)

  • Treat Covid:Platform independent progressive web app to connect patients to nearest hospitals, hospitals to arrange appropriate resources for incoming patients and for government officials to arranged makeshift facilities in a pandemic (March 2020)

  • Covid Ventilator: Low cost, easy to produce Open Source ventilator for use during shortages and emergencies in a pandemic (March 2020)

  • Active Noise Cancellation in hospital rooms with gradient descent based adaptive nLMS filter (March 2020)

  • Seismic Search Engine for Earthquake images (February 2020)

  • Dynamic memory allocation based ARM video game (April 2018)

  • Mental Health Recovery tracking application (August - December 2017)

  • EEG Based wheelchair for people with neurological disorders(October 2016)

  • Air Quality Monitoring Device (January 2016)

  • Hand Gesture controlled robotic arm (October 2015)

  • Force-Electricity relationship in Piezoelectric plates(August 2015)

  • Low cost foam cutting (May 2015)

  • Low cost desktop 3D printing (May 2011 - June 2015)

  • Wearable ECG monitoring belt (January 2014 - January 2015)

  • Hand gesture controlled vehicle (January 2014)

  • Stereo Pupil Tracker using an android tablet (October 2013)

  • Haptic Feedback E-reader for the visually impaired (July 2013) 

  • PIR based motion detection system (June 2013)

  • Automated Gardening System (September 2012)

  • 'Sudarshan' - cutter robot for RoboWars (January 2012)

  • Water Leak and Level detector  (October 2011)

  • Atari Punk Console (May 2010)

Classes I taught 

• • Eagle CAD for engineers - Taught to senior year students of ECE at UMass Amherst (Spring 2017)

  • 3D Printing for engineers - Taught to registered students of ECE at UMass Amherst (Spring 2017)

  • Intro to soldering electronics - Taught to registered students of ECE at UMass Amherst (Spring 2017) 

Public Speaking

• TEDx: 

  • TEDxGateway 2013

  • TEDxHewlett Packard Bangalore 2014(Private Corporate Event) 

  • TEDxNUS Singapore 2015

  • TEDxYouth@DAIS 2015

  • TEDxYouth@JNIS 2017

  • now 10+

• Other: 

  • Guest Speaker at CNBC Martech Marathon (Spoke to 250+ of India's top CXOs/CMOs/CEOs) (June 2018)

  • Guest Speaker at SRM University Chennai(Spoke to 7000 engineering students) (August 2017)

  • Guest Speaker at Oberoi International School Mumbai (June 2017)

  • Panelist at Zinnov Confluence with CEO, Microsoft Accelerator, Bangalore (June 2017)

  • Speaker at JOSH talks Ahmadabad (June 2016) 

  • Speaker at Under 25 Summit Bangalore ( January 2016) 

  • Speaker at ExpressO talks (November 2015) 

  • Guest Speaker at Google Developers Group VJTI (December 2014) 

  • Guest Speaker at Nokia solve for X hackathon Mumbai  (July 2014) 

  • Guest Speaker at Quark – Birla Institute of Technology Goa (February 2014)             

  • Guest Speaker at Taqneeq – Mukesh Patel College of Engineering (October 2014)

  • Guest Speaker at Govt of India TIFAC Delhi  (February 2014) 

  • Guest Speaker at Datta Meghe College of Engineering (October 2014) 

  • Guest Speaker at Aditya Birla Group Annual Director Meetup (January 2014) 

  • Guest Speaker at Hindustan Unilever Limited Annual Director Meetup Goa (March 2014) 

  • Guest Speaker at Maker Day Mumbai (October 2014)         

  • now 50+

Tech competitions in younger days which helped build early diversity in engineering knowledge

• HackUMass (October 2016) 

• MIT Media Lab ReDx Health Tech (January 2015) 

• MIT Media Lab ReDx Health Tech (January 2014)

• MIT Media Lab ReDx Eye Diagnostics (October 2013)

• MIT Media Lab DIy Engineering the eye (July 2013) 

• Google Science Fair (July 2014) [Top 90 world-wide] 

• Microsoft Solve for Bombay, Studio X (August 2014) 

• IIT Techfest, Magneto – Hand gesture controlled vehicle(January 2014)

• IIT Techfest, RoboWars – Heavy duty robot fighting (January 2013)

• IIT Techfest, RoboPolo and Water Rocketry (January 2012)

• IIT Techfest, Solar Splash – Solar Boat (January 2011)

• KJ Somaiya Vigyan Yagna, Automated Gardening System  (September 2012)

• Inspire Awards, Solar Boat (July 2011)[State level finalist]

Awards and Honors (I had it listed here for college admissions in 2015/2016)

• Dean's list - Awarded to students with high academic performance @ Georgia Tech. ( Fall 2017, Spring 2018)

• Dean's list - Awarded to students with high academic performance @UMass. ( Fall 2016, Spring 2017)

• Best Citizen Award - Awarded at high school graduation ceremony by Indian poet Shri. Javed Akhtar (June 2016) 

• Most Outstanding Student Award - Awarded at high school annual day by school founder (January 2016) 

• Youngest Innovator Award - Awarded at the annual nationwide 3D printing Industry gathering in Mumbai city by the founder of the community(October 2015)

• 2nd Best Debater - Awarded at the annual Jamnabai Narsee International School Alumni Association of the school for competing against teachers and alumni debaters on social issues(September 2015) 

• Google - Youngest Speaker, Awarded at the Google Developers Group meet up at VJTI Engineering college in Mumbai (December 2014) 

• Google Science Fair Regional Finalist  - Awarded during the Google Science Fair 2014 at Google’s office in Hyderabad, India for making it to the top 90 projects list worldwide (June 2014)

• Pitch for MIT to President of India - Selected to present our team project to ex-president of India Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam on the inauguration of our new MIT-India lab in Hyderabad, India (October 2013) 

• Pitch for MIT to Industrialist - Among the 3 students selected to pitch to the chairman of Tata Group Mr. Ratan Tata to raise capital for MIT Media Lab india Initiative(August 2013)

• INSPIRE AWARD - State level finalist at the National Inspire Award - a STEM competition for students across India(July 2011)