Rohan Saxena

Rohan Saxena

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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I am interested in emulating intelligence in mobile artificial agents. As such, the…

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Experience

  • Bloomfield Graphic

    Bloomfield

    Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

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    Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

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    Microsoft Research Lab, Bangalore

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    CRIS, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus

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    Kaiserslautern, Germany

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    IIT Delhi & ITRA Media Lab Asia, New Delhi

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    BITS Pilani

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    Waltham, Massachusetts

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    Red Hen Lab

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Education

  • Carnegie Mellon University Graphic

    Carnegie Mellon University

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    Activities and Societies: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Department of Sponsorship and Marketing, Computer Science Association (CSA), Debating Society

    • Core Team Member at Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
    - Awarded the Student Chapter Excellence Award by ACM for Outstanding Recruitment Program among all ACM student chapters in the world.
    - Awarded as the best student chapter in India by ACM for 3 consecutive years.

    • Department of Sponsorship and Marketing
    - Worked to obtain sponsors for Oasis (India's second largest college fest).

    • Computer Science Association (CSA)
    - Conduct various events to get more…

    • Core Team Member at Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
    - Awarded the Student Chapter Excellence Award by ACM for Outstanding Recruitment Program among all ACM student chapters in the world.
    - Awarded as the best student chapter in India by ACM for 3 consecutive years.

    • Department of Sponsorship and Marketing
    - Worked to obtain sponsors for Oasis (India's second largest college fest).

    • Computer Science Association (CSA)
    - Conduct various events to get more people interested in CS and help them out in issues related to CS.

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    Activities and Societies: Toastmasters International, Throwball Team

    I joined the student edition of the international Toastmasters programme in the eighth grade. I was given the Best Speaker Award at their Charter Night. I went on to win various debate, elocution and public speaking competitions at the state level after that.

    I was a player in the school Throwball Team while in seventh grade, which went on to become state champion in the same year.

Courses

  • AI for Robotics by Prof Sebastian Thrun

    Udacity

  • Calculus: Univariate & Multivariate, Differential & Integral

    MATH F111, BITS Pilani

  • Compiler Construction

    CS F363, BITS Pilani

  • Computer Architecture

    CS F342, BITS Pilani

  • Computer Networks

    CS F303, BITS Pilani

  • Computer Programming

    CS F111, BITS Pilani

  • Control of Mobile Robots by Georgia Tech

    Coursera

  • Data Mining

    CS 4515, BITS Pilani

  • Data Structures and Algorithms

    CS F211, BITS Pilani

  • Database Systems

    CS F212, BITS Pilani

  • Deep Learning by Google

    Udacity

  • Design & Analysis of Algorithms

    CS F364, BITS Pilani

  • Differential Equations

    MATH F211, BITS Pilani

  • Digital Design

    CS F215, BITS Pilani

  • Discrete Structures for Computer Science

    CS F222, BITS Pilani

  • Introduction to Computer Vision by Georgia Tech

    Udacity

  • Linear Algebra

    MATH F112, BITS Pilani

  • Logic in Computer Science

    CS F214, BITS Pilani

  • Machine Learning by Andrew Ng

    Coursera

  • Machine Learning by Georgia Tech

    Udacity

  • Microprocessors and Interfacing

    CS F241, BITS Pilani

  • Neural Networks & Fuzzy Logic

    BITS F312, BITS Pilani

  • Object Oriented Programming

    CS F213, BITS Pilani

  • Operating Systems

    CS F372, BITS Pilani

  • Pattern Recognition

    BITS F446, BITS Pilani

  • Principles of Programming Languages

    CS F301, BITS Pilani

  • Probability and Statistics

    MATH F113, BITS Pilani

  • Self Driving Car Nanodegree

    Udacity

  • Theory of Computation

    CS F351, BITS Pilani

Projects

  • Autonomous Car Navigation System

    Corrected camera matrix & distortion coefficient and annotated area suitable for driving in a video stream.

  • Vehicle Detection and Tracking

    Detected and tracked vehicles in a video stream using SVMs (support vector machines), decision trees, HOG (histogram of oriented gradients) and neural networks.

  • Traffic Sign Classifier using Deep Learning

    Implemented a modified LeNet architecture of convolutional neural network to classify German traffic signs with 95% accuracy. Implemented the project on TensorFlow in Python.

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  • Lane Lines Detection

    A pipeline using OpenCV for detecting lane lines in video streams of roads, written in Python.

    I start off by using the Canny edge detection algorithm to detect edges. Then I use Hough transform to represent the images in parameter space, using which I detect lines in the region of interest. This is first tested on images, and then on videos.

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  • Digital IC Tester

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    Designed and simulated a fully functioning digital integrated circuit tester in Proteus which can be used to test the functioning of various common ICs. The project also involved writing the complete Assembly code to program the 8086 microprocessor to test the ICs.

    The project was completed for partial fulfilment of the course Microprocessors and Interfacing in BITS Pilani.

    Various devices (LCD, keypad, 8255, etc) were interfaced with the 8086 microprocessor using appropriate…

    Designed and simulated a fully functioning digital integrated circuit tester in Proteus which can be used to test the functioning of various common ICs. The project also involved writing the complete Assembly code to program the 8086 microprocessor to test the ICs.

    The project was completed for partial fulfilment of the course Microprocessors and Interfacing in BITS Pilani.

    Various devices (LCD, keypad, 8255, etc) were interfaced with the 8086 microprocessor using appropriate techniques (buffering, latching, etc).

  • Behavioural Cloning

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    Modified standard deep neural network architectures (LeNet, GoogLeNet, Inception v4, ResNet, etc) to emulate human driving behaviour in a simulator. This project used transfer learning.

  • Logic Programming

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    Implemented 2 tasks using the logic programming paradigm in SWI-Prolog. The first task was to encode rules for performing basic algebraic manipulations by operating on symbols. The second was to encode the academic regulations of BITS Pilani in the form of rules which could then answer complex queries.
    This project was completed for the partial fulfilment of the course Logic in Computer Science in BITS Pilani.

  • Programming Robot Behaviours

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    Programmed various robot behaviours on the Firebird V ATMEGA2560 robot by Nex Robotics using the Atmel ATMEGA2560 microcontroller. The code for programming the same was written in Embedded C and Assembly.

  • Easing Student Union Elections

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    This project involved the development, testing and deployment of an Android application aimed at easing the BITS Pilani student union election process and increasing the accountability of the elected candidates. The Android app was created using Android Studio and followed material design guidelines. The server was hosted via third party services.

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  • Spam and Obscenity detector

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    Written in Python, this project aimed at building a forum which would automatically detect any form of spam or obscenity, based on datasets obtained online and by using a bag of words approach.

    The combination of a Naive Bayes algorithm and a Linear Support Vector Machine (SVM) was utilised. The web forum was built using Django, HTML, CSS and Javascript.

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Honors & Awards

  • Venkat Panchapakesan Memorial Scholarship

    Google

    • Awarded the Google Venkat Panchapakesan Memorial Scholarship in 2017.
    • One of 6 recipients to be selected from all over India.
    • Visited the YouTube headquarters in San Bruno, California, USA in October 2017.
    • Felicitated by Susan Wojcicki, CEO of YouTube.

Test Scores

  • SAT Subject Test (Chemistry)

    Score: 800/800

    Scored perfectly in the SAT Chemistry subject test

  • SAT Subject Test (Mathematics I)

    Score: 800/800

    Scored perfectly in the SAT Mathematics subject test

  • SAT Subject Test (Physics)

    Score: 800/800

    Scored perfectly in the SAT Physics subject test

  • Higher Secondary School Certificate, Goa Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education

    Score: 97.2%

    Stood 1st in the state of Goa for XII Board Examinations.

  • JEE Advanced (IIT JEE)

    Score: All India Rank- 2012

    Ranked 2012 in the country from amongst 1.5 million candidates in JEE Advanced (previously IIT-JEE), regarded by many as one of the most difficult examinations worldwide.

  • Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE)

    Score: 94.6%

    Stood 4th in the state of Goa for X Board Examinations

Languages

  • English

    Full professional proficiency

  • Hindi

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • Konkani

    Native or bilingual proficiency

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