Engineer Computer Science

Sanchit Arora

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Information

www.grasp.upenn.edu/ sanarora

Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA

The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

Education

M.S.E., Robotics and Arti cial Intelligence, expected December 2012

GPA: 4.0 / 4.0

Advisor: Professor Kostas Daniilidis

Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

B.Tech., Computer Science and Engineering, 2009

GPA: 8.57 / 10.0

All India Rank 20, IIT-Joint Entrance Exam, (Rank 1, Delhi Region), 2005

Awards and

Recipient of the prestigious Aditya Birla Scholarship, 2005

Scholastic

Undergraduate Research Award by Industrial R&D unit, IIT Delhi, 2007

Achievements

1st Position, Digital Image Processing Competition, IIT Delhi, Tryst, 2008

3rd Position, CRO game design competition, IIT Bombay, Techfest, 2007

Gold Medalist at the National Level, Physics Olympiad (INPhO, 2005)

Ranked in Top 30, Delhi Region, Regional Mathematical Olympiad, 2005

Microsoft India Development Center, Hyderabad, India

Professional

Software Development Engineer, July, 2009 - December, 2010

Experience

Shipped Microsoft O ce Mobile 2010 on Windows Phone 7

Worked on Sharepoint Mobile User Interface

Improved gesture support for Excel Mobile

Yahoo! Software Development Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore, India

Software Development Intern, May, 2008 - July, 2008

Surveyed, analyzed and assessed di erent Online Learning techniques for

data analysis

Prototyped a technique incorporating key features of good algorithms with promis-

ing initial results

Technical Skills

C, C++, Java, JavaScript, Perl, SML, Prolog, Python, HTML+CSS, UNIX shell

Programming

scripting, GNU make, VCS (CVS, SVN, Git), and others

L TEX, MATLAB, OpenCV, common productivity packages (for Windows, OS X,

A

Libraries and

and Linux platforms), Vim, Java 3D, GTK+, QT4

tools

Microsoft Windows family, Apple OS X, Linux and variants, ROS

Operating

Systems

School of Engineering & Applied Sciences UPenn, Philadelphia

Academic

Augmenting Stereo SLAM with Line features May, 2011 - December, 2011

Projects

Incorporated fast line features to enhance SLAM structure

Computer Vision Projects September, 2011 - December, 2011

Logo replacement by feature matching and extraction

Automatic Image Mosaicing with Harris corners

Image Morphing using manual control points and blending

Edge detection techniques using NMS and hysteresis

Machine Perception Projects January, 2011 - May, 2011

3D reconstruction using stereo image pairs under epipolar constraints

Image recti cation tools in MATLAB using manual datapoints

Camera Stabilization using weighted image ows

Machine Learning Projects September, 2011 - December, 2011

Amazon review rating by applying di erent learning models

OCR using Hidden Markov Models

Document classi cation using SVM s

Adaboost for digit recognition

Digit recognition using Decision trees

Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering IIT, Delhi

Digital Image Analysis Projects August, 2008 - December, 2008

Non-Photorealistic image rendering using pointillist and brushed styles

Computing Image analogies using multi level image features

Implemented standard JPEG compression

Multi Robot System Applications Aug, 2008 - May, 2009

System of robots cooperating to allocate and accomplish di erent tasks

OS abstraction to manage resources and tasks to achieve an end goal

ABU Robocon 2007 Sept, 2006 - Aug, 2007

Represented team India in the Asia-Paci c Robotics Challenge, Vietnam

Designed and implemented navigation algorithms for autonomous robots

Planned innovative game-strategies with safe fallback options

Winner at the DD-MIT Robocon 2007 among 25 teams from all over India

Inverted Pendulum Stabilization Feb, 2008 - Apr, 2008

Explored machine learning techniques for control of a pendulum and cart system

Utilized Neural Networks and SVMs as building blocks

Successfully simulated results applicable to robotic control applications

Reverse Tracko Plugin May, 2007 - Apr, 2008

Designed a novel system for car-reversing and parking using camera and mirror

combination

Developed a low cost prototype on ARM9 using the OpenCV library

Received the prestigious Summer Undergraduate Research Award for the same

Adaptive Corridor Energy Saving System (ACESS) (Aug, 2007 - Dec, 2007)

Developed an embedded solution for saving energy in power hungry building

corridors

Built a prototype using ARM7, RF nodes and motion detectors

Prototype demonstrated 80% reduction in power consumption during non-rush

hours

Professor Kostas Daniilidis

References

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Available to

Professor Kolin Paul

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