Project Engineering

Aravindh Mahendran

Undergraduate, B. Tech Computer Science and Engineering with Honors

International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad.

DOB: December 5, 1990 Phone No: +91-905*******

Email id: ********.****@*****.*** http://web.iiit.ac.in/~aravindh.mug08/

Education

Examination University/Board School/College Year CPI/%

B. Tech (6th semester) IIIT Hyderabad IIIT Hyderabad 2008-11 9.75/10

AISSE (Intermediate+2) CBSE Apeejay School, Nerul 2008 87.80%

AISSCE (Matriculation) CBSE Apeejay School, Nerul 2006 90.20%

Standardized Tests

GRE General Test (159/170)

Verbal Reasoning (159/170, 84 percentile)

Quantitative Reasoning (170/170, 99 percentile)

Analytical Writing (4.5/6, 72 percentile)

TOEFL (115/120)

Reading: 30/30 Speaking: 27/30

Listening: 29/30 Writing: 29/30

Areas of Interest

Robotics & Computer Vision Pursuing B.Tech Honors in Robotics Research Lab of IIIT Hyderabad.

Cognitive Science human vision research

Work Experience

Summer internship at Robotics and Embedded Systems Lab (RESL) and Interaction lab, Viterbi School

of Engineering, University of Southern California as part of Viter bi India program.

Worked on Kinect Registration (registration of point clouds obtained from different

Microsoft Kinects) under the guidance of Prof. Gaurav Sukhatme and Prof. Maja Matari .

Experimented with calibration target and feature matching based approaches (SIFT on images,

FPFH and PFH on point cloud data).

Proposed a novel plane matching approach that utilized an error metric based on both depth

and colour information of the point cloud.

Implemented using ROS and PCL.

Teaching assistant for Artificial intelligence course, Spring 2011.

Course instructors - Prof. Rajeev Sangal, Dr. V Sriram and Mr. Prashant Mennon.

With other TA s, designed assignments on propositional logic and a set of three assignments

that involved POS tagging, dependency parsing and predicate logic generation and inference.

Conducted viva on this set of three assignments and evaluated them.

Scholastic Achievements

Institute Rank 3 (out of approx. 150) as on July 2011, Scored a 10/10 in the second semester.

Awarded Dean s List I for Excellence in Academics for the semesters Fall 08, Fall 09, Fall 10,

Spring 09 and Spring 10 and Dean s List II for Spring 11.

One among 35 students selected from across the nation (India) to attend the International

Mathematics Olympiad Training Camp (IMOTC) for two consecutive years, 2007 and 2008

Secured All India Rank 162 in All India Engineering Entrance Examination -2008 (among 793,000

candidates).

Secured All India Rank 2552 in IIT Joint Entrance Examination-2008 (among 312,000 candidates).

Secured All India Rank 121 in National Cyber Olympiad (2006)

Research and Projects

B.Tech. Project MAV, UGV joint SLAM September October, 2011

Title

Dr. Madhava Krishna

Faculty

Built a joint SLAM system, along with a fellow student, comprising of a UGV and a MAV.

Description

The UGV carries a SICK laser and maps using gmapping while the MAV maps elevated

regions in the indoor setting using PTAM. Used AR-Markers to track the position of the MAV

with respect to the UGV. Built the entire system using the ROS framework. Results on

mapping using this joint system are available in this video.

July 2010 Jan. 2011

Honors project - Peripheral Vision, Motion and colour perception

Title

Dr. Bipin Indurkhya, Mrs. Kavita Vemuri

Faculty

Conducted an experiment concerning peripheral vision and colour perception. Coloured

Description

moving objects were shown in the periphery and the observer s reaction time was measured.

Preliminary data suggests that reaction time is effected by colour of object in periphery but

not the colour of fixate and also depends on direction of motion of foveal stimuli. This work

resulted in a term paper.

Educational Games December, 2009

Title

Dr. Matthew Kam (HCII, Carnegie Mellon University)

Faculty

Developed an educational game based on the existing Snake game in the winter school as a

Description

part of educational games track. Worked with two fellow team mates under the guidance of

Dr. Matthew Kam and his team. Game designed for teaching semantics and oral to written

competence, to be integrated into the MILLEE (Mobile and Immersive Learning for Literacy

in Emerging Economies) project. Work resulted in a poster submission to India HCI, on

Snake Tutor: Using Popular Commercial Games for Designing Educational Games for

ESL .

Software Long book registers office automation October December, 2009

Title

Dr. Kamal Karlapalem (Dean Academics)

Faculty

Created a platform for creating office automation systems that can be used just like long book

Description

registers along with added functionality. Applied various principles of software development

and followed the waterfall model.

Other Projects

RRT, Monte Carlo localization and Occupancy grid mapping Mobile Robotics course projects

Implemented path planning using RRT, particle filter based Monte -Carlo localization and occupancy grid

mapping on Amigo bot. Experimented with laser sensor for occupancy grid mapping in Mobilesim simulator.

Image Search and News Video Processing Computer Vision course projects

Sift feature based image search using term-document matrix. Query expansion and term frequency - inverse

document frequency (tfidf) methods for improving performance.

Compiler for flat tiny C Compilers course project

Designed a compiler for a simplified version of C language. Generated lexical analyzer using flex, parser using

bison and abstract syntax tree using visitor design pattern.

Socio-Economic Disruption due to Earthquake Disasters in India Engineering Systems course project

Led a team of 26 members to work towards a set of policies for mitigati on, preparedness and response to

earthquake disasters in India. Divided the team into sub-system teams based on the sector being affected,

namely transport, water, food and agriculture, power and communication.

Binocular Rivalry Summer work at Cognitive Science lab

Literature survey and design of experiment to study the effect of motion of stimulus on binocular rivalry.

Select courses

Computer vision, Linear algebra, Mobile robotics, Introduction to cognitive science, Mathematics I,II and III

(covering calculus, graph theory, Combinatorics, vector spaces and group theory, etc.), Statistical methods in

Artificial Intelligence

Computer Proficiency

Operating Systems GNU/Linux, Windows

Programming Languages C, C++

Scripting Languages Bash, Python

Robotics/CV Software ROS, Point Cloud Library, OpenCV

Miscellaneous Matlab, MySQL, wxWidgets, OpenGL, HTML, Javascript

Extra-curricular Activities/ Achievements

Western Classical Music using Electronic Keyboard

- Secured distinction in Grade 5 practical examination under Trinity College of Music, London.

- Ranked 3rd in Bombay region in grade 5 practical examination.

Miscellaneous

- Awarded 1st prize in creative writing competition in Felicity '09 (Cultural cum Technical Annual festival )

- Organized Group Discussion literary event and Digidraw Online digital art competition

at Felicity 11 and won 2nd prize in Extempore, Felicity 11

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