Venkata Ramana Sreevathsa Meesala

Personal Data

Date of Birth: 18th June, 1996.Hostel Address: EC-10, Girnar Hostel, IIT Delhi, Hauz Khas, New Delhi - 110016

Phone: +91 9911696535email: venkataramanasreevathsa@gmail.com

alternate email: cs1130262@cse.iitd.ac.in

Education

2013 - Present Undergraduate Degree in Computer Science and Engineering.Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.Gpa: 9.48/10Department Rank 3

2011 - 2013 Intermediate Education at Mahathi Juniour College, Visakhapatnam.Board of Intemediate Education, Andhra Pradesh,India.Final Grade: 98.0%Second Highest in College.

2010 - 2011 Class X at De-Paul School, Ukkunagaram, Visakhapatnam.Indian Certificate of Secondary Education, ICSE.Final Grade: 95.57%Second Highest in School.

Scholarships and Certificates

IIT-D Merit Award Scholarship for undergraduate students in top 7 percentile in the department.Received in first, second, fourth and fifth semester for excellent performance.Secured SGPA 10/10 in 2nd semester and batch highest of 9.9/10 in 4th semester.

KVPY Scholar Secured 121st rank among 1.5 lakh students (All India).Received KVPY Fellowship Award and direct admission to IISc, Bangalore.Attended 3 day VIJYOSHI programme in IISc Bangalore.

Competitive Exams Secured 36th rank (OBC) in JEE-Advanced Exam out of 2 lakh applicants.Secured 110th rank in EAMCET(A.P),2013 out of 3 lakh students.Secured 53rd rank in Amritha Entrance Exam, 2013.Secured 288th rank in JEE-MAINS out of 10 lakh applicants.

Industrial Training (Internship)

Application of Statistical Methods in Algorithmic Trading May 2016 - July 2016Tower Research Capital, Gurgoan.Supervisor: Avin Mittal, Managing Associate, Limestone Trading Group

• Devised a Regression based trading strategy utilizing ML Techniques.• Applied various data transformation techniques to improve prediction accuracy.• Utilized Filter Feature Selection to reduce Computational Overhead.

B.TECH THESIS

ANALYSIS AND MODELLING OF DELHI SCHOOL DATA. July 2016 - PRESENTSupervisor - Prof. Parag Singla, Computer Science Department, IIT Delhi.

Objective Understand the relationship between various factors affecting Schools PerformanceDevelop an Actionable Plan for Delhi Government to increase School Performance.

Data Collection Zonal and Panel Inspection Reports were Obtained From The Ministry of Education.Recording Daily Teacher and Student Attendance using Automatic Scripts.

Data Analytics Applied Linear as well as Decision Tree Regression techniques along with PCA to remove noise.Decrease the mean prediction error to less that 1% using Machine Learning Techniques.

Future Scope Develop a Bayesian Network Model to find the Relationship between various factors.Find an Optimal Action Plan which translates into Maximum Performance Increase

Major Projects

OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION USING MARKOV NETWORKS Aug 2016 - Oct 2016Supervisor - Prof. Parag Singla, Computer Science Department, IIT- Delhi.

• Used Conditional Random Fields with skip edges to model the OCR Problem.• Implemented Message Passing algorithm over Clique Tree and Loopy Belief Propagation Techinique tooptimize the inference process.

• Extended the model to predict for two words together by using Pair Skip Potentials and achieved a20% increase in character accuracy.

DIGIT RECOGNITION USING NEURAL NETWORKS Apr 2016 - May 2016Supervisor - Prof. Parag Singla, Computer Science Department, IIT-Delhi.

• Implemented Artificial Neural Networks using Back propagation to recognize digits given pixel values.• Achieved an average accuracy of 97% using 100 perceptrons in hidden layer and 10 in output layer.

NEWS GROUP CLASSIFIER USING NAIVE BAYES Mar 2016 - Apr 2016Supervisor - Prof. Parag Singla, Computer Science Department, IIT-Delhi.

• Applied Naive Bayes with 5 fold Cross Validation to classify an article into one of 8 groups.• Used Laplace Smoothing and Obtained an average accuracy of 87.746%.

INTERNET ADVERTISEMENT CLASSIFICATION USING SVM Feb 2016 - Mar 2016Supervisor - Prof Parag Singla, Computer Science Department, IIT-Delhi.

• Applied Generalized SVM Model to predict whether an Image is ADVERTISEMENT or NOT.• Achieved an accuracy of 98.85% using linear SVM and 99.5% accuracy using Gaussian SVM.

AI POWERED BOT FOR GAME OF ENTROPY Aug 2015 - Nov 2015Supervisor - Prof. Mausam, Computer Science Department, IIT-Delhi.

• Designed and AI Bot for the game of entropy using an Adversarial Search algorithm Expecti-Minimax.• Additionally, Implemented Alpha Beta Pruning for handling redundant computations.

FIVE STAGED PIPELINE PROCESSOR IN LOGISIM Apr 2015 - May 2015Supervisor - Prof. Smriti Ranjan Sarangi, Computer Science Department, IIT-Delhi.

• Designed a 32 bit Pipeline processor based on simple RISC architecture.• Implemented Data Forwarding to optimise the processor.

FIRST PERSON SHOOTING GAME(3D) USING OpenGL Mar 2015 - May, 2015Supervisor - Prof. Huzur Saran, Computer Science Department, IIT-Delhi.

• Created a fully functional and network enabled 3D shooting game along with CPU controlled Players.• Implemented P2P network operating on UDP protocol with specially designed packets• Designed 4 different Player Modes with AI support and multiple Graphical Environments.

ELECTRONICALLY PROGRAMMABLE SAFETY DEVICE Dec 2014 - Jan 2015Supervisor - Prof. Balakrishnan M, Computer Science Department, IIT-Delhi.

• Constructed a tracking device which uses GPS, Signal strengths and cell ID’s to find location of person.• Could set position and radius on map (GEOFENCING) to monitor the movement through Android app.

Courses Done

Data Structures and Algorithms, Digital Logic and System Design, Discrete Mathematics, Computer Architec-ture, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Networks, Analysis and Design of Algorithms, Digital Image Analysis,Machine Learning, Introduction to Parallel Programming, Operating Systems, Probabilistic and Graphical Mod-els, Optimization Methods, Probability and Stochastic Processes

Technical Skills

C, C++, Java, Python, SML, MATLAB, Prolog, OpenMP, MPI, Logism, Autodesk Inventor, Wireshark and Android.

Interests and Activities

Technology, Programming, Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Computer Graphics DesignReading Research Articles about Space Exploration from NASA, VFX Breakdown of MoviesPlaying Computer Games, Watching Animated Movies, Volleyball, Football

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