Work Experience
Teaching Asssitant | Programming and Data Structures Course | IIT Kharagpur | Aug ‘17 - Present
- Tutored the 1st year students on the basics of Programming and Data Structures on a weekly basis at IIT Kharagpur.
- Co-authored the tutorial and assignments sheets for the students on the basic concepts of Programming and Data Structures.
Data Science Intern | Amplus Solar | May ‘17 - Jul ‘17
- Devised a novel way of computing soiling rate in Photovoltaic plants experiencing similar climatic conditions from limited data. Authored the research abstract for submission in leading conference on renewable energy for publication.
- Engineered a forecasting module to predict hourly active power generation by a PV plant using gradient boosted trees, achieving a correlation of 0.97. Enhanced the feature set by utilizing OpenWeatherMap API.
- Automated the generation of daily visualization reports of PV Plants portfolio in Power BI by connecting MySQL server hosted on AWS EC2 instance.
- Built a GUI application using PyQt4 to facilitate the data downloading from multiple PV plants’ dashboards.
Data Science Intern | Bidgely Technologies | May ‘16 - Jul ‘16
- Studied the low-resolution electrical energy consumption data of US consumers to analyse the pattern in vacation periods.
- Devised a sliding window algorithm to predict the vacation instances of the residents using MATLAB with precision >95% and recall >70%, which got incorporated into production.
- Worked on the energy disaggregation module to compute refrigerator consumption from low resolution, raw electrical energy consumption, data which was pushed to disaggregation pipeline.
Back-end Developer | Outsy | May ‘15 - Jul ‘15
- Developed a polling feature for real-time meetings in Django Web Framework which was incorporated in the android app.
- Extracted artists’ names from 15,000 Facebook textual posts using Stanford POSTagger after NLTK assisted pre-processing.
- Generated Artists database by drawing out information using Wikipedia API, Youtube API, and SoundCloud API.