Yogesh Gupta

Email:​ yogeshgupta813@gmail.com​ , ​Phone:​ (+91) 9013646262 ,​ ​LinkedIn

Education
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi July 2015 - Present
B.Tech and M.Tech​ in Mathematics and Computing (​CGPA : 9.17​) Graduation : May 2020
Internships
Software Engineering Internship Facebook Semester Long Internship
● Reduced redundant information writes to databases by ​40%​ for a ​distributed system​ responsible for ​continuous
integration within Facebook.
● Added logging and measurement for measuring latency between events of said distributed system.
● Created a simulation system​ for said system to facilitate improving the ​throughput of testing​ and validation to code
changes before commit time with ​fewer risks.
Data Science Internship Bidgely Summer ‘19
● ​Pioneered​ an end to end product enabling effective and efficient demand side management for electric utilities.
● Developed an algorithm to cluster users on the basis of their lifestyle & predict ​kWh​ reductions & ​$ ​savings possible.
● Built a ​demo application​ for the product showing savings & mapping zipcodes for users returned by the filters selected.
Machine Learning Research Internship Adobe Systems Summer ‘18
● Differentiated Natural & Adversarial Data manifold & guided ​Selection of Neural Network architectures​ for input data
● Analyzed ​decision boundary topology​ to better understand feature space of neural networks for classification tasks.
Software Developer Internship Cerise Internet Technologies Summer ‘17
● Innovated a centroid based ​heuristic algorithm​ for the Capacitated Vehicle Routing problem leading to optimal routes
● Optimised the routes both in terms of time & distance based on values extracted from ​Google's​ distance matrix API
Scholastic Achievements
● Department Rank 3​ : Currently ranked 3rd in Mathematics and Computing(Dual Degree), Batch of 2020 ​Present
● ​Teaching Assistant​ for courses on Probability and Statistics and Design & Analysis of Algorithms ​Present
● Worldquant University ​2018
● Introduction to Data Science Module : ​Completed a 8 week module on​ Data Science with honors ​ ​Certificate Link
● Discover & Learn 1-2-3-4​: Awarded by IRD for novel research in​ Recommender Systems​, funded by IIT Delhi​ ​2017
● Department Change​ as a result of excellent academic performance in first year among ​(850 students​) ​2016
● IIT Delhi Semester Merit Award​ : Institute Award for being a student in the ​top 7%​ in the 2​th​, 6​th ​semester ​2016
● IIT-JEE:​ Secured ​All India Rank 798 (General Category) ​, competing among ​1.5 hundred thousand​ students ​2015
● NTSE Scholar:​ Awarded prestigious scholarship by ​Govt. of India​ following a rigorous 2-tier selection process ​ 2013
Projects
Deep Movie Recommender ​(Jan,2018 - Present) : Prof Niladri Chatterjee
● Designed & implemented a novel user modeling approach using movie embeddings to solve ​Item Cold Start Problem
● Encoded each movie based on its visual and textual features using dense ​word embeddings, CNN's, RNN's & LSTM
Project displayed in Open House’ 18, a ​research paper​ is in pipeline; to be published in a leading​ academic journal
Handwritten Digit Recognition ​(Sep, 2018 - Oct, 2018) : Prof Prathosh A.P.
● Compared classifying accuracy for classical approaches like ​SVM, FCNs & Deep CNNs​ with ​PCA decomposition
● Implemented ​Gaussian Mixture Models (GMM)​ using ​Expectation-Maximization​(EM) algorithm to improve accuracy
OS Process Scheduling Simulator ​(Aug, 2018 - Sep, 2018) : Prof Minati De
● Compared various ​process scheduling strategies​ for a discrete event process scheduler with random processes
Taxi Aggregator Service ​(Sep, 2018 - Oct, 2018) : Prof Amitabha Bagchi
● Simulated a real life model like Uber that assigns nearest taxis to customers using ​DFS & Dijkstra's​ algorithms
Technical Skills
● Languages and Tools: ​Python, C++, PHP, Java, SQL, MATLAB, R, Tensorflow, Keras, Git, LaTeX, Julia, Eirene
● Relevant Courses: ​Machine Learning, Operating Systems, Database Management Systems, Theory of Computation,
Analysis & Design of Algorithms,Graph Algorithms, Data Mining, Statistics, Probability & Stochastic Processes
Positions of Responsibility
● Mentor​ (July, 2017 - Present) : Mentoring 7 first year students for their transition to life and culture at IIT Delhi.
Extra Curricular Activities
​Table Tennis, Meditation, Music, Dance, Badminton, Yoga, Cricket