My Journey
"The two most important days in your life are the day you were born, and the day you find out why"

Mark Twain

Current
PhD Almost Over. Seeking exciting opportunities.
Pre-Synopsis Done. Thesis Underway.
2016-2020
Consultant CTO, ML Consultant
For three startups working on video analytics products/projects
July 2016
Joined PhD Programme
Dep. of CSE at IIT Bombay
2016
Felt need for greater exposure and real-world problem solving in ML and Computer Vision
Joined IIT Bombay as a Project Staff
2013, 2014 and 2015
VIT Shri
Best debutant faculty based on consistent high performance over three years and well appraised faculty every year at Vishwakarma Institute of Technology, Pune
2012
Urge to explore Machine Learning and Data Science
Joined as a faculty in Computer Engineering department at Vishwakarma Institute of Technology, Pune
2011
Groomed as a leader through Stepping Into Leadership workshops by Atyaasaa
BMC Software
2011
ITIL v3 Foundation Certification with 92% marks
TUV SUD Akademie GmbH
2010
Star Award for outstanding performance and lasting contribution to the Incubator team
BMC Software
2010
Joined Incubator team for conceptualizing and prototyping innovative products
BMC Software
2004
Joined Real Time Collaboration team of Server Techologies group to work on the Oracle Beehive initiative
Oracle India Pvt Ltd, Bangalore
2004
Institute Silver Medal, Bigyan Sinha Memorial Prize
For being department rank 1 and institute rank 2 respectively at IIT Kharagpur
Summer 2003
Intern at INRIA, Paris, France
Worked on customization of Web Services for improving QoS, Project ARLES, INRIA
2003
J.C.Ghosh Memorial Prize for securing highest CGPA at the end of six semesters
IIT Kharagpur
2003
2nd runners up in Sanganana 0x7D3
Computer Science quiz at CSE, IIT Kharagpur
2002
65th rank among 1000 participating teams in Bitwise 2K2, an algorithm intensive international programming contest
Department of CSE, IIT Kharagpur
2001
Took to a serious study of Bhagavad-gita to know the WHYs of life
Second most important day in my life (see Mark Twain's quote above)
2000
Joined CSE@IITKGP for undergrad studies
IIT Kharagpur
2000
All India Rank 191
Joint Entrance Examination JEE'2000
1999
District topper in class 12
Among all CBSE schools in Patna, Bihar
1999
Certificate of merit for outstanding performance and for being among the top 0.1% of successful candidates of AISSCE 99 in English Core
CBSE
April, 1998
Selected to attend a workshop-cum-tour held at IIT KGP
While studying at St. Michael's High School, Patna
1993, 1994, 1995
Certificate of merit for being among the top three students in Class 6, 7 and 8
St. Karen's High School, Patna
15 November, 1981
Birth
According to Mark Twain this was the first most important day in my life