Date of Birth : 5th July, 1977

Age : 21

Sex : MALE

Address : W-159, Greater Kailash-II, New Delhi-110048,INDIA.

Phone : (91)-(011)-644-4651

E-mail : debug@poboxes.com

Web : https://members.tripod.com/~deepakb
 

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND:

(high school)

Exam Passed : AISSE (All India Secondary School Examination)
Name of Institute : Delhi Public School, R.K. Puram
Board : CBSE (Central Board Of Secondary Education)
Year : 1993
Subjects : English/Science/Math/Social Sciences/Hindi
Marks : 81.2 % aggregate,  88% ESM average (English 76%, Science 95%, Maths 93%)

(+2, higher secondary school)

Exam Passed : AISSCE (All India Senior School Certificate Examination)
Name of Institute : Delhi Public School, R.K. Puram
Board : CBSE
Year : 1995
Stream : Science with Computer Science
Marks : 87.4% aggregate,  95% PCM average (Physics 94%, Chemistry 95%, Maths 96%)

(IIT Delhi)

IIT CGPA at end of year :
1st  Year : 8.84 / 10
2nd Year : 9.02 / 10
3rd Year : 8.96 / 10
 

  AREA OF TECHNICAL INTEREST

My current area of technical interest spans graphics, multimedia, virtual reality and networking. My B.Tech project is titled "Networked Virtual Environments : Design & Implementation" .  I am working on this project under the guidance of Dr. Prem Kalra of the Computer Science & Engg. Dept., IIT Delhi .
 

COURSES DONE

The following are the core courses I have done, along with my grades :
 

Code	Course Title	Grade
CS120N	Introduction to Computer Science	A
CS130N	Data Structures	B
EE201N	Digital Electronic Circuits	A-
EE201P	Digital Electronic Circuits Laboratory	A-
EE205N	Signals and Systems	A
CS251N	Discrete Structures	A-
CS253N	Introduction to Logic for Computer Science	A-
CS212N	Computer Architecture	A
CS232N	Programming Languages	A-
MA250N	Introduction to Probability Theory & Stochastic Processes	A-
CS355N	Theory of Computation	B-
CS311N	Digital Hardware Design	A-
CS311P	Digital Hardware Design Laboratory	A-
CS334N	Operating Systems	B
CS312N	Microprocessor-based System Design	A-
CS312P	Microprocessor-based System Design Laboratory	A-
CS353N	Analysis and Design of Algorithms	doing

 

I have done the following (departmental) electives:
 

Code	Course Title	Grade
CS371N	Artificial Intelligence	A-
CS372N	Computer Networks I	A
CS471N	Computer Networks II	doing
CS475N	Digital Image Processing	doing

 

I propose to take the following electives in the coming semester:

• Computer Graphics
• Computer Vision
• Simulation & Modeling

1)  DISTRIBUTED VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT : DESIGN & IMPLEMENTATION :
       B.Tech. project at IIT Delhi, under Dr. Prem Kalra

 A distributed or networked virtual environment (DVE/NVE) allows users to be immersed in a virtual 3D environment, and to interact with other such users and with the environment in many ways.  This project is the first of  its kind at IIT Delhi, and involves the design of an NVE and its demonstration as a portable application front-end.  I am working on it along with another student.  The project is interdisciplinary, addressing issues in the areas of Computer Graphics as well as Networking.
 

2)  VISUAL-FEATURE EXTRACTION FROM VIDEO DATABASE, AND FEATURE-BASED QUERY :
      Summer training project at Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore.

The project was a part of the Video Indexing software being developed at KRDL, and involved the development of two  separate modules.  The first module was for extraction of visual features (eg. color histogram, color regions, activity levels) from the video sequence stored in a database, and storing the features in the database.  The second module was a GUI-based query engine that allowed querying the database for closest matching video sequences, based on specified features.  Apart from valuable experience in programming languages & environments, this project gave me an opportunity to work with the diverse, multi-racial team of the Visual Media Group at KRDL.  
 

3)  FACE RECOGNITION SYSTEM,  a summer project at IIT Delhi under Dr. Subhashis Banerjee

We implemented a face recognition system to match an image of  a face (given as input) with other images stored in a database.
 We started out with the MIT method of eigen-faces, and made various improvements to that method to account for differences in backgrounds (segmentation), face sizes, ambient lighting and variation of intensity  across the face.  The final version reported the strongest match correctly for 95% of the images in our test database of 512 images.
 

4)  RESOURCE RESERVATION SETUP PROTOCOL (RSVP), a mini-project at IIT Delhi under Dr. Huzur Saran

The project consisted of studying the RSVP protocol, a key component of an Integrated Services network for transfer of multimedia data having different service requirements.   RSVP assures Quality of Service to these different flows, by allowing receivers
to ask for QoS reservations, and then setting soft state in the routers to provide this QoS through the scheduler or the underlying data link layer.  The second part of the project involved implementing RSVP on the Linux OS, over a partly TCP/IP and partly ATM network, so as to interface RSVP andATM properly, and try to achieve end-to-end quality of service guarantees.
 
 

1. Awarded "Scholar Blazer" by DPS, R.K. Puram for consistent academic performance of 80% and above, in all years from    1991-1995. Also awarded the Certificate of Merit & Second Proficiency prize in Class XI (1993-94) for attaining the 2nd rank in the whole class (aggregate of 93%).
2. Selected for "Junior Science Talent Search" scholarship awarded by the Directorate of Science, Government of Delhi, 1991-92
3. Selected for "National Talent Search Examination" scholarship, 1993, awarded by the National Council for Educational Research & Training. Had the 19th rank among the candidates finally selected.
4. Awarded Certificate of Merit (Bronze) of the Delhi Regional Mathematics Olympiad, 1993.
5. Placed in the top 1% of students from all India in the National Standard Examination in Physics, NSEP (1995).
6. Attained the 49th rank (all-India) in the Joint Entrance Examination for admission to the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT-JEE'95), out of more than 100,000 students who gave the exam. Finally opted for IIT Delhi. These were some of the other ranks earned in competitive exams for engineering admission:-
a)  Offered the Singapore Airlines scholarship for undergraduate study in Singapore,
      after clearing an examination and an interview.
b)  Delhi College of Engineering - 28th rank
c)  University of Roorkee Engg. College - 120th rank
d)  Regional Engg. College, Kurukshetra - 4th rank
7. Awarded the "CREAM-100" scholarship by Quest Educational Services for attaining a rank in the top 100 in the IIT JEE (1995)
8. Awarded the Institute Merit Prize for the 3 of the first 6 semesters at IIT Delhi.

1. Computer and Internet-related :-  

• At school I have designed and coded various projects in Basic and Turbo Pascal, including a CAI package and a GUI paint program.
• As a member of EXUN, the DPS computer club, I participated in some computer programming competitions and symposia, representing my school. I have won the 2nd prize in the Graphics Programming contest at MODEM'94 organized by Modern School, Vasant Vihar.
• I was one of the main organizers of EXUN, a computer symposium organized by DPS, R.K. Puram for the first time in 1996. I was associated with EXUN'96, EXUN'97, and EXUN'98 while studying at IIT Delhi.
• I was an Activity Head for the "Internet Presence" of Rendezvous'97, the IIT Cultural Festival. I designed a web-site for Rendezvous. It can be found on my home page at :-
 https://members.tripod.com/~deepakb
• I am an avid user of the Internet, as well as of many Bulletin Board Systems (BBSes) in Delhi. I am a regular participant in the technical and OS (Win95, Linux) fora on these BBSes, as well as on FIDOnet, the international message network run by BBS system operators.
• Programming languages known - C, C++, Java, HTML, x86 assembly, Pascal, Prolog, Scheme (a variant of Lisp).
• Operating Environments - UNIX (System V, FreeBSD, Linux, Solaris, IRIX), MS-DOS, Windows 95, Windows NT.

•  I was the editor of my junior school magazine in class V (1987-88).
• At the intra-DPS Creative Writing contest (1987-88), my story "Deodars" won the first prize in the English Fiction category.
• Won the "School Song" poetry competition (1994-95), held to select a school song for DPS.
• My term paper for the course "Classical Indian Philosophy" was judged to be an outstanding paper, and was presented to Dr. Karan Singh, a world-renowned exponent of Indian philosophy.
• A  short article by me on "The Future of Computing" has been published by PC World (India) in their December'97 issue under "Views from the Lab".

• At IIT, I have attended inter-hostel and inter-college quizzes, and also organized many quizzes.
• I helped in the organization of the quiz events at EXUN'96 , '97 and '98, the DPS computer symposia.

• I have represented my hostel on many occasions in word-related hostel events, such as anagrams, crosswords, etc.
• I have also participated in inter-college competitions.
• I designed cryptic crosswords for the crossword competitions in the EXUN'96, '97 and '98 symposia, and conducted those events.