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General Information
| Full Name | Vishwa |
| Languages | English, Tamil, French |
Education
- 2020 - 2025
Dual Degree in Biological Engineering (B.Tech + M.Tech)
ndian Institute of Technology Madras
- 2019
Class XII (CBSE)
Achariya Bala Siksha Mandir, Puducherry
- 2017
Class X (CBSE)
Achariya Bala Siksha Mandir, Puducherry
Experience
- May 2022 - Sep 2022
Student Developer | TensorFlow
Google Summer of Code
- Designed a 3D Unity Terrain Game and integrated a microcontroller running a time-series data based gesture recognition TinyML model to recognize gestures and rotations, with the game.
- Trained and optimized a CNN-based TinyML model to work on an Arduino Nano 33 BLE Sense with OV7670 camera module and ST7735 TFT LCD module to recognise numbers.
- Documented the projects and TinyML how-to guides for hobbyists in a total of 13 Hackster.io blogs which received a total of 10000+ unique views and 50+ likes as of September 2022.
- Jun 2021 - Apr 2022
Coordinator - Publicity Team
Shaastra, IIT Madras
- Designed an exhaustive booklet for SHAASTRA, annual technical festival of IIT Madras 2022
- Coordinated and conducted SHAASTRA SPARK and SHAASTRA SAMPARK to publicize SHAASTRA with 9000+ turnout along with other coordinators
- Managed a team of 20 Campus Ambassadors for a period of 2 months to publicize SHAASTRA
- Jan 2022 - Apr 2022
Contigent Member - Inter IIT Tech Meet
Inter IIT Tech Meet 10.0
- Implemented a Decision Tree Classifier model to map symptoms to possible diseases, to be integrated into a chatbot to detect symptoms and map the right doctors to patients.
- Jan 2023
Workshop Trainer - Shaastra 2023
Shaastra, IIT Madras
- Conducted a 6 hour workshop titled “Become a 10x Developer” covering linux programming and bash scripting concepts with 30+ registrations
- Jan 2022
Workshop Trainer - Shaastra 2022
Shaastra, IIT Madras
- Conducted a 6 hour workshop titled “Hacking with Microcontrollers” covering networking concepts, vulnerabilities with 40+ registrations
- May 2021 - May 2022
Coordinator - Electronics Club
Electronics Club, CFI, IIT Madras
- Successfully planned and conducted a 4-week session on IoT, Cloud computing, ML, Micropython, PCB design and Digital design with 350+ turnout; team of 11 other coordinators
- Successfully conducted a session on Intro to PCB designing with a turnout of 60+ participants
- May 2021 - May 2022
Project Member - Hardware Accelerator for Deep Learning
Electronics Club, CFI, IIT Madras
- Audited the Deep Learning for Computer Vision course by the University of Michigan.
- Coded forward propagation of Mobile-Net architecture from scratch with tensors and loops
- Designed and tested a hexadecimal counter and scroll text functionality on a FPGA simulator
- Implemented non-synthesizable scalable versions of a Convolutional Neural Networks and Fully Connected Layer neural networks in verilog and coded up tests to benchmark for various inputs
- May 2021 - May 2022
Project Member - Smartwatch
Electronics Club, CFI, IIT Madras
- Built a prototype to interface with pressure (BMP280) , inertial measurement unit (MPU6050), heart-rate (MAX30102), real-time clock (DS3231), TFT LCD sensors over I2C and SPI protocols, with WiFi, Bluetooth LE and Over-The-Air update functionalities
- Researched on displays, tactile feedback, battery and energy consumption reduction solutions
Open Source Projects
- May 2022 - Sep 2022
Personal Projects
- Recreated the Snake game in an LED dot matrix to be played using a Playstation controller
- Constructed a RC car using ESP8266 and Arduino UNO that can be controlled via internet
- Designed a web scraper using BeautifulSoup to scrape text data from a dynamic website, processed it locally to find words from a 20 x 20 puzzle to solve an life skills assignment
- Developed a 2D paddle Android game using procedural map generation and scripting in Unity
- Built an Arcade game on the ESP32 development board using OLED display and IMU sensors
- Engineered a original game on Arduino UNO using a display, LED dot matrix and a buzzer