Shikhar Sharma

Last Updated on 7th September 2015

shikharsharma.com shikhar38@gmail.com | +1 (647) 669-1092 | shikhar@cs.toronto.edu

EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO

MSC IN COMPUTER SCIENCE

Jan 2016 | Toronto, Canada GPA: 3.77 / 4

IIT KANPUR

BTECH IN COMPUTER SCIENCE

May 2014 | Kanpur, India GPA: 9.3 / 10

LINKS
Google Plus:// +ShikharSharma38 Github:// kracwarlock

LinkedIn:// sharmashikhar Twitter:// @shikhar_warlock

COURSEWORK
GRADUATE

Statistical Machine Learning Decision Making under Unceratinty Foundations of Computer Vision

UNDERGRADUATE

Data Structures and Algorithms Artificial Intelligence Programming Operating Systems

Principles of Database Systems Compiler Design

Computer Networks Algorithms II

Introduction to Software Engineering Machine Learning Techniques Computer System Security

Computer Vision and Image Processing Mathematics for Machine Learning

TEACHING ASSISTANT

Machine Learning

Introduction to Neural Networks Programming on the Web

SKILLS
PROGRAMMING

Over 5000 lines:

Python C C++ LATEX

Over 1000 lines:

Java Matlab VisualStudio

Web:

Javascript PHP HTML

CSS SQL

Familiar:

Shell Scripting R

EXPERIENCE
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO | DEEP LEARNING, MACHINE LEARNING

September 2014 January 2016 | Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Working with Prof. Ruslan Salakhutdinov on visual attention models using deep con-volutional neural
networks (CNNs) and Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) based re-current neural networks (RNNs).

CORNELL UNIVERSITY | RESEARCH INTERNSHIP

May 2013 - July 2013 | Ithaca, New York, USA | Coactive Learning

Worked with Ashesh Jain and Prof. Ashutosh Saxena to make Baxter Research Robot learn trajectory
preferences for grocery store checkout using incremental improve-ments suggested by the user. The
project involved feature engineering, using algo-rithms like preference perceptrons and structural support
vector machine.

IIT K + MICROSOFT RESEARCH, REDMOND | RESEARCH INTERN

April 2012 July 2012 | Kanpur, UP, India

Worked with Prof. Amey Karkare, Prof. Subhajit Roy and Dr. Sumit Gulwani on cre-ating an Intelligent
Tutoring System for teaching First Order Logic. We utilized the Stanford CoreNLP Parser to parse and
retrieve meta-data and generated first order logic formulae. We also explored generating new questions
from our corpus.

PROJECTS
SPEECH RECOGNITION | BTECH PROJECT

Jan 2014 Jan 2015 | Kanpur, UP, India

Worked with Prof. Harish Karnick and used Deep Belief Networks and Hidden Markov Models with
MFCC and its first and second order derivatives as features to recognize alphabets from ISOLET
dataset and words from an IIT Kanpur dataset of roughly 120,000 Hindi word recordings

MOVIE RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM | COURSE PROJECT

September 2013 November 2013 | Kanpur, UP, India

Applied collaborative filtering techniques to generate recommendations and predict ratings on MovieLens
dataset having 100K ratings from 943 users on 1682 movies

AWARDS

2014
Awarded
Department Entrance Scholarship, University of Toronto
2013
Selected
Cornell-IIT Internship Program
2012
Awarded
Academic Excellence Award, IIT Kanpur
2011
Awarded
OP Jindal Engineering and Management Scholarship, India
2011
Awarded
Academic Excellence Award, IIT Kanpur
2010
Gold Medal
International Chemistry Olympiad OCSC, India
2010
Awarded
Merit Scholarship for Professional Studies, CBSE
2008
Awarded
National Talent Search Examination Scholarship, NCERT

PUBLICATIONS
A. Jain, S. Sharma, T. Joachims, and A. Saxena. Learning preferences for

manipulation tasks from online coactive feedback. The International Journal of Robotics Research,
2015.

A. Jain, S. Sharma, and A. Saxena. Beyond geometric path planning: Learning

context-driven trajectory preferences via sub-optimal feedback. In International Symposium on

Robotics Research. Springer, 2013.