Dhairya Dand c: +91 9920 55 1696

dhairyadand.com e: dhairyadand@gmail.com

Academics
• Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science (June ’06-Apr ’10)
At V.J.T.I. (Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute) -Autonomous, Mumbai, India.
(Higher first class grade)
• Microsoft Research Summer School on Networks (July ’09)
Selected for the prestigious summer school taught by professors from Stanford, UC Berkeley,
Princeton, Cambridge, UC San Diego, and IISc.
• Science Senior College ( 10 + 2 Level ) (Jun ’04-Apr ’06)
Ranked 10th out of 80,000 students in the science merit list of the university.
Ranked 83rd out of 200,000 students in the state engineering entrance exam.
Ranked 26th out of 300,000 students in the national engineering entrance exam.

Experience
• Physical Computing Lab, Industrial Design Center, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
(July ’09 - Current)
Research Intern, Guided by Prof. Ravi Poovaiah and Keyur Sorathia
How can we have seamless interactions between technology and our physical domains,
designing and building products for special groups, ubiquitous computing, UX, design for
educational use, material science.
• Berkman Center, Harvard University, MA (April ’09 – June ‘09)
Research Intern, Guided by Jason Callina and Anita Patel
Internet & Democracy project: How Internet affects democratic patterns in the country.
Developed tools and frameworks for collecting data from social networks, data reliability testing
and crowd sourcing tasks. Designed user interface, critical algorithms for reliability testing of
data, cross embedded R compiler inside Ruby.
• Google Summer of Code, Google, CA (Summer ’08)
Student Intern, Guided by Justin Carlson
Developed a WYSIWYG map editor plugin for non-programmers to embed advanced
functionalities in their maps. Worked on the idea from ground up – feature conception, usability
testing, user interface design, library architecture, coding, testing, debugging and software
practices.
• ASUS, India (2007)
ASUS CEO Program, Guided by Amit Jaonkar and Giriraj Karkera
Year long program to impart leadership, managerial and presentation skills to engineering
undergraduates by assigning key responsibilities in real-life projects.

Memberships
• Public Invited Expert, W3C HTML Core Working Group (June ’09-Dec ’10)
Drafting standards for HTML 5, group comprises of 379 members globally.
• Life Member, Mensa International
• Member- IEEE, ACM
Papers & Publications
• “A Simple Wearable Hand Gesture Recognition Device Using iMEMS”
IEEE International Conference on Social Computing and Pattern Recognition ’09, Malaysia
Authors: A.Pandit, D.Dand, S.Mehta, A.Daftery, S.Sabesan
Accepted as a full paper for oral presentation and publication in IEEE journal proceedings
• “Handicap Assistance Device For Appliance Control Using User-Defined Gestures”
IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Systems, Modeling and Simulation’10, Liverpool, UK
IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Computing'10, Bangalore, IN
Authors: D.Dand, S.Mehta, A.Daftery, S.Sabesan
Accepted as a full paper for presentation and publication in IEEE Xplore and journal proceedings
• Codeless Programming, D.Dand, ACE Magazine (Aug. ‘09)
• Guide to Network Penetration Testing, D.Dand, Technovanza Magazine (Sept. ‘07)

Independent Projects
• Internet and Democracy
o Berkman Center, Harvard University, MA.
o Developed tools and framework to collect data from social networks / blogs, reliability
testing and crowd sourcing tasks.
o Embedding R compiler in Ruby, GUI (Ruby on Rails, R, Kripp’s Algorithm, Amazon MT)
• Jellow
o Industrial Design Center, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay funded by Microsoft
Research, Redmond.
o A communication device for the cerebral palsy kids.
o Solely developed hardware + OS + software (Intel embedded chips, hardware
programming, touch screen, custom Debian OS, scripts, UI)
• Map Editor
o Google, CA.
o A WYSIWYG map editor.
o Authored PHP library for connecting to 7 map providers and generalizing functions,
heavy use of JavaScript – jQuery, server optimizing techniques, designed ui.
• SmartMedBoxes
o Interactive medicine box that helps take medicine on time.
o Designed and built the product and interactions (ATmega 8L + LEDs + Alarm)
• EmoTweet
o Real-time emotional analysis and graphical visualization of tweets.
o Affective research and built the application (Processing, Java, Twitter API)
• tweet-a-fleur
o A micro engineered physical flower that embodies the happiness quotient of the world
by affectively analyzing real-time tweets and blooms / droops accordingly.
o Micro engineering, Arduino, Processing, Twitter API (Ongoing)
• Sketchy
o Can we sketch working circuits on a board with a pen? Just like we sketch on
whiteboard for instance.
o Material sciences and electronics (Ongoing)
• GazeTracker
o Tracking eye movements to enable ALS patients to interact with the computer.
o Low-cost $50 eye glasses for tracking ( With the Graffiti Research Lab ) (Ongoing)
 • FreeHand
o A $1 Circuit for controlling computer actions with a TV remote.
o Built the IR receiver circuit tuned to the TV remote frequency and customized scripts for
automation.
• PortableBraille
o A portable device which connects to the computer, translates documents to Braille and
morphs its surface dynamically to take the form of the Braille text.
o Designed and built a prototype of the device (Arduino + Processing) (Ongoing)
• 360degree
o A low cost ($4) community radio station with 5km radius coverage.
o Designed and built the hardware + Yagi antenna.

Collaborative Projects
• Horizon
o A wearable hand gesture device to control intuitive computer actions.
o Wrote hardware drivers, pattern recognition algorithms, automation scripts, gui for
customizing gestures (ATmega8L, ZigBee wireless standard, Windows API)
• ppl2.0
o E-Governance: A constituency management system.
o Coded AJAX based dynamic language translation, designed user interface, outlined
product architecture and features (J2EE, IBM DB2, IBM WAS, RAD)
• GestureWheelChair
o A hand gesture based wheel chair for intuitive control. (miniature prototype)
o Micro coded gesture recognition algorithm for the microcontroller (ATmega8L)
• QRNavSys
o QR code based urban navigation and contextual information system.
o Designed and coded the application and interactions (J2ME, Image Processing Algos)
• SMS-CV
o Empowering the internet-deprived: emails CV to prospective employer by requiring the
user to send a SMS from any basic cell phone.
o Designed the application architecture and framework (PHP frontend, Java SMS API)
• Odyssey
o Alumni information system with interactive media.
o Designed and coded the application (Web based, Flash)
• BookBazaar
o Empowering students: a zero commission book buy and sell website.
o Designed and built the portal (J2EE, Apache, MySQL)
• Websites
o Web designer and admin for Technovanza ’08 and ’09 and DLA websites.
o Focus on usability and aesthetics (PHP, CSS, AJAX, MySQL, Apache, CMS)

Workshops
• Co-conducting a workshop on ‘New modes of Interaction’ at the IndiaHCI Conference Mar ’10

Awards and Recognition

• Ranked in the top 20 amongst 48,000 participants and 13,000 teams in IBM’s The Great Mind
Challenge Software Development Competition 2008 for the ppl2.0 project. The competition
holds the world record for being the largest software development competition.
 • Project Horizon and GestureWheelChair won the Best Exhibit Award at Technovanza ’08 and the
Award for Innovation at the Open Hardware Competition.
• Won the Texas Instruments International BeagleBoard Design Challenge for the circuit design of
Jellow – A communication device for the Cerebral Palsy.
• Project Horizon has been featured in National Newspapers - DNA, Loksatta and TV News
Channels - CNN IBN and Star News.

Grants
• Berkman Center, Harvard University, MA for Internet & Democracy Project ($5000)
• Google Open Source Programs Office, Google, CA for Map Editor ($4000)
• Industrial Design Center (IDC), IIT-Bombay for Jellow ($800)
• V.J.T.I., Mumbai for Horizon ($500)

Exhibitions
• Interaction design installation and art form, embodying the history of Mumbai (Apr ’10 - Jun ’10)
Dr. Bhauji Lad Museum (previously known as Victoria & Albert Museum) Est. 1872, India.
• Horizon- Hand Gesture Device (Feb ’09)
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (Chosen Nationally amongst 200 Applicants)
• GestureWheelChair and Horizon- Hand Gesture Device (Mar ’09)
Innovative Technologies in Manufacturing Expo, World Trade Center, Mumbai (Invited)

Leadership
• Helped in Co-Founding NGO for career guidance to rural and under privileged kids in India.
• Elected Member, Representing CS Dept., College Core Committee (2007-08)
• Publicity Manager, World GameMaster Tournament (Dec ’07-Jan ’08)
• IBM Ambassador for the Campus (2009-10)
• Mozilla Campus Representative (2009-10)
• Event Head, Roll-of-Die, Technovanza ’09 – National Level Technical Festival.

Other
• Project Mentor, Sophomore Year CS Students.
• Taught C Programming Language to a Class of 60 Freshmen Year Students.
• Member, College Programming Team (2007-08)
• Journalist, Half-Time Sports Magazine.

Technical Skills

• System Languages: C, C++, Java, Visual Basic

• Web Technologies:
• Scientific Languages:
• Image Processing:
• Robotic Languages:
• Dynamic Languages:
• IDEs:
• Databases:
PHP, ASP, JSP, HTML, CSS, XML, AJAX, ECMA Script (JavaScript)
R Language for Statistical Computing (Reliability Testing Toolkit)
MatLab, OpenCV
Microsoft VPL
Ruby, Rails Framework
Eclipse, NetBeans, RAD, Visual Studio (2008,05,98), Emacs, NP++,
Zend, Komodo, Aptana
MySQL, SQLite, MS-SQL, IBM DB2
 • Servers:
• Data Modelers:
• JavaScript Framework:
• Design Tools:
• Automators:
• CMS
• Operating Systems:
• Mobile Programming:
• Physical Computing:
• Hardware:
Apache, IBM WAS, IIS, WEBrick
Rational Rose, Visual Paradigm
script.aculo.us, mooTools, jQuery
Adobe Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Flash CS3 + ActionScript 3.0
Bash Shell Scripting, AutoIt, AutoHotkey
Joomla!, Drupal, Geeklog, Wordpress, Indexhibit, phpBB2
Ubuntu, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows (95--Vista)
Android SDK, J2ME, Objective C, PhoneGap
Processing, Fritzing, Arduino
Arduino, RFIDs, Sensors and Actuators, TI BeagleBoard, Atmel
Chips, ZigBee

Relevant Courses

Software Engineering, Digital Signal Processing, Advanced Micro Processors, Advanced

Computer Networks, Artificial Intelligence, Operating Systems, System Programming and
Compilers, Database Management Systems, Computer Graphics, Web Technologies,
Computer Networks, Computer Architecture and Organization, Microprocessors, Object
Oriented Analysis and Design, Discrete Mathematical Structure, Digital Electronics, Analysis of
Algorithms, Digital Communications, Digital Electronics, Data Structures, Fundamentals of
Electrical Engineering, Computer Programming

References available on request. Last Updated Jan ’10