Pradeep Periasamy

Gender: Male; DOB: 30th September 1992

B. Des (Design) p.pradeep@iitg.ernet.in

Final year student pradeeppj92@gmail.com
Department of Design +91-8011-237492
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati LinkedIn

Educational Qualifications:
Cumulative Performance Index: 7.8
Semester Performance Index (6th semester): 8.5
12th (Board of Intermediate Education, AP): 96%
10th (SSC, AP): 93.5%

Areas of Interest:
User Experience Design, Human Computer Interaction, User Interface Design, Visual communication

Work Experiences:
UX Design Intern: Amazon, Chennai
Mentors: Mr. Tom McDonnald, Lead UX Designer, Publisher Tools, Amazon Seattle.
Manager: Mr. Bala Ramasubramanium, Manager, Publisher Tools, Amazon
Duration: May’ 13 to July’ 13 ,2014
Project Domains: User Experience Design, Interaction Design, Visual Design.
Brief: Worked on a confidential project in the Publisher Tools Team which would soon be released by Amazon in
the market.

HCI Research Intern: Institute of Nuclear Medicines and Allied Sciences (INMAS) , DRDO, New Delhi.
Mentor: Shri. Sushil Chandhra, Scientist 'F' and Head of Bio Medical Department at Institute of Nuclear Medicine
and Allied Sciences at DRDO, New Delhi
Duration: May’ 03 to July’ 05, 2013
Project Domain: Human Computer Interaction , Brain Computer Interfacing,
Design Research
Brief: The aim of this project was to create a brain computer interface for providing neurofeedback using
combination of audio and visual simulation for the cognitive training and enhancements of sports athletes
particularly archery using augmented reality.

Projects:
N-strobe (3 Months Design Project I)
Supervisor: Prof. Pradeep Yammiyavar, Department of Design, IIT Guwahati
Keywords: Human Computer Interaction, Stroboscopic Effect, Neurofeedback, Cognitive Enhancement, Sports
Training, Neuro-visual Training, EEG
Brief: N-Strobe is a brain computer interfacing project which helps in the cognitive enhancement of sports athletes
especially in ball sports like Cricket, Hockey, Tennis, Badminton, Rugby etc by providing neurofeedback in terms of
the frequency of the shutter of the strobe glasses.

mECG (Remote Project May’14 - Jun’14) (Featured in TEDx Tughlaq Road)

Supervisor: Asst Prof. Ramesh Raskar, Head, Camera Culture Research Group , MIT Media Labs, Boston.
Keywords: Wireless, Mobile Electrocardiography, Wearable, Remote Diagnostics, Health Care, Heart Care.
Brief: mECG Heart Monitor allows physicians to document cardiac activity of a patient over a long period. It also
allows individuals with diagnosed heart conditions to track their cardiac activity anywhere, anytime and at an
affordable cost.

Enroot (3 months Interaction Design Semester Project) (Got selected for the Web Summit Dublin 2014)
 Supervisor: Asst Prof. Sharmistha Banerjee, Department of Design, IIT Guwahati
Keywords: Augmented reality, Location based messaging, User experience, Exploration, Planting messages, Social
Interaction, Mobile based Application, Interaction Design
Brief: Enroot is a mobile application that enables the users to plant virtual messages, images and videos at a
particular location in an augmented reality platform. Messages at any particular location can be viewed in an
augmented platform through a camera application in the mobile.

Tangemons (3 Months Tangible User Interface Semester Project)

Supervisor: Asst Prof. Keyur Sorathia, Department of Design, IIT Guwahati
Keywords: Tangible lemons, Ubiquitous Photography, Computational Photography, Physical Computing, Social
Space, Near Field Communication
Brief: Tangemons is a Tangible User Interface project on Ubiquitous photography which recognises euphoric
human gestures like cheers, high-fives etc and triggers a remote camera to take photographs in a social space like
restaurants, bars, pubs etc using wireless, inter-communicating, tangible lemon slices which are inserted on top of
the cocktail glasses.

ILazee (A week long Inter-Disciplinary Project)

Supervisor: Dr.Anthony Vipin Das, Senior TED Fellow, LV Prasad Eye Institute.
Keywords: Eye Care, Amblyopia Detection and Diagnostics,
Brief: An interactive App for kids for early detection and prevention of Amblyopia (Lazy Eye) as part of a workshop
organised by MIT Media Lab in collaboration with LVP Eye Institute.

Skills:
Design Skills: Heuristic Evaluation, Usability Evaluation, Rapid Prototyping, Brainstorming, Contextual Inquiry, User
interview planning, Design thinking, Design research, Competitive analysis, Information Architecture, Wireframing,
Low and high fidelity prototyping, Visual design.
Software Skills: Adobe 3d Studio Max, Autodesk Autocad Solid edge 2d drafting, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe
Illustrator Adobe Flash, Adobe Premiere pro, Google Sketchup, Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe After Effects,
Rhinoceros, Openvibes, Mind Workstation
Familiar Programming Languages : C, C++, Arduino, Processing, HTML, CSS, Lua, ActionScript, Python 3.0

Achievements and Co-curricular:

• Citrix Challenge - attended and secured 3rd position in a Design Challenge organised by Citrix Systems, Inc.
• Ozchi 2013 - actively participated in the 24 hour Design Challenge
• Winners of Startup Weekend, Chennai - attended and secured 1st position at Startup Weekend Chennai with a
disruptive Startup Idea.
• The Eternal Prophecy - finalists in Director’s cut a shortfilm competition organised by Mood Indigo ( annual
cultural festival of IIT Bombay ), was selected among top 10 among 120 entries.
• District Championship in Table tennis - won the district championship in Table-Tennis under Junior category.

Positions of Responsibility:
• EDC (Entrepreneurial Development Cell ) IIT Guwahati - active member and Coordinator of IES
• Alcher Creative Team - active member and coordinator of Alcheringa (annual cultural festival of IIT Guwahati ).
• Athletics club - avid athlete and organiser of spardha (inter-college sports event, IIT Guwahati)
• NCC , RSP, Scouts.

Other interests: Playing Guitar, Reading, Table Tennis, Cricket, Badminton, Biking, Travelling.

Languages: English Tamil Hindi