Manas Paldhe

EB-16, Shivalik House, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi Hauz Khas, New Delhi PIN-110016 manaspaldhe12@gmail.com +91-9990912548 http://www.manaspaldhe.in/

Education Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi Bachelor of Technology, Engineering Physics CGPA: 7.83/10 Minor Area in Computer Science and Engineering CGPA: 8.44/10 Vijaya Ratna Junior College, Hyderabad Senior School: Board of Intermediate Education, Andhra Pradesh Aggregate Score: 937/1000 Publication Abstract for the paper Public Bus Access for Visually Impaired-A study of Barriers & Evaluation of a Bus Access System accepted in Transed 2012 Professional Experience Cambridge Silicon Radio Summer Intern May2011-July2011 Pedestrian Navigation System: Worked on performance evaluation and amelioration of pedestrian navigation in sans-GPS environment Developed fuzzy logic based regression tool to automatically evaluate and grade system performance Designed new algorithms for sensor calibration and sensor data estimation during saturation case Refined critical algorithms like step length estimation, GPS distance estimation and false step detection After successful evaluation and benchmarking, internal release was done; worldwide release expected soon Academic Projects Nanoparticle Size Estimation Using Dynamic Light Scattering Aug2011-May2012 Undergraduate Thesis Advisor: Prof. Manish Sharma, Centre for Applied Research in Electronics, IIT Delhi Designing and fabricating a portable device for measuring size of nanoparticles, with potential application in biological sensors and biological reactions analyzers Designed and demonstrated an autocorrelator with GHz bandwidth using FPGA and used it for analysing light scattered by nanoparticle, thus estimating their size Demonstrated for the first time working of this technique for particles as low as 10nm radius Miniaturizing the conventional bulky lab setup into a compact portable device July 2008-May 2012

2008

Indoor Navigation System for Visually Impaired May2010-May2011 Advisor: Prof. M. Balakrishnan, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Delhi Designed and developed a system to help a visually challenged person navigate independently indoors Designed inertial sensor based high accuracy pedometer and Kalman filter based heading estimation technique, interleaved these algorithms to develop a robust user positioning system Evaluated the potential of various sensors networks for position estimation Successfully delivered a concept proving prototype of the system Processor Design Aug2010 - Nov2010 Advisor: Prof. Anshul Kumar, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Delhi Designed and simulated a single cycle and a multi-cycle processor cores using Logisim Complemented it with multiplication (Booth's algorithm) and division (non-restoring) co-processor Integrated an input-output bus with the processor and used it to interface a keyboard Coloured LED Display Design Jan2011-May2011 Advisor: Prof. M.Balakrishnan, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Delhi Designed and developed a concept proving prototype of LED display using FPGA Implemented Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter (UART) to obtain a video input Successfully displayed videos on the developed prototype Automated Light Switch For Classrooms July2011Nov2011 Advisor: Prof. M.R.Shenoy, Physics Department, IIT Delhi Designing and fabricating an automatic system that counts the number of persons in a room Planning to deploy it at the entrance of Physics Department Committee Room thus making it energy efficient Independent Projects Pick and Place Robots Oct2008-Mar2011 Advisor: Prof. S.K.Saha, Mechanical Engineering Department, IIT Delhi National Robotics Competition-Robocon: o Designed and developed a total of 10 robots over a period of three years o Co-Led a team of 24 members to Robocon 2011 o Finished fourth in league stage-2010 and 2011, quarterfinalist in 2009 Activity Head, Tryst 2010: Designed the problem statement and field for three robotics competitions Co-Led RoboTech: An initiative to promote robotics in the institute Bus Identification System for the Visually Challenged Advisors: Prof. M.Balakrishnan, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Delhi Prof. P.V.M.Rao, Mechanical Engineering Department, IIT Delhi Involved in testing, technical maintenance and up gradation of the fabricated system Abstract of the paper titled Public Bus Access for Visually Impaired-A study of Barriers & Evaluation of a Bus Access System accepted in Transed 2012

Driving Pattern Monitoring May2009-Sept2009 Advisor: Prof. Sunil Jha, Mechanical Engineering Department, IIT Delhi Designed and fabricated a system to monitor rash driving using GPS and accelerometer Project among sixty shortlisted for final round of national level KVPY scholarship Low cost Refreshable Braille Display Developed a low cost computer add on to help the visually impaired read digital books Ladder Climbing Robot Designed and fabricated a ladder climbing semi-autonomous robot PID Temperature Controller Fabricated a PID controlled temperature controller with operating range 0C -100C Technical Skills Programming Languages: Circuit Simulation Software: PCB Designing Software: Platforms: Scholastic Achievements Awarded Conexant Award in 2009 for enthusiastic participation in inter college technical competitions Ranked among top 60 in Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana (KVPY) 2009 Ranked among top 1% in National Standard Examination in Physics (NSEP) 2007 Ranked among top 5% in National Talent Search Examination (NTSE) 2006 Ranked 29th in National K.V.S. Junior Mathematics Olympiad 2005-06 Courses Done Digital Design: Digital Systems Design, Computer Architecture, Digital Electronics, Digital Electronics Lab Algorithms: Analysis and Design of Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, Data Structures, Computational Physics Semiconductors: Low Dimension Physics, Fundamentals of Semiconductors, Solid State Physics Data Storage: Spintronics and Data Storage Extra-Curricular Activities Chess: o Won various inter-college, state level and district level chess competitions o Awarded Certificate of Excellence for outstanding work as Institute Chess Captain Others: o Water Polo: Second in Inter-Hostel Championship 2010, third in 2010 o Swimming: Second in Inter-Hostel Championship 2010 VHDL, JAVA, C, MATLAB, Ocaml Xilinx, Logisim DipTrace, Eagle LabView MPLAB, Keil

References Prof. Manish Sharma, Assistant Professor, Centre for Applied Research in Electronics Indian Institute of Technology Delhi manish@care.iitd.ac.in http://care.iitd.ac.in/manish/
+91-11-2659-6036

Prof. M. Balakrishnan Professor, Computer Science and Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Delhi mbala@cse.iitd.ernet.in http://www.cse.iitd.ernet.in/~mbala/
+91 11 26591704

Prof. S.K. Saha, Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi saha@mech.iitd.ac.in web.iitd.ac.in/~saha/
+91-11-2659-1135

Dr. Mahesh Chowdhary, Senior Manager - MEMS Integration CSR Technology, Inc. Mahesh.Chowdhary@csr.com Tel: 408-467-0410 Fax: 408-467-0420