vita.yaml

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personal:
  name: Prashant Sinha
  title: Developer
info:
  homepage: https://noop.pw
  github: https://github.com/prashnts
  keybase: https://keybase.io/prashnts
  email: prashant@noop.pw
  mobile: '0769822836'
  location: Paris, France
  twitter: https://twitter.com/prashnts

cover: |
  My primary research interest is in Machine Learning, Data Science,
  Statistics, Systems Biology, and Bio Inspired Systems. The scope of
  my projects also include Pervasive Computing, Reality Mining, and
  Computer Vision.
experience:
  - company: Centre de Recherches Interdisciplinaires
    location: Paris
    dates:
      from: '2018-10-08'
    position: Developpeur Full Stack
    tags:
      - Platform Developer
      - UI/X Design
    website: https://welearn.cri-paris.org
    description: |
      # WeLearn - A tool for Collective Learning

      WeLearn helps people to collect, curate, and qualify learning Resources.
      Resources are tagged with Wikipedia Pages, which is used to create a
      visualisation that we aim to be a "GPS of Learning". My role as a UI/UX
      developer is to create an interface that helps users navigate through
      their own as well as others' curation to find their own Learning Path.

  - company: Physique et Mécanique des Milieux Hétérogènes
    location: École Supérieure De Physique Et De Chimie Industrielles, Paris
    dates:
      from: '2018-05-22'
      till: '2018-09-22'
    position: Research Intern
    tags:
      - Hydrodynamics at micro scales
      - Fluid Dynamics
      - Theoretical Biophysics
    website: https://www.pmmh.espci.fr/
    description: |
      # Hydrodynamics of Super-Paramagnetic Micro-Beads

      The primary interest in this study is the behaviour of magnetic
      micro-objects under magnetic field in water. We expect to quantify
      the hydrodynamic drag between dissimilar objects. My work here
      was to capture the motion of the beads (`r=2.4µm`) under externally
      applied magnetic field as they attract towards each other. Strict
      requirements of the protocol included controlled medium viscosity,
      frame rate `>= 300 fps`, and `40-63x` magnification.

      We reached average frame rate of `~800 fps`. Using open source tools
      `trackpy` and `scikit-image`, I developed a processing pipeline to
      isolate, track, and calculate motion dynamics from the frames.

  - company: Laboratoire Jean Perrin
    location: Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris
    dates:
      from: '2018-01-22'
      till: '2018-04-22'
    position: Research Intern
    tags:
      - Theoretical Biophysics
      - Optical Tracking
      - Mechanotransduction
    website: http://www.labos.upmc.fr/ljp/
    description: |
      # The Mechanical Sense of Paramecium

      At a crossroad between physics, biology, and neuroscience, coupled with
      experimental and theoretical biophysics, this project aims to decipher
      the mechanism simple organisms such as _Paramecium_ use to detect and avoid
      obstacles in their trajectories. Using micromilled pools of defined
      geometry and automatic tracking of paramecia, we expect to find
      correlations between external stimuli and internal responses that give it
      a directional sense.

      As a research intern, I developed high-frequency image analysis and
      hardware control pipeline to track long trajectories in real time.
      I wrote a driver for the Microscope Objective utilising 3D Vector Space,
      and a high-speed image aquisition and processing (~50fps) tool. Using these
      software we were able to follow the trajectory of moving _Paramecium_.

  - company: Laboratoire Matière et Systèmes Complexes
    location: Université Paris Diderot, Paris
    dates:
      from: '2017-10-09'
      till: '2018-01-09'
    position: Research Intern
    tags:
      - Phyllotaxis
      - Plant Biology
      - Projection Geometry
    website: http://www.msc.univ-paris-diderot.fr/
    description: |
      # Study of Diversity in Phyllotactic Patterns

      Phyllotaxis is the arrangement of lateral organs in plants. In this
      project we attempt to explain the origin of emergent patterns,
      transitions, and irregularities in such arrangements. Using cylindrical
      projection unrolling and unwarping, the aim was to develop a pipeline
      allowing better study of complicated plant organs.

  - company: Agora Health
    location: London, UK
    dates:
      from: '2016-02-08'
      till: '2018-05-20'
    position: Developer
    tags:
      - Machine Learning
      - Web Development
    website: https://agorahealth.org.uk
    description: |
      # Personalised Medical Events, Conferences, and Courses Recommendation for Doctors at NHS, UK

      At Agora, I was responsible for designing and implementing web services
      for aggregation, classification, and personalised recommendation of
      events at National Health Services (NHS) in the UK.

  - company: Oxyent Technologies
    location: New Delhi
    dates:
      from: '2016-07-01'
      till: '2016-09-01'
    position: Summer Intern
    website: http://oxyent.com
    tags:
      - Computer Vision
      - Information Extraction
    description: |
      # Computer Vision and Information Extraction

      Developed and shipped a utility for digitizing waveforms and
      extracting metadata from `ECG` reports, written in pure Python.
      It is being used at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston for
      processing more than a million patient records.

      Also worked on extracting normalized tabular data from scanned
      medical records. Key challenges here involved handling skewed,
      desaturated and otherwise low quality images.

  - company: Survaider
    location: New Delhi
    dates:
      from: '2015-01-01'
      till: '2016-02-01'
    position: Developer and UI/UX Designer
    website: http://survaider.com
    tags:
      - Backend and REST API
      - Client Interface
      - Analytics
    description: |
      # Survaider Web App and Survey Builder

      Development of web app backend and `REST API` in Python using `Flask`
      and `MongoEngine ORM`.

      Design and development of the frontend. Technology stack consisted
      `CoffeeScript`, `BackboneJS`, `SASS`, and `Socket.IO` for
      realtime content.

  - company: Design Innovation Centre
    location: University of Delhi
    dates:
      from: '2015-06-15'
      till: '2015-08-29'
    position: Summer Intern
    tags:
      - Machine Learning
      - Time Series Analysis
      - Signal Processing
    description: |
      # Human Activity Recognition from Acceleration data Under Naturalistic Conditions

      The goal of this project was to develop a system for recognition
      of low level human activities, such as Walking, Running,
      Sitting, etc., using a single tri-axial accelerometer time
      series. The undertaken challenge of this system was to
      effectively solve the recognition task irrespective of the
      location of sensor on human body.

      Using supervised learning method, we trained a Random Forest
      Classifier using feature vectors obtained via our model. We
      were able to produce an accuracy of `95%` through our model.

  - company: University of California and Stanford
    location: Santa Cruz
    dates:
      from: '2015-01-01'
      till: '2015-06-01'
    position: Research Associate
    tags:
      - Data Scraping
      - Data Processing
    description: |
      # Aspiring Researcher Challenge

      As a research associate, I was part of the team which was
      responsible for developing a large, online experiment to study
      the wisdom of the crowd where I formulated the algorithm for
      scraping and formatting raw data off multiple crowdfunding
      platforms.

      **Publication**: "Investigating the 'Wisdom of Crowds' at Scale", ACM UIST
      2015, Charlotte, NC.

  - company: Cluster Innovation Centre
    location: University of Delhi
    dates:
      from: '2015-01-01'
      till: '2016-04-01'
    position: Undergrad Research
    tags:
      - Network Analysis
      - Computational Biology
      - Mathematical Modelling
    description: |
      # Modelling and Network Analysis of Intronic miRNA Mediated Gene Expression Regulation

      In this project, we developed a mathematical model for gene expression
      regulation via intronic micro `RNAs`, based on emperical data and
      experimental observations at IGIB.

      As a part of study, we've also generated a `miRNA <=> mRNA` target network
      using various available databases.

  - company: Autonomi
    location: University of Delhi
    dates:
      from: '2014-09-01'
      till: '2016-05-01'
    position: Volunteer
    tags:
    description: |
      Responsibilities include maintainance and development of the web portal,
      website and online presence of the organization.

  - company: IamSME of India, PHD Chamber of Commerce
    location: DUCIC eBusiness Circuit
    dates:
      from: '2014-05-15'
      till: '2014-08-20'
    position: Summer Intern
    tags:
    description: |
      # TwoDotSeven

      Developed an open-source and modular `ERP` system and `API` sub-system.

  - company: Laboratory for Pattern Engineering
    location: University of Delhi
    dates:
      from: '2014-02-10'
      till: '2015-12-25'
    position: Research Associate
    tags:
    description: |
      Worked to build a classification system for geospacial features between
      texts originated in different continents. Other responsibilities included
      design and development of several web portals, graphic designing, media
      and publishing tasks.

talks_and_workshops:
  - conference: FOSSASIA 2017
    location: Singapore
    dates:
      from: '2017-03-17'
      till: '2017-03-19'
    type: Talk
    tags:
      - Python
      - Open Source
    description: |
      # Alohomora: Unlocking Magical Bits in Python

      In this talk at FOSSASIA Summit, I gave a presentation covering several
      advance patterns in the Python programming language. In the presentation I
      introduced the audience with Metaclasses, Decorators and Patching.

  - conference: West College
    location: Glasgow, Scotland
    dates:
      from: '2015-07-14'
      till: '2015-07-19'
    type: Workshop
    description: |
      # Game Development Workshop under UK-India Education and Research Initiative

  - conference: Autonomi
    location: University of Delhi
    dates:
      from: '2015-02-28'
      till: '2015-03-01'
    type: Talk
    description: |
      # Robotics Bootcamp

      Delivered sessions on Arduino programming, DAC, ADC and PWM.

education:
  - institute: Centre de Recherches Interdisciplinaires
    location: Université Paris Descartes
    position: Masters
    dates:
      from: '2017-09-04'
      till: '2018-10-04'
    degree: Approches Interdisciplinaires du Vivant

  - institute: Cluster Innovation Centre
    location: University of Delhi
    position: Undergrad
    dates:
      from: '2013-08-10'
      till: '2017-07-05'
    degree: B.Tech. (IT and Mathematical Innovations)
    percentage: 77.3
    major: Information Technology
    minor:
      - Mathematics
      - Systems Biology

  - institute: Central Academy Sr. Sec.
    location: Gorakhpur, India
    degree: AISSCE (XII Std.)
    percentage: 89.6
    dates:
      on: '2013-05'

  - institute: Central Academy Sr. Sec.
    location: Gorakhpur, India
    degree: AISSE (X Std.)
    grade: 9.8
    dates:
      on: '2011-05'

skills:
  Development:
    - [Python, 5]
    - [SCSS, 5]
    - [CoffeeScript, 3]
    - [ES6/JavaScript, 4]
  Design:
    - [Print Media, 3]
    - [CAD/CAM, 2]
    - [Illustration, 3]
    - [User Interface, 3]
  Misc:
    - [Scientific Computing, 4]
    - [DevOps, 1]

open_source:
  - repo: prashnts/hues
    description: |
      # Hues: Colored terminal text made easy for Python

      Hues is a Python package which facilitates printing ANSI encoded text to
      terminal in unix-like systems.

  - repo: prashnts/metaRNA
    description: |
      # metaRNA: Find target sites for the miRNAs in genomic sequences

      metaRNA finds potential target sites for the microRNAs in genomic
      sequences. It is built on miRanda, an algorithm for detection and ranking
      of the targets of microRNA.

  - repo: prashnts/pybloomfiltermmap3
    description: |
      # PyBloomFilter: Fast, Memory Mapped Bloom Filter

      The goal of `PyBloomFilter` is to provide a fast, simple, scalable and
      correct library for Bloom Filters in Python.

  - repo: prashnts/mongocapsule
    description: |
      # MongoCapsule: Encapsulated MongoEngine

      MongoCapsule is a very thin wrapper around MongoEngine. It encapsulates
      MongoEngine attributes under a single namespace and hence allows explicit
      declaration without context switches.

  - repo: agora-team/elasticsearch-synonyms
    description: |
      # Elasticsearch-Synonyms: Utilities for working with Synonym Filter in Elasticsearch

      This repository contains a curated dataset of synonyms in `Solr` Format.
      These synonyms can be used for Elasticsearch Synonym Token Filter
      configuration. It provides a tool to lint and validate the synonym files.

  - repo: CyberCRI/learn-ext
    description: |
      # WeLearn Extension and WebApp

      This repository hosts the prototype for WeLearn Browser Extension and Web App.
      Specifically, it implements a D3/React based visualisation of Wikipedia Concept Map.