Akash Nigam 213040064
Civil Engineering [Link].
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Gender: Male
Specialization: Remote Sensing DOB: 02/04/1999
Examination University Institute Year CPI / %
Post Graduation IIT Bombay IIT Bombay 2023 9.4
Graduation RGPV, Bhopal JEC, Jabalpur 2020 7.92
Graduation Specialization: Civil Engineering
SCHOLASTIC ACHIEVEMENT
• Secured 98.75 percentile, out of the 1.15 lacs students who appeared in GATE’21 (CE).
• Secured 6th rank in national level in International Science talent search examination (STSE)
KEY PROJECTS
Predict Down’s Syndrome class in Mice | Course Project | Prof. Amit Sethi, IIT Bombay [Jan’22-May’22]
• Performed Exploratory data analysis, eliminated correlated variables and imputed missing variables.
• Trained,validated hyperparameters of logistic regression, Neural networks, SVM, Random forest
Clustering and Dimensionality Reduction |Course Project |Prof. Amit Sethi, IIT Bombay [Jan’22-May’22]
• Pre-processed data for clustering using transforms, and visualized the effect of k in k-means clustering.
• Implemented and studied the effect of dimension reduction using PCA and KPCA techniques.
Sarcastic News Headline Detection using NLP | DPhi Bootcamp [Aug’22]
• Text wrangling by lemmatization and tokenizer using nltk library.
• Trained the model by using embedding layer and transformer encoder to classify the news with an
accuracy of 84%.
Anime Face Generation| Deep learning | Self Project [Aug’22]
• Trained a Deep Convolution Generative Adversarial Networks (DCGAN) to generate anime faces.
• Implemented LeakyReLU activation which achieved a stable accuracy at around 64.8% for the
discriminator during most of the training.
• The loss for discriminator and generator are 0.64 and 1.10 respectively after 200 epochs
Predict Stock prices using News Sentiment Analysis| Self Project [Aug’22]
• Pre-processed dataset and news headlines texts using NLP based Lexicon library.
• Trained a hybrid model using stacked LSTM followed by prediction on test data with R square.
CERTIFICATION COURSES
• Applied Statistics, Introduction to Machine Learning | Core Course | IIT Bombay
• Machine Learning and Data Science A-Z: Hands-on python| Udemy
• IBM- Introduction to Data Analytics | Coursera
• SQL Masterclass: SQL for Data Analytics | Udemy
SKILLS
• Programing Languages & Tools: C++| Python | SQL | R |Tableau| MS-Office|Google Colab | Jupyter
• Python Libraries: NumPy | Pandas | Matplotlib | Scikit-learn | Seaborn |NLTK
POSITION OF RESPONSIBILITIES
Department Cultural Secratary | IIT Bombay [May’22-present]
• Organized various department level cultural events by coordinating between institute nominees and
department committee.
Teaching Assistant|CE216|Engineering Survey Lab| IIT Bombay [Jan’22-April’22]
• Coordinated in a team of 5 TAs for smooth conduction of the Lab having 100+ UG students.
• Shot a video in a team of 3 TAs explaining experiments for 100+ UG students during online mode.
EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
• Organized orientation session for PG freshers with a team of 6 members.
• DPHI Bootcamp , Participated in bootcamp involving project of natural language processing.
HOBBIES- Playing Badminton • Video Editing • Listening music • Event hosting