Department of Architecture Chair for Information Architecture ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich
Zurich, 9 July 2015
Prof. Dr. Gerhard Schmitt HIT H 31.8 Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 27 phone +41 44 633 29 20 fax +41 44 633 15 75 gerhard.schmitt@sl.ethz.ch www.ia.arch.ethz.ch
Letter of recommendation for Mr. Ashris Choudhury To whom it may concern As the Professor of the Chair of Information Architecture at ETH Zurich I am pleased to write this letter of recommendation for Ashris Choudhury. He worked at the Chair of Information Architecture at ETH Zurich as intern from 4 May 2015 – 10 July 2015. During his internship Ashris Choudhury worked for the ESUM project, a collaborative research project between ETH Zurich and Bauhaus University Weimar to study the correlation between spatial configuration of a city and the psychological inferences of users while traversing through the space. Ashris Choudhury worked on the following tasks in the project: • • • • • •
Capturing and processing of Spectroscopic 360 degree video with 360heros, an assembly of 14 GoPro cameras in VideoStitch Virtual Reality Simulation in Oculus Rift DK2 Auto-Face blurring algorithms for anonymity in video footage in MATLAB and open CV Applying machine learning clustering algorithms in R to infer correlation between buildings and their usage parameters in Zurich Time series analysis of climatological data collected from ETH's sensor backpack. Working on collecting physiological and neurological data and analysing it to predict psychological responses in users
It is my pleasure to highlight the personal and professional qualities displayed by Ashris Choudhury during his engagement at our Chair. I wish Ashris Choudhury all the best for the continuation of his studies at the IIT Kharagpur and I am looking forward to possible cooperations in the future. Yours sincerely,
Prof. Gerhard Schmitt
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