Ashris Choudhury E-122, Azad Hall, IIT Kharagpur WB 721302, INDIA +919002311505 ashris.iitkgp@gmail.com
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___________________________________________________________________________ EXPERIENCE Research Intern, ETH Zurich, Switzerland — (May 2015 to July 2015) Project: ESUM, a collaborative study by ETH Zurich and Bauhaus University to study correlation between spatial layout of a city and psychological inference of a traveler.!
• Ongoing project to implement Time Series Analysis and Machine Learning algorithms to devise a framework to predict psychological state from human physiological profile. • Automated face detection and face blurring on videos to ensure anonymity with 90% accuracy. • Configured a setup of fourteen GoPros to capture independent videos that were processed to generate a spectroscopic 360Video that could be simulated on OculusVR. • Automated extraction of DepthMap from spectroscopic videos for isovist analysis. Student Delegate, Smartgeometry Conference, Hong Kong — (July 2014)
Selected among 100 international applicants in the Design of Space for Urban Compaction Cluster. • Designed front end User Interface on Processing with 1000+ lines for the project. • Helped in devising a framework to quantify Urban Design parameters that the algorithm optimises to browse for an optimal solution. Student Assistant, Fab Academy, Ahmedabad — (May 2014 to July 2014)
Assisted Ar. Urvi Sheth in her assignments of Fab Academy in Fab Lab, Ahmedabad. • Designed a prototype of a dynamically moving ornamental mesh (Arabic: Jali) that responds to music being played. • Designed electric circuit boards, soldered the components and programmed them in Arduino to create human-interaction-devices like magnet sensor and sound sensor. Intern Architect, Shilpakriti Architects, Vizag —(May 2013 to July 2013)
• Drafted working drawings for Residential Project in Vizag. • Created concept renders for a redevelopment project of Jagadamba Junction. • Assisted in Presentation, Estimation and Costing of a Hotel Project.
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EDUCATION Bachelor of Architecture(Hons), Department of Architecture and Planning Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (2012-17)
CGPA: 8.16/10 ACGPA: 8.5/10 (as of Sixth Semester out of Ten) Bachelor of Technology (Minor), Department of Civil Engineering Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (2012-17)
Expected completion: 2017 AWARDS AND HONOURS Best Architectural Design, Spring Semester 2014-15
Awarded for the project ‘Redesign of Tagore Open Air Theatre’. Best Speaker Award, National Level Debate, Spring Fest 2015
Adjudged the best among 100 speakers. Best Student Award, Dalmia Vidya Mandir, 2010
Awarded for All Round Performance among all students of outgoing batch. PUBLICATIONS Semi Automation of Architectural Site Analysis Using Overlay of Image Maps
Ongoing research paper to be published very soon. POSITION OF RESPONSIBILITIES Team Head, Kharagpur Data Analysis Group (KDAG) 2014-15
Initiated Machine Learning projects and competitions in the group. Implemented Natural Language Processing and Clustering Assignments. Editor, The Scholars’ Avenue, English Newsbody of IIT Kharagpur, 2015
The Scholars’ Avenue is a widely read newsbody of IIT Kharagpur with 25,000 followers on Facebook and over 10,000 monthly readers. Secretary of Alumni Affairs, Department of Architecture, IIT Kharagpur
Managed external relations with all Architectural universities of India and established a network of over 10000 alumni of the University. Student Mentor, IIT Kharagpur
Tutored and Advised 15 freshmen and sophomores from IIT Kharagpur. SKILLS
• Programming Languages: C, Python, R, Processing • Softwares: MATLAB, Eclipse, Microsoft Visual Studio • Architectural Softwares: SketchUp, Revit, Rhinoceros, 3dsMax • Designing Softwares: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign ——————————————————————————————————