Mrinal Kumar

Website: mrinalkumar.weebly.com

mrinal@gatech.edu | +1 678 793 5392

Education
Masters of Science, Computer Science
Georgia Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science
University of Pune, India.

Technical Skills
May 2016(Expected)
GPA: 3.90

June 2013
Grade: First Class

Work Experience
Data Science Intern at ADP
June 15 Aug 15
Worked on Company workforce-cost Optimizer. Developed input and
constrained based system to predict optimal operational cost.
Worked on Job retention model. Developed web app to visualize data
and predictive model.
Technologies: Python, AngularJS, NodeJS, d3.js, MySQL
Software Engineer at Wolters Kluwer, India
July 13 July 14
Developed new features and enhanced data loading efficiency of CCHiFirm Practice management software.
Modified Practice Management to improve products scalability and
extended existing application for US Clients.
Independently developed Automatic Contract Generator using data
from SharePoint to speed up the contract generation & approval process.
Technologies: C#, SQL, JavaScript, MVVM
Project Intern at BMC Software, India
Sept 12 Apr 13
Developed ReSTful API on Mid-Tier( Layer in BMCs AR System) &
ReST Web Service that improved accessibility of AR System.
Technologies: Java, ReST Web Service, Eclipse

Personal Projects
User health monitoring and prediction on Social Media
Ongoing
Working on analysis of social media posts in order to predict possible
influence of mental health condition on the user.
Tri-directional Graph Search
Sep15 Nov15
Modified conventional two point graph search. Developed heuristics and
algorithm to find shortest path between given three locations on a map.
Multi-Player Battle Arena
Feb15 Apr15
Developed intelligent Multi Player, Action Real Time Strategy (ARTS) game.
Applied various machine learning & optimization techniques to make the
agent adaptive.
Users interest modeling on Twitter
Sep 14 Oct 14
Created a system that presents a consolidated view of tweets that are relevant
to user to improve user experience.

Language:
C++, C, Python, angular.js, C#
Database:
MySql, SQL Server, MongoDB
Operating System:
Linux, Windows
Tools and Framework:
MATLAB, Nltk, Weka, Scipy, Eclipse,
GIT, AWS, Mercurial, d3.js, Visual
Studio, Jounce (MVVM), CSLA.net

Research Publications
Discovering
Shifts
to
Suicidal
Ideation from Mental Health Content
in Social Media in (CHI) Conference on
Human Factors in Computing Systems.

Shifts in Suicidal Ideation Manifested

in Social Media Following Celebrity
Suicides in ACM Hypertext and Social
Media

Cohort Intelligence: A Self Supervised

Learning Behavior in IEEE Systems,
Man and Cybernatics

Teaching
Teaching Asst., Machine Learning
(August 2015 December 2015)

Teaching Assistant, Introduction to

Perception and Robotics
(January 2015 May 2015)

Relevant Coursework
Algorithms
Deep Learning
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Data & Visual Analytics
Web Search and Text Mining
Natural Language Processing
Principles of Compiler Design

Movie Review Sentiment Analysis

Sep 14 Sep 14
Implemented classification algorithm like Nave Bayes, Logistic Regression,
and Averaged Perceptron classifier to perform review sentiment analysis.

Scholarships/Awards

Home Automation with Kinect (HAwK)

June12 Mar 13
Developed a connected home solution using Kinect. Worked on Interfacing
Kinect sensor to recognize human position, gesture & voice command which
controlled various smart devices.

Winner Mabuchi Motor award International Robocon-2012, HK

Winner Amdocs Young ProdiG

2013, IN.

Winner National Robocon - 2012, IN