SANJANA CHOPRA

sanjanac@iitk.ac.in , sanjanachopra92@gmail.com Phone: +91 9650052470

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION
DEGREE/INSTITUTE

Year of Passing

CGPA / %

M.Tech , Electrical Engineering (Signal Processing , Communication and

Networks), IIT Kanpur , Kanpur

2016

9.75/10

B.Tech, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Indira Gandhi

Institute of Technology ,IP University ,New Delhi

2014

85.66

12TH Board, CBSE, Bal Bharati Public School , New Delhi

2010

93.6

10TH Board, CBSE , Bal Bharati Public School , New Delhi

2008

92.6

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS

Secured GATE rank of 276 in the year 2014 (Total number of students appeared-2,16,367)
Recipient of scholarship of Rs 15,000/- for securing first division with distinction in B.Tech
Recipient of scholarship of Rs 10,000/- for being the stream topper in Bal Bharati Public School.
Recipient of cash prize of Rs 500/- from Hindi Academy Delhi for performing meritoriously in 10 th Board.
Appreciated for distinctive performance in Cyber Olympiad 2008.
Special appreciation at Maths Mind 2006-2007.

INTERNSHIPS

Developed constant current source for a Resistance Temperature Detector

June-Aug2013
Was involved on the project for the COIL Lab at LASER SCIENCE and TECHNOLOGY CENTRE (LASTEC) DEFENCE
RESEARCH and DEVELOPMENT ORGANISATION (DRDO), Delhi. Studied the characteristics of a resistance temperature
detector and designed and fabricated the hardware for the same.
WAN Optimization
June-Aug2012
Was involved on a live project for Bharti Infratel at Dimension Data, Delhi .Studied the properties and characteristics of the
Bharati Infratel Network in North India and used Riverbed as a solution for the same.

M.TECH THESIS
Joint Channel Estimation and Symbol Detection for Sparse Time Varying MIMO-OFDM OSTBC System
Guide: Prof Aditya K Jagannatham
May15-ongoing
Exploit the temporal sparsity inherent in MIMO-OFDM-OSTBC time varying systems by employing the recently developed Sparse
Bayesian learning(SBL) framework
Deriving theoretical performance bounds to characterize the system performance parameters such as Mean Square Error and Bit
Error Rate and Comparison with sparse and non sparse schemes existing in the literature. TOOL :MATLAB
KEY ACADEMIC PROJECTS
CASCADE AND HYBRID OF ANT COLONY OPTIMISATION AND SIMULATED ANNEALING
Guide: Prof Akash Tayal
Jan14-May 14
Used the cascade and hybrid of Ant Colony Optimization and Simulated Annealing algorithms to solve the Travelling Salesman
Problem (TSP) and achieved an increase in performance by 3.192 % using the hybrid and 5.292% using the cascade algorithms as
compared to using only Ant Colony Optimization to solve TSP.
Platform: MATLAB
ANT COLONY OPTIMISATION AND ITS MODIFICATIONS
Guide: Prof Akash Tayal
Aug-Dec 13
Used Ant Colony Optimization to solve the Travelling Salesman problem and suggested modification to various parameter values
used and found out the best possible set of parameter values.
Platform: MATLAB
RECONSTRUCTING STORYLINE GRAPHS FOR IMAGE RECOMMENDATION FROM WEB COMMUNITY
PHOTOS
Guide: Prof Sumana Gupta
Jan15-May 15
Constructed a storyline graph to automatically summarize a large set of pictures. The resultant photo stream consists of a single
linear thread of story as an image sequence.
Platform: MATLAB

 IMAGE SCRAMBLING BASED ON A NEW LINEAR TRANSFORM

Guide: Prof Sumana Gupta
Aug14-Dec 14
The scrambling and unscrambling of image is carried out using forward and reverse transform respectively. Transformation
matrices defined and recursive, non recursive algorithms were also implemented. The degree of image scrambling was very high
and the algorithm was shown to have robust performance in presence of noise.
Platform: MATLAB
GENETIC ALGORITHMS FOR NON CONVEX ALGORITHMS
Guide: Prof Ketan Rajawat
Jan15-May 15
The Travelling Salesman Problem is solved using Genetic Algorithm, ACO and LP by reducing the problem to a convex one using
relaxations and the performance is compared.
Platform: MATLAB
A SURVEY OF MC DS CDMA OVER RAYEIGH FADING CHANNEL
Guide: Prof Aditya K Jagannatham
Aug14-Dec14
The performance of a MC DS CDMA wireless system over a Rayleigh Fading channel is analyzed. The study is extended to MC DS
CDMA system with Rake Receiver with Equal Gain Combining (EGC) and Rake Receiver based on Wavelet Packet Transform.
Also the system is examined over a Rayleigh channel with receive diversity.
Typesetting Tool: LATEX
A SURVEY OF COMPRESSIVE SENSING BASED ESTIMATION TECHNIQUES
Guide: Prof Aditya K Jagannatham
Jan15-May 15
Formalized the notion of sparse system models and presented an approach to estimate sparse systems based on some of the recent
advances in the theory of compressive sensing.
Typesetting Tool: LATEX
PAPERS PUBLISHED

Published a paper titled ACO, Its Modification and Variants in the International Journal of Computer Trends and Technology,
volume 9 number 6 March 2014.

CONFERENCE ATTENDED

Attended the Regional Conference of the International Network of Women in Science and Engineering, 12-13 October 2012, New
Delhi, India organized by WISE-INDIA and presented a poster titled, Managing Work Life Balance.

RELEVANT COURSES AND SKILLS

M.Tech Courses: Wireless Communication, Representation & Analysis of Random Signals, Introduction to Signal Analysis,
Image Processing, Detection & Estimation Theory, Convex Optimization in Signal Processing & Communications,
Communication Theory and Digital Video Processing.
B.Tech Courses: Signal & System, Communication System (Analog and Digital), Mobile Communication, Computer Networks,
Analog & Digital Electronics, VLSI Design, Microprocessors, Embedded Systems, Introduction to Programming using C
language , Object Oriented Programming using C++, Data Structures, Operating Systems, Database Management Systems and
Computer Architecture.

POSITION OF RESPONSIBILITY

Teaching Assistant for Introduction to Electronics Course.

Teaching Assistant for Electronics Circuits Lab.
Was the Associate member of the formal team in IMPULSE12, the annual technical fest of IGIT .
Was a part of the hospitality team as the International Press in the IGIT Intra MUN (2011).
Was one of the key members of I Love Chocolate Mission, a community which works for the children with fewer opportunities.

EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

Participated in technical paper presentation (VERNISAGE) at GTBIT and secured the first position.
Won the parliamentary debate at IMPULSE 2014 and was the runner up for the debate at IMPLULSE 2013.
Won the first prize at Techno-surfers-technical quiz in IMPULSE 14.
Held the post of Editor in the IGIT IEEE e-expresso team (2012-2013).
Attended 4 MUNs and was given a special mention in IGIT MUN (2011).
Participated in T-shirt painting at MOKSHA, 2012 (NSIT) and won the second prize.
Won the second prize in Power Point Presentation on autobiographies of famous personalities (2009).
Won the second prize in meal art competition (2009).
Participated in Quanta 2009, an international school event and bagged the best team trophy.

INTRESTS AND HOBBIES

Like to read novels, swim, cook, dance and listen to music.