Siddharth Bulia 130050012

Computer Science & Engineering B.Tech.

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Male
DOB: 2 Oct 1995

Examination University Institute Year CPI / %

Graduation IIT Bombay IIT Bombay 2017 8.51
Intermediate/+2 CBSE Aklank Public School 2013 92.00
Matriculation CBSE Shree Mahesh Public School 2011 10.00

Honors and Awards

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Secured All India Rank 38 in IIT JEE (Advanced) out of 150,000 candidates (2013)
Awarded the KVPY fellowship by Dept. of Science and Technology, Government of India (2013)
Awarded Hostel Technical Color for contribution towards technical activities in hostel (2015)
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Ranked 7 in Microsoft Build the Shield 2016, an all India Capture The Flag competition
Runners Up in Microsoft Code.Fun.Do 2016, an institute level Hackathon (2016)
Pursuing Honors in Computer Science and Engineering
Olympiads. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Member of Academic Committee, International Physics Olympiad, Mumbai (2015)
Represented India and awarded Honorable Mention in Asian Physics Olympiad, Indonesia (2013)
Awarded Gold medal in Indian National Physics Olympiad for being top 35 students (2013)

Research and Internships

Prototyping of Xerox wHealth Platform Xerox Research Centre India, Bangalore
Software Development May’16 - Jul’16
Won Best Poster Award at Project Symposium at the end of the internship.
Developed an android application to conduct statistical surveys, provide push notifications, etc.
Added new survey answer formats to Research Stack (open source library) and used it in the mobile application.
Added user get, post and delete API endpoints to Xerox’s internal personalized messaging engine.
Implemented a Spring-Java based backend web server to service the platform and the application.
Bird Flight Simulation Undergraduate Thesis, IIT Bombay
Computer Graphics. Guide: Prof. Parag Chaudhuri Jul’16 - Present
Implementing a software to create graphical models of birds from 2D sketches given as input.
Exploring new ways to simulate flight motion of the birds satisfying the physical/aerodynamical constraints.
Cross-Lingual Sarcasm Detection RnD Project, IIT Bombay
NLP, Machine Learning. Guide: Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya Jan’16 - Apr’2016
Developed a system for analyzing tweets in resource-scarce languages like Italian for sarcasm detection.
Employed Bilingual Dictionaries and Machine Translation to translate target language corpus into English.
Trained an SVM based classifier for sarcasm detection and reported 79% accuracy for Italian language tweets.
Software Development on IBM Bluemix IBM, Mumbai
Internet of Things Jun’15
Designed web-based demonstrations on NodeJS for IBM to showcase their cloud platform Bluemix to their
prospective clients and partners.
Used MQTT protocol in Java to create publishers and subscriber in IBM Internet of Things
Foundation Delivered an introductory session about the Platform to budding entrepreneurs.
Learn and Earn - Education based iOS Application Hiperware
Software Development May’15
Automated content generation for Mathematics courses on the app via python scripts.
Developed a Python Geometry Library which can be used to generate different geometric shapes
catering to various questions like fractions, polygons, etc.
Key Projects
Information Extraction from News Articles Prof. Ganesh Ramakrishnan
Machine Learning Aug’15 - Nov’15
Statistically analyzed sentences from the knowledge base and identified the relation being described using
keywords.
Assigned confidence scores to country number pair using gaussian distributions.
Enquiry Chatbot Prof. G Sivakumar
Artificial Intelligence Aug’15 - Nov’15
Implemented a Chatbot which can answer student queries of a specific domain.
Used NLTK for pattern matching in queries and employed domain knowledge to answer processed
queries. Scraped web resources to build Domain knowledge and stored it as AIML files.
Smart Dustbin Hostel General Championship
Internet of Things Mar’15 - Apr’15
Developed a smart dustbin prototype which can be controlled by mobile phone via GSM Module.
Deployed locomotion and wall detection algorithms on Arduino.
Employed ultrasonic sensors for obstacle detection and automation of the dustbin lid.
Modeling and Rendering of Humanoids Prof. Parag Chaudhuri
Computer Graphics Aug’15 - Apr’16
Modeled, textured and animated (via forward kinematics) Starwars robots from scratch with
OpenGL. Created a short animation by linear interpolation of captured keyframes
Created a photo realistic scene using RIB code on Pixar’s RenderMan and rendered with a number of
config-urations of lighting and shading.
Tele-Communication System Design Prof. Kameshwari Chebrolu
Networks Mar’15 - Apr’15
Designed a communication system to transmit messages between two parties using Arduino
Uno. Implemented modified Reed-Solomon algorithm for error correction in the channel.
Online Spreadsheets - Sheetly Prof. NL Sarda
Web Development Aug’15 - Nov’15
Created an online collaborative spreadsheet editor with cloud storage and sharing
functionalities. Implemented configurable read/write permissions for spreadsheet access.

Positions of Responsibility
Teaching Assistant IIT Bombay
CS101 Aug’16 - Present
Designed lab assignments and quizzes for the course.
Involved in help labs to facilitate hands-on practice for students.
Web Manager IIT Bombay
Students Technical Activities Body Apr’15 - Mar’16
Led a team of 4 people in planning, maintaining and improving the online presence of IIT Bombay’s Official
Technical body consisting of 6 clubs and 5 tech teams.
Started a web platform to enable collaboration of academic literature among students.
Hostel Technical Secretary IIT Bombay
Hostel 4 Jul’14 - Apr’15
Led the hostel to victory in 2 of the 6 major general championships (Logic GC, Physics GC).
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Hostel secured 3 in Technical General Championship for the first time in last 5 years.

Extra-curricular Activities
Successfully completed 26 days long Basic Mountaineering Course. Enthusiast about
adventure sports like trekking, hiking, climbing, etc.
Represented hostel in several inter-hostel dance competitions.
Participated in various technical competitions like Remote Control Car, Line Follower, Hexabot, etc.
Represented school in various inter-school Quiz competitions and Badminton Tournaments
Taught underprivileged kids at Asha for Education and Computer Center under NSS.