Vaibhav Raj 200050148

Computer Science & Engineering B.Tech.

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Gender: Male
DOB: 06-02-2003

Examination University Institute Year CPI / %

Graduation IIT Bombay IIT Bombay 2024 9.81
Pursuing Minor in AI and Data Science
Scholastic Achievements
• Secured All India Rank 3 in Joint Entrance Examination (Advanced) among 1,50,000+ students (2020)
• Won Gold Medal for India at International Junior Science Olympiad, held in Gaborone, Botswana (2018)
• Won Silver Medal at International Distributed Physics Olympiad, organized by MIPT, Russia (2020)
• Awarded Institute Academic Award for stellar academic performance in 1st year among 1400+ students (2021)
• Acquired All India Rank 45 in Joint Entrance Examination (Main) among 9,00,000+ students (2020)
• Secured Rank 8 among 500+ teams in ACM ICPC Gwalior-Pune Regionals (2021)
• Secured All India Rank 7 among 50,000 students in KVPY 2019 - SX Stream, held by IISc, Bangalore (2020)
• Received AP grade in Physical Chemistry awarded to top 16 among 1454 students taking the course (2021)
• Among top 40 students across India to qualify the Indian National Mathematical Olympiad (2019)

Key Projects
Dynamic Represented Style Model Autumn 2021 - Ongoing
Guide: Prof. Anuj Kapoor, Prof. Ryan Dew IIM Ahmedabad, Wharton School (UPenn)
• Working on exploiting the Dynamic Embedded Topic Model (DETM) to predict fashion dynamics with evolving

times and changing geographies and to identify trendsetting markets

• Trained VAE & VAE-GAN models to deduce latent space representations of input images for further processing

Object Detection for Victim Rescue Autumn 2021

RoboCup Rescue STRIDE, IIT Bombay
• Surveyed various Object Detection models like YOLO & Faster-RCNN and compared their run-time & accuracy

• Trained a Single-Shot Multibox Detector (SSD) with a pre-trained MobileNet backbone on MS-COCO and

RoboCup Victim Rescue datasets to detect baby dolls, humans and fire extinguishers with high accuracy
• Applied EasyOCR followed by string matching using Levenshtein Distance to accurately recognize Hazmat signs

Multiplayer Drawing and Guessing Software Autumn 2021 - Ongoing

Guide: Prof. Amitabha Sanyal | Course Project : Software Systems Lab IIT Bombay
• Creating a Multiplayer Platform for a game allowing drawing on a shared canvas and guessing on a Chat-box

• Implementing Server-side backend in NodeJS and Client-side in Django using SocketIO for communication

• Making an interactive front-end using ReactJS and adding flair to the website’s design using the MaterialUI library

Image to Image Translation - Pix2Pix and CycleGAN Autumn 2021 - Ongoing

Guide: Prof. Biplab Banerjee | Course Project: Machine Learning for Remote Sensing IIT Bombay
• Implementing the CycleGAN & Pix2Pix models in areas like changing artistic style or aerial images to maps
• Using the Convolutional Block Attention Module (CBAM) to improve performance by adding Attention

Other Projects
• Goal ICPC: Studied various Data Structures and Algorithms like Disjoint Set Union, Segment Tree, Tree
Flattening, Centroid Decomposition, Game Theory, 2-SAT and participated in Algorithmic Programming Contests
• SnapEnPlay: Created a browser-based game in Unity using WebGL which uses hand-made doodles as maps
• QueueApp: Created a Mobile App in Kotlin to manage Queues safely and efficiently in the CoVID-19 period

Technical Skills
Programming C++, Python, Java, JavaScript, Django, Angular, React, Android Studio, Git, Unity, Kotlin
Data Science PyTorch, TensorFlow, OpenCV, Matplotlib, Scikit-Learn, DVC, PyCaret, Scipy
Extracurricular Activities
• Performed voluntary work under National Service Scheme, making videos for Open Learning Initiative (2021)
• Won Game-Dev Hackathon conducted by Web & Coding Club with Corona Wars, an action game (2021)
• Acquired Rank 8 in 40+ teams in IIT Bombay - Capture the Flag organized by Cybersecurity Club (2021)
• Awarded Special Mention in Mimamsa, a National Science Quiz organized by IISER Pune (2021)