Rahul Kumar Yadav 22M0212

Technology and Development M.Tech.

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Gender: Male
DOB: 18/05/2000

Examination University Institute Year CPI / %

Post Graduation IIT Bombay IIT Bombay 2024 8.7
Graduation JNKVV COAE 2022 8.17
Graduation Specialization: Agricultural Engineering

INTERNSHIP
• Framework for Water Sharing in Agricultural Lands|PoCRA|GoM|World Bank Project (May’23-July’23)
◦ Analysed 6 strategic sectors Health & Sanitation, Energy, Water Resources, Agriculture, and Education
◦ Analysed 2 govt. schemes (SBM-G & JJM) through household data and Public Domain GoI Dataset
◦ Designed framework for Well Sharing Model by analyzing data of 35+ farmers and 10+ parameters
KEY PROJECTS
• Climate Change and Rural India: Perception, Evidence and Response
Master’s Thesis (Ongoing) | Guide: Prof. Anand B. Rao, T & D Department, IIT Bombay (July’23-Present)
◦ Studying 40 years of climate data using Python to identify climate change evidence and trends
◦ Understanding rural climate change perception and assessing strategies from policies to community
◦ Exploring influence of climate change on rural ecosystem, biodiversity and services
• Effectiveness of various Machine Learning Algorithms in Predicting the Stock Prices of NIFTY data
Course Project-Machine Learning | Prof. Amit Sethi, EE Department, IIT Bombay (Feb’23-Mar’23)
◦ Utilized Y Finance API data for model training/testing & Employed data prep techniques and feature selection
◦ Evaluated performance of LSTM, SVR, Ridge, Random Forest using MAE, RMSE, NRMSE, R2
◦ Achieved best R2 value of 0.84 through LSTM, demonstrating superior performance compared to other models
• Ants versus Bees Classification using Pre-trained Convolutional Neural Network Model
Course Project-Machine Learning | Prof. Amit Sethi, EE Department, IIT Bombay (Feb’23-Mar’23)
◦ Implemented transfer learning with a pre-trained ResNet18 CNN model to classify images of bees and ants
◦ Fine-tuned the model with lr, momentum and weight decay, achieving 95.4% best validation accuracy
◦ Evaluated L2 regularized LR, SVM, and RF using extracted features, achieving up to 97.9% test accuracy
• Multiclass Classification on Mice Protein Expression Dataset for Down Syndrome Treatment
Course Project-Machine Learning | Prof. Amit Sethi, EE Department, IIT Bombay (Feb’23-Mar’23)
◦ Performed EDA inclusive of correlation and imputation for over 79+ features and 760+ observations
◦ Trained and validated hyper-parameters of NN, SVM, and RF for the classification problem
◦ Improved model performance using feature importance and REFCV
• Drought Risk Assessment for Uttar Pradesh-Characterizing Hydro-Meteorological Hazards & Risk
Course Project | Prof. Parameshwar Udmale, T & D Department, IIT Bombay (Jan’23-April’23)
◦ Performed drought risk mapping for 50+ districts using 8+ indicators with Python and Matlab
◦ Visualized drought prone areas using QGIS and identified Bundelkhand region at highest risk
• Data Analysis and Visualization of HMIS Dataset for Manipur State
Course Project-Public Policy | Prof. Satish B. Agnihotri, T & D Department, IIT Bombay (Mar’23-April’23)
◦ Created dataset of 50+ major health indicators out of 250+ indicators using Exploratory Data Analysis
◦ Performed time-series analysis and observed correlations and clusters using Python, MS Excel & QGIS
TECHNICAL SKILLS
• Languages & Softwares: Microsoft Excel, MATLAB, Python, SQL, QGIS, Tableau, LaTeX, Minitab
• Tools & Libraries: PyTorch, Tensorflow, SKlearn, Seaborn, Matplotlib, Numpy, Pandas, API Integration, Web Scraping
POSITION OF RESPONSIBILITY
• Student Companion | Institute Student Companion Programme (ISCP), IIT Bombay (July’23-Present)
◦ Working in a team of 230+ coordinators ensuring smooth transition of incoming first year PG students
◦ Volunteered in conducting PG orientation of institue for 1500+ new entrants
◦ Mentoring 4 students throughout the year and helping them on academic and non-academic fronts
• Teaching Assistant | Prof. Anand B. Rao | T&D Department, IIT Bombay (July’23-Present)
◦ Assisted professor in conducting Lectures, Quizzes, Assignments and Semester Evaluations of students
◦ Mentoring and assessing 25+ Post Graduate students in completing the course
ACHIEVEMENTS & EXTRA-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
• Secured ALL India Rank 41 in GATE(AG) among top 2 % of the total student appeared (Feb’22)
• Executive Coordinator | Development Dialogue Team | CTARA Student Council (2022-23) (Jul’22-Dec’22)
◦ Part of 20+ Members team to contact 60+ organizations for department workshop
• Managed online admission process of MTech Ph.D. in a team of 25+ volunteers in department (May’23)