Saim Wani

 saimdwani@gmail.com  saimwani.github.io  saimwani

Education
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Kanpur, India
BACHELOR OF TECHNOLOGY, MAJOR IN COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING Jul. 2016 – Aug. 2020

• Cumulative Performance Index / CPI (Core): 9.7/10.0 and CPI (Overall): 9.34/10.0
• Graduate-Level Coursework: Introduction to Machine Learning, Machine Learning for Signal Processing, Computer Vision,
Randomized Algorithms, Game Theory and Mechanism Design, Neurobiology, Natural Language Processing

Research Interests
REINFORCEMENT LEARNING, ROBOTICS, COMPUTER VISION, DEEP LEARNING

Publications
MultiON: Benchmarking Semantic Map Memory using Multi-Object Navigation [PDF] | [Project Webpage]
SAIM WANI*, SHIVANSH PATEL*, UNNAT JAIN*, ANGEL X. CHANG, MANOLIS SAVVA (* denotes equal contribution)
Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2020

Emergent Communication in Collaborative Multi-Object Navigation PDF available on request

SHIVANSH PATEL*, SAIM WANI*, UNNAT JAIN*, ANGEL X. CHANG, MANOLIS SAVVA (* denotes equal contribution)
Under review

An End-to-End Network for Emotion-Cause Pair Extraction PDF available on request

AADITYA SINGH*, SHREESHAIL HINGANE*, SAIM WANI*, ASHUTOSH MODI (* denotes equal contribution)
Under review

Experience
Undergraduate Researcher Simon Fraser University
ADVISED BY MANOLIS SAVVA AND ANGEL X. CHANG Jan. 2020 – Nov. 2020
• Introduced the multiON task framework and studied various aspects of visual navigation using it.
• Publication: Multi-ON: Benchmarking Semantic Map Memory using Multi-Object Navigation (NeurIPS 2020).

Visiting Researcher at IISc Bangalore IISc, Bangalore

ADVISED BY SUNIL CHANDRAN May 2018 – July, 2018
• Studied stab numbers of rectangle intersection graphs and developed algorithms to recognize split graphs with stab-number 2.

Honors & Awards

2020 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship Finalist
2019 Received Academic Excellence Award for exceptional academic performance at IIT Kanpur
2016 All India Rank 174, Joint Entrance Examination-Advanced (amongst 0.3 million students)
2014 Awarded KVPY Fellowship (All India Rank 213) by Dept. of Science and Technology, Govt. of India

Selected Projects
Fair Division of a Graph [PDF]
SUPERVISOR: PROF. SUNIL SIMON Dec 2018 – May 2019
• Developed algorithms for fair division of objects on friendship graphs.
Golang Compiler [Github]
SUPERVISOR: PROF. PROF. AMEY KARKARE Dec 2018 – Apr 2019
• Implemented a compiler for a fully functional subset of the Go language in Python.
• The compiler supports advanced features like multi-level pointers, structures, multi-dimensional arrays, dynamic memory allocation,
string concatenation, recursion, sequential assignments, multiple returns, etc.
Teaching
Tutor, Probability and Statistics (IITK CS 203)
Teaching Assistant, Data Structures and Algorithms (IITK ESO 207)
Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Computational Logic (IITK CS 202)

Skills
PYTHON, C++, GO, MATLAB, R, LATEX, GIT, DOCKER, PYTORCH, CAFFE, TENSORFLOW