Contact Address: 3065 Top-Floor Sector 22/D Chandigarh India – 160022

Phone: +91-0172-714809 Email: [email protected]          [email protected] Home Page: http://www.geocities.com/rohitofpec/

B.E. Final Year, Computer Science and Engineering, Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh

 

Career Objective:

To pursue research and development of technologies at research oriented institutes and organizations and to work towards innovation of products for mass use while aiming at continuous achievement and excellence

 

Educational Objective:

To specialize in Human Computer Interaction in general and to identify a specific area of interest in this broad and multi-disciplinary field through study, research and practice of the related theory

 

Educational Background:
Class	Institution	Percentage
Matriculation	Shishu Niketan School, Chandigarh	66%
+2 Intermediate	DAV Sr. Secondary School, Chandigarh	84%
B.E. 1st Semester	Punjab Engineering College	74%
B.E. 2nd Semester	Punjab Engineering College	67.5%
B.E. 3rd Semester	Punjab Engineering College	71%
B.E. 4th Semester	Punjab Engineering College	60%
B.E. 5th Semester	Punjab Engineering College	73.5%
B.E. 6th Semester	Punjab Engineering College	73.3%
B.E. 7th Semester	Punjab Engineering College	78%

• Aggregate the end of 7 semesters: 70.9%
• Tentative Date of Completion of Degree: 1 June 2003

 

Vocational Training:

• Worked at Language Technologies Research Center, I.I.I.T. Hyderabad in Summer 2002. Worked on Speech Synthesis and Limited Domain Text-to-Speech systems and developed speech output application for Simputer.
• Working at Language Technologies Research Center, I.I.I.T. Hyderabad in December 2002 on Unrestricted Domain Text to Speech Systems.

 

Computer Skills:

Languages:  C / C++, 8085/8086 (Assembly), QuickBASIC, LISP

Operating Systems: Linux, DOS (core), Windows NT/9X, SCO Unix, Solaris

Hardware Platforms: PCs, Sun E-450 Servers, Simputer (Strong ARM)

Networks: Novell Netware, Linux based Ethernet

Toolkits/ Libraries: GTK+, STL, Sockets, Festvox Framework

·         Sound knowledge of Data Structure, Algorithms, OOP Design Patterns

·         Practical Exposure of administering networks at school, college and hostel

·         Adequate knowledge of the Internet and several common computer packages

·         Extensive programming / computing experience of about 8 Yrs

 

Areas of Interest:

• Human Computer Interaction
• Speech Technologies
• Audio / Visual Interfaces
• Computer Vision
• Computer Graphics

3D Graphics, Simulation

 

Projects:

• Developing an Email Client with Hindi Support for Linux with a Speech Interface.
• Contributed to development of a Low Memory Device Synthesizer (LMDS) for Simputer enabling speech synthesis for Indian Languages (currently Hindi and Telugu).
• Developed a News Reader Software for reading out latest news from Hindi News Websites with speech output capabilities.
• Contributed to development of a Generic Unrestricted Domain Synthesizer for Indian Languages using Syllable level Unit Selection & Concatenation on lines of the Limited Domain Synthesizer.
• Contributed to development of a Generic Limited Domain Synthesizer for Indian Languages based on Syllable level Unit Selection.
• Adapted a Talking Tourist Aid Application for Hindi and Telugu to use the above speech synthesizers and ported it to Simputer.
• Adapted a Talking Clock Application for Hindi and Telugu to use the above speech synthesizers and ported it to Simputer.
• Developed a Computing Time Companion - Deepti an Intelligent Hindi Speaking Chatbot with speech out capability using diphone databases as a team member of a senior’s major project. Please see: http://deepti.nourl.org/
• Developed a chat room application primarily on Linux using GTK+ interfaces.
• Developed a simulator for various CPU scheduling algorithms with GUI.
• Developed a Database Locking Handler as a concurrency management application implementing Shared and Exclusive Locking and Deadlock Detection.
• Adapted a speaker recognition algorithm for use in speaker identification through telephones as the software component of major project of one of my seniors.
• Developed an STL file viewer involving 3D graphics with hidden surface removal, solid filling and capabilities of 3D rotation, translation and scaling.
• Developed Trans - an interpreter for a fictitious language as a semester project.
• Developed an Extended version of Tic-Tac-Toe – TicTac++ for DOS with computer playing ability.
• Developed a Geometric Drawing Coordinates to Solid Coordinates converter with wire frame Solid Display capability given the front, top and side views.

 

Publications:

•  “A Data-Driven Synthesis Approach for Indian Languages using Syllable as Basic Unit”, S. P. Kishore, Rohit Kumar, Rajeev Sangal, International Conference on NLP (ICON) 2002, Mumbai. [ PDF]

-          Articles about my projects have appeared on BBC World, Rediff News, Outlook Hindi.

-          I am a regular contributor of technical articles to college magazines.

 

Awards:

• 1^st prize in Pre-defined software contest in PECFest 2001 (PEC technical festival 2001)
• 1^st prize in On-the-spot software contest in PECFest 2001
• 2^nd prize in Debugging contest in PECFest 2001
• 1^st prize in Pre-defined software contest in Panoplia (PEC technical festival 2000)
• 3^rd prize in State Science Exhibition organized by State Institute of Education, UT, Chandigarh, in 1998 for projects on Traffic control by computers
• 1^st prize in State Science Exhibition organized by State Institute of Education, UT, Chandigarh, in 1997 for projects on Role of IT in Education Technology

 

Extra-Curricular Activities:

• Co – opted member of College’s Student Council 2002-03 for excellence in technical activities.
• Student Member of IEEE and IEEE Computer Society.
• Secretary of IEEE Computer Society Student Chapter, PEC for 2002. My role is to lead the members of the society in organizing several technical activities and to maintain all official contact with the Computer Society.
• Core member of PEC website team wherein my responsibilities covers the whole technical aspect of uploading, maintenance and administration of the website.
• Technical Head of SemantiCa 2001, an Intra College On-the-Spot programming contest organized by IEEE Computer Society Student Chapter, PEC.
• Graphics Editor of PEC Editorial - Board for year 2002-03.
• Member of IETE Student Forum, Punjab Engineering College.
• Co-Convener of Mock CET/PMT 2001 organized by LoveChandigarh.com in Chandigarh and neighboring areas.
• Was one of the coordinators of college NSS unit during 2nd year and was a member of Rotaract Club Chandigarh Central PEC Unit and regularly take part in socio-cultural activities.

 

Personal Details

Date of Birth: 09 January 1982                    Place of Birth: Hyderabad, INDIA

Citizenship: INDIAN

Languages Known & Proficiency:

English		Can Read, Write and Speak Very Comfortably
Hindi		Can Read, Write and Speak Very Comfortably
Telugu		Can Speak

Personal skills

Enthusiastic, Creative, Very planned and organized, Responsible