About Me:

Email: rohit[at]iitmandi[dot]ac[dot]in

Address:
Room 14, Third Floor, A-17, School of Computing and Electrical Engineering (SCEE), IIT Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, India.

Areas of Interests:

Optical Character Recognition, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Road Safety/Mobility.

Career Goals:

To keep myself abreast with the latest technological advancements/developments and contribute to the field of Computer Vision, in the best way possible, with full devotion and dedication.

Education:

Assistant Prof. (current), IIT Mandi.
Postdoc. (2020 - 2022), CVIT @ IIIT Hyderabad.
Ph.D. (2014 - 2020), IITB-Monash, CGPA: 8.13.
B.E. Hons. (E.E.E. 2006 - 2010), B.I.T.S. Pilani K.K. Birla Goa Campus, CGPA: 9.14.
XII (2006), C.B.S.E, Percentage: 86.6.
X (2004), C.B.S.E, Percentage: 82.

Professional Experience:

Engineer (2010-2014), Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd. (BHEL), Project Engineering Management (PEM) Division, Noida, India.
Completed Improvement Projects Rewards Scheme System (IMPRESS) project on “cable routing” in 2014.
Developed a lisp program (AUTOCAD) to extract cable lengths interactively from drawings and a windows host script to enter them into routing software. Project saves 400 man-hours & 1500 papers for every power plant project @ BHEL-PEM.
Skills developed: Control System Design, System Design Studies.

Engineer Trainee (2010 January - July), LSI Logic (now Avagotech), Pune, India. Completed a project related to branching representation of clocks in MATLAB.

Research Trainee (2008 May-July), Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute (CEERI), Pilani, Rajasthan, India.
Published the research paper mentioned at the end of Publications.

Software Experience:

Developed OpenOCRCorrect - An Adaptive Framework for correcting mistakes in OCR output. The source code can be downloaded fromhere.

Helped in developing Shobhika - A Devanāgarī font for scholars, The source code can be downloaded fromhere.

Programming Languages: C++, Lua, Python, Matlab.

Engineering Softwares: Tesseract-ocr, Qt , Torch/Pytorch, Tensorflow, Kaldi ASR.

Extracurriculars:

Taekwondo - Black belt, Wushu and Judo (Won 5 gold medals and 2 best fighter trophies at the district level, 3 - silver medals at the state level and a bronze medal at the national level).

Hobbies - Write poems, play musical instruments like Harmonium and Flute.