Master of Science in Computer Science New York University, Courant Institute of Mathematical Science
SEP 2013 - MAY 2015
Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Engineering New York University, Courant Institute of Mathematical Science
SEP 2013 - MAY 2015
Experience
Emotion - New York University Research Assistant, Full Stack Engineer
Started out as a tool to help collect data for a research project - Lingering emotion in the experience of beauty, is now a comprehensive app that simulates every step of the experiment and automates the entire data collection process.
Designed and developed a mobile-friendly responsive web app from the ground-up that tracks touch events to calibrate and measure the distance between two fingers and detects gestures for UI interactions.
Ported the web app to the macintosh platform, using node-webkit and developed a native node.js module that detects and generates DOM-friendly touch events from a mac trackpad.
Configured and developed a RESTful server that extracts audio data from video recordings containing speech while trimming background silence and normalizing gain.
Devised and implemented a method to safely play user-selected music within the web app using an intermediary server that regulates and streams audio data from a popular music streaming service.
Implemented interactive audio and visual feedback using the HTML5 web audio api and SVG.
JUNE 2013 AUG 2015
Classroom.tv Front-end Engineer
Crafted the logo and a majority of the initial web app interface using photoshop and illustrator.
Created mockups, planned and facilitated usability testing and converted the designs into gracefully-degradable standards based code (HTML, CSS).
Organised and developed semantically meanigful UI components using Backbone.js, such as a customized HTML5 video player with time-synchronized display of lecture slides and nested discussion threads.
Developed access control based front-end components in PHP using the Yii framework.
SEARCC International School's Software Competition Algorithmic Programming Competition
Organized by the Computer Society of India, was part of a team of three to represent our region at the national level finals. Finished second by solving the maximum number of problems.
Fall 2007
Codechef Gamer's Challenge Actionscript/HTML5 Game Development Competition Developed a prototypical game using Actionscript on the Flash platform, in less than 48 hours. Received an honorable mention award for the Best Looking Game.