Samarjit Karmakar

About Me

I'm an undergraduate student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at NIT Warangal.
I am broadly interested in research in various applications of deep learning, particularly Computer Vision.
I like working on challenging and practical problems, rather than just learning in theory. I'm a true bengali at heart and have lived in Kolkata for most part of my high school life.
I like staying at different places. I ain't a nomad but I've lived at numerous cities since childhood, namely Kolkata, San Jose, Columbus, Miami, Bhubaneshwar, Chennai, Bangalore (a brief visit :P) and currently in college at the heritage city of Warangal.

Work Experience

Microsoft India Development Centre

Gachibowli, Hyderabad, India

Software Engineering Intern

SDE Intern at Search Technology Centre India (STCI). Working with the Retail Product Catalog Team for Bing giving data-driven intelligent solutions which touches and accelerates businesses and data processes across the globe.
Our project work won the Runner-Up prize for "Best Intern Paper/Poster" at MLADS-SYNAPSE 2019, Microsoft's internal ML, AI and Data Science conference.

Nevronas.ai

National Institute of Technology, Warangal, India

Research Member

A young and independent research group born out of Innovation Garage, NITW focusing on research problems in Deep Learning and it's applications in Speech, Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing.

Medical Intelligence and Language Engineering (MILE) Lab

Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Summer Research Fellow

Improving the quality of existing deep learning based super-resolution models, without increasing the computational complexity.
The models have been implemented in PyTorch. The quantitative evaluation of the results is shown in terms of Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR) and Structural Similarity (SSIM) metric. [Preprint]
Implemented multiple models for achieving real-time neural style transfer (NST) with parameter reduction. [Report][Preprint][Slides]

Education

National Institute of Technology, Warangal

August 2016 - present

Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering

GPA - 8.44/10.00

Focus on fundamental courses in CS such as Algorithms, Data Structures, Discrete Maths, Statistical & Numerical Methods, Operating Systems, Compilers, Automata Theory, Databases, Computer Networks and a few advanced courses such as Game Theory, Security & Privacy, Data Mining, Machine Learning and Image Processing.
B.Tech Thesis Project Work on "Multimodal Analysis of Speech and Audio".
Technical member of Innovation Garage, NITW.
Awarded Institute Merit Scholarship for B.Tech First Year 2016-17.

Birla High School

Graduated in 2016

AISSCE (CBSE) Board

Studied Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics & Computer Science.
Scored 96.4% in CBSE Class XII Boards Exams, highest in school.

Projects

Symmetric and Public-Key Cryptosystems

Implementations of major cryptosystems in C/C++.
Hill Cipher, DES, AES, ElGamal, RSA and Elliptic Curve Cryptography
[Project Link]
Technologies Used: C, C++, Python.

Rain Rain Go Away

In this project, our objective is to improve decision-making of autonomous vehicles in case of rain. This system clears the haze and distortion caused by rain in order to improve visibility, and enhances the view at the same time. Lots of accidents have been caused by poor visibility as wipers are not always effective. [Project Link]
Technologies Used: Tensorflow, Django, CNNs.

Parallel Threaded Apriori

A multithreaded implementation of the popular Apriori algorithm, using concepts from the Data Warehousing & Data Mining and Operating Systems courses in college. [Project Link]
Technologies Used: C++, PThreads library.

Robotic Claw

Developed a robotic claw which can mimic hand gestures to showcase at the finale of INK Makers Makeathon-2017 at IIIT Hyderabad. The uniqueness of this claw lies in the fact that the flex sensors were created using a low cost alternative. This led to a drastic reduction in cost of the device.
Technologies Used: Arduino Uno, multi-purpose motors and sensors.