TANMAY SHANKAR

E-mail: tanmay.shankar@gmail.com
Objective Mobile: +91-7896377092
To innovate and invent for social benefit, in the fields of machine design, robotics, mechatronics and mechanisms.

Education
Sophomore year, Undergraduate student, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. |2012-2016
Major - Mechanical Engg, Minor - Electrical & Electronics Engg. SPI 8.8 CPI - 8.58 (On 10)
Class 12 / Senior Secondary - 96.4 % CBSE, Bala Vidya Mandir Senior Secondary School, Chennai. | 2011
Class 10 / Matriculation - 91.8 % CBSE, Bala Vidya Mandir Senior Secondary School, Chennai. | 2009

Academic Achievements
S Rama Iyer Memorial Academic Excellence Award, Proficiency in AISSCE. | 2011
Master R Balakrishnan Memorial Award, Best All Rounder Student. | 2011
Dr. Lt. Col. T S Kalyanam Award, Best Outgoing Student. | 2011
AISSCE 2011 - Top 0.1% Merit Award for Physics and English. | 2011

Projects
HyAWET: Hybrid Assistive Wheelchair Exoskeleton Transformer - Device to increase the mobility of patients suffering from
motor dis-function / partial paralysis, while aiding physical rehabilitation. | On-going
Guides - Prof. S. K. Dviwedy & Asst. Prof. Sachin Kore, Dept. of Mech. Engg., IIT-Guwahati.
ChessBOT: Developing an intelligent program (and subsequently a robot) that plays chess. | On-going
UniversalGripper: Robot end-effector for gripping a wide variety of objects. | 2013
Guide Prof. R. K. Singh & Prof. Abhishek Gupta, Dept. of Mech. Engg., IIT-Bombay.
CuttingEdgeTechnology: A bicycle based crop harvester aimed at developing rural agriculture. | 2011
ThrowingLightonBlackHoles: A research project on Black Holes and their behaviour. | 2010
Guide - Prof. Prasanta Kumar Tripathy, Dept. of Physics, IIT-Madras.

Conferences Attended
Confederation of Indian Industry, Government of India, Innovation Initiative participant. | 2011
One of 33 students selected for Research Science Initiative, Chennai, 2010, a 6 week program conducted at Indian Institute
of Technology, Madras along with Indian Institute of Sciences, Bangalore, in association with Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, USA, and Centre for Excellence in Education, USA. | 2010

Co-curricular Achievements
Presented with Best Poster Award for HyAWET- A Hybrid Assistive Wheelchair Exoskeleton Transformer,
Seismech, The annual symposium of Mechanical Department of IIT-Guwahati. | 2014
Among 60 semi-finalists from 7000 entries, International Google Science Fair. | 2011
Among top 20 best exhibits, CBSE National Science Exhibition. | 2010
Selected to attend Jawaharlal Nehru National Junior Science Congress. | 2010

Skills & Experience
Coursework- 2nd year: Solid Mechanics, Engineering Materials, Kinematics of Machinery,
Manufacturing Technology, Analog Circuits, Digital Circuits.
3rd year*: Dynamics of Machinery, Machine Design, Control Systems,
Electrical Machines, Electromagnetic Theory.
Additional Courses- Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Mobile Robotics, Control of Mobile Robots.
Softwares known: SolidWorks, MSC-Adams, SolidEdge, Robot Operating System, Ubuntu.
Programming Languages known: C, C++, SQL, VisualBasic, Python, MATLAB.
Micro-controllers used: ATMEGA 16, 32, Arduino Uno, Mega.
Founding Member, iCube, an Innovation Initiative in IIT Guwahati. | On-going

Extra-curricular Achievements
Trinity School of Music, London, Certified 4
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Grade Pianist, with Merit. | 2010
National Team Racing Silver Medallist, DP World National Coastal Sailing Championship. | 2008