Anirudh Jain

Curriculum Vitae

Education
2014–present Integrated Masters of Technology in Mathematics and Computing, Indian
Institue of Technology(ISM), Dhanbad, OGPA – 8.44 for 5 semesters.
2013 Indian School Certificate (I.S.C.) Examination, The Chintels School, Kanpur.
Percentage: 90.8%
2011 Indian Certificate for Second ary Education (I.C.S.E.) Examination, The Chin-
tels School, Kanpur.
Percentage: 93.2%

Research Interests
Artificial Bayesian data analysis, Probabilistic machine learning,Bayesian non-parametrics,
Intelligence Sampling methods and Variational inference
Miscellaneous Game Theory, Statistical Inference, Data Analysis, Number Theory

Experience
Summer 2017 Research Intern at IIT Hyderabad, under Dr. P.K. Srijith and Dr. Shantanu
Desai
I worked on developing variational inference algorithms for astrophysical problems
and Bayesian quadrature approximate inference technique for machine learning
algorithms.

Positions of Responsibility
2015–Present Member at SIAM-ISM Student Chapter, Society for Industrial and
Applied Mathematics Student Chapter, Dhanbad.
2014–Present Coordinator, Literary Club, Indian School of Technology(ISM), Dhanbad.
2015–Present Co–Founder, D’Code Monks, IIT(ISM), Dhanbad.

Key Courses and Projects

Projects
Ongoing Bayesian Quadrature approximations for Machine Learning
Developing Fast Bayesian Quadrature approximations for integration problems using
Bayesian Optimization techniques to sample from transformed Gaussian Process.
Variational Inference for Parameter Estimation and Model Selection:
ADeveloped algorithms for model selection and parameter estimation using Vari-
ational Inference tested on Astrophysical data sets like Radial Velocity data for
Exoplanet Discovery.
Skills Used: Python, PyMC3, Theano, Scipy, Monte Carlo Markov Chains,
Probabilistic Modeling
German Traffic Sign Identification:
Built a CNN classifier for the GTSDB Dataset to classify given regions of interests
in three fields with accuracy of 92%.
Skills Used: Python, Scipy stack, Tensorflow, Deep Learning
Biometric Authentication using Keyboard Dynamics:
Application of Anomaly Detection based on Gaussian distributions modeled on
Keystroke data to identify users.
Skills Used: JAVA, Machine Learning, Probabilistic Modeling
Project Parivartan, HackFest 2017 :
A web application was built which used a recommender engine to suggest tasks
related to reducing Global Warming to the user and scored them based on task
difficulty.
Skills Used: JAVA, Vaadin, Apache Maven, Git, Apache Mahout and Gauva
libraries
Digit Recognition:
Built a feed-forward neural network with back-propagation as multi-variate classifier
with cross-validation trained on the MNIST dataset to classify images as numbers
achieving accuracies of 95%.
Skills Used: Octave, Machine Learning, Image Processing, Hyper-parameter
Tuning
Twitter Troll Classifier: A troll classifier performs Sentiment Analysis on tweets
with the given hashtag and gives them a rating of 1 to 5 where 1 signifies a troll.
Skills Used: JAVA, twitter4j, Stanford OpenNLP, Sentiment Analysis, Ma-
chine Learning
Courses
Machine Learning, Stanford University on Coursera
Introductory course on Machine Learning by Andrew Ng including Matlab implemen-
tation of various ML concepts. The verified course certificate can be found at https:
//www.coursera.org/account/accomplishments/records/BN5MA5FV6ALF
Machine Learning, University of Washington, on Coursera
Project based ML course using Python. The course certificate can
be found at https://www.coursera.org/account/accomplishments/verify/
AGTJF9LTF8W8 and https://www.coursera.org/account/accomplishments/
records/GUQZSRDJ3VMS
Introduction to Game Theory, University of Tokyo, on Coursera
The verified course certificate can be found at https://www.coursera.org/
account/accomplishments/certificate/6EVC44PULTH5
Algorithmic Toolbox, University of California, San Diego, on Coursera
The verified course certificate can be found at https://www.coursera.org/
account/accomplishments/certificate/VWJ25YERYZM2
Data Structures, University of California, San Diego, on Coursera
The verified course certificate can be found at https://www.coursera.org/
account/accomplishments/certificate/JMZ9XD9485WN

Achievements
{ Selected for Microsoft funded Summer Research Internship at Indian Institute of
Technology, Hyderabad during summer of 2017.
{ 1st Runner-Up in HackFest 2016: My team implemented a disaster management
system during a 36-hour hackathon and secured the 2nd position.
{ Winner of Bronze medal in 101 Hack January’15 organized by
www.hackerrank.com
{ Awarded certificate of Cyber Security Expert, Grade 1 by Vidit Baxi, Director,
Lucideus Tech Pvt. Lt.
{ Awarded Certificate of Participation in Android Apps Workshop from TRYST’15
IIT-Delhi

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