Current Status
Pursuing Bachelor of Technology, Senior Year, Department of Information Technology.
Interests
Areas of interest include Human-computer Interaction, Computer Vision, Computer Supported Collaborative Work and Web Technologies.
Education
Delhi Public School, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi
All India Senior School Certificate Examination (Class XII, CBSE), May 2008
Percentage — 86.2%
All India Secondary School Certificate Examination (Class X, CBSE), May 2006
Percentage — 94%
Project Work
Wikipedia in the Classroom
Human Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
May - July 2011
The use of Wikipedia in the classroom opens up new ways of teaching, learning and producing knowledge. Writing assignments involving students to write or improve upon relevant Wikipedia articles, offer a richer experience than traditional classroom assignments. The MediaWiki software that runs the Wikipedia projects, however, does not provide any support for such activities as it has been written to serve a different purpose altogether, i.e., to support volunteer contributions to the online encyclopedia. This makes it difficult to organize data and track edits made by the students in a classroom setting. The project aims to bridge this gap by building a set of tools that enable collaborative wiki writing activities for classroom work.
Demo: Sage Ross, Rosta Farzan, Gaurav Trivedi, and Robert E. Kraut. Wikipedia in classroom. Presented at the Wikipedia in Higher Education Summit, Boston, July 2011.
Cross Lingual Article Similarity
IIIT-H & CMU
Nov - Dec 2010
Developed a system to flag inconsistencies found in Wikipedia infoboxes across articles written in different languages, as part of the winter school conducted by IIIT-Hyderabad and Carnegie Mellon University. The project involved studying the various limitations of machine translation techniques and methods to overcome them. Various language characteristics like homophones, synonyms and synsets were taken into consideration. An evaluation of the proposed approach demonstrates promise that such a tool could substantially reduce the effort in bridging the gap between the language specific communities on Wikipedia.
Publication: Ranjitha G. Kulkarni, Gaurav Trivedi, Tushar Suresh, Zeyu Zhang, Miaomiao, and Carolyn P. Rose, “Supporting Collaboration in Wikipedia Between Language Communities,” 4th ACM International Conference on Intercultural Collaboration, Bengaluru, India, 2012. (Accepted)
Erabase
NITK, Surathkal
Nov - Dec 2010
A cross-platform tool to draw ER Data Models and convert them into a relational database, completed as a part of the Database Systems mini-project. The UI consists of a drag and drop interface for drawing the models which are then converted to relational tables, normalised and an SQL database is generated automatically. Was awarded the top grade in class. Uses Qt and MySQL.
Augmented Air Hockey
NITK, Surathkal
July - Oct 2010
To design and implement a low cost augmented reality based game of air hockey on an interactive surface table. It presents a new approach for playing the game using physical mallets and a virtual puck. It involves a real-time object tracking with a web camera, providing haptic and auditory feedback, and simulating the dynamics of a real air hockey table. It also provides interesting enhancements like playing the game over a distance and extending the game for more than two players.
Publication: "Air Hockey on an Interactive Table Top Surface", Gaurav Trivedi and Saket Gupta, 2011 The 3rd International Conference on Computer Modelling and Simulation, Mumbai, India
Dranimate
NITK, Surathkal
April - May 2010
A cross platform software for drawing and animating, developed as the Computer Graphics course mini project. Was awarded the top grade in class as well. Made with Qt and OpenGL.
IT Intranet
NITK, Surathkal
Summer 2009
Conceptualised and developed a web based course management tool for various processes like registration, evaluation and communication. It enables the students and instructors to manage the entire life-cycle of a course - marking attendance, maintaining mark records and generating reports. Used open source technologies like PHP, MySQL & Drupal. Currently being used at the National Institute of Technology, Karnataka, Surathkal.
USP Media Solutions, New Delhi
Summer Intern
July 2009
Created modules to prevent automated submission, posting testimonials and RSS feeds for the community blogging site YouthPad.com, provided assistance with general maintenance of the portal. Appreciated for extraordinary expertise in the domain and completing the assignment within a short duration.
Honours & Awards
- NTSE Scholar (National Talent Search Examination; selected amongst top 0.5% students from India
- Represented Delhi in INMO (Indian National Mathematical Olympiad) in 2006-07 (Rank 14 in Delhi)
- Third prize in autonomous robotics with image processing event; Automata at Engineer 2010 (National Level Techfest of NITK)
- Declared first amongst ‘the geeks’ in a 3 day, 5 round event; Computer Marathon at Engineer Golden Jubilee. Third Prize in the same event at Engineer 2011.
- Represented Delhi twice in InAO (Indian National Astronomy Olympiad) during 2006-08.
- JSTS Scholar (Junior Science Talent Search Examination), Rank 29
- Won over 80 awards in various competitions till date.
- AIR 104 in National Science Talent Search Examination (including AIR 7 in Biology)
- AIR 36 (7 in Delhi) in 4th National Science Olympiad organised by Wipro.
Extra-curricular Activities
- Conducting supplementary classes for CO100: Computer Programming, for the coaching of first year students coming from the weaker sections of the society as a part of the college’s special tutelage programme.
- Creative Head for Incident 2012, one of the largest cultural festivals in India; organized by NITK Surathkal.
- Opera Campus Crew Member. Organised events, workshops, quizzes and meet-ups on behalf of Opera Software during 2009-10.
- IEEE student member and selected as an executive member for NITK-IEEE.
- Technical committee executive member for Engineer Golden Jubilee.
- Participated in the AI gaming event, Kode Kombat at Engineer 2009.
- Member of the Web Enthusiasts Club at NITK Surathkal.
- Member of the Robotics Club at NITK Surathkal.
- Member of the Art of Living foundation and have completed various courses offered by them.
- Member of Code-Warriors, Technology club of Delhi Public School, Vasant Kunj. Represented school at various levels in Web Design, Programming, Quizzing and other tech-events during 2003-08.
- First prize in Dramatics at Spandan 2011: inter-college level cultural event at NITK Surathkal.
Technical Skills
Languages
C, C++, PHP
Frameworks
Qt 4, OpenCV, OpenGL
Database
MySQL
National Institute of Technology, Karnataka
Bachelor of Technology, July 2008 - Present
Cumulative GPA — 8.59/10
