Aditya Ketkar

Building next generation of connected mobility

Leading the product and development team building core EV APIs, tools and products to make EV data accessible to businesses.

Backed by YCombinator

• Working with Office Media Group as a part of Microsoft Stream team
• Primary work on Sharepoint widgets to enhance video discovery and playback experience

• Worked as a part of the Address Intelligence Experience team, Last Mile Technology.
• Created automated test data generator for Sanity Suite, bringing down the debugging time from ~5 hours to < 15 mins.
• Gained a first-hand experience of software development life cycle, Agile methodologies and scalable architecture.

• Collaborated with Government of Meghalaya to develop an illegal mining detections system.
• Created a dashboard and AI model to detect and classify mineral mines in North-East India as legal or Illegal, simplifying the process even for non-tech employees.
• The impact of our project was covered by the media here. The report can be found here.

• Part of the teaching team for 10th hottest startup in India in 2019 (source: LinkedIn ).
• Assisting 25 programmers in core CS subjects like Data Structures, Algorithms, System Design and OS.
• Conducting daily standup sessions for the students, completed 200 hours of online teaching experience by July 2020.

• Analyzed CGPA Trends of 2000 students of BITS Goa using R, python, and advanced Excel
• Verified our hypotheses highlighting patterns among attributes of students at BITS Goa, subsequently published a blog post of the findings from the analysis.
  
• Received a certificate and recommendation for the same.

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• Working on an analytics platform which uses video object detection to optimize athlete performance.
• The platform works with a single video feed, which is fed into a custom CV pipeline to provide unbiased and intuitive analytics of player performance across various data points.
• The product will bring down the cost of analytics for an individual player by 90%

• Successfully launched a hyper-local crowdsourced delivery ecosystem with 500+ active users.
• Marketing and Branding lead for BITS Goa chapter, successfully increased the users onboard by 150% in 7 days through an extensively designed campaign.

Official teaching assistant for the following courses. Helped in creating lab material, direct classroom teaching and as a lab assistant.

1. CS-F342 Neural Networks  --  [~80 students ]
   
2. CS-F213 Object-Oriented Programming  --  [ 180+ students ]
   
3. CS-F111 Intro to Programming (2017)  --  [ 200+ students ]
   
4. CS-F111 Intro to Programming (2018)  --  [ 200+ students ]

• CGPA - 8.8
• Active member of following societies/teams :
  • Institute Table Tennis Team
  • Literary Society of BITS Goa
  • Quark, Tech fest management team of BITS Goa
  • Wall Street Club
  • Ultimate Frisbee Team
  • Peer Mentorship Programme

• 12th Standard Score - 91.8%
• 10th Standard Score - 9.2 CGPA
• Recipient of full scholarship for excellence in sports and academics for 5 years.

Continual learning approaches generally address the problem of catastrophic forgetting of data in continuous regular space (mostly for image classification tasks, with images of fixed dimensions). This project explores and extends the idea of Continual Learning to graphs.

Developed a meta-learning(MAML) based approach for classification of chest X-Rays in the NIH dataset. The problem statement is to train a quick learner to classify X-Rays of the chest to one of the 14 common Thorax diseases.

Made a model trained on CLEVR dataset for the course project. The aim was to answer questions asked in natural language referring to various shapes provided in CLEVR dataset.

Used CNNs for image feature extraction and RNNs for question representation, and combined the features through a composite architecture to get the answers.

Member of the Winner team of Alexa India Hackathon 2019. Trained Alexa to act as a music practice partner and provide realtime feedback.

• Created a smart audio comparator using open source audio fingerprinting tool Chromaprint.
• Created a web-app for easy audio comparison online. The comparator can be found here.
• Documented the approach in the form of a blog post here.

Created a package to automatically generate tests in case of Sanity failure in Global Address Model.
This reduced the developer time wasted in the inefficient method of constructing test instances manually by querying the GAM from >5hours to ~15 mins.

Created a dynamic UAV swarm environment on Robot Operating System and an ad-hoc network using only open source and low cost hardware and software. The dynamic swarm does not rely on a centralized node with ability to add and remove nodes from the network at any time. The paper can be found here.

A Modular, Concurrent and Customizable Protocol Analyzer. Aim was to provide a fast concurrent alternative to Wireshark, which is synchronous in nature.

An active contributor to this open source college project.

Received full scholarship for attending NAAMII Winter School in AI at Pokhara in December 2019. The coursework and lab touched upon various fields in AI and their applications briefly in 11 day span.

Travelled 8000Km in 15 days to meet various local role models and learn about their entrepreneurship journey. The aim was to understand the roots of problems currently faced by India and use technology affordably and efficiently to propose and develop scalable solutions for the same.

Captain of the TT team for :

• MP State Table Tennis Team - 3 Years
• College Table Tennis Team - 1 Year
• School Table Tennis Team - 3 years

Mentored a team of 6 managers with a 100% retention rate to invite dignitaries/organizations for talks &
exhibitions to the annual technical fest of BITS-Goa, Quark 2019.

• Conducted a national level slam poetry competition Irshad in summer 2018.
• Head of operations for regional rounds of Irshad in Indore. Coordinator for 7 city regionals.

• Regional lead for CSR initiative of Quark, BITS-Goa.
• Organised a successful Blood Donation Drive with 85 donors on June 14, 2017 in Indore.