KARTIK PRABHU
ADDRESS: PHONE:
C-122, AZAD HALL OF RESIDENCE, (+91)9732931290
IIT KHARAGPUR,
E-MAIL:
KHARAGPUR-721302, [email protected]
WEST BENGAL, INDIA
EDUCATION
? studying in IV year of Integrated M. Sc. in Physics at Indian Institute of
July 2005 - present
Technology Kharagpur (IIT - KGP), West Bengal, India
o CGPA: 8.51/10.00 (after 6 semesters)
o Ranked 2nd in my batch in the department.
? Passed the 12th grade (Maharashtra State Board) from Ramnivas Ruia
February 2005
College, Mumbai, Maharashtra
o aggregate score : 89.17%
? Passed the 10th grade (Maharashtra State Board) from N. L. Dalmia High
May 2003 School, Mira Road (East), Thane District, Maharashtra
o aggregate score: 91.06%
o Received the highest aggregate in the school and local area
(Mira Road)
SCHOLARSHIPS RECEIVE D
? Awarded the Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana (KVPY) scholarship
KVPY
funded by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of
India.
JBNSTS ? Cleared the Jagadish Bose National Science Talent Search (JBNSTS)
examination to be awarded the JBNSTS scholarship.
? Selected for a proto-research project for the National Initiative on
NIUS Undergraduate Studies (NIUS) programme of Homi Bhabha Centre for
Science Education (HBCSE), Tata Institute for Fundamental Research
(TIFR)
SINP ? Selected as an under-graduate associate by Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics
(SINP), Salt Lake, Kolkata, India in my 1st year.
ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT S
JEE ? Cleared the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) organized by the Indian
Institutes of Technology with an All India Rank (AIR) of 1523 and was
ranked within the top 0.8% of students appearing .
PROJECTS DONE
? worked on Gravity in higher dimensions under the guidance of Dr. Naresh
Guided Dadhich of Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics
(IUCAA), Pune.
? completed a project on Feynman path integrals and quantum harmonic
oscillator under Dr. Apoorva Patel of Centre for High Energy Physics, Indian
Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore as apart of the KVPY programme.
? involved in a project on Gravitational waves and CMBR anisotropy under
Prof. Ajay Patwardhan, Dept. of Physics, St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai, as a
part of the NIUS programme.
? worked on stereo-correspondence using Bayesian matching and correlation
Personal matching as a member of the Image Processing/Computer Vision Group of
KRAIG (Kharagpur Robotics & Artificial Intelligence Group)., IIT
Kharagpur.
? working on content aware image resizing as a member of KRAIG
RELEVANT COURSES TAK EN
? General Relativity ? Nuclear & Particle Physics
? Classical Mechanics ? Transform Calculus
? Quantum Mechanics ? Complex Analysis
? Statistical Mechanics ? Switching and Finite Automata
? Electrodynamics ? Programming and Data Structures
? Science of Complexity ? Design and Analysis of Algorithms
? Mathematical & Computational Physics
OTHER ACTIVITIES
? Currently Head of the Image Processing/Computer Vision Group of
KRAIG head
KRAIG (Kharagpur Robotics & Artificial Intelligence Group), IIT
Kharagpur.
? Head of the web team of Kshitij the techno-management fest of IIT
Kshitij web-team head Kharagpur, the biggest of its kind in Asia.
? Won the 2nd prize in Mission Mars competition in Robotix held during
Kshitij ‘07, IIT Kharagpur
SKILLS
Software ? Mathematica, MATLAB, MS Office, Origin, Latex
Programming ? C, C++, Java ,Visual C++, MS Visual Studio
Libraries used ? Intel OpenCV
Operating Systems ? Windows, Linux, Mac OS X
