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Research Scientist working on Machine Learning and Computer Vision Projects at Infocusp.

Currently working with our client Cerebellum Capital, a hedge fund based in SF on their financial modelling tasks. This involves application of Machine Learning for discovery of new trading strategies.
We recently concluded a project aimed at visualizing and gaining insights into CNNs using TensorFlow - check it out.

Education

M.Tech, ICT, Dhirubhai ambani institute Of Technology (DA-IICT), 2015
Recipient of President's Gold Medal for Academic Excellence
CPI: 9.96/10

B.Tech, Electronics And Communication, Nirma University, 2013
CPI: 8.31/10

Experience

Research Scientist, Infocusp 2015-present

• Working with our client, Cerebellum Capital (CCI) on employing Machine learning to discover and improve upon trading strategies
• Designed a portfolio optimizer for CCI which involved translating their financial domain constraints and concepts into a convex optimization problem
• Working on project "Deepdive" aimed at understanding the innards of Convolutional Neural networks. We aim to develop a library for visual representation of the network layers.
• Part of my job is keeping up-to-date with the state of the art research/ tools in the fields of ML and Computer vision.

Graduate Teaching Assistant

• Digital Signal Processing (DSP): Conducted lab sessions for the course. The labs designed in Matlab covered basic DSP concepts such as fourier tranform, z transform, filtering, Nyquist sampling and interpolation.
• Signals And Systems: Conducted tutorial sessions for the course on topics: A/D conversion, impulse response and transfer functions, transforms,
• Analog And Digital Communication: ADC labs were designed in Labview.

Intern, Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO)

• The overall goal of the internship was to design a kalman filter based FLL assisted PLL tracking loop for the GPS receiver. It makes the tracking loop more robust against ionospheric scintillations.
• This involved understanding the working of the GPS receiver, more in depth study of the tracking loop and the effect of ionospheric scintillations on the signal. Also, learnt the working of kalman filter in detail.
• The addition of kalman filter in the loop has the advantage of retaining lock even during the periods of signal outage thus avoiding the costly re-acquisition procedure.

Technology Applications and Expertise

Areas of expertise

Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Digital Signal Processing

DL Toolkits

Keras, Tensorflow, SKLearn, Theano

Programming Languages

Python, C, C++, Matlab, C#

Other Technologies/ applications

Apache Spark, Simulink, Multisim, Microsoft Office

OS/Environments

Linux, Windows, Mac

Achievements

• President's Gold Medal for Academic Excellence, 2015 Masters batch at DA-IICT
• Ranked in National Top 0.25% in Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE)
• Ranked in National Top 1% in All India Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE)
• Stood First in "Pixel Pundit" - a National level image processing competition organized by IISc Bengaluru and Carl Zeiss
• Stood First in circuit debugging contest at a National level Techfest at Nirma University in February, 2012.

Presentations and Publications

F. Shah, B. Vikani and N. Vyas, "TF_cnnvis : Visualizing Convolutional Neural Networks" Nvidia GPU Tech Conference (GTC Europe), Germany, 2018. Poster Blog.Library.

F. Shah, P. Shah and R. Dubey, "Specularity Removal for Robust Road Detection," IEEE International Conference Region 10 (TENCON), Singapore, 2016. Paper Slides.

F. Shah, K. Shah and D. Shah, "BER performance improvement with combination of OVSF spreading and convolution code in inter satellite links using FSO," . Annual IEEE India Conference (INDICON), Mumbai, 2013 Paper Slides.

Other Activities and Service

Placement Coordinator, B.Tech EC batch '15, Nirma University

• Facilitating placement proceedings of B.Tech, EC batch of 2013
• Responsible for developing contacts with corporate recruitment teams of several firms for placements
• Organized sessions on personality development, group discussions and mock interviews

Organizer, Teach group

• Formed a group of volunteers to teach some underprivileged kids at a construction site near Nirma university

Youth Wing Volunteer, Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University

• Participate actively in youth programs and activities happening all over India
• Have volunteered in programs like "Swachhta Abhiyaan" (Cleanliness Campaign), programs for de-addiction, value education for youths.