Experience

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Researcher, Vemba Corp - May 2015 - Present
Vemba (Vemba Corporation, Toronto, Canda)

• Designing deep-learning methods to determine the similarity between videos, based on their semantic content
• Building convolutional neural networks (CNN) to detect salient objects in video
• Developing methods to use the hidden layer features of image-trained CNN to form an embedding method, in order to associate similar videos
• Implementing natural language processing techniques, such as TF-IDF, for mining video training data from a video library with closed captions

Researcher, Intel Intelligent System’s Group - May 2012 - Sept 2013
Intel (Intel Corporation, Toronto, Canda)

• Implemented and adapted methods for pedestrian/face recognition and tracking for use in anonymous video analytics software.
• Responsible for adapting existing literature and developed new methods in conjunction with RGBD data obtained from Microsoft Kinect as well as improving accuracy of existing age, gender and race classifiers.
• Developed Histogram of Oriented Gradients models for pedestrian recognition and tracking, as well as machine learning systems to identify demographic information, i.e. race, age, gender
• Patent: Rohan Chandra, Abhishek Ranjan, Shahzad Malik, “TECHNOLOGIES FOR INCREASING THE ACCURACY OF DEPTH CAMERA IMAGES”, International Patent number: PCT/US2013/041864

Teaching Assistant - January 2012 - May 2012
University of Toronto - CSC320: Introduction to Visual Computing

• Teaching assistant for a third year introductory visual computing course, primarily taught in C++ and MATLAB
• Responsible for conducting tutorials to supplement lectures, attending to student questions both in person and by email, as well as grading of student assignments and tests
• Topics Covered: Camera response function, image derivatives and applications, local curve analysis, edge/corner detection, Gaussian pyramids, Haar wavelets, SIFT, and Homographies

Junior Software Developer - July 2010- September 2011
CAST Software (CAST Group Inc.)

• Implemented new features, enhanced existing features and resolved defects in a 3D event and lighting planning software package, primarily in C++

Development projects include:

• FarPoint Spreadsheets: Developed a spreadsheet application similar to Microsoft Excel, able to dynamically update plots with information culled in realtime from various aspects the application
• CAD tools: Engineered 3D and 2D Cad plotting tools for calculating and displaying the angles and intersection points between various 2D and 3D objects
• Windows UAC compatibility: Achieved windows UAC compliance by analyzing and rewriting programs use of registry to store user data (altered to use XML instead), interactions with the file system in privileged areas and use of special permissions
• Feature attribute layout system: Developed a system and GUI for manipulating and configuring 2D representations of 3D light fixtures. The system had to map 3D light fixtures to configurable 2D representations based in user positioned symbols that control various aspects of the actual fixture