vita.yaml

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personal:
  name: Prashant Sinha
  title: Developer
info:
  homepage: https://noop.pw
  github: https://github.com/prashnts
  keybase: https://keybase.io/prashnts
  email: prashant@noop.pw
  mobile: '0769822836'
  location: Paris, France
  twitter: https://twitter.com/prashnts

cover: |
  I am a software developer based in Paris. My work focuses on using programming,
  mathematics, and design as tools to solve interesting and challenging problems.
  My projects span a wide array of domains: Computer Vision, Machine Learning,
  Data Visualisation, Web Applications, and Embedded systems.

experience:
  - company: Partoo
    location: Paris
    dates:
      from: '2021-06-28'
    position: Full Stack Developer
    website: https://www.partoo.co/en/
    description: |
      As a developer at Partoo, I am currently working on integrating
      Google Business Messaging to our app.

  - company: Centre de Recherches Interdisciplinaires
    location: Paris
    dates:
      from: '2018-10-08'
      till: '2021-06-25'
    position: Full Stack Developer
    tags:
      - Platform Developer
      - UI/X Design
    website: https://cri-paris.org
    description: |
      # WeLearn - A tool for collective learning

      - Designed the core system architecture.
      - Created a web visualisation of tags to facilitate navigation.
      - Responsible for developing APIs for a Machine Learning model that classifies
        webpages into Wikipedia Pages.
      - Implemented Browser Extensions for Chrome and Firefox.
      - Improved the UX and Design through a unified styling system and guidelines.


  - company: Physique et Mécanique des Milieux Hétérogènes, ESPCI
    location: Paris
    dates:
      from: '2018-05-22'
      till: '2018-09-22'
    position: Research Intern
    tags:
      - Hydrodynamics at micro scales
      - Fluid Dynamics
      - Theoretical Biophysics
    website: https://www.pmmh.espci.fr
    description: |
      # Hydrodynamics of Super-Paramagnetic Micro-Beads

      My work here was to capture the motion of the micro beads undergoing
      attraction due to an external magnetic field. Based on this it is possible
      to quantify hydrodynamic drag forces on the beads.

      Using open source tools `trackpy` and `scikit-image`, I developed an
      image processing pipeline to isolate, track, and calculate motion dynamics
      from the frames. We reached an average frame rate of `~800 fps`.

  - company: Laboratoire Jean Perrin, UPMC
    location: Paris
    dates:
      from: '2018-01-22'
      till: '2018-04-22'
    position: Research Intern
    tags:
      - Theoretical Biophysics
      - Optical Tracking
      - Mechanotransduction
    website: http://www.labos.upmc.fr/ljp
    description: |
      # The Mechanical Sense of Paramecium

      As a research intern, I developed high-frequency, real-time image analysis
      and hardware control pipeline to track long trajectories of _Paramecium_.
      I wrote a driver for the microscope stage, and a high-speed image
      aquisition and processing (~50fps) tool. Using these software we were able
      to follow the trajectory of moving _Paramecium_.

  - company: Laboratoire Matière et Systèmes Complexes, Université Paris Diderot
    location: Paris
    dates:
      from: '2017-10-09'
      till: '2018-01-09'
    position: Research Intern
    tags:
      - Phyllotaxis
      - Plant Biology
      - Projection Geometry
    website: http://www.msc.univ-paris-diderot.fr
    description: |
      # Study of Diversity in Phyllotactic Patterns

      Phyllotaxis is the arrangement of lateral organs in plants. In this
      project we attempt to explain the origin of emergent patterns,
      transitions, and irregularities in such arrangements. Using cylindrical
      projection unrolling and unwarping, I developed an image analysis pipeline
      allowing better study of complicated plant organs.

  - company: Agora Health
    location: London
    dates:
      from: '2016-02-08'
      till: '2018-04-01'
    position: Full Stack Developer
    tags:
      - Machine Learning
      - Web Development
    website: https://agorahealth.org.uk
    description: |
      # Personalised Medical Events, Conferences, and Courses Recommendation for Doctors at NHS, UK

      - Developed the algorithm for classification of events into medical specialities.
      - Integrated the classification system into the web app.
      - Implemented an event recommendation engine leveraging Elasticsearch and stored features.
      - Wrote a framework for event data aggregation from multiple NHS websites.

  - company: Oxyent Technologies
    location: New Delhi
    dates:
      from: '2016-07-01'
      till: '2016-09-01'
    position: Summer Intern
    website: http://oxyent.com
    tags:
      - Computer Vision
      - Information Extraction
    description: |
      # Computer Vision and Information Extraction

      Developed and shipped a utility for digitizing waveforms and
      extracting metadata from `ECG` reports. It is being used at Brigham and
      Women’s Hospital, Boston for processing more than a million patient records.

      Also worked on extracting normalized tabular data from scanned
      medical records. Key challenges here involved handling skewed,
      desaturated and otherwise low quality images.

  - company: Survaider
    location: New Delhi
    dates:
      from: '2015-01-01'
      till: '2016-02-01'
    position: Developer and UI/UX Designer
    website: http://survaider.com
    tags:
      - Backend and REST API
      - Client Interface
      - Analytics
    description: |
      # Survaider Web App and Survey Builder

      Developed a web app backend and REST API in Python.

      Designed and developed a web based survey builder tool which was later
      integrated into the core application.

  - company: Design Innovation Centre
    location: New Delhi
    dates:
      from: '2015-06-15'
      till: '2015-08-29'
    position: Summer Intern
    tags:
      - Machine Learning
      - Time Series Analysis
      - Signal Processing
    description: |
      # Human Activity Recognition from Acceleration data Under Naturalistic Conditions

      The goal of this project was to develop a system for recognition
      of low level human activities, such as Walking, Running, Sitting, etc.,
      using a single accelerometer.

      Using supervised learning method, we trained a Random Forest
      Classifier using feature vectors obtained via our model. We
      were able to produce an accuracy of `95%` through our model.

  - company: University of California and Stanford
    location: Santa Cruz
    dates:
      from: '2015-01-01'
      till: '2015-06-01'
    position: Research Associate
    tags:
      - Data Scraping
      - Data Processing
    description: |
      # Aspiring Researcher Challenge

      As a research associate, I was part of the team which was
      responsible for developing a large, online experiment to study
      the wisdom of the crowd where I formulated the algorithm for
      scraping and formatting raw data off multiple crowdfunding
      platforms.

  - company: Cluster Innovation Centre, University of Delhi
    location: New Delhi
    dates:
      from: '2015-01-01'
      till: '2016-04-01'
    position: Undergrad Research
    tags:
      - Network Analysis
      - Computational Biology
      - Mathematical Modelling
    description: |
      # Modelling and Network Analysis of Intronic miRNA Mediated Gene Expression Regulation

      In this project, we developed a mathematical model for gene expression
      regulation via intronic micro `RNAs`, based on emperical data and
      experimental observations at IGIB.

      As a part of study, we've also generated a `miRNA <=> mRNA` target network
      using various available databases.

  - company: IamSME of India, PHD Chamber of Commerce
    location: New Delhi
    dates:
      from: '2014-05-15'
      till: '2014-08-20'
    position: Summer Intern
    tags:
    description: |
      Developed an open-source and modular `ERP` system and `API` sub-system.

  - company: Laboratory for Pattern Engineering, University of Delhi
    location: New Delhi
    dates:
      from: '2014-02-10'
      till: '2015-12-25'
    position: Research Associate
    tags:
    description: |
      Built a classification system for geospacial features between
      texts originated in different continents. Other responsibilities included
      design and development of several web portals, graphic designing, media
      and publishing tasks.

talks_and_workshops:
  - conference: FOSSASIA 2017
    location: Singapore
    dates:
      from: '2017-03-17'
      till: '2017-03-19'
    type: Talk
    tags:
      - Python
      - Open Source
    description: |
      # Alohomora: Unlocking Magical Bits in Python

      In this talk at FOSSASIA Summit, I gave a presentation covering several
      advance patterns in the Python programming language. In the presentation I
      introduced the audience with Metaclasses, Decorators and Patching.

  - conference: West College
    location: Glasgow, Scotland
    dates:
      from: '2015-07-14'
      till: '2015-07-19'
    type: Workshop
    description: |
      # Game Development Workshop under UK-India Education and Research Initiative

  - conference: Autonomi
    location: University of Delhi
    dates:
      from: '2015-02-28'
      till: '2015-03-01'
    type: Talk
    description: |
      # Robotics Bootcamp

      Delivered sessions on Arduino programming, DAC, ADC and PWM.

education:
  - institute: Centre de Recherches Interdisciplinaires
    location: Université Paris Descartes
    position: Masters
    dates:
      from: '2017-09-04'
      till: '2018-10-04'
    degree: Approches Interdisciplinaires du Vivant

  - institute: Cluster Innovation Centre
    location: University of Delhi
    position: Undergrad
    dates:
      from: '2013-08-10'
      till: '2017-07-05'
    degree: B.Tech. (IT and Mathematical Innovations)
    major: Information Technology
    minor: Mathematics, Systems Biology

skills:
  Development:
    - [Python, 5]
    - [SCSS, 5]
    - [CoffeeScript, 3]
    - [ES6/JavaScript, 4]
  Design:
    - [Print Media, 3]
    - [CAD/CAM, 2]
    - [Illustration, 3]
    - [User Interface, 3]
  Misc:
    - [Scientific Computing, 4]
    - [DevOps, 1]

open_source:
  - repo: prashnts/hues
    description: |
      # Hues: Colored terminal text made easy for Python

      Hues is a Python package which facilitates printing ANSI encoded text to
      terminal in unix-like systems.

  - repo: prashnts/metaRNA
    description: |
      # metaRNA: Find target sites for the miRNAs in genomic sequences

      metaRNA finds potential target sites for the microRNAs in genomic
      sequences. It is built on miRanda, an algorithm for detection and ranking
      of the targets of microRNA.

  - repo: prashnts/pybloomfiltermmap3
    description: |
      # PyBloomFilter: Fast, Memory Mapped Bloom Filter

      The goal of `PyBloomFilter` is to provide a fast, simple, scalable and
      correct library for Bloom Filters in Python.

  - repo: prashnts/mongocapsule
    description: |
      # MongoCapsule: Encapsulated MongoEngine

      MongoCapsule is a very thin wrapper around MongoEngine. It encapsulates
      MongoEngine attributes under a single namespace and hence allows explicit
      declaration without polluting global namespace.

  - repo: agora-team/elasticsearch-synonyms
    description: |
      # Elasticsearch-Synonyms: Utilities for working with Synonym Filter in Elasticsearch

      This repository contains a curated dataset of synonyms in `Solr` Format.
      These synonyms can be used for Elasticsearch Synonym Token Filter
      configuration. It provides a tool to lint and validate the synonym files.


publications:
  - title: Investigating the "wisdom of crowds" at scale
    journal: ACM UIST
    year: 2015
  - title: Protein engineering and de novo designing of a biocatalyst
    authors: M Kaushik, P Sinha, P Jaiswal, S Mahendru, K Roy, S Kukreti
    journal: Journal of Molecular Recognition
    year: 2016
  - title: Intronic miRNA mediated gene expression regulation controls protein crowding inside the cell
    authors: P Sinha, P Jaiswal, AK Jainarayanan, SK Brahmachari
    journal: Gene
    year: 2018
  - title: Meta-analysis of genomic variants and gene expression data in schizophrenia suggests the potential need for adjunctive therapeutic interventions for neuropsychiatric disorders
    authors: SA Chellappa, AK Pathak, P Sinha, AK Jainarayanan, S Jain, SK Brahmachari
    journal: Journal of genetics
    year: 2019