Ankit Baphna
Currently pursuing B.Tech. in Information and Communication Technology at DA-IICT
| Headline: | Engineer |
| Work status: | Full-Time Student |
| Industries: | Education, Information Technology, Internet |
| Skills: | AJAX, Business, C/C++, Computer Engineering, Databases, Design, Embedded systems, Engineering, Entrepreneurship, Flash, HTML / CSS, Java, Languages and Platforms, PHP, Software Engineering, SQL, Web design, Web Development |
| Location: | Gandhinagar |
| Groups: | 2011 UC Berkeley Business Plan Competition, 2012 UC Berkeley Startup Competition, DREAM IT WIN IT! $25K Student Business Plan Competition, iDeas @ Megabucks '09, START IT UP! Fresno's $250K Entrepreneur Challenge, UC Berkeley Business Plan Competition 2009-2010, [INACTIVE] UC Berkeley Business Plan Competition 2008-2009 |
| Interested in: | Brainstorming, Consulting opportunities, Employment opportunities, Finding experts, Finding mentors, Finding team mates, Internships, Joining a startup, Learning about entrepreneurship, Meeting new people, Participating in a competition, Patenting my idea, Professional opportunities, Raising money, Receiving feedback, Starting a company |
| Tags: | daiict, engineer, entrepreneur, ict |
| Schools: | Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology |
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology |
| Position: | Course Projects |
| Description: | • Implementation of Booth Multiplier, Vending Machine and Traffic Light Controller System on FPGA(Winter 2008)
Digital System Architecture: Guide: Prof. Rahul Dubey (Team size: 1) - Implemented entire functioning of 8-bit Booth Multiplier on FPGA kit, by developing Verilog modules. Developed vending machine and traffic light controller system on Verilog which was later implemented over FPGA kit. • Music Department Database System (Winter 2007) Database Management System: Guide: Prof. Anutosh Maitra (Team size: 4) - Designing database for a music store where a administrator can update his records of CDs, VCDs, staff etc. • Mobile Based Agro-Informatics System (MBAIS) (Winter 2008) Software Engineering: Guide: Prof. Rakesh Shukla (Team size: 11) - A mobile based service provider independent system that will enable farmers to get the agriculture based information like crop rates, insecticides and pesticides information, alerts etc. via SMS or just selecting the required options from the GUI that can be installed on their mobile. It has three modules: 1) A multi-lingual web interface for the administrators and farmers. 2) A multilingual Flashlite application for farmers mobile to provide them an interactive GUI. 3) C# application to extract SMS, decode it, query the database to generate reply and send it to the farmer. - Language Used: HTML, JSP, Adobe Flashlite 2.0, Microsoft Activesync and C# • JPEG Image Compression (Image Processing) (2006-2007) Design Project: Guide: Prof. Manjunath Joshi (Team size: 5) - In the first phase, converting the base image to 8x8 matrices, taking DCT transform and quantizing it. - In the second phase, DC Coding and Zig-Zag Sequence of Quantized Matrices is done. - In the third phase, Conversion of quantized vectors into the JPEG defined bit stream using Huffman Coding is done. - Tool used:MATLAB. • Braille Reader (Winter 2008) Embedded System Programming: Faculty Guide: Prof. Prabhat Ranjan (Team size: 2) - Designed and implemented system for assisting blind persons in learning braille. In the system, blind person presses the 6 keys corresponding to the combination in braille which he/she can further listen by pressing speak button when done with the braille combination. - Language and tool used: C, AVR Microcontroller on STK500 toolkit. |
| Employer: | Other Projects/Papers presented |
| Position: | Work experience |
| Description: | • Web-enabled wireless ECG system using 3G mobile phone
Self Interest (Winter 2008, Team size: 1) - Designed a system for continuous monitoring of ECG of a heart patient and presented that in Qualcomm Innovators Challenge held at Indian Institute Of Technology (IIT), Bombay in Techfest’08. It takes the ECG readings and other readings through ECG and various other context awareness sensors and continuously transfers the data to the central server for monitoring. Various sensors are attached to the Body Sensor Network(BSN) node for data compilation and transfer to central server using CDMA technology. - Software/Hardware Used: BSN node(contains TI MSP430 family chip etc.), TinyOS (OS for embedded systems). |
| Employer: | Qualcomm India Pvt. Ltd. |
| Position: | Research Internship: Guide: Shrinivas Bairi (Sr. Engineer, Qualcomm India Pvt. ltd) |
| Time period: | May 2008 - July 2008 |
| Description: | BREW software development
Worked in the BREW Core team for the development of various versions of BREW sdk and did the testing on different targets for various builds and modules. Also worked on various change requests (CRs) and did devicepack (DPK) dependency removal from various Operational Acceptace Test (OAT) modules. - Language and Tools Used:C, PerForce, BREW Porting Evalution Kit, Code Collaborator, QUALCOMM Product Support Tool (QPST), Form Factor Accurate (FFA). |
| Employer: | National Innovation Foundation (NIF) |
| Position: | Industrial Internship: Guide: Sandeep Sharma, National Coordinator - IT & Dissemination, NIF |
| Time period: | June 2007 - August 2007 |
| Description: | Resume Database System
- Developed a database and frontend to support it which is used for managing the resumes for various posts at NIF. - Language Used:PHP and MYSql. |
| Employer: | National Innovation Foundation (NIF). |
| Position: | Industrial Internship: Guide: Sandeep Sharma, National Coordinator - IT & Dissemination, NIF |
| Time period: | June 2007 - August 2007 |
| Description: | YouTube video viewer
- Designed a system that can help to view the videos uploaded on YouTube embedded on NIF’s homepage with will let the viewer to see the videos without redirecting to YouTube’s website. Also features like zoom-in, zoom-out and download directly is provided. - Language Used:HTML and Google gadgets. |
| Employer: | Sewa Bharti. |
| Position: | Rural Internship: Guide: Dr. Ram, Member of Sewa Bharti(NGO) |
| Time period: | June 2006 - August 2006 |
| Description: | Applying ICT on Rural India
- 5 weeks of rural internship in May-June 2006 and around villages Ujjain. Internship was undertaken to apply ICT solutions to the problems of the rural areas around Ujjain. Work profile consist of assisting Dr. Ram and spreading awareness amoung rural masses. |
EDUCATION
| University: | Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology |
| Time period: | 2005 - 2009 |
| Degree: | ICT, BTech |
INFORMATION
| Hobbies: | • Embedded systems design.
• Nanotechnology. • Animation & web designing. |
| Awards: | • Won first prize in Qualcomm Innovator’s Challenge held at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay during Techfest’08.
• Selected amongst top 5 best featured ideas in Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Challenge and was summarized in Qualcomm’s Quarterly Communications Meet in San Diego in May’08. • Selected amongst top 5 for the Cairo Microsoft Innovation Center Internship Program 2008, Egypt. • Won first prize in event ALGORITHMUS (designing algorithm) held in Synapse ’06 (Annual tech-cult festival of DAIICT). • Won second prize in event PERPLEX (solving the problem in the hardest way) held in Synapse’08. • Won various prizes and awards for excellence in academics and extra curricular activities in school. • Presented paper in Mindbend’08 (annual technical fest of SVNIT, Surat). • Attended the workshop conducted by Infosys CDG held in Synapse ’06. • Attended the workshop on Embedded systems conducted by IEEE. • Event co-coordinator of the event CATECHIZE (networking event) in Synapse’08. • Participated in Drama in school’s annual festival. |
Ankit's Startups (2)
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Hiefen
Hiefen.com is an animation promoting cum social networking cum blogging website which shares profit with the end users. Now people will be rewarded for what they have been doing for free.
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MySpecialGift.com will be a gift cum online shopping website where one can buy loads of products ranging from as small as a teddy bear to as big as a holiday package or a car.
Ankit's Contacts (2)
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palak mehta
Pursuing B. Tech in Civil Engineering at Nirma University, Ahmedabad.
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Christine Cerda Valadez
Marketing graduate with MBA from University of Phoenix. Currently working as Organizational Business Consultant at Cerda Consultants and as Associate Realtor at Guarantee Real Estate.