Sohan Rudra

Sohan Rudra

Graduate Student at the Department of Mathematics

Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

Biography

I am a final year graduate-student at IIT Kharagpur traversing the distance between intuitions and equations. Pondering over life, sometimes I find comfort on the printed page and sometimes in a tête-à-tête. Occasionally I also pen things around.

Interests

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Machine Learning
  • Computer Vision
  • Robotics

Education

  • Integrated (B.Sc Hons. & M.Sc) in Mathematics and Computing, 2021 expected

    Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Summer School Attendee

Google Research India

Aug 2020 – Aug 2020 Bangalore
  • A three day talk and lecture series on applications of Deep Learning on Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing and AI for Social Good & Human Computer Interaction.
 
 
 
 
 

Research Intern

Wadhwani AI

May 2020 – Aug 2020 Mumbai

Adviosr: Dr. Rahul Panicker

  • Developed a Multi-View pipeline for the Visual Weighing Machine (VWM) project for reducing thickness ambiguity from predictions.
  • Formulated and implemented a novel Depth-Aware weak-perspecitive camera for Geometry based Deep Learning pipelines.
  • Formulated and implemented a model architecture fusing Multi-View with Geometry which can make scale aware predictions for a subject using a supplementary object.
  • The overall algorithm increased the performance of the VWM pipeline by over 26% on validation and over 14% on test (MAE).
 
 
 
 
 

Research Intern

Wadhwani AI

May 2019 – Jul 2019 Mumbai

Adviosr: Dr. Rahul Panicker

  • Worked on the Visual Weighing Machine project, used for measuring body mass of new-born infants.
  • Used novel latent space representations for human mesh manipulations.
  • Created a robust pipeline for acquiring anthropomorphic measurements of human babies from 3D meshes.
  • Increased performance of the algorithm by 10% using state of the art Domain Adaptation techniques.
 
 
 
 
 

Artificial Intelligence Team Head

Autonomous Ground Vehicle Research Group

Mar 2017 – Present Department of Mining Engineering, IIT Kharagpur

Adviosr: Prof. Debashish Chakravarty

  • Developed and implemented various state of the art motion planning algorithms for autonomous driving.
  • Integrated various high precision sensors (LIDAR’s, IMU, GPS, etc), with different industrial-grade robot prototypes(Husky and Jackal) and mid-sized vehicles (Mahindra E2O) for developing and deploying several state-estimation and planning algorithms.
  • Surveyed and Implemented various Safe Reinforcement Learning algorithms for autonomous control and navigation.
  • Developed and maintained the full simulation stack for the autonomous driving system.

Accomplish­ments

Winner, Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship 2020

We were one of the winners of Qualcomm India Fellowship 2020 for our project proposal on Texture Aware CNN for End-to-End Trainable Iris Recognition System.

Runners up, Auto-Nav Challenge

Auto-Nav challenge in IGVC features creating a fully autonomous unmanned ground robotic vehicle must negotiate around an outdoor obstacle course under a prescribed time while maintaining a certain speed remaining within the lane, and avoiding the obstacles on the course.

Gold Medal, Technology General Championships(Inter-Hall)

DigiCon provides a solution to the age old problem of reading doctors’ prescriptions by providing a web and mobile interface that both pharmacists and patients can easily use to read the prescriptions.

Runners Up, NSS Annual Winter Camp (Unit Event)

As a part of NSS units were tasked to rebuild broken roads in rural villages in Bengal.The evaluation was done considering all the aspects like quality of work, safety training, disaster management, awareness street play etc.

Qualified, Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana(KVPY) Fellowship

KVPY is an on going National Program of Fellowship in Basic Sciences,initiated and funded by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, to attract exceptionally highly motivated students for pursuing basic science courses and research career in science.

Recent Posts

College Trip

My experiences with uncertainty in life and friendships, masquerading in the form of a travelogue.

Projects

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MADRaS

MADRaS is a Multi-Agent Autonomous Driving Simulator built on top of TORCS. The simulator can be used to test autonomous vehicle algorithms both heuristic and learning based on an inherently multi agent setting.

Frenet Planner

Implementation of Frenet Optimal Trajectory planning for motion planning of a four wheeled autonomous vehicle.

Safe RL

Implemented and tested various Constraint Optimization based Safe Reinforcement Learning algorithms for autonomous control and navigation on simulations.

Recent Publications

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MADRaS : Multi Agent Driving Simulator

MADRaS is a Multi-Agent Autonomous Driving Simulator built on top of TORCS. The simulator can be used to test autonomous vehicle algorithms both heuristic and learning based on an inherently multi agent setting.

Design and Implementation of Autonomous Ground Vehicle for Constrained Environments

The system paper for Eklavya 6.0. A bot capable of autonomously traversing a grassy landscape along with obstacle avoidance.

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