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Curriculum Vitae/Resume

General Information

Full Name Ashwin K Krishna
Date of Birth 21st June 2002
Languages English, Tamil, Malayalam, Hindi

Education

  • 2024
    B. Tech
    Indian Instiute of Technology Madras
    • Major in Chemical Engineering.
    • Minor in Computing.
    • Undergraduate Research Areas.
      • Computer Vision
      • Reinforcement Learning
      • Complexity Theory
      • Deep Learning & Machine Learning
      • Explainability and Inerpretability
      • Graph Learning
  • 2020
    CBSE
    Maharishi Vidya Mandir Senior Secondary School
    • Certificate of Merit for top 0.1%.
    • Science Stream including Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, & Computer Science.

Experience

  • 2023-24
    Research Intern
    Generative AI Innovation Center, USA
    • Working on advancements in Multi source free domain adaptation
    • Working on advancements in improving robustness of DeepFake detection
  • May'23 - Aug'23
    Research Intern Charpak Lab Scholarship
    Universite Paris Cite
    • Time series Anomaly Detection, Improvement of Volume Under Surface (VUS) Range based anomaly detection metric
      • Fivefold runtime improvement
      • Reduction in Time and Space Complexity
      • Verified on Synthetic Data and TSB UAD Benchmark
    • Time series Classification, Use of Series2Graph model, to produce explainable time series classfication.
      • Unified Graph based representation for Time series
      • Expainability in classification based on nodes and edges
  • Mar'23 - Sep'23
    Research Intern
    National University of Singapore
    • Developed realistic surgical settings to integrate LLM based control
    • Combined and improved several surgical simualators for image based RL control
  • 2022-23
    Young Research Fellow
    Indian Institute of Technology Madras
    • Developed ML based Chemical Kinetics Model for Fluidized bed reactor
    • Bottleneck network for reducing and grouping multi dimensional Input data
  • Jun'22-Sept'22
    Technical University of Munich
    Technical University of Munich, Germany
    • Developed XAFS data generation pipeline
    • Used PCA and ANN to produce composition prediction for noisy empirical data

Course based Projects

  • 2023-24
    Final year Project (B. Tech Project)
    • Working on making advancements in Explainable Reinforcement learning in Control theory
  • 2023
    Colloids Term Project
    • Colloidal Drop Drying prediction using geometric synthetic data generation and Transfer learning
  • 2023
    Ecological Term Project
    • Mapping of Fig Trees across IIT Madras Campus for Ecological sustainability study.

Work Experience

  • 2022-23
    Toyota Connected India Limited, Vision Team Navi AR, Lane ID
    • Worked on developing Vision Pipeline in AWS Servers for automated driving
  • 2022-23
    CONXAI X CNS Lab
    • Developed Graph based reasoning networks for resource identification and allocation from video feed
  • 2022-23
    Joint Angle Estimation by Computer Vision and Intelligence Club
    • Enhanced Lightweight Joint Angle Estimation to get real time joint angle estimates by monocular lens

Open Source Projects, Computer Vision and Intelligence Club

  • 2022-23
    Facial Expresssion Recognition (FER)
    • Improved Speed of FER by using Facenet to replace MTCNN backbone in facial detection.

Honors and Awards

  • 2023
    • Charpak Lab Scholarship
    • Top 30 in India
  • 2022
    • Young Research Fellowship
    • Top 35 in IITM in Research Aptitude
  • 2020
    • Certificate of Merit
    • Top 0.1% in CBSE for Class XII

Other Interests

  • Hobbies: Music, Drawing, Karate.