Zafar Ahmed Ansari
Indian Institute of Technology
Jodhpur,
Rajasthan,
India.
Profile

Education
Passed Class X ICSE Board exam in 2004 with 89.9 % aggregate.
Passed Class XII ISC Board exam in 2006 with 87.4 % aggregate.
Was awarded B Tech degree in Computer Science & Engineering in 2011 with 74.84 % aggregate.
Having joined in August 2011, currently pursuing M Tech at Centre of Excellence in Information & Communication Technology (ICT) at Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur (IIT Rajasthan).

Areas of interest
1. Machine Learning
2. Artificial Intelligence
3. Computer Vision

Technical Skills
Programming Languages: Java, GNU C/C++, Turbo C/C++
Libraries: OpenCV, Libfreenect, OpenNI.
Operating Systems: Windows, Ubuntu.
IDE: Eclipse.
Tools: Matlab, Octave.

Extra Curriculars
I have won numerous awards in intra-college and inter-college competitions spanning areas like creative writing, G.K., programming, debate, poster presentation, business proposal etc.

Awards & Achievements
1. Secured an All India Rank 60 in 7th National Science Olympiad in 2005.
2. Secured an All India Rank 239 in the final round of 5th National Cyber Olympiad in 2005.
3. Felicitated by the UP Government for securing the highest marks (cent percent) in Mathematics in class XII Boards in 2006.
4. Was adjudged overall second (national level) in the final round in Vigyan Shastra Pratibha Khoj 2004 conducted by Vijnan Bharati.
5. Was in the top 0.56% in CAT-2010 (Combined Aptitude Test held in November, 2010 for entrance into MBA) in the English Verbal section.
6. Second rank in the event "Acoustic Unplugged" (a band contest) in the inter-college cult fest "Taksh 2012" of IIT Rajasthan in which I was the rhythm guitarist and singer.
7. Second prize in the story writing competition "Boni Scribendi" in Spandan 2012 at IIT Rajasthan.
8. Second position in the event "Express to Impress" (creative writing) held in IIT Rajasthan in September 2012.

Work experience
Duration: 10th June 2010-15th July 2010 (6 weeks) in Dynamica solutions, Noida.
Project: Social Networking Site (J2EE)

Duration: 5th December 2011- 25th December 2011 (3 weeks) in Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Gurgaon.
Project: Obstacle Avoidance using Kinect Xbox 360 hardware.

Positions Of Responsibilities
1. "Mentor" of the Programming Club, IIT Rajasthan in Fall semester, 2011.
2. One of the batch representatives in College in 2007-08.
3. School Prefect in sessions 2002-03 and 2004-05.
4. Teaching Assistant for the subject "Data Structures & Algorithms" for Spring Semester of 2011-12.
5. Teaching Assistant for the subject "Artificial Intelligence" for Fall semester 2011-12.

M Tech thesis title
Indian Sign Language Interpretation using Microsoft Kinect hardware.

My Hobbies: Reading fiction, sketching, singing, creative writing, playing guitar, ideating, poetry.

Miscellaneous
1. I currently teach guitar in IIT Rajasthan's Music Club.
2. I am a Wikipedia author. I frequently contribute to other articles.
My article on "Conditional Dependence" can be viewed here.
3. I am an open-source aficionado.
4. I am a big fan of online courses at Coursera and Udacity. When I am not working in my lab, I am generally watching lectures on a range of multidisciplinary subjects. My profile at Coursera can be viewed here. I have a certificate of accomplishment in the online course Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (2011) taught by Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig.