Saif Hasan Computer Science & Engineering Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

09005003 B.Tech. Male DOB: 14th Jan 1992 Year 2012 2009 2007 CPI / % 8.83 86.20 89.60

Examination Graduation Intermediate/+2 Matriculation

University IIT Bombay Central Board of Secondary Education Central Board of Secondary Education

Institute IIT Bombay Lawrence and Mayo senior secondary school, Kota Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Dantiwada

Research and Professional Experience Microsoft Bing, Search Technology Center, India Livesite Ninja [May-July 2012] Worked on Bing Search stack and developed an internal debugging tool for Search Answer Services Completely automated debugging procedure. Tool saved hours of manual effort and reduced Livesite downtime to a few minutes Offered Full Time Employee position in recognition of my performance (Pre Placement Offer) Yahoo Labs - Sentiment Analysis of Web Pages [May-July 2011] Worked on a problem of deriving the sentiment of a webpage Developed unsupervised Text Classifier which classifies text by deriving its positivity and negativity Implemented Code in Map-Reduce paradigm for processing large number of documents for testing Academic Projects Undertaken Forecasting and Analysis of Time Series (B.Tech Project) (Guide: Prof. M. L. Bernard) [Ongoing] Working on classification of time series using various methods to find out correlation between time series Working on improving accuracy of prediction of time series for sales data over pre-existing models Using Machine Learning and Convex optimization techniques to perform classification Android Controlled Robot (Guide: Prof. Kavi Arya) [Feb 2012 Apr 2012] Developed pair of Android Applications using which user can control the remotely located robot Implemented efficient and compressed live streaming of robots view to users android device File System Implementation (Guide: Prof. D. M. Dhamdhere) [Oct 2011 Nov 2011] Designed and developed a fully functional file system having its own data block allocation scheme, directory structure, IO cache and permission control Implemented system calls to read, write, create, delete and move files, folders and links Course Rank (Guide: Prof S. Sudarshan) [Oct 2011 Nov 2011] Developed a website like a social version of Moodle, where students, professors and courses have their own page with discussion forums Designed a University schema and cool Web Interface for Project IIT Bombay - Desktop Search (Guide: Prof. Om Damani) [Sept 2010 Nov 2010] Implemented Tiger Hash for uniqueness of object and complicated data structure for constant order search, insert and delete in hashed database Used concepts of Distributed Hash Table for easy extension of the program to peer-to-peer file sharing and content distribution systems Provided user-friendly features for adding and deleting a file/directory to/from the hashed database IIT Bombay Biometric Identification (Finger print duplicate detection) [Oct 2009 Nov 2009] Developed finger print duplicate detection software for Mini UID project along with teammates Designed algorithm for duplicate fingerprint detection with tested accuracy over 60% Training Camps Yahoo Summer School - Information Retrieval [June 2011] Qualified for and attended the Information Retrieval Summer School Organized by Yahoo at IISc Bangalore Understood Indexing, Index Compression, Distributed Indexing, Query Evaluation, different Retrieval Models and Evaluation of Search Engines

Positions of Responsibility Club Manager, Institute Web and Coding Club [Apr 2011 Apr 2012] Overall Coordinator of the Club. Responsible for organizing Workshops, Lectures and Coding competitions at the Institute Level. Club has 1100+ members. Organized 14 events over span of one year Created opportunities for summer projects for all students at Institute level Promoted coding as a hobby and a necessary academic skill by creating an informal engaging environment Overall Coordinator, Department Academic Mentorship Program [Apr 2012 Present] Leading a team of 16 student mentors to guide and motivate students facing academic difficulties Allocated mentors to all 2nd year CSE B.Tech students for helping them academically and mentoring academically weak students to cope with academic pressures Institute Student Mentor [Apr 2012 Present] Mentoring a group of 10 freshmen, to resolve all kinds of issues, academic or social, they may face during their 1st year and help them in their overall development Selected as one of the 82 mentors responsible for guiding around 900 freshmen, based on academic performance, strong interpersonal skills and peer reviews Undergraduate Teaching Assistant [Aug 2012 Present] Currently serving as the only Undergraduate Teaching Assistant for a third year UG course, Computer Networks Served as teaching assistant for first year course Computer Programming and Utilization [Autumn 2011] Academic Achievements Secured All India Rank 204 in the IIT-Joint Entrance Examination 2009, among 400,000 candidates Achieved All India Rank 48 in Nationwide Education and Scholarship Test, conducted by NISER [2009] Achieved All India Rank 102 (out of more than 4 lakh) in National Level Science Talent Search Examination Secured All India Rank 151 in 11th National Science Olympiad [2009] Coding and Development Yahoo! Hacku12, Happiness Crawler Awarded special mention for developing Twitter tweet classifier (based on tweets happiness index) Handled negations and considered chat lingo normalization and emoticons for tweet processing Highlighted regions of the world dynamically according to their derived happiness scores SMS Mean Dictionary App Developed interactive SMS Dictionary App hosted on Google App Engine which uses App Engine Datastore to maintain cache and user sessions 1 lakh monthly hits with over 30k unique users Miscellaneous Secured 17th Rank in ACM-ICPC, Asia Regional level held at Amritapuri University (December 2011) First prize in Institute Hack Night Competition 2012. Developed Ubuntu Dictionary and Evaluation Lens Second prize for developing Facebook Album Downloader in Institute Hack Night Competition 2011 Developed Graph Planarity App in Windows8 using metro UI during Hack Night Competition at Microsoft Stood 1st in Non-Standard Programming Language contest organized by Techfest, 2010 Served as Web Manager and Computer secretary of Hostel-8 for year 2010-11 Extra-Curricular Entrepreneurship: Worked as Chief Technology Officer, Laugh Out Loud Pvt. Ltd. (an Indian humor brand); developed 2 professional sites. The Briber microsite which generated 10+ TV interviews and 3+ newspaper articles Sports: Successfully completed 26 days of Basic Mountaineering Course from Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Mountaineering and Allied Sports (ABVIMAS), Manali Successfully completed the course conducted by National Sports Organization in Volleyball Have an avid interest in playing Basketball, Carrom and Chess Extremely enthusiastic about adventure sports especially mountaineering