Student Research Intern
Built an interactive desktop application enabling cognitively impaired patients to communicate through text and voice while collaborating with an interdisciplinary healthcare team.
Python · PyQt · TensorFlow · OpenCV
Archive
Earlier work, research, and projects.
The homepage is intentionally curated around my current cloud, distributed-systems, and AI work. This page keeps the broader history: earlier internships, research, academic projects, publications, and activities.
Earlier experience
Software Engineering Intern
Modernized a legacy desktop workflow into an ASP.NET MVC web application for inventory-order processing and implemented features that improved user productivity by ~65%.
C# · ASP.NET MVC · SQL Server · JavaScript · AJAX · REST APIs
Computer Vision Intern
Built a real-time surveillance system to detect and track people in deep-sea water, training on ~30,000 samples and achieving 85%+ detection accuracy; also developed a facial-recognition attendance system exceeding 90% accuracy.
Python · OpenCV · Django · Computer Vision
Selected academic & personal projects
Holiday Planner
Built a cloud application for planning travel itineraries with flight, attraction, event, weather, preference, and history-based recommendations.
AWS Lambda · DynamoDB · ElastiCache · Cognito · CloudWatch
AI Customer Service Chatbot
Developed a scalable conversational restaurant-recommendation engine using serverless AWS services, event-driven queues, and messaging.
Lambda · API Gateway · Cognito · Lex · SQS · SNS
Event Finder
Built authenticated APIs and role-based authorization for a local-events application with D3-powered map visualization.
Node.js · Express · REST APIs · NeDB · D3.js
Mask.IT
Detected faces and landmarks, morphed masks with nonlinear alignment, and overlaid them with Lanczos interpolation and alpha blending.
Python · OpenCV · HOG · SVM
Music Analytics & Genre Recognition
Built a data pipeline across web and HDF5 sources, processed data on Amazon EMR, and trained a random-forest genre classifier.
PySpark · Scala · MLlib · AWS EMR
Sense.Me
Analyzed smartphone sensing and workload data to model sleep, conversation, activity, and behavioral indicators associated with student stress and depression.
Python · scikit-learn · Lasso Regression
Intelligent Pac-Man Agent
Implemented search and optimization strategies including A*, hill climbing, Monte Carlo Tree Search, BFS, and genetic algorithms.
Python · Search · Optimization
X-Beats
Built a smart music player that used facial-expression analysis and task context to generate playlists aimed at improving mood and productivity.
MATLAB · Java · MySQL · Viola-Jones · AdaBoost
Publication & activities
Music Playlist Generation Using Facial Expression Analysis and Task Extraction ↗
A. Sen, D. Popat, H. Shah, P. Kuwor, and E. Johri.
Technical activities
- Built a hotel-review summarization assistant at the Trivago Hackathon — New York Edition.
- Ranked in the Top 10 at a TopCoder coding contest in New York.
Martial arts
- Participated in Karate Budokan International World Championship events.
- Won first prize in Wushu at district level.