<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#000000">Hello,</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#000000">I'm Aditya Sharma, a senior at Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India (BITS Pilani) in the final year of my Bachelor's degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering and I graduate in August 2016.<br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#000000">This semester, I'm doing my undergraduate thesis under <a href="http://talukdar.net">Dr Partha Talukdar</a>, with whom I had also interned last summer, at the <a href="http://www.talukdar.net/mall-lab/">Machine and Language Learning (MALL) Lab</a> of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.<br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#000000">My research here is focused on implementing distributed optimisation algorithms for large scale machine learning on the <a href="http://www.serc.iisc.ernet.in/facilities/ComputingFacilities/systems/newhpc/">Cray XC40 supercomputer - SahasraT</a>, currently the fastest in India, using C++ based MPI-OpenMP. I'm currently developing an asynchronous parallel version of SGD along the lines of <a href="http://papers.nips.cc/paper/4687-large-scale-distributed-deep-networks.pdf">DownPour SGD</a>, having already implemented a synchronous version using MPI_AllReduce, as a baseline. For the same, I have developed a Parameter Server infrastructure on Cray XC40 from scratch in MPI.</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#000000">Along with my lab, I also participated in the '<a href="https://www.kaggle.com/c/the-allen-ai-science-challenge">Allen AI Science Challenge</a>' hosted at Kaggle, which aimed at answering 8th grade multiple choice science questions. We achieved an overall accuracy of 51.2%, and stood <b>10th</b> on the <a href="https://www.kaggle.com/c/the-allen-ai-science-challenge/leaderboard/private">leaderboard</a>. (You can see my Kaggle profile <a href="https://www.kaggle.com/amberosti" target="_blank">here</a>.)</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#000000"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Owing to my experience in the area, I am really interested in the <a href="https://github.com/mlpack/mlpack/wiki/SummerOfCodeIdeas#parallel-stochastic-optimization-methods">'</a></font><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><a href="https://github.com/mlpack/mlpack/wiki/SummerOfCodeIdeas#parallel-stochastic-optimization-methods">Parallel stochastic optimisation methods'</a> project idea listed on the GSOC 2016 page of mlpack and would love to know more details regarding the direction in which the community wants to go with regards to this project. </font></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#000000">In case you are interested to know more details about my work, you can glance over <a href="http://adityasharma.space/" target="_blank">my webspace</a> and my <a href="http://adityasharma.space/files/Aditya-CV-2016.pdf">CV</a>.</font></div></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px">Thank you for your time!</span><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#000000">Warm Regards,</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#000000">Aditya</font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#000000">-- <br></font><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#000000">Aditya Sharma<br>Fourth Year Undergraduate<br>Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering,<br>Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani<br>Rajasthan, India - 333031</font></p><p><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#000000">WWW: <a href="http://adityasharma.space" target="_blank">http://adityasharma.space</a></font></p><p dir="ltr"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#000000">E-mail: <a href="mailto:adisharma075@gmail.com" target="_blank">adisharma075@gmail.com</a>, <a href="mailto:f2012075@pilani.bits-pilani.ac.in" target="_blank">f2012075@pilani.bits-pilani.ac.in</a><br>LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/adityabits" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/adityabits</a></font></p></div></div></div></div>
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