Varun Rawal

Varun Rawal

Graduate Student, CMU

Sitemap

A list of all the posts and pages found on the site. For you robots out there is an XML version available for digesting as well.

Pages

Posts

Future Blog Post

less than 1 minute read

This post will show up by default. To disable scheduling of future posts, edit config.yml and set future: false.

Blog Post number 4

less than 1 minute read

This is a sample blog post. Lorem ipsum I can’t remember the rest of lorem ipsum and don’t have an internet connection right now. Testing testing testing this blog post. Blog posts are cool.

Blog Post number 3

less than 1 minute read

This is a sample blog post. Lorem ipsum I can’t remember the rest of lorem ipsum and don’t have an internet connection right now. Testing testing testing this blog post. Blog posts are cool.

Blog Post number 2

less than 1 minute read

This is a sample blog post. Lorem ipsum I can’t remember the rest of lorem ipsum and don’t have an internet connection right now. Testing testing testing this blog post. Blog posts are cool.

Blog Post number 1

less than 1 minute read

This is a sample blog post. Lorem ipsum I can’t remember the rest of lorem ipsum and don’t have an internet connection right now. Testing testing testing this blog post. Blog posts are cool.

academic_qualifications

Carnegie Mellon University

CMU Pittsburgh Campus

Master of Science in Machine Learning, Aug 2019 - Dec 2020

Machine Learning Department, School of Computer Science

awards

SAIL Proficiency Award 2012-13

Published:

Awarded Certificate of Merit-cum-Cash Award by Education Department, Bhilai Steel Plant, Steel Authority of India Limited, for Outstanding Proficiency in All India Entrance Examination for Professional Course in Engineering 2012-13

B.P. PODDAR SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENT 2015-16

Published:

Granted Scholarship of INR 1000 per month awarded to the best students of the final year class of B.Tech. (Hons.) securing the highest CGPA at the end of the VI or VIII semesters.

GORA LAL SYNGAL MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENT 2015-16

Published:

Granted Scholarship of INR 2500 per month, awarded to the second highest CGPA holder clearing all prescribed requirements of curriculum and having no backlog after 6th semester amongst the 4-year B.Tech. (Hons.) CS / EE /EC Students.

experiences

experiences_acad

Carnegie Mellon University

Research Assistant

Sep 2020 - December 2020

Supervisor : Prof. Beibei Li , Pittsburgh, PA, USA

  • Responsible for development and maintenance of an Android/iOS research application platform.

experiences_industry

Adobe Systems India Pvt. Ltd.

Member of Technical Staff

June 2017 - December 2018

Adobe Experience Cloud, Noida, India

  • Worked in product team affiliated to AEM (Adobe Experience Manager) Forms evolved from Adobe LiveCycle team and part of Adobe Experience Cloud Solutions. LiveCycle is an enterprise level product used for business process automation services
  • Worked on various aspects of product both at front-end and back-end sides. Contributed to end-to-end development of new interfaces featured for Interactive Communication Applications, Data Integration Services, Document Fragment and Letter-based Services
  • Worked on independent project for Intelligent Chatbot services using NLP for Query-based interaction on personalized customer contexts derived from their respective statement reports.

Adobe Systems India Pvt. Ltd.

Senior Member of Technical Staff

January 2019 - June 2019

Adobe Creative Cloud, Noida, India

  • Worked in product team affiliated to Adobe CC (Adobe Creative Cloud) which is an enterprise level product used for graphic design, video editing, web development, photography
  • Worked on recent (launch targeted 2020) port of Adobe Illustrator to iOS platform for iPad - project Proteus; work intensively focused in C++ and iOS platforms
  • Learned programming in Metal language for handling side-tasks involving graphics-based aspects of Illustrator and development on iOS platforms

experiences_intern

IBM India Research Laboratory (IRL)

Research Intern (UG Summer Training)

May 2015 - June 2015

Supervisor : Dr. Sameep Mehta, Senior Researcher & Manager, IBM, New Delhi, India

  • Actively participated in and contributed to the partial fulfilment of the Project \Construction of Knowledge Graph and Use of Semantic Knowledge Graph in Supervised Training and Blended Learning”
  • Prepared a model for Knowledge Graph construction by discovering relations and establishing links between graph nodes, and completed implementation in JAVA, collecting 4000 records by crawling a Research Repository as the work dataset.
  • Applied a variety of text-mining techniques like Entity-Extraction, Part-of-Speech Tagging and Similarity Detection using Online JAVA Services and JAVA libraries. Finally demonstrated a 3D visualization of the growing Knowledge Graph using visualization Library tools

Adobe Big Data Experience Lab (BEL)

Research Intern (B.Tech. Summer Training)

May 2016 - July 2016

Supervisor : Harvineet Singh, MTS, Adobe Research Labs, Adobe Research Bangalore, India

  • Actively participated in and contributed to the fulfilment of the Project based on \Analytics of Multi-Channel Customer Data”
  • Applied Machine Learning models to predict customer affinity to interact in a given channel with limited information, given this information of interaction across other channels.
  • Designed a unique and novel solution approach exploiting CCA (Canonical Correlation Analysis) for suggesting ways for predicting customers’ purchase behavior using a shared feature space which captures cross channel correlations instead of directly merging the input channels’ data or predicting on the basis of single channel.

Qeexo Co.

ML Research Intern (Master's Summer Training)

June, 2020 - Aug, 2020

Supervisor : Dr. Rajen Bhatt, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

  • Worked on off-device and on-device Real-Time Clustering & Visualization on Sensor data for Machine Learning platform AutoML - in development for execution of ML libraries on Sensor-Data for Embedded devices like Arduino Sensorboard, etc.

portfolio

publications

Supporting Throughput Fairness in IEEE 802.11ac Dynamic Bandwidth Channel Access: A Hybrid Approach

Published in IEEE Conference 2017, 2017

Paper accepted at 42nd IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN). 2017. for publication in its proceedings.

Recommended citation: R. Karmakar, V. Rawal, P. K. Bishoyi, S. Chattopadhyay and S. Chakraborty, "Supporting Throughput Fairness in IEEE 802.11ac Dynamic Bandwidth Channel Access: A Hybrid Approach," 2017 IEEE 42nd Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), Singapore, 2017, pp. 462-470, doi: 10.1109/LCN.2017.93. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321122477_Supporting_Throughput_Fairness_in_IEEE_80211ac_Dynamic_Bandwidth_Channel_Access_A_Hybrid_Approach/link/5b8ed7fb92851c6b7ebffb7a/download

talks