Romil

P. Shah
1634 Commonwealth Ave, Apt10, Brighton, MA 02135
(857) 919-7147 | shah.romil@husky.neu.edu
romilshah.com | github.com/rams16592 | linkedin.com/in/rams16592

EDUCATION
Northeastern University, Boston, MA Dec 2017
Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering GPA: 3.80/4.00
Concentration: Computer Vision, Machine Learning and Algorithms (CVLA)
Courses: Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition, Computer Architecture, Mobile Robotics, Data Mining
Nirma University, Ahmedabad, India May 2014
Bachelor of Technology in Electronics and Communication Engineering GPA: 3.53/4.00
Courses: Multimedia Systems, DSP, Computer Architecture, Digital System Design, Robotics, Microcontroller

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Volvo Construction Equipment Shippensburg, PA
Computer Vision Research Engineer Co-Op January 2017 August 2017
Developed state-of-art object recognition-detection-tracking on CUDA-based embedded systems for autonomous
vehicles; Using deep neural net architecture and deep-learning frameworks Caffe and Caffe2; Camera Calibration;
Surround view; Mapping obstacles to visualize distance
Increased FPS by almost twice by memory management of datatypes in the deep learning frameworks
Worked on RADAR and monocular/stereo camera; handcrafted features for detection-tracking; Inter- and Intra-device
TCP/UDP communication using networking framework of ZeroMQ; IP camera data parsing and converting streams to
images; multi-threading in Python
ReGameVR Lab Northeastern University,
Research Assistant Boston, MA
Rehabilitation oriented frontal/profile face detection using OpenCV libraries and haar-like features using sensor fusion July 2016 December 2016
of camera system and IMUs; Using Kinect for tracking human body-joints to improve rehabilitation techniques and
create a labelled dataset; UDP for IoT connection between Raspberry Pi and Arduino
Smile Lab Northeastern University,
Algorithms Developer Boston, MA
Facial landmark detection using Face++ API; Image segmentation using K-Means; Worked on algorithm optimization for March 2016 June 2016
real-time facial landmark detection using Dlib library
Tellmate Helper Pvt. Ltd. Ahmedabad, India
Chief Developer and Founder October 2014 August 2015
Contributed in making of Tellmate, a device made using Kinect 360 and Intel RealSense camera integrated with
PandaBoard ES for visually impaired people; Worked on optimizing and reducing latency; Real time OCR, Facial
Recognition, Distance measurement and TTS using OpenCV and Festival library for TTS, integrated on a SoC and
analyzing performance of different SoCs
Selected for Top 20 startups in India from 1.9k participants; 200k INR seed funding by Intel Digital India challenge 2015

PROJECTS
Graduate Projects:
Benchmarking of algorithms for SPARC and x86 systems; Benchmarking, Performance Analysis, Scripting and Data Analysis; Verilog design for FPGA
implementation; Neural Network based Branch Predictor
Computer Vision: Motion detection, Eigen-faces using PCA, Feature extraction techniques like SIFT & SURF, Image stitching, Barrel distortion, Surround
(Bird-Eye) View
Individual Projects:
Document Scanner: Automated edge- and corner-based document detection with perspective warping
OCR with ANN: Used Artificial Neural Network and compared with PCA, SVM, Fuzzy Logics for OCR
Using Navio, Raspberry Pi and Jetson TX2 based obstacle detection for auto-pilot system (not completed)
Hackathons:
MintMo, PennApps (Spring 2016): Using REST API, Capital-One API and Twilio API, built a real time NLP based money transfer application using SMS
MyoWalk, BostonHacks (Fall 2015): Hacked MYO Armband to be used on legs by changing Gyro orientation; Analyzed real time EMG signal data,
Accelerometer and Gyro orientation data for walk-pattern of a user; Based on the trained data, analyze walk pattern of user and generate alert based on

any anomalies
Publication: Femtophotography for detection of microbends in step index fiber: IEEE INDICON13, IIT Bombay, India
Extra coursework: Intro to Parallel Programming using CUDA, UDACITY: Jan 2016

SKILLS AND CORE COMPETENCIES

Operating Systems: Linux, Windows, Mac Libraries: OpenCV, ZeroMQ, Gstreamer, Dlib, NumPy, Scikit-learn, FFmpeg, SciPy
Simulators: MATLAB, Simulink, WireShark, SPIM Programming Languages: Python, C++, Assembly, R, MIPS
Familiar with: CUDA, LiDAR, PCL, ROS, SLAM Developer Tools: RaspberryPi, Intel Edison, NVIDIA Jetson TX1-TX2, Titan X, Caffe, Caffe2