Prateek Chanda

Product Manager

Kolkata, West Bengal, India8 yrs 5 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • PhD candidate at IIT Bombay with MSR India PhD Award.
  • Contributed to NASA-affiliated solar physics software SunPy.
  • Led multiple data-driven projects in academic and open-source settings.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Data Scientist with strong software development and research capabilities.

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Skills

Core Skills

AutomationMigrationResearchData AnalysisAi DevelopmentSoftware Development

Other Skills

JenkinsMavenMediaWikiBiomedical Text ProcessingStatisticsMobile SensorsK-meansOptimizationAIChatbot DevelopmentArchitecturePythonMicrosoft WordMicrosoft ExcelMicrosoft Office

About

prateekchanda21.github.io

Experience

8 yrs 5 mos
Total Experience
1 yr
Average Tenure
3 yrs 11 mos
Current Experience

Indian institute of technology, bombay

Graduate Research Student

Jul 2022Present · 3 yrs 11 mos

Microsoft research

Research Software Engineer (SCAI Center Fellow)

Nov 2019Jan 2022 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

Google summer of code

Google Summer of Code Mentor - JBoss

Feb 2019Jul 2019 · 5 mos

Google code-in

2 roles

Google Code In Mentor JBoss Community, RedHat

Oct 2018Dec 2018 · 2 mos

Google Code In Mentor, FOSSASIA

Oct 2018Dec 2018 · 2 mos

The linux foundation

Student Software Developer Intern

Jul 2018Nov 2018 · 4 mos · Remote

  • Designed an automated Jenkins support for building jobs in Maven through bot service for 75\% of Opendaylight projects.
  • Implemented a version of MediaWiki-rst migration for conversion of MediaWiki proposals to other formats. Worked on an automated design for constructing a project dependency graph for over 93\% versions of OpenDaylight projects.

Indian statistical instiute, kolkata

Research Assistant Intern

May 2018Aug 2018 · 3 mos · India

  • Implemented a k-means centric optimization approach to discover similarity metrics from data distribution with better convergence and a 6.5% increase in accuracy measured by silhouette score compared to traditional methods.
  • Performed comparative theoretical analysis on traditional metric learning algorithms w.r.t precision metrics and convergence speed.

Google summer of code

Summer Intern FOSSASIA

May 2018Aug 2018 · 3 mos · Singapore

  • Worked with around 126 project developers underthe biggest open source
  • community of Asia on the SUSI.AI project - an artificial intelligence chatbot in
  • the likes of Google Home, Amazon Alexa.
  • Implemented new architecture for SUSI Smart Speaker Application prototype
  • with improvements in text to speech, voice recognition, userinterface and bug
  • fixes in installation scripts

Stanford university

Directly Responsible Individual Scholar - Stanford Scholar

Mar 2018Sep 2018 · 6 mos

  • Working on research papers with a team under guidance of Prof Rajan Vaish, Afelio Padilla and Prof . Shrish Goyal.
  • DRI for research paper 'A neural joint model for entity and relation extraction from biomedical text'
  • Leading two projects of my own 'Predicting Passenger Survival Rates on the Titanic' and 'Predicting User Group Activity Using Mobile Sensors'

Github

Bountiful Open Source Summer - Intern

May 2017Aug 2017 · 3 mos · India

  • Worked on desktop applications being built primarily in Python , Node.js and
  • JavaScript
  • Added extra features under oneauth-example-android - a sample app that
  • demonstrate login from android client.
  • Contributing to some small projects on educational models and android games.
  • Currently within top 10 open source contributors

Indian institute of technology, kharagpur

Summer Internship at CNerg Labs

May 2017Jul 2017 · 2 mos · Kharagpur I, India

  • Summer Internship at Complex, Network Research Group, (CNerg Labs)
  • IIT Kharagpur.
  • Designed classification models upon student group dataset to predict group formation and group dynamics using mobile sensor data like wifi location, accelerometer values, and voice levels.
  • Achieved average precision of 88.9% measured by standard accuracy measures as compared to other proposed models.

Sunpy, under openastronomy

Project Developer, Open Source Contributor

Dec 2016Apr 2018 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • SunPy is a community-developed free and open-source software package for solar physics. It aims to be provide a comprehensive data analysis environment that allows researchers within the field of solar physics to carry out their tasks with the minimal effort.
  • The SunPy package was established by a small group of scientists and developers at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
  • Worked with a team ofresearch scientists from NASA, Sheffield University,
  • Stanford University , UCL London.
  • Added extra functionalities to the solar map objects being used and solar map
  • plotting procedures.
  • Implemented new features to analyze regions of high solarintensities from
  • solar plot and new image processing algorithms to capture solar flares from
  • solar plots with an accuracy of 83.3%
  • Worked in a team of 60 research scholars and scientists from NASA, UCL and
  • Stanford. Got acknowledged along with researchers at NASA Goddard Space
  • Flight Centerfor outstanding contributions to the project. - Software Releases
  • Got acknowledged for my work - my name being published with researchers at
  • NASA
  • All code releases can be seen here https://zenodo.org/search?page=1&size=20&q=conceptrecid:%22591887%22&sort=-version&all_versions=True

Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

Doctor of Philosophy - PhD — Computer Science

Jul 2022Jul 2026

Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST), Shibpur

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) — Computer Science

Jan 2015Jan 2019

South Point High School, Kolkata

High School — Physical Sciences

Jan 1997Jan 2015

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