Vivek Vidyasagaran

Vivek Vidyasagaran
Website: vivekvidyasagaran.weebly.com
Email: [email protected]
Github : github.com/Vivek-sagar
No.741, Ferns Paradise,
Doddanekkundi, Bangalore,
Karnataka – 560037, India
T: +91 8870528741
Education
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10th Standard – 89.4%
National Public School, Indiranagar (CBSE)
12th Standard – 91.4%
National Public School, Indiranagar (CBSE)
B.Tech, Computer Science and Engineering – 8.47/10
Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore
2007-2008
2008-2010
2010-Current
Areas of Interest
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Computer Graphics
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High Performance Computing
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Data Visualization
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Game Development
Skills
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Platforms: Linux, Mac OSX, Windows
Programming Languages: Python, C#, C/C++, Matlab/Octave
Libraries: Pygame(Python graphics library), NumPy, OpenCV, OpenGL, OpenMP, Django, Pyo
(Python Sound Library), SDL (Cross-Platform graphics library).
Conference and Publications
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S Ghosh, Vivek V, Sandeep S Smart Cyclone Alerts over the Indian Subcontinent.
Atmospheric Science Letters, Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, UK
(http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asl2.486/abstract).
Sandeep S, Kannabiran M, Vivek V, Lakshmanan, S. Ghosh, G. Raina, P.S. Mallick,
Chandrashekharan N., Suresh K., G. Khanna (2013). Visualizing World University Rankings: A
Novel Algorithm, Proceedings of the European Conference on Education, pp 13-21, 2013.
Sandeep S, Vivek V, Krishna Chandramouli (2013). VIT@MediaEval 2013 Placing Task:
Location Specific Tag Weighting for Language Model Based Placing of Images. Working
Notes Proceedings of the MediaEval 2013 Placing task (ceur-ws.org/Vol1043/mediaeval2013_submission_60.pdf).
CURRICULUM VITAE/VIVEK 1 Internships
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Ericsson India Pvt. Ltd. - Implemented an Indoor Mapping solution – Kidhar, using a
Django framework for the backend and Javascript for frontend.
Sasken Communication Technologies - Contributed to the VyapaarSEWA project - a cloud
based e-market for farmers in rural India. Developed and tested a high-level architecture.
Internship Program in Technology Supported Education – Worked with professors from
Carnegie Mellon University and Arizona State University to create an educational game
called enLIGHTenment using the Unity game engine.
Projects
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Navigation for the Blind - Worked with Prof. Ted Moallem of Massachusetts Institute of
Technology on a mobile app that uses a phone’s camera and audio output to provide basic
navigation capabilities to the blind.
Balanar’s Adventures - Created a 2-D platformer adventure game, with original
soundtracks and artwork.
Solar Tracker - Designed hardware and software for a solar tracking solution used in a
solar energy generator.
SLR Parser - Programmed a Simple LR Parser and optimized it to run on multi-core
architecture using OpenMP.
WRF Climate Model – Developed an installer for the WRF climate modeling software and ran
forecasts of Cyclone Phailin for an ongoing project to disseminate weather forecasts and
natural disaster warnings to rural India.
The Manhole Project – Developed an innovative remote object detection and dispensing
system, as part of the MIT Design Innovation Workshop held at PESIT University, Bangalore
(mitdi.wikispaces.com).
Unknown Horizons – Contributed bug fixes to the open source project Unknown Horizons,
a real time strategy game (www.unknown-horizons.org).
Note: Details of the above projects are available on my website, and code is up on my GitHub page.
Extra-curricular
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Speaking: Conducted workshops on game development, embedded systems and
programming in Python in college and conferences in Bangalore.
Student Chapters: Organized events and workshops as part of the IEEE VIT Student chapter.
Running: A regular runner. Took part in three 10k runs and 4 half marathons at different
locations in south India.
Cycling: An avid cyclist. Completed a 550km ride from Manali to Leh (in the Himalayan
Mountains) over 10 days.
CURRICULUM VITAE/VIVEK 2

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