Siddharth Lotia

• B.Tech - Electronics and Communication Engineering (2018-22)
• International Institute of Information Technology, Naya Raipur (IIIT-NR)
• Phone: +91-9406020745
• Email: siddharthlotia04@gmail.com, siddharth.lotia@iiitb.ac.in
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EXPERIENCE

• Junior Research Fellow, MINRO, IIIT Bangalore (Jul 2023 – Ongoing)
  • Working on EEG signals generated by the brain to study the impact of meditation using signal processing and machine learning tools.
  • Using signal processing, study the regions of brain signals that correspond to multiple things, such as stress, and mind wandering.
• IoT Developer Intern, Chara Technologies, Bangalore (Jan 2022 – Sept 2022)
  • It is a young motor tech startup working on making rare earth-free motors; I worked as part of the Software Team.
  • Worked on a cloud connectivity project to send motor data to the cloud for related visualizations and analytics.
  • Worked on Embedded Programming on vehicle features for a famous EV company (name hidden for client confidentiality).
• Research Intern (Mitacs Globalink), École de technologie supérieure (ETS), Montréal, Quebec, Canada (May 2021 – Aug 2021)
  • Worked on efficient management of IoT Resources through Container Orchestration Techniques using Docker Swarm.
  • Also applied reinforcement learning to add self-adaptability to the purpose further.
• IoT Systems Intern, Indian Institute of Technology, Bhilai (May ’19 – Jul ’19 & Dec ’19 – Jan ’20)
  • Activity data (VeDBA) was collected from a monitoring tag over Bluetooth Low Energy System and its optimizations.
  • Worked on ARM Processor, I2C programming, and used CMake and MakeFile of the Build Systems.
  • Worked on Embedded Programming, which helped in Bluetooth Low Energy Advertisement System.
• Research paper Published in this work: “On Achieving Hidden Markov Model Estimation Freshness in Sensor Networks” at IEEE ANTS Goa, India 2019.

EDUCATION

• B.Tech, IIIT Naya Raipur
  • CGPA: 8.23/10
  • 2018-2022
• Senior Secondary, CBSE
  • Percentage: 83.2%
  • 2018
• Secondary, CBSE
  • CGPA: 9.6/10
  • 2016

TECHNICAL/RESEARCH PROJECTS

• Breathing Rate Estimator
  • The project aimed to measure the person’s breathing rate using the in-built microphone of your smartphone.
  • An anomaly in the value of breathing rate can be used to detect pre-symptoms of various respiratory diseases, including COVID-19, among others.
• Convolutional Neural Network-based Criminal Detection System
  • Criminal tendency in a person is detected with the help of semantic/facial analysis using various deep learning model architectures.
  • Research Paper Published in this work: “Convolutional Neural Network Based Criminal Detection Technique” at IEEE TENCON Japan 2020.
• Generative Text from Emoji -It was a real-life industry-based problem statement by Samsung R&D Institute Bangalore. We created a data set of more than 6,000 texts with six emojis, and we used the Sequence to Sequence model to extract meaningful sentences from it.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Languages: Embedded C Programming, MATLAB, Verilog, Python, C++
• Software Skills: Cloud Computing (AWS), Deep Learning Applications, IoT applications, Embedded Systems
• Microcontrollers/Boards: Arduino, Raspberry Pi, ESP8266 (Node MCU)

POSITIONS OF RESPONSIBILITY

• Admin Lead of Editorial Team Fenestra (2019-20)
  • Fenestra is the official Students’ magazine of IIIT NR. Led the initiative to re-introduce our institute magazine in a new state-of-the-art manner.
• Vice-Secretary of CoMeT (2019-20)
  • Comet is the Electronics Club of IIITNR and conducted technical competitions, talks, and workshops on trending topics from the world of electronics.
• Press and Media In-charge Scientific (2020)
  • Managed all press and media during the annual flagship event of IIITNR. Conducted interviews with special delegates regarding their experience of the event.

ACHIEVEMENTS

• Awarded the Prestigious AICTE-Mitacs Globalink Research Internship 2021 by Mitacs Canada at ETS Montréal, Canada.
• Recognized by the Ministry of Education, Govt of India for the above achievement.(tweet link)
• Finalist of Samsung Prism (by Samsung Research Institute Bangalore) Hackathon Codefest 1.0.