Mukesh B R

Bengaluru, India
Linkedin: Mukesh B R Email : mukesh.171it124@nitk.edu.in
GitHub: Mukesh- BR Mobile : +91-831-028-9794
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Education
National Institute of Technology Surathkal, India
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Junior Year,Bachelor of Information Technology; CGPA: 9.48 Aug. 2017 – Present

Technical Skills
• Topics of Interest: Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Algorithms, Web Development
• Languages: Python,C C++, Java, , Shell Script
• Tools/Frameworks: OpenCV, Tensorflow, Keras, PyTorch, Django, Azure, MEAN Stack

Work Experience
Summer Research Intern at Spectrum Lab, Indian Institute of Science May 2019 - Present
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Bengaluru, India
◦ Worked under the supervision of Associate Professor, Dr. Chandra Sekhar Seelamantula on the project - Diabetic
Retinopathy Detection and Classification.
◦ Developed a variant of baseline VGG + FCNN for classifying of stages of Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) in fundus
images, beat the State of The Art in grading Referable DR tasks with an AUC of 0.98 and Accuracy of 0.95.
◦ Currently working on Domain adaptation techniques using Genetic Algorithm optimized Neural Style Transfer as
a preprocessing techniques to improve the results on Fundus image segmentation. Paper is currently under review.

Accepted Publications
Clustering enhanced encoder decoder for Dimensionality reduction and encryption FICTA - 2020
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8th International Conference on Frontiers of Intelligent Computing: Theory and Applications January 2020
◦ Summary: Developed a Autoencoder based dimensionality reduction algorithm enhanced with K-Means Clustering. The
proposed method also serves as an encryption mechanism ensuring security while data transmission.
Performance Evaluation of Deep Learning Frameworks ICOEI - 2019
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3rd International Conference on Trends in Electronics and Informatics April 2019
◦ Summary: Wrote a paper as an attempt to compare Deep Learning frameworks such as keras and PyTorch. Used training
times, scalability with respect to hardware(CPU and GPU) and testing times as metrics.The workloads were standard model
architectures like Alex-Net and LeNet on the heavily benchmarked datasets like MNIST and CIFAR-10

Projects
• Skin Lesion Detection using Deep Learning: Developed a Node based Web app with a Deep Learning backend towards
detecting Skin Lesions. Achieved a validation accuracy of 89% using a NASnet backbone on the ISIC dataset [PDF] [Code]
• Multiple Myeloma Detection using Deep Learning: Developed a Deep Neural Network to segment out malignant plasma
cells responsible for cancer cell accumulation in the bone marrow. Achieved a dice coefficent score of 0.87 on the MiMM SBILab
dataset. [PDF] [Code]
• Parallel Genetic Algorithms using Island Models on the Travelling Salesman Problem: Parallelized Genetic Algorithms
using Island models on GPU’s to effectively and heuristically estimate the solution to the Travelling Salesman Problem. The
proposed algorithm managed a tour distance within a error of 1.5% of the optimal value on the Berlin-52 dataset. [PDF] [Code]
• Exchange Rate Predictor: Implementing a currency exchange rate predictor using Time Series Analysis and Deep Learning
techniques in order to better estimate the value of a currency or commodity such as Gold with respect to the US Dollar. [Code]
• Hurricane warning system: Developed an android app to detect the reach of various hurricanes affecting the world in real time.
Historical data is then analyzed by a pre trained Random Forrest Regression model to detect the presence of a hurricane and its
reach. Won the 2nd Place in Microsoft CodeFunDo++ in Regionals. [Code]
• Facial Recognition: Developed a hybrid face recognition with gender and ethnicity classification using a Deep Convolutional
Network .It uses Generative Adversarial Networks to generate more facial images to enhance data quantity. Achieved 93.4%
Accuracy on the UTK-Face Dataset
• Recommendation System: Designed Movie recommender system based on Sentiment Analysis using Recurrent Neural Networks
(LSTM) to achieve a 96% accuracy on the IMDB dataset
Certifications and Courses
Relevant Coursework: Online courses Undertaken:
• Data Structures and Algorithms • Deep Learning Specialisation - Coursera
• Database Management • Tensorflow in Practice Specialisation - Coursera
• Discrete Mathematics and Graph Theory • Google Cloud Basics: Machine Learning Track - Google
• Linear Algebra • Machine Learning - Coursera
• Operating Systems • Applied CS skills for Android - Google
• Soft Computing • Fundamentals of Deep Learning for CV - NVIDIA
• Computer Vision • Convolutional Neural Networks (CS231n) - Stanford

Academic Achivements
Awarded Pratibha Scholarship for 3 years from Aditya Birla Group
Won 2nd place for Hurricane Prediction, Microsoft CodeFunDo++ at NIT-Surathkal
Ranked in the 99.24th percentile, JEE Mains-2017

Positions and Co-Curriculars

Executive Member,ACM NITK Student Chapter
Executive Member,ACM-W NITK Chapter, an organisation to help women in STEM related fields.
Publicity and Design Department Core Committee Member, Incident ’19
Outreach Department Committee Member, Tedx NITK,Surathkal ’19
Chair, Cryptic, an ACM chapter event for freshers to spark their interest in Computer Sciences.