About

I’m currently working as a Software Engineer at Gan.ai ($5.25M seed funding 2023). Working on Videos and Generative Models for audio/video generation and hosting at scale. Gold Medalist at UIET, Panjab University, India (2017-21, B.Tech ECE). Previously worked at Startup The Ideaz Factory. I’ve previously interned at Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad (under Prof. G.C. Nandi) and Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (under Dr. Aakanksha Chowdhery, Research Scientist at Google Brain). Hit me up if you have anything regarding Software Engineerig, Optimizations, Deep Learning, Video Encoding, GAN’s, etc.

Research Interests

  • Deep Learning and Computer Vision
    • Attention and Transformer Networks
    • Software Development
    • Generative Adversarial Networks
    • Object Detection and Image Analysis
    • Image Segmentation
  • Robotics
    • SLAM
    • Control Theory

Contact Handles

Internships

  • Application R&D Intern at Samsung, Noida (January 2021 - May 2021)
  • Data Intern at The Ideaz Factory (April 2020 - August 2020)
  • Deep Learning Research Intern, Center of Robotics and Machine Intelligence, IIIT Allahabad (December 2019 - February 2020)
  • Celestini Project Intern, The Marconi Society, IIT Delhi (June 2019 - August 2019).

Experience

  • Samsung R&D, Noida, Core Apps Team Built an Android Application for real time finger tracking over the air for non-touch signature during the Covid-19. Used the 3D Time of Flight (ToF) sensor inbuilt on Samsung Galazy S10 5G Device.
    1. Application PPT - [drive.google.com/SamsungPPT][https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1x1H6YFD1PVf3nKIh8AluMx_v1k60TXhi/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=114251375945560531761&rtpof=true&sd=true]
  • Celestini Program India, The Marconi Society at IIT Delhi -
    Among the 75 teams, our team selected in the top 5 teams from India. Interview One was an Online Test in which we need to solve 5 Problems related to Programming, Machine Learning, Image Processing and Probability. Interview 2 was a 30 min video call with Dr. Aakanksha Chowdhery related to our experence and knowledge of the domains.
    Followed by the selection, we carried our Research and Development at Samsung Innovation Labs at Bharti School of Telecommunications, IIT Delhi for about 3 months. We worked on Monitoring and forecasting of Air Pollution in the city of New Delhi, working with local sensors and Governmental Data from Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB).
    1. Poster Presented - drive.google.com/Poster_presentation
      Report Submitted - http://bit.ly/around_celestini_2019
    2. Video Solution - http://bit.ly/CelestiniProjectIndia
    3. Outline of Problem - drive.google.com/Outline
    4. Mid-Presentation - drive.google.com/Mid_presentation
    5. Final-Presentation - drive.google.com/Final_presentation
    6. Feature in Marconi Society Blog - https://marconisociety.org/womens-safety-and-air-pollution-top-issues-for-indian-undergrads/

  • Winner Ennovate 2019 -
    Ennovate is an Innovation based competition being organized by GrowVation and DIC, Panjab University. It involved the building of an idea into a prototype and to pitch it in front of jury from various domains. After the idea submission round, we had enough time to develop and test a prototype model. People from vast backgrounds and organizations were available like Mathworks, ISRO, IBHubs, IIM Bangalore, etc. for networking and judgment. We presented our idea through a Poster and discussed the pros and cons of its development and suitability in India. Overall we managed to win the competition with great vigour. Cheers to the team Melodic Bits: Ankur Bhatia, Ananya Duggal, Dhawal Sharda.
    1. Proposal - docs.google.com/Ennovate_Proposal
  • Dell Campassador 2018-2019 - Dell Campassador is a marketing cum student development program by Dell in which selected delegates need to complete tasks assigned within a limited time period. I won many tasks and got perks and prizes. The program is mainly focused on soft skills and how well can one present things with limited resources. I was selected among the top 10 Dell Campassadors in India and got an opportunity to visit Dell Factory in Sriperumbudur, Chennai, and was invited to present UIET at Dell Bangalore Office during the felicitation Ceremony. *Everything was fully sponsored.
    1. Experience - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bzjm9tBUTTo
    2. Factory Visit - http://bit.ly/Dell_chennai
    3. Example Task - http://bit.ly/win_ad_mad
  • Organizer and Speaker Software Freedom Day 2019 - Software Freedom Day is an event held all across the world to celebrate the usage of Free and Open Source Software. The event aims to sensitize students about the virtues of Open Source Software. Each year the event has seen growing number of participants and our past speakers have come from prestigious software companies like Facebook, Microsoft and Google . The aim of SFD is to bring together developers and students of all levels on a single platform to share their thoughts, ideas and inspirations.
    1. Website: http://softwarefreedomday.in/
    2. SFD-19 Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1Pd42X2wwc
    3. A snapshot of the community here:


    4. A snapshot of me giving lightning talk :


  • Mentor, Programming Club (Pclub) - is a student-run club that is involved in effective teaching and collaborating on learning programming languages and frameworks. It aims at educating students and to spread selfless knowledge of various domains of Computer Science, organizes hackathons, and celebrate Open-Source. It’s not like a normal club in college that holds recruitments for students. It’s an open community, because we believe the more we share, the more we learn from others. We take weekly sessions on various domains.To know more follow us on:
    1. Twitter: https://twitter.com/PClubUIET
    2. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pclubuiet
    3. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pclubuiet/

  • Mentor, Robotics Group - is a similar initiative which we are taking forward after our seniors did. We provide mentorship, open learning, space for work, hardware equipments and real-life projects to students anytime for project work. Check out our page at https://www.facebook.com/egu.uietchd/

  • Other Workshops and Events Organized -
    1. MLH Local Hack Day - 2018, 2019
    2. World Moveit Day - 2019
    3. HackUIET (Software and Hardware Hackathon) - 2019
  • For Internships and work experience, check out my Resume.

Teaching

  1. Deep Learning Course, Under Programming Club, UIET - 2020:



The session list is as follows:

Date Speaker Topic Session Pics Link to Post
1. Jan 25, 2020 Ankur Bhatia Introduction to Deep Learning https://github.com/ankurbhatia24/AI_Saturdays/tree/master/Intro%20to%20Deep%20Learning https://www.facebook.com/pclubuiet/videos/170344660980781/
2. Feb 1, 2020 Ankur Bhatia Optimizing Deep Neral Networks https://www.linkedin.com/posts/bhatia-ankur24_deeplearning-ai-ml-activity-6629438690970165248-fUud
3. Feb 8, 2020
Sarthak Thakur Regularization and Initializations
4. Feb 8, 2020 Divyam Madaan SOTA Research and How to do Research? https://github.com/ankurbhatia24/AI_Saturdays/tree/master/SOTA%20Research%20Divyam%20Madaan https://twitter.com/bhatia_ankur24/status/1228171211336609794
5. Feb 14, 2020 Yeshi Jinsel

Ankur Bhatia		 Introduction to Convolutional NN's https://github.com/ankurbhatia24/AI_Saturdays/tree/master/Convolutional%20Neural%20Networks
6. Feb 16, 2020 Ankur Bhatia Optimizing Neural Networks https://github.com/ankurbhatia24/AI_Saturdays/tree/master/Optimizing%20DNN
7. Feb 22, 2020 Paper Presentations https://github.com/ankurbhatia24/AI_Saturdays/tree/master/Paper%20Presentation https://www.linkedin.com/posts/bhatia-ankur24_keras-python-paper-activity-6637716469826326528-2XoI
8. March 5, 2020 Ankur Bhatia Object Detection https://github.com/ankurbhatia24/AI_Saturdays/tree/master/Object%20detection


  1. Session on Git and GitHub:
    • Merging multiple commits (squash).
    • Stashing.
    • Reverting commits, removing commits (soft and hard resets)
    • Resolving merge conflicts (locally and remotely (from github gui))
    • About Hacktoberfest

  2. Session on Python - covering basic syntax and useful libraries.

  3. Session on Linux, OpenSource Development and Hacktoberfest: Hacktoberfest is open to everyone in our global community. Whether you’re a developer, student learning to code, event host, or company of any size, you can help drive growth of open source and make positive contributions to an ever-growing community. All backgrounds and skill levels are encouraged to complete the challenge. During Hacktoberfest each participant needs to do atleast 4 pull request to receive a Tshirt and schwags. One can contribute in any open source project available on @github. At UIET, we would be bringing some awesome open source contributers and maintainers to provide insights of how effective an open source contribution can be. You’ll learn how to start looking into big organizations and get yourselves prepared for the summer of codes programmes. We’ll help you all explore awesome github repositories and also help in understanding the github flow. NOTE: Make sure you get yourselves registered on the Hacktoberfest website (https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com) to make your contributions count. Small Competition among peers: The one who will do the highest number of Pull Requests by 15th October will get some awesome @jetbrains Schwags. To know more about the event: visit https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com Register yourselves here: https://hacktoberfestinuiet.eventcreate.com/

Extra Curricular

  • Cajon - I was in my second year when I heard this amazing song being played in a concert on the beats of a musical instrument known as – Cajon. Being a drums player myself in school days, my curiosity peaked and I bought the instrument online. Having no access to a real-life trainer, I turned to Youtube for help. I saw numerous tutorials on my PC and learned to master the instrument with the help of a reel life trainer. Now, I perform this instrument on many concerts and functions and sometimes also get to fill my pocket.
    Live performance in College Orientation 2019 : CollegeOrientation2019
    Live performance in College Orientation 2018 : CollegeOrientation2018

  • Participation in RedBull Can You Make It - From the 10th – 17th of April, 200+ student teams from 60+ countries across the globe will hand over their cash, cards and phones and be transported to either Madrid, Budapest, Manchester, Stockholm or Rome. From there, they have seven days to reach Amsterdam, hitting checkpoints at major cities along the way and using their charm, whit and ingenuity to do so.
    The competition is a dash to finish line, but winning isn’t the main intention: it’s not about when you get there, but how. Teams will have to cover more than 1,000 miles in one week before reaching the final destination, using nothing but Red Bull cans as currency.
    Our entry only reached to top in city level :p
    Program Link: https://canyoumakeit.redbull.com/en
    Our Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYt29Lyr8o0

  • Running and Cycling

Other Achievements

Contact me

bhatia.ankur24@gmail.com