Esha Trivedi 736 Riverside Drive, Apt 6C, New York, NY- 10031 . 917-498-8746 . [email protected] . www.linkedin.com/in/eshatrivedi Education Columbia University, Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS) New York, NY M.S. in Electrical Engineering (EE) Aug 2019- Feb 2021
Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University for Women (IGDTUW) New Delhi, IN B. Tech. in Electronics and Communication Engineering Aug 2014- Jun 2018
Skills Python, Matlab, R, Micropython, Arduino, PyCUDA, PyOpenCL, C/C++, GitHub, Ubuntu Linux, GCP, Android Studio, Tensorfow, AWS, HTML, Jupyter
Projects & Research Projects IoT-Based Smart Lock and Home Automation System New York, NY Columbia University SEAS Aug 2020- Dec 2020 • Designed and assembled an Android app controlled smart lock and home automation system prototype for locking/unlocking, intruder detection, controlling appliances over WiFi and receiving alerts via APIs with an ESP8266 microcontroller programmed on Micropython and app made with Android Studio
Adapting a Classifcation Model for Parkinson’s Disease to Telemedicine New York, NY Columbia University SEAS Aug 2020- Dec 2020 • Fit pre-processed and fltered attributes from speech samples of people with Parkinson’s Disease (PD) patients and healthy subjects to support vector machine (SVM) classifcation models for PD in R and visualised and analysed efect of individual speech variables on classifcation
Image Superresolution Via Dictionary Learning New York, NY Columbia University SEAS Jan 2020- May 2020 • Obtained high quality images from lower quality images (superresolution) by creating dictionaries of high resolution and low resolution patches via sparse representation techniques and solving mapping optimization problem using Python
Image Compression Using Discrete Cosine and Discrete Wavelet Transforms New York, NY Columbia University SEAS Aug 2019- Dec 2019 • Recreated JPEG and JPEG2000 image compression techniques from scratch in Matlab using discrete cosine (DCT) and discrete wavelet transforms (DWT) respectively, and extracted quality metrics for comparison for RGB and black and white images of various sizes and resolutions
Image Preprocessing for CNNs Using Parallel Computing New York, NY Columbia University SEAS Aug 2019- Dec 2019 • Resized images with bilinear interpolation then performed batch normalization to create preprocessed image data for convolutional neural networks with PyCUDA and C/C++ kernel-based parallel programming for GPU and achieved much higher speeds than serial Python functions
TurtleBot Using Kinect New Delhi, IN IGDTUW Aug 2017- Jun 2018 • Built an autonomously navigating robot for indoor environments for elderly assistance on ROS and Raspberry Pi 3 microcontroller with Microsoft’s Kinect as the primary vision sensor employing a simultaneous localisation and mapping (SLAM) algorithm and computer vision
Research TurtleBot: Simulation and Hardware Component Selection Noida, IN GUCON 2018: IEEE International Conference on Computing, Power and Communication Technologies Sep 2018 • Wrote a paper based on software simulation and hardware parts selection for an indoor autonomously navigating robot with a professor • Presented at GUCON 2018 and published in IEEE XPlore as part of conference proceedings.. DOI: 10.1109/GUCON.2018.8675050
GNSS Meteorology: Real-time Atmospheric Column water by a Ground-Based GNSS system during severe cyclones, thunderstorms and heavy rainfall – A case study Bangalore, IN Indian Technology Congress (2018) (ITC) Sep 2018 • Co-authored a paper on weather event prediction with a senior scientist at Indian Meteorological Department and presented it at ITC 2018 • Received ‘Best Paper Award’ from among 90 presentations
Experience Kartos International Noida, IN Summer Trainee Jun 2017- Jul 2017 • Collaborated on wire engineering for control room equipment for power plant environment monitoring and PID-based valve control systems • Verifed over 500 power plant schematics, in particular control and sensing units
NTPC Engineering Ofce Complex Noida, IN Summer Trainee Jul 2016 • Monitored communications from continuous emission monitoring system (CEMS) at stack and ambient air quality monitoring system (AAQMS) at NTPC India’s Dadri power plant and ensured compliance with standards • Assisted in verifying over 150 CEMS and AAQMS schematics for NTPC’s power plants across north India
Indian Meteorological Department New Delhi, IN Summer Trainee Jun 2016 • Observed transceivers and communication modules and received signals at Indian Meteorological Department in New Delhi, India • Tracked and analysed real-time satellite data from southern Indian states and analysed patterns produced by heavy rainfall and cyclones
Leadership and Activities Columbia University Ofce of Disability Services, Note taker for the course IoT- Intelligent and Connected Systems Oct 2020- Dec 2020 TEDxIGDTU, Organiser & curator of the frst TEDxIGDTU conference (Bridging Gaps), Founder and President of TEDx Club of IGDTU Oct 2016- Jan 2017 IEEE IGDTUW Student Branch, Publication Head (Core Team, Executive Committee) Aug 2016- May 2017