Sonam Kumar Curriculum Vitæ

Current Chennai Mathematical Institute Phone: (0091) 956 6249659 Address Plot H1, SIPCOT IT Park E-mail: [email protected] Siruseri, Kelambakkam 603 103 Tamil Nadu, India.

Permanent 8/24, Secondary Road Phone: (0091) 343 2574677 Address A-ZONE E-mail: [email protected] Durgapur 713 204 West Bengal, India.

Nationality Indian

Date of Birth April 14, 1992

Gender Male

Education Undergraduate August 2009–July 2013 (expected) Chennai Mathematical Institute, Chennai B.Sc.(Hons.) in Mathematics and Computer Science

High School March 2009 Hem Sheela Model School, Durgapur Central Board of Secondary Education, New Delhi

Secondary School March 2007 Pranavananda Vidyamandir, Durgapur Indian Certificate of Secondary Education, New Delhi

Research Chennai Mathematical Institute, Chennai May-June 2010 Experience Worked under Prof. Rakesh Nigam on Computational Biology and wrote a paper titled Clustering Genes on a 61-dimensional Vector Space, and Finding the Cluster of a Foreign Gene. (a) It was selected for presentation at the National Conference on Theoretical Computer Science and Applications (NCTCA 2010) held at the B. S. Abdur Rahman University, Chennai during November 25-26, 2010. (b) It has been selected for presentation at the International Conference on Mathematical Sciences (ICMS 2012) to be held at the Science College, Nag- pur during December 28-31, 2012 as an event to celebrate the “National Mathematical Year”.

Schools, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore July, 2012 Workshops, Participated in the International School and Conference on Networks in Biology, Internships Social Science and Engineering held from July 02-14, 2012 at the Indian Institute of Science, organized by the IISc Mathematics Initiative (IMI) as a part of the Thematic Year on Mathematics of Networks. During the Network Meet, I gave a couple of talks, as follows: (a) on July 06 on how to use a network to solve a maze, and demonstrated it with a C program, and another (b) on July 10 on the use of Sage in networks (graph theory), and demonstrated a couple of attributes of networks using the mathematical package.

Indian Statistical Institute, Chennai March, 2012 Participated in the Workshop on Graph Theory held at the Indian Statistical Institute, Chennai Center during 30-31 March.

Chennai Mathematical Institute, Chennai March, 2012 Participated in the Tutorial Workshop in Cryptology held at the Chennai Math- ematical Institute during 10-11 March. Attended the talks and tutorials.

Chennai Mathematical Institute, Chennai August, 2011 Participated in the Workshop on Pseudorandomness held at the Chennai Math- ematical Institute during 22-25 August. Attended the talks and tutorials.

Indian Institute of Sciences, Bangalore July, 2011 Was selected by the IISc Mathematics Initiative (IMI) and the DST Center for Mathematical Biology for the International Conference on Mathematical Biology at the Indian Institute of Science held from July 04-07, 2012 as a part of the Thematic Year in Mathematical Biology.

Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai July, 2011 Was an intern at the the FOSSEE Team at the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai (IIT Bombay) funded by the Ministry of Human Resource and Develop- ment (MHRD) and the Department of Science and Technology (DST). As a part of the “Textbook Companion Project”, translated a book to Sage and earned its copyright.

KDE.IN Conference March, 2011 Participated in the KDE.IN Conference held at R. V. College of Engineering, Bangalore. Attended the talks, and created a KDE application and squashed some bugs.

Thematic Year in Mathematical Biology January, 2011 Was selected by the IISc Mathematics Initiative (IMI) and the DST Center for Mathematical Biology for the Workshop on Introduction to Mathematical Tech- niques in Life Sciences at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and the Workshop and Symposium on Mathematical Physiology at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune as a part of the Thematic Year in Math- ematical Biology.

International Conference on Scientific Computing in Python December, 2010 Participated in the SciPy.in 2010 held at the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad. Attended the tutorials and participated in the sprints by doing textbook conversion.

Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai June-July, 2010 Participated in the lecture series on Computational Algorithms in Biology and Linguistics by Prof. Saket Saurabh, Prof. Ronojoy Adhikary and Prof. Venkatesh Raman of the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai. Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute, Durgapur May, 2008 Was selected for the Science Education Programme on Fascinating World of Physics conducted by the Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute in association with the National Academy of Science in India, the Indian Na- tional Science Academy and the Indian Academy of Sciences during May 26-31, 2008. Attended the lectures on classical and quantum mechanics, special theory of relativity and practical mathematics.

Computer Programming Languages: Haskell, Python, C Skills Operating Systems: Linux, Mac OS, Windows Vista (and XP)

Scripting Languages: HTML, LATEX

Mathematical Softwares: Sage, R

Advanced Chennai Mathematical Institute September-November 2010 Courses Attended a course on Hyperbolic Geometry offered by Prof. Srihari Shridharan during the Autumn 2010 semester.

Call Of 18th National Children’s Science Congress December 27-31, 2010 Duty Participated in the NCSC 2010 organized by the NCSTC Network held at the Vel’s University, Chennai. Was the escort for the West Bengal Team, and eval- uated student project presentations for two sessions and student poster presenta- tions for one session.

Chennai Trekking Club May 16, 2010

Joined the Chennai Trekking Club for the Chennai Coastal Cleanup (CCC) cam- paign on 16th May 2010 to clean the Chennai’s Beaches. We started as early as 05:00 AM and cleaned till 09:30 AM.

Hobbies Reading, Football, Volleyball

Extra- Paschim Banga Vigyan Mancha January, 2006 curriculars Represented my school to participate in the Science Quiz competition organized by the DST, Govt. of India and the PBVM, Govt. of West Bengal. Played in the finals held at the Kalna College and emerged the Burdwan district champions.