Akankshya Bhatta 164070013

Electrical Engineering Ph.D.

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Gender: Female
DOB: 12/21/1992

Examination University Institute Year CPI / %

Doctorate IIT Bombay IIT Bombay 2021 8.36
Graduation ISM Dhanbad ISM (IIT) Dhanbad 2014 8.98
Graduation Specialization: Electronics & Communication Engineering
Intermediate CBSE DAV Public School, Chandrasekharpur, 2010 90.80%
Bhubaneswar
Matriculation CBSE DAV Public School, Chandrasekharpur, 2008 90.80%
Bhubaneswar

AREAS OF INTEREST

Statistical signal processing, Radar signal processing, Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Compressed Sensing,
Automotive Radar, Multi-sensor tracking, IoT Data Processing

SCHOLASTIC ACHIEVEMENTS

• Qualified IIT-JEE with an All-India Rank of 5482 (98.63 Percentile) 2010

• Won first prize for the paper presentation of “Smart Irrigation Controller” in FOSET 2013, held at the academic
meet of Modern Institute of Engineering and Technology, Kolkata, India. 2013
• Awarded Silver Medal (2nd rank) for B.Tech degree in Department of ECE, IIT(ISM) Dhanbad. 2014
• Secured an All India Rank of 576 in GATE 2015 in which 1,72,714 students appeared. 2015

PUBLICATIONS

• R. Biswas, A. S. Doshi, A. Bhatta, and S. R. B. Pillai, “Improved Data Fusion for Multi-Sensor Tracking using a
Reinforced Viterbi Algorithm”, in 2019 National Conference on Communications (NCC), Feb. 2019.
(doi:10.1109/NCC.2019.8732217)
• A. Bhatta, R. Biswas, S. R. B. Pillai, and T. V. C. Sarma, “Wind Profile Tracking in MST Radar Using Viterbi Data
Association", IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 58, no. 10, pp. 7074–7084, Oct. 2020.
(doi:10.1109/TGRS.2020.2979501)
• A. Bhatta, S. R. B. Pillai, and T. V. Chandrasekhar Sarma, “Wind Profile Recovery in MST Radar Exploiting the Sparse
Signal Structure”, in 2020 URSI Regional Conference on Radio Science (URSI-RCRS), Feb. 2020.
(doi: 10.23919/URSIRCRS49211.2020.9113551)
Ph.D. THESIS

• Wind Velocity Tracking Algorithms for Atmospheric Measurements

Supervisors: Prof. Sibi Raj B. Pillai and Prof. Satish Mulleti (June’16-Present)
◦ Developed an automated framework to track the wind velocity across atmospheric heights.
◦ Implemented sparse signal processing techniques on Indian MST radar datasets.
◦ Proposed a robust algorithm to track the velocity of distributed targets in fluctuating SNR environment.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Tata Motors Engineering Research Centre (ERC) Chinchwad, Pune

Assistant Manager at Advance Engineering Department Aug 2014-July 2016
Worked on development of Software control strategy between vehicle controller and engine Electronic Control
Unit (ECU) and Auxiliary Power Unit (APU) of Hybrid Electric Vehicle (Passenger car).

PROJECTS

• All-Terrain Vehicle with GPS tracker and Data Acquisition System (B.Tech Intern)
Guide: Prof. D.B.Phatak, Dept of CSE, IIT Bombay May-June 2013
 ◦ Objective: A semi-autonomous all terrain robot was designed to climb stairs and move on rugged terrains.
It was provided with sensors for detecting the immediate environment state, followed by Raspberry Pi
which acted as server before transmitting the data to our own developed Android GUI app on Aakash
tablet. The user could manage the vehicle motion from the app itself.
• Smart Irrigation Controller System 2012-2013
Guide: Dr. Mrinal Sen, Dept of ECE, IIT(ISM) Dhanbad
◦ Abstract: The project has a master controller system which is connected to several sensor devices through
cables which is in the field at various places. The sensor device measures the water, moisture and solar
intensity content and thus updates the master controller which accordingly controls the water supply to the
crops by valve actions. When all the crops attain necessary moisture content then it simply shuts the motor.
The system will be pre-programmed with the required moisture condition for the crops.
• Design of Slotted waveguide antenna for Omnidirectional radiation pattern (B.Tech Project)
Guide: Dr. Sushrut Das, Dept. of ECE, IIT(ISM) Dhanbad.
◦ Abstract: Omni-directional antennas are required for Wi-fi routers for increasing the range of WLAN or
adapters whereas directional antennas are required in Radar for military applications. The performance
characteristics are heavily influenced by the selection, position and design of the antenna suite. Our project
gives an insight for different models of slant slotted waveguide with good quality gain and directivity.
• Pedestrian Detection in Images (Ph.D. Course Project)
Supervisor: Prof. Ganesh Ramakrishnan, Dept of CSE, IIT Bombay. Spring 2017
◦ Objective: To design a Region-based Convolutional Neural Network based pedestrian detection system.
◦ Performed an exhaustive search by fixed size sliding window and then replaced with Selective Search to
get Region Proposals. Fine-tuned the last 3 fully connected layers of pre-trained ResNet-50 using Keras
framework. Achieved a detection accuracy of 99% on INRIA, MIT and NICTA pedestrian datasets.
• Income Prediction using Neural Networks (Ph.D. Course Project)
Supervisor: Prof. Ganesh Ramakrishnan, Dept of CSE, IIT Bombay. Mar-May 2017
◦ Objective: To develop a multi-layer Neural Network using basic Python libraries to predict income category.
◦ Applied Feature Engineering on training data and achieved prediction accuracy of 73.9%. Compared the
results with 3 standard classification techniques.

TRAINING

• VLSI Design at Central Tool Room & Training Centre (CTTC), Bhubaneswar Dec 2011
Basics of VLSI and Designing using Micro wind (Dsch) software. Implementing using VHDL Programming,
Verilog Programming. Downloading using Xilinx and Altera Quartus.
• Advanced Embedded System at Central Tool Room & Training Centre (CTTC), Bhubaneswar May 2012
Basics of Embedded Systems. Interfacing using 8051 microcontroller using C and assembly language. Basics of
PIC microcontroller, ARM7 processor and PCB designing.

TECHNICAL SKILLS
• Programming & Scripting Languages: C, C++, Java, Python and Matlab
• Tools & Libraries: Arduino, Raspberry, Eclipse, Multisim, Labview, Simulink and GNU Radio
RELEVANT COURSES
• Digital Signal Processing • Statistical Signal Analysis • Foundations of ML
• Digital Message Transmission • Adaptive Signal Processing • Wavelets
• Advanced Concentration Inequalities • Engineering Statistics • Optimization
POSITION OF RESPONSIBILITIES
• Teaching Assistant at WEL Communications Lab, IIT Bombay Autumn 2017, Autumn 2019
• Teaching Assistant under Prof. Sibi Raj B Pillai (Digital Message Transmission) Autumn 2018
• Teaching Assistant under Prof. V. M. Gadre (Digital Signal Processing, Wavelets) Spring 2017, Spring 2018,
Spring 2019, Autumn 2020
Awarded twice with Certificate of Appreciation for Excellence in Teaching Assistantship for EE338 DSP course
(Spring 2019, Autumn 2020).
EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
• Represented ISM Dhanbad in ROBOCON 2013, robotics competition at national level. 2013–2014
• Volunteer at IEEE conference on Microwave and Photonics (ICMAP) held at IIT(ISM) Dhanbad. 13-15 Dec 2013