Debarghya
Last Updated on 21st June
2019
Das
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dd367@cornell.edu
EDUCATION Computer Graphics + Practicum
(Research Asst. & Teaching Asst 2x)
CORNELL UNIVERSITY Unix Tools and Scripting
MENG IN COMPUTER
SCIENCE SKILLS
Dec 2014 | Ithaca, NY PROGRAMMING
CORNELL UNIVERSITY Over 5000 lines:
BS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE Java • Shell • Python • Javascript OCaml • Matlab • Rails • LATEX
Over 1000 lines:
May 2014 | Ithaca,
C • C++ • CSS • PHP • Assembly
NY College of
Engineering Magna Familiar:
Cum Laude Cum. AS3 • iOS • Android • MySQL
GPA: 3.83 / 4.0
Major GPA: 3.9 / 4.0
LA MARTINIERE FOR
BOYS
Grad. May 2011| Kolkata,
India
LINKS
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Github:// deedydas
LinkedIn://
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Twitter://
@debarghya_das
Quora:// Debarghya-Das
COURSEWORK
GRADUATE
Advanced Machine Learning
Open Source Software
Engineering Advanced
Interactive Graphics
Compilers +
Practicum Cloud
Computing
Evolutionary Computation
Defending Computer
Networks Machine Learning
UNDERGRADUATE
Information
Retrieval Operating
Systems
Artificial Intelligence +
Practicum Functional
Programming
EXPERIENCE Prof Ashutosh Saxena to create PlanIt, a tool which
learns from large scale user preference feedback to plan robot trajectories
FACEBOOK | SOFTWARE in human environments.
ENGINEER
Jan 2015 - Present | New CORNELL PHONETICS LAB | HEAD UNDERGRADUATE
York, NY RESEARCHER
Mar 2012 – May 2013 | Ithaca, NY
COURSERA | KPCB Led the development of QuickTongue, the first ever breakthrough tongue-
FELLOW + SOFTWARE controlled game with Prof Sam Tilsen to aid in Linguistics research.
ENGINEERING INTERN
June 2014 – Sep 2014 |
Mountain View, CA
AWARDS
• 52 out of 2500 2014 top 52/2500 KPCB Engineering Fellow
applicants chosen to be 2014 1st/50 Microsoft Coding Competition,
a KPCB Fellow 2014. Cornell 2013 National Jump Trading
• Led and shipped Yoda - Challenge Finalist
the admin interface for 2013 7th/120 CS 3410 Cache Race Bot Tournament
the new Phoenix platform. 2012 2nd/150 CS 3110 Biannual Intra-Class Bot Tournament
• Full-stack developer - 2011 National Indian National Mathematics Olympiad (INMO)
Wrote and reviewed Finalist
code for JS using
Backbone, Jade, Stylus PUBLICATIONS
and Require and Scala
[1] A. Jain, D. Das, and A. Saxena. Planit: A crowdsourcing approach for
using Play
learning to plan paths from large scale preference feedback. Tech
GOOGLE | SOFTWARE Report, ICRA, in press.
ENGINEERING INTERN [2] S. Tilsen, D. Das, and B. McKee. Real-time articulatory
May 2013 – Aug 2013 | biofeedback with electromagnetic articulography. Linguistics
Mountain View, CA Vanguard, in press.
• Worked on the YouTube
Captions team, in
Javascript and Python to
plan, to design and
develop the full stack to
add and edit Automatic
Speech Recognition
captions. In production.
• Created a backbone.js-
like framework for the
Captions editor.
PHABRICATOR | OPEN
SOURCE CONTRIBUTOR &
TEAM LEADER
Jan 2013 – May 2013 | Palo
Alto, CA & Ithaca, NY
• Phabricator is used daily
by Facebook, Dropbox,
Quora, Asana and more.
• I created the Meme
generator and more in
PHP and Shell.
• Led a team from MIT,
Cornell, IC London and
UHelsinki for the project.
RESEARCH
CORNELL ROBOT
LEARNING LAB |
RESEARCHER
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Ithaca,
NY
Worked with Ashesh Jain and