Prashant Sinha
Developer
Info
- prashant@noop.pw
- Paris, France
Summary
I am a software developer based in Paris. My work focuses on using programming, mathematics, and design as tools to solve interesting and challenging problems. My projects span a wide array of domains: Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Data Visualisation, Web Applications, and Embedded systems.
Experience
As a developer at Partoo, I am currently working on integrating Google Business Messaging to our app.
WeLearn - A tool for collective learning
- Designed the core system architecture.
- Created a web visualisation of tags to facilitate navigation.
- Responsible for developing APIs for a Machine Learning model that classifies webpages into Wikipedia Pages.
- Implemented Browser Extensions for Chrome and Firefox.
- Improved the UX and Design through a unified styling system and guidelines.
Hydrodynamics of Super-Paramagnetic Micro-Beads
My work here was to capture the motion of the micro beads undergoing attraction due to an external magnetic field. Based on this it is possible to quantify hydrodynamic drag forces on the beads.
Using open source tools
trackpy
andscikit-image
, I developed an image processing pipeline to isolate, track, and calculate motion dynamics from the frames. We reached an average frame rate of~800 fps
.The Mechanical Sense of Paramecium
As a research intern, I developed high-frequency, real-time image analysis and hardware control pipeline to track long trajectories of Paramecium. I wrote a driver for the microscope stage, and a high-speed image aquisition and processing (~50fps) tool. Using these software we were able to follow the trajectory of moving Paramecium.
Study of Diversity in Phyllotactic Patterns
Phyllotaxis is the arrangement of lateral organs in plants. In this project we attempt to explain the origin of emergent patterns, transitions, and irregularities in such arrangements. Using cylindrical projection unrolling and unwarping, I developed an image analysis pipeline allowing better study of complicated plant organs.
Personalised Medical Events, Conferences, and Courses Recommendation for Doctors at NHS, UK
- Developed the algorithm for classification of events into medical specialities.
- Integrated the classification system into the web app.
- Implemented an event recommendation engine leveraging Elasticsearch and stored features.
- Wrote a framework for event data aggregation from multiple NHS websites.
Computer Vision and Information Extraction
Developed and shipped a utility for digitizing waveforms and extracting metadata from
ECG
reports. It is being used at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston for processing more than a million patient records.Also worked on extracting normalized tabular data from scanned medical records. Key challenges here involved handling skewed, desaturated and otherwise low quality images.
Survaider Web App and Survey Builder
Developed a web app backend and REST API in Python.
Designed and developed a web based survey builder tool which was later integrated into the core application.
Human Activity Recognition from Acceleration data Under Naturalistic Conditions
The goal of this project was to develop a system for recognition of low level human activities, such as Walking, Running, Sitting, etc., using a single accelerometer.
Using supervised learning method, we trained a Random Forest Classifier using feature vectors obtained via our model. We were able to produce an accuracy of
95%
through our model.Aspiring Researcher Challenge
As a research associate, I was part of the team which was responsible for developing a large, online experiment to study the wisdom of the crowd where I formulated the algorithm for scraping and formatting raw data off multiple crowdfunding platforms.
Modelling and Network Analysis of Intronic miRNA Mediated Gene Expression Regulation
In this project, we developed a mathematical model for gene expression regulation via intronic micro
RNAs
, based on emperical data and experimental observations at IGIB.As a part of study, we’ve also generated a
miRNA <=> mRNA
target network using various available databases.Developed an open-source and modular
ERP
system andAPI
sub-system.Built a classification system for geospacial features between texts originated in different continents. Other responsibilities included design and development of several web portals, graphic designing, media and publishing tasks.
Talks and Workshops
Alohomora: Unlocking Magical Bits in Python
In this talk at FOSSASIA Summit, I gave a presentation covering several advance patterns in the Python programming language. In the presentation I introduced the audience with Metaclasses, Decorators and Patching.
Game Development Workshop under UK-India Education and Research Initiative
Robotics Bootcamp
Delivered sessions on Arduino programming, DAC, ADC and PWM.
Education
Approches Interdisciplinaires du Vivant
B.Tech. (IT and Mathematical Innovations)
- Major
- Information Technology
- Minors
- Mathematics, Systems Biology
Publications
Investigating the “wisdom of crowds” at scale
ACM UIST, 2015
Protein engineering and de novo designing of a biocatalyst
Journal of Molecular Recognition, 2016
Intronic miRNA mediated gene expression regulation controls protein crowding inside the cell
Gene, 2018
Meta-analysis of genomic variants and gene expression data in schizophrenia suggests the potential need for adjunctive therapeutic interventions for neuropsychiatric disorders
Journal of genetics, 2019
Open Source
Hues: Colored terminal text made easy for Python
Hues is a Python package which facilitates printing ANSI encoded text to terminal in unix-like systems.
metaRNA: Find target sites for the miRNAs in genomic sequences
metaRNA finds potential target sites for the microRNAs in genomic sequences. It is built on miRanda, an algorithm for detection and ranking of the targets of microRNA.
PyBloomFilter: Fast, Memory Mapped Bloom Filter
The goal of
PyBloomFilter
is to provide a fast, simple, scalable and correct library for Bloom Filters in Python.MongoCapsule: Encapsulated MongoEngine
MongoCapsule is a very thin wrapper around MongoEngine. It encapsulates MongoEngine attributes under a single namespace and hence allows explicit declaration without polluting global namespace.
Elasticsearch-Synonyms: Utilities for working with Synonym Filter in Elasticsearch
This repository contains a curated dataset of synonyms in
Solr
Format. These synonyms can be used for Elasticsearch Synonym Token Filter configuration. It provides a tool to lint and validate the synonym files.