MOHD ARSALAN | 20MA20034

MATHEMATICS & COMPUTING (M.Sc. 5Y)

MINOR in COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGG. (B.Tech 4Y)
EDUCATION
Year Degree/Exam Institute CGPA/Marks
2025 5 YRS M.SC IIT Kharagpur 8.09 / 10
2019 Class XII | CBSE Gauri Shankar Public School 90.6%
2017 Class X | CBSE Mahatma Jyoti Rao Phule Public School 10 / 10
POSITIONS OF RESPONSIBILITY
Coordinator | Interational Relations Cell [June '22 - June '23]
• Helped Office of International Relations in organizing semester exchanges, semester away and hosting international delegations
• Garnered 223 (48% YoY increase) Foreign Training offers with projects from leading universities like Standford, Imperial College etc
• Organized On Campus round of Hult Prize, 2023 mentored by 5 judges and 3 speakers which witnessed the participation of 40+ Teams
Student Member | Interational Relations Cell [June '21 - June '22]
• Conducted the online MS/PhD Panel Discussion and the HPAIR Informative Seminar, benefitting 500+ students
• Organized 1st edition of SAIP/SAPP OpenHouse with the deans of IIT Kharagpur, witnessing an audience of 300+ students
INTERNSHIPS AND PROJECTS
Research Intern | KAUST University | Saudi Arabia [May '23 - Present]
Project Title: Building and Evaluating Robust Foundation Models for Human Genomics
• Built four language models using encoder techniques of different sizes on protein sequences ranging from 500M up to 2.5B parameters
• Pre-trained on three datasets including a collection of diverse human genomes (3,202), and genomes from 850 unique species
• Performed Probing techniques using the Nucleotide Transformer models which out performs 12 out of 18 genomic downstream task
• Achieved an AUC score on non-coding variant predictions using the DNA-based transformer of 0.73 on eQTLs and 0.71 on meQTLs
MITACS GRI Intern | University Of Alberta | Canada [May '23 - July '23]
Project Title: Artificial Intelligence and TensorFlow for High Speed Video Analysis
• Used Python tkinter library to create a GUI for visualization of High speed video of Gas Metal Arc Welding (GMAW) in cine format
• Stored the videos of GMAW processes for globular and spray transfer modes as a 4D array (time, width, height, channels) into a .npz file
• Applied Transfer learning using a Unet Model for video segmentation of GMAW welding process to calculate physical properties
• Merge the model to the GUI, with options for the physical properties like, velocity and acceleration of droplets, arc length
Term Project for Natural Language Processing (CS60075) [Oct '22 - Nov '22]
Project Title: Event Structure Extraction from Text
• Extracted sentences from raw dataset consisting of news articles (1148 sentences) about various natural calamities and terror attacks
• Used NLTK, spacy Libraries for data preprocessing ( seven element tuples, POS tags and Dependency tags) for tokens in the sentence
• Implemented BERT Tokeisation and Pointer Network-Based Event Structure Extraction (PESE) model for achieveing better results
• Used Bi-LSTM for pointer network for trigger/argument span detection and achieved 0.85 F1 score in Trigger Identity task
Research Project | IIT Kharagpur [May '22 - July '22]
Project Title: Application of Machine Learning Techniques in Aircraft Rescheduling Problem
• Automated column generation technique to create dataset comprising various disruption scenarios of 50 aircrafts on a 7-day schedule
• Generated 58 features using domain knowledge, applied feature engineering and backward selection technique to identify aircrafts
• Applied various models including Decision Tree, Random forest classifier, Xgboost for subset generation of possible carrier aircraft
• Achieved 0.78 recall with basic models, employing SMOTE with CatBoost and hyperparameter tuning, the best result reached 0.92
COMPETITION/CONFERENCE
Kaggle Competition | Stanford University | USA [May '23 - July '23]
Objective: Demonstrating machine learning in satellite imagery and other publicly available geotagged data
• Analyzed Correlation matrix on MCH indicators on LMIC and scattered plots trends of features to draw major insights into the dataset
• Reduced the dimension of the dataset from 11983 to 1000 on using Pricipal component analysis (PCA), XG Boost feature importance
• Compaired RMSE score of various regression model like Light GBM, Cat Boost, XG Boost to achieve an intermediate score of 15.43
• Achieved best reults on weighted ensemble regressor with an RMSE score of 11.706 by integrating bagging and boosting models
COURSEWORK INFORMATION
Computer Science: Programming and Data Structures (A) | Design and Analysis of Algorithms (A) | File Organization and Database
System (A) | Machine Learning (O) | Deep Learning (O) | Natural Language Processing (A) [A - Academic | O - OpenSource]
Mathematics:Probability &Statistics |Stochastic Processes |Linear Algebra Combinotorics and Graph Theory|Optimization Techniques
AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS
Joint Entrance Examinations: Ranked in the Top 3% and Top 1% among 2.5 Lakh candidates in India in JEE Advanced and Main - 2020
Inspire: One of the candidates to be awarded 60000 INR yearly for completing the graduation in STEM field
EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
•Served as Bridge Vice Captain of Azad Hall Of Residence, contributed in the startegic card Game and trained 10 students for this game.
•Part of Gold-winning team in Inter-Hall Illumination Competition, 2023 conducted by Technology Students' Gymkhana
!Self declared by the student, CDC could not verify the relevant documents