Soumya Sambit Rath

NIT Rourkela, India | rath.soumyasambit@gmail.com

I am a final year student in electronics at National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, India. I work mostly in the field of VLSI circuit design, embedded systems, internet of things and sometimes computer vision too. I find my passion in learning new stuff. Tech and geeky stuff fascinate me indubitably. I love to solve problems and seek challenging roles in my domain.
When I am not busy with my work, I love to spend my time on Quora, Twitter, Facebook, TV shows and reading about Indian politics.
Although I hail from a tech background, I enjoy literature, history and politics equally. I love to read blogs and watch videos involving social experiments , documentaries and discussions. I like to analyse things deep when I find them interesting. A curious me always took passion in reverse engineering toys and gadgets since childhood. I am always grateful to my parents for fostering and nourishing that curiosity and creativity within me.
Photography interests me and I'm quite an amateur photographer too. I like to travel, but usually my travel companions stay busy. I like to watch movies and television series but unfortunately don't get much time for that. I have a passion for teaching. I believe that we can be confident at what we know only if we teach it to someone else. I like to follow the concept of "Karma Yogi" and believe in "Simple living and High thinking".

Education

National Institute of Technology, Rourkela

Dual Degree Program
Electronics and Communication Engineering - VLSI Design and Embedded Systems

GPA: 9.06/10 (till 8th Semester)

July 2015 - Present

DAV Public School, Chandrasekharpur, Bhubaneswar

Intermediate in Science

Percentage: 94

July 2013 - April 2015

DAV Public School, MCL, Kalinga Area, Talcher

Matriculation

GPA 10.00/10

July 2001 - April 2013

Experience

Research intern

IIT Kanpur

Worked in the field of controller design of tilt rotor quadrotors. Developed algorithms for the stability of a quadrotor during a rotor failure.

May 2018 - July 2018

Intern

DLW, Hubbali (Indian Railways)

Developed high efficiency DC-DC converter for auxiliary power supply in locomotives.

October 2017 - December 2017

Intern

IIT Bombay

Developed hardware and software for a 3D Scanner at Integrated Development Lab, CSE. Worked extensively on image processing and GUI development.

May 2017 - July 2017

Projects

Design of a Random Modulation Pre-Integrator IC (M.Tech Project)

Guide: Prof. Debiprasad Priyabrata Acharya, NIT Rourkela

This project is about designing an RMPI capable of handling signals at an excess of 1GHz frequencies, to be used for compressive sensing applications. Aim is to design a full fletched IC that can be used in analog pre-processing of signals from a Ground Penetrating Radar.

May 2019 - Present

Stability of tiltrotor quadrotor during rotor failure

Guide: Prof. S R Sahoo, IIT Kanpur

Designed algorithms to make use of gyroscopic precession for generating lift and stabilising the aerial vehicle during a sudden rotor failure.. These algorithms were successfully tested in Matlab simulations.

May 2018 - July 2018

Air Pressure Monitoring System

Guide: Prof. Debiprasad Priyabrata Acharya, NIT Rourkela

Designed a server and a website containing an interface for monitoring the sensors fitted at NALCO, Angul, Odisha. The website was integrated with the hardware developed by the team to monitor pressure and temperature of compressed air at different locations of the plant.

Jan 2018 - Mar 2018

Object Detection and Tracking

Guide: Prof. Santos Kumar Das, NIT Rourkela

Designed mini programs capable of detecting objects and tracking them in real time. Worked extensively with Multiple Instance Learning Algorithm, a supervised learning for tracking contours. Completed more than 10 modules for different types of video data classification.

Aug 2017 - Mar 2018

High Efficiency DC-DC Converter

Indian Railways

Designed it for Diesel Loco Works, Indian Railways, Hubli to be used in auxiliary power supply circuit of WDG4 series locomotives. The design achieved an efficiency of 90% in converting 72V DC to 5V DC/12V DC. The focus of the project was an advanced chopper circuit combined with highly efficient power MOSFETs and snubbers.

Oct 2017 - Dec 2017

3D Scanner

Guide: Prof. Deepak B. Phatak, IIT Bombay

Developed the hardware and software for 3D scanning of small objects using only open source technologies. Worked on OpenCV and Numpy. It was funded by NMEICT, Ministry of HRD, Government of India.

May 2017 - July 2017

Smart Inverter

Guide: Prof. P. K. Sahu, NIT Rourkela

Designed an MCU controlled modified sine wave inverter with features like battery protection, short-circuit protection and LCD display. It was funded by Plugged In, SAC, NIT Rourkela.

Apr 2017 - Mar 2017

Some of the other projects which I have completed are Quadcopter, Wi-Fi Controlled Home Automation System, Autonomous and Semi-Autonomous Rovers, Car Parking Sensor and Electronic Fuel Injection System.

Skills

PROFICIENT:
  • Cadence Virtuoso, Tanner Tools, Xilinx Vivado
  • Verilog, Python, Matlab, C, C++
  • OpenCV, Numpy, Scipy
  • NI LabVIEW, NI Multisim, Autodesk Eagle, Proteus
  • Arduino, ARM, AVR, Raspberry Pi, Linux
FAMILIAR:
  • Python Web Frameworks
  • Javascript, MongoDB

Achievements

  • Texas Instruments IICDC 2018 Quarter Finalist
  • 3rd Prize Wi-Fi Thinkfest 2017
  • 2nd Prize Embedded, IoT design competition at IIT Kanpur
  • 2nd Prize Sensorous, Robotics design competition at IIT Kharagpur
  • Academic Excellence for 2015-16, 2016-17, 2017-18