Bijin Elsa Baby

Prime Minister's Research Fellow

Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad


About Me

I am a research scholar of Dept. of Data Science, IIT Palakkad. My area of interests include computer vision, artificial intelligence and embedded systems. My present research work focuses on an in-depth study of different optimization techniques at software/hardware levels and come up with a solution to make the real-time embedded vision applications energy efficient. 

Experience

Teaching Experience

Deep Learning and Python Programming                                            Jan 2023 - Present                

PMRF Teaching Assistant

NSS College of Engineering, Palakkad

System on Chip Design Lab (CS5102)                                                      Jan 2023 - Present

Institute Teaching Assistant                                                                               

IIT Palakkad

Applied Accelerated Artificial Intelligence (noc22-cs83)              July 2022 - Oct  2022     

Teaching Assistant

NPTEL        

Research Experience

IIT Palakkad                                                                                                         Feb 2021 - Jul 2021      

Junior Research Fellow, Mentor: Dr. Satyajit Das

Project: Energy-Efficient Reconfigurable Accelerator for Real Time Vision Systems                  

IIT Palakkad                                                                                                       May 2019 - Jun 2019 

Summer Research Fellow, Mentor: Dr. Vivek Chaturvedi

Project: Energy Efficiency in Internet of Things.

Professional Experience

Infosys Limited, Mysore                                                                         May 2016 - May 2018               

Systems Engineer, Role: Big Data Developer,

Clients: SunTrsut Bank, ABN AMRO Bank.            

Professional Skills

Programming: C, C++, Java, Kotlin, OpenMP, Python, VHDL, Verilog, HTML

Tools: Arduino IDE, Android Studio, Cadence Virtuoso, Eclipse IDE, Gem5, Hotspot, Keil, MATLAB, Oozie, PULP, Proteus, Sqoop, Spark, SMAUG, Xilinx-HLS, Vivado, Vitis, FINN

Databases: Hbase, Hive, MongoDB, MySQL

Development Boards: Virtex-7, PYNQ, ZYBO, ZCU104, Raspberry Pi, ESP32, ARM LPC2148

Professional Affiliations

ACM, 2021-2022

Membership ID: 5409980

Role: Student Member

IEEE & IEEE SSCS, Kerala Section, 2019-2020

Membership ID: 95485971

Role: IEEE SSCS Saintgits Student Chapter Vice Chair from 2019 to 2020

Academic Profile

Ph.D.                                                                                                Aug 2021 (Pursuing)   

Dept. of Data Science

IIT Palakkad, Mentor: Dr. Satyajit Das

CGPA: 9.42/10

M.Tech                                                                                            Aug 2018 - Aug 2020    

VLSI & Embedded Systems                                                                                                             

Saintgits College of Engineering, Kottayam, 

M.Tech Mini Project: Human Health Monitoring System using Internet of Wearable Things

M.Tech Thesis: Digital Health Infrastructure

CGPA: 9.29/10    

B.Tech                                                                                             July 2012 - June 2016

Electronics and Communication Engineering                                                                                   

Karunya University, Coimbatore

B.Tech Main Project: Human Health Monitoring using Wearable Sensors

CGPA: 9.34/10

Workshops Attended

2021 ACM Europe Summer School on “HPC Computer Architectures for AI and Dedicated Applications” held between 30th August and 3rd September 2021.

Online Workshop on “Design Principles For Next Generation Embedded Computing Systems” organized by IIT Guwahati in collaboration with the University of Essex, UK held during 5-8 July 2021 and12,13 July, 2021.

Online Workshop on “Domain Specific Accelerators” organized by IIT Guwahati in collaboration with the University of Catania, Italy held during 18,25 June 2021 and 2,9 July 2021.

Certifications

MongoDB Basics, MongoDB, Inc.

Issued Date: 29/01/2019

Infosys Certified BigData Hbase Developer

Issued Date: 21/02/2018

Realizing Secure Applications, Infosys

Issued Date: 21/02/2018

Infosys Global Agile Developer Certification

Issued Date: 21/02/2018

Positions Held

PhD Representative of MAGIC Research Cluster for AI at IIT Palakkad. 

Students Representative in Karunya University Planning & Monitoring Board.

Coordinator of Karunya University Aqua Club.

Notable Achievements

Prime Minister’s Research Fellowship (PMRF May 2022 lateral entry scheme)

Won best poster award in Research Scholar's Day 2022 at IIT Palakkad.

Highest GPA in the college for 1st & 2nd semester M.Tech VLSI & Embedded Systems Degree examinations.

University second rank holder in Electronics & Communication in the year 2016.