PERSONAL PROFILE:
Name: Birinder Singh Tiwana
Date of Birth: November 18
Sex: Male
Address: Room: A-209
Rajendra Prasad Hall of Residence
IIT Kharagpur
Kharagpur, West Bengal
PIN: 721 302
India
Tel No.: +91 9735444161
Primary E-Mail: birinder.tiwana@gmail.com
Secondary E-Mail: merry.tiwana@gmail.com
EDUCATIONAL PROFILE
BACHELOR OF TECHNOLOGY
INSTITUTE : Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.
YEAR OF PASSING : Pursuing , currently in third year,to be completed in April 2009.
MAJOR : Computer Science and Engineering.
MARKS : 8.7 on a scale of 10(3.5 on a scale of 4).
CLASS 12
BOARD : Punjab School Education Board.
YEAR OF PASSING: 2004 .
MAJORS : Physics, Chemistry,Mathematics,English,Computer Science.
MARKS: 75 %.
CLASS 10
BOARD: Central Board for Secondary Education.
YEAR OF PASSING: 2002.
MAJORS: General.
MARKS: 84%.
ACHIEVEMENTS:
ƒ Secured the 344th position in JEE 2005 (out of more than 2,00,000 students), the
Entrance Test to the Indian Institutes of Technology.
ƒ Secured the 426th position in All India Engineering Entrance Examination, 2005.
ƒ Certificate in Maths Olympiad , 2004 at Regional level.
ƒ Having a current CGPA of 8.7 on a scale of 10 (or 3.5 on a scale of 4).
PROJECTS UNDERTAKEN:
1. Working on my B Tech project in the field of Social network mining.
GUIDE:
Prof. Sudeshna Sarkar
Computer Science and Engineering Department
IIT Kharagpur
2. Working on the Geographical Inforamtion System project in the School of Information and Technology at IIT Kharagpur. I am expecting a publication in this project soon.
GUIDE:
Prof. S.K.Ghosh
Computer Science and Engineering Department
IIT Kharagpur
3. Working to develop a content generation tool with Mayank Jain of intinno.com (a start up from IIT Kharagpur).
4. Worked with minekey.com (Personalized Recommendation Service) and designed the
reports generation engine of the use of the minekey services by users and large
publishers. Studied some algorithms for improving the recommendation service using the
individual’s reading history.
GUIDE:
Prof. Sudeshna Sarkar
Computer Science and Engineering Department
IIT Kharagpur
5. Instantiating the Google Ad-Words problem as a special case of the k-server problem.
GUIDE:
Prof. Pabitra Mitra
Computer Science and Engineering Department
IIT Kharagpur
6. Designed a 16-bit CPU as a part of the laboratory of the Computer Architecture course
in software using Hardware Design Language Verilog.
GUIDE:
Prof. D Roy Chaudhary
Computer Science and Engineering Department
IIT Kharagpur
7. Development of a Compiler for ‘Tiny-C’ a subset of the C-language, as a part of the
Compiler Construction course. This requires familiarity with the usage as well as inherent
logic of various compiler generation tools, as well as writing our own basic generation
tools.
GUIDE:
Prof. Niloy Ganguly
Computer Science and Engineering Department
IIT Kharagpur
8. Designed efficient algorithms for compressing and decompressing text files
using Huffman Coding.
GUIDE:
Prof. P. P. Chakraborthy
Computer Science and Engineering Department
IIT Kharagpur
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
ƒ Knowledge of Windows, Linux and Solaris.
ƒ Knowledge of Object Oriented Programming, C, C++, Perl,Python, Lex, Yacc.
ƒ Knowledge of HTML,PHP,MYSQL,Verilog , Visual Studio, MATLAB, LaTeX.
ƒ Languages known: English, Hindi, Punjabi.
COURSES TAKEN:
Completed
• Artificial Intelligence
• Compiler Construction
• Programming and Data Structures
• Algorithm Design and Implementation
• Discrete Structures
• Switching Circuits and Logic Design
• Formal Languages and Automata Theory
• Computer Architecture and Organization
• Basic Electronics
• Operating Systems
Pursuing (to be completed by April 2008)
• Database Management Systems
• Computer Networks
• Distributed Computing
• Machine Learning
Extra Curricular Activities:
- President, Punjabi Society IIT Kharagpur.
- Member of Gold winning dramatics team of RP hall of residence.