Hola! I'm
Shubham Rathi
Student at
IIIT Hyderabad
Pursuing
B.Tech in CS + MS in EH
Me likey
ML and Front End
Muy Intersante
Data Visualization, NLP, UX, SX
Rat in the Rat Race
I’m a student developer-designer studying currently at IIIT Hyderabad. I’m fascinated by the intersection of Design and Technology. I seek to work on projects which harness users cognitive and affective side. It’s a thing for me that people feel and tangibly react to the screen experience.
I’ve made this my research problem. I’m pursuing research in the Ontology and Architecture of Magic. I love Yanni. Hear his music. They say, Music is the closest connection between two people.
My resume is a pretty piece of graphic. See it here. If this is the first time you're seeing this site, Yo: I want to hear from you! Head over to contact and send me a message.
- Currently atIIIT-H
- Age21
Laurels
Jack of all trades? Booyah!
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2009--2010Super Scribe
Awarded as Super Scribe for services rendered during the tenure as Editor, Daily News & Analysis.
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2008--2010School Captain
Vice Captain ('08-'09) and School Captain ('09-'10) of Smt Sulochanadevi Singhania School, Thane
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2010--2010Semi Finalist
Qualified till prefinals of ITC Ideas for India.
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2014--2014MIT Media Lab's Design Innovation Workshop
Selected to participate in the MIT Media Lab's design Innovation Workshop in Mumbai. Our Team developed a responsive causality Installation 'Houdini' under the mentorship of Valentin Heun and Aniruddh Sharma from Fluid Interfaces Group, MIT Media Labs.
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2013--2014Dean's Merit Award
Awarded in appreciation of the Academic performance in the academic year 2013-14.
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2014--2014World Business Dialogue
Selected as the Delegate from India to participate in the World Business Dialogue, 2015.
Experience
I'm passionate about good design. Like a relationship, it must feel just right. UX process is actually the means to achieving business goals, masked as design.
But, good design isnt not just about visual aesthetics. Its the end to end product. Its about gifting people with good experiences on a broader level that stays with them even after they put our product down.
I see our notion of UX is extremely limited to the screen. There's a need to expand this thought horizon.
Moving from Data to Information, Information to Knowledge and Knowledge to Wisdom:
Coming from a country abundant with historical art and architecture, I'm keen to explore the stories that these monuments have to tell. I believe our ancestors left us their thoughts not in words, but in objects. As we explore novel ways to engage in dialogues and newer method to structure knowledge, It is been my attempt to step out of stereotype thinking of applications as words collected together in black and white to applications which are enriching pieces of interactive media which carry superior abilities to create effective communication.
Transhumanism and the future of Man and Machines: Tomorrows computers will not be flatter displays or better graphics, the machines of tomorrow must utilize the mental experience. They must harvest their users intent and design experiences around them. My research 'Ontology & Architecture of Magic' tries something on these lines. Over the centuries, magicians have developed extensive knowledge about the manipulation of the human mind— knowledge that has been largely ignored by psychology. It has recently been argued that this knowledge could help improve our understanding of human cognition and consciousness. As part of my study, I delve deep in the literature of magic to draw parallels in affective computing and the contribution mentalism (clubbed with Machine Learning) could make in helping in make system interactions more intelligent and effective.
Beyond UX, I'm keen to explore Digital Finance and Management Consulting in further detail.
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Oct'09 - Dec'10
Junior Editor, DNA Young Adults, Mumbai
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Jun'14 - Nov'14
Front End Developer, Tuneterrain, Hyderabad
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Sept'15 - Dec'15
Web Developer, Reflection Technologies, Hyderabad
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Jan'15 - ongoing
Media Admin, IIIT Hyderabad
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Jan'16 - ongoing
Machine Learning (ML) Developer, Reflection Technologies, Hyderabad
Coding Skills
Most of the Coding that I've learnt comes as a part of my curriculum at IIIT-H. Some of the languages that I've tried:
Coding Projects
My repository is proud of:
| Period | Title | Course/ Organisation | Details | Platform |
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| Spring '14 | WebRTC powered P2P Video Chat | ITWS II | An anonymous online peer to peer video call service that functions on WebRTC. (Product Live) | WebRTC, Javascript(peer.js), HTML, CSS |
| Spring '14 | Audio Reactive Interface | ITWS II | Web Interface that responds to non-verbal voice signal (whistle) for website nagivation. | Javascript, HTML, CSS |
| Jan '14 | Houdini | Design Innovation, MIT Media Lab | Co-created a responsive causality installation ‘Houdini’ in association with Fluid Media Group (MIT). See demo | Arduino, Processing |
| Monsoon '14 | Enterprise DB Management | Intro to Databases | Database management system with CRUD utilities for enterprises implemented using pure SQL. | SQL, HTML, CSS, Javascript |
| Monsoon '14 | Emoviz: Signal Sentiment Analysis | SSAD/ Akshar Speech Labs | Development of front system for sentiment analysis on voice signals. See demo | wxpython, HTML, CSS, Javascript |
| Spring '15 | AI Bot: Tic Tac Toe | Artificial Intelligence | Generating Game Tree and improving bot performance using alpha-beta pruning. | Python |
| Spring '15 | Peer to Peer file sharing protocol | Computer Networks | Peer to Peer file sharing utility implemented on the terminal using sockets. | C (Socket) |
| Monsoon '15 | Emotion Perception on a Temporal Bisection Task | Intro to Cognitive Science | Measure the perception of the duration of emotional events as a temporal disection task ( based on research published in ‘Cognition & Emotion') | Matlab (Psychtoolbox) |
| Monsoon '15 | Sprouts Game | Game Theory for Computer Science | Generate game tree for Sprouts (impartial combinatorial, sequential game with complete information) in which winning strategy is determined by adversarial search. | Python |
| Monsoon '15 | Combining content with user preferences for TED video recommendations | Statistical Methods in Artificial Intelligence | Creation of TED video recommendation engine in a cold start setting by analysis of different Vector Space Models (based on a paper submitted to IEEE, 2013) | Python (Scikit, Gensim) |
| Ongoing | Architecture & Ontology of Magic | Confluence Project in CS and Humanities | Analyze the mental sweeps, objective interactions humans make in mentalism performances developed on the ontology of magic. | Python (Scikit, Matlplotlib) |
Design Skills
Beyond Programming, I've done decent bit of design.
I'm currently at
IIIT Hyderabad, India
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