About

I am Shankho Boron Ghosh, a senior undergraduate at Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology (Deemed University), Patiala (India). I am pursuing Bachelors of Engineering with major in Electronics & Communication Engineering and minor in Computer Science.

• Skilled technologist having project-based experience in software development (Python, C, C++), ai/ml (tensorflow, opencv), IoT (using arduino, esp8266, raspberry pi), robotics (ROS), embedded systems (Yocto) and radio frequency engineering (cst studio & gnu-radio).

• Truly believe that open-source is the future. Participated in:

  • Google Summer of Code 2021 under Automotive Grade Linux, a sub organization of The Linux Foundation. [May 2021 - Aug 2021]
  • Google Season of Docs 2020 under Automotive Grade Linux, a sub organization of The Linux Foundation. [Aug 2020 - Dec 2020]

• Research Internships:

  • Research Intern (Real Time Embedded Systems) at the High-Performance Real-Time Laboratory, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia under the mentorship of Dr. Marco Solieri and Dr. Paolo Burgio. [Jan 2022 - Jun 2022]

  • MITACS Globalink Research Intern 2021 at the Theoretical and Experimental Epistemology Laboratory, University of Waterloo under the mentorship of Prof. Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan. [May 2021 - Jul 2021]

  • Winter Intern (Robotics & Computer Vision) at the Center of Intelligent Robotics, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad under the mentorship of Prof. G.C. Nandi. [Dec 2019 - Jan 2020]

  • Summer Intern (Deep Learning & Computer Vision) at the Computer Science and Engineering Department, Bennett University under the mentorship of Dr. Deepak Garg. [Jun 2019 - Jul 2019]

• Position of Responsibilities:

  • Served as the Lead Student Engineer​ for Thapar Satellite Program (ThapSat). Spearheaded the development of in-house nanosatellite for developing techniques to observe the long-term hazardous effects of pollution on the environment by collecting data using specialised sensors and cameras. Led multiple student research projects in part of this initiative. [Jan 2020 - Jun 2022]

  • Served as the Department Head - Data Acquisition for the Formula Student Team, FSAE Team Fateh at my university. The team won multiple awards at Formula Bharat 2022. [Oct 2019 - Jun 2022]

• Won multiple national-level hackathons, including the prestigious Smart India Hackathon in 2019 and Flipkart GRiD 3.0 (Information Security Track) in 2021.

• Invited Talks:

  • Open Source Summit Japan & Automotive Linux Summit 2021, 'Contributing to Automotive Software as part of Google Summer of Code', Dec 2021, Online (The Linux Foundation). [YOUTUBE]
  • Amateur Radio & Amateur Satellites Workshop, 'Quickstart to Software Defined Radio', Dec 2021, Online (Thapar Satellite Development Center).
  • International Youth Skill Day Workshop, ‘The Journey’, July 2020, Online (RC Thane Townwing).

These stand as my ever-present motivation to engineer elegant solutions to real-world challenges and contribute to society in a positive and reaffirming manner.

-> actions/doers » words/sayers

-> classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.

-> jack of all trades is a master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one.

-> just because everyone else does the wrong thing, you are not exempt from doing what is right.