MAR ATHNASIUS COLLEGE OF ENGINERING...MACE..KOTHAMANGALAM

 I was toying with the idea of visiting this institute for quite some time  MACE Mar Athnasius college of Engineering in Kothamangalam...my older lad Ganesh studied Computer Science here fron 2015 to 2019.

Kothamangalam is a small township closer to the Western Ghat mountains in the Ernakulam District of Kerala. Perumbavoor  is a major hub some twenty kilometers from Kothamangalam and Kothamangalam is not far from Muvattupuzha.The names of towns in this part of the world closely resemble each other and can be confusing. The district and city of Idukki is close to Kothamangalam and Kothamangangalam is transit point towards Idukki .However Idukki can also be approached through a place called Theni in Tamil Nadu. Nearly two hours from Idukki down the Western Ghat mountains is Theni.Idukki and this part of Kerala in general can be approached from Bangalore through Dindugal and Theni.

I had to get into a Kerala SRTC bus bound for Trivandrum which is a A/C hybrid bus 2+1 seater cum sleeper.Kerala SRTC must be congratulated for introducing this version of buses in its fleet because it is very comfortable. Karnataka SRTC is yet to introduce these buses to my understanding but would stand in good stead if they do so at the earliest.I had to get down at Perumbavoor which I did.

Perumbavoor is a fairly modern township with a elegant Government bus stand but to my understanding the bus-station needs better management.I had a stroll in the morning of Perumbavoor and could see large churches.The high point is that I got a budget room to stay here on the main road.My primary focus was to book a return ticket to Bangalore which I did on a Munnar-Bangalore service which stops at KSRTC Perumbavoor bus stand.

I decided to hire a taxi to Kothamangalam a very wise decision in many ways.The Taxi is a deisel run Auto-Taxi of Haridas. I was chatting with Haridass all along the stretch. TATA sons has stopped making these vehicles I was told by Haridas but is a splendid vehicle in many ways for its ruggedness and economy.The institute called MACE is on the Kothamangalam -Muvattupuzha road some two kilometers from Kothamangalam.Parking the Taxi in the stand Me and Haridas went about exploring the Institute.

I liked MACE for many reasons , a very well orchestrated place with top-class flora in and around. I had a look at the Electrical Machines lab which is half the size the lab we used to have at NIT but has all the machines. The lab incharge told me they even have Schrage motor which is a variable speed Induction drive.On the entrance to the institute is the photo of  CNR Rao.It was nice to see that Mr.Rao is honoured at this place.I used to know Rao when he was the Director of  Indian Institute of Science meeting him at times in the Faculty hall of IISc.

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Then I went to the Dept. of Computer Science and happenned to chat with a teacher of Ganesh who remembers him fonldy as a obedient lad who used to always sit in the front bench.Some how she was very glad to see me.

Thus ended a sojourn to this part of the World.This part of Kerala is less exciting to my observation acting more as a transit point to Munnar,Kottayam and Idukki.

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BIO-DATA OF GANESH S ( GANESH SUBASH ALIAS GANESH SRIPADAM)

GANESH S. Kozhikode, Kerala, India · ganeshs1461@gmail.com · 

EXECUTIVE  SUMMARY Computer science graduate with specialization in machine learning, natural language processing and computer vision, recently worked on analysing the correlation between energy supply, renewable energy production and country GDP.  Dependable organised team player with the ability to communicate effectively and efficiently.  

SKILLS Programming Languages: Python, C Databases: MongoDB, MySQL      WebDev Languages: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, php Machine Learning: Tensorflow, Scikit-Learn, Keras, MATLAB.  

PROJECTS Data Analysis Pandas, Python        Developer 

• Project in University of Michigan Online Data Science Program. • Analyze correlation between energy supply, renewable energy production and country GDP. • Processed, cleaned and integrated data. Analyzed data to identify any specific relations. • Countries that depended higher on renewable resources had a higher GDP.  

Recommender System MATLAB        Developer 

• Movie recommender system by analyzing data from GroupLens Research. • Developed the movie recommender using collaborative filtering learning algorithm. • Achieved an accuracy of 70%. Performed hyperparameter tuning and improved the accuracy by 10%. 

         Facial Expression Recognition Keras, Python Developer 

• Deployed a solution that can identify the facial expression of a person which could assist doctors in mental health treatment.  • Created the architecture of convolutional neural network and achieved 76% accuracy. 

• Applied the model to real-time video streaming. Deployed the trained model to a web interface with Flask. 

                 Surface crack detection in Concrete Structures Tensorflow, Keras, Colabs                     Developer • Identify the surface cracks in building to facilitate proper recreational activities. • Implemented transfer learning with ResNet50 to obtain a 97% accuracy. • Deployed the model to mobile interface using Tensorflow Lite. Undergraduate Research  Python, Deep Neural Network          Project Lead • Analyzing the absorption spectrum of blood to identify foreign particles in blood samples. • Created a data-set of good and bad images, labelled them to make a binary classifier.  • Developed a neural network to identify the class and achieved 82% of accuracy. Undergraduate Project  Web–development, MySQL          Project Lead • Analyzing the marks obtained by students in university semester examination. • Developed a web scraping algorithm to obtain marks from university website.  • Designed and developed a database for easier computation. • Developed a website to present the marks of each student.  

 INTERNSHIP EXPERIENCE Tata Consultancy Services - August 2018                                                       Kochi, Ernakulam • Payment on vending machines was done using hard cash. • TCS wanted to upgrade the vending machines to incorporate online payment in the vending machines.  • Redesigned and developed an architecture for online payment for the vending machine and generated a product key to identify product purchased. • Best presentation and solution.  

       Biztime IT Solutions – Aug 2017                        Bangalore  • Develop an application to keep track of spending habit of customer. • Developed the backend, kept tracks of monetary flow of the customer.  LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE MastersApply (Website)           Kerala • A non-profit website to educate students regarding Masters education abroad.               2019 - 2020  • Performed various tasks like website design, UI design, content writing, and digital marketing.  • https://mastersapply.com/    

       Veil Health Care Solutions (Startup)                                                                                    Kerala • To help the covid19 effected communities of Kerala.                                                            2019 - 2020 • Sold more than 50,000 healthcare products in Ernakulam and Kozhikode.  • Managed digital marketing, production and sales. • https://veilindia.com/   

Google – Developer Student Club (Lead)                                                   Kothamangalam, Ernakulam • Selected from a national list by Google as a Lead for their new DSC program.                2017 - 2018 • Facilitated training for 215 students in android application development.  • Enabled students to develop solutions for local business.  • https://drive.google.com/file/d/1s1HLL4S61u5wQ01hFgskGwjemuQqMN_y/view?usp=sharing   

Pre-Startup – Swasthya                                                                                    Kothamangalam, Ernakulam • Online sales and home delivery of medicines to patients.                         2017-2018    • Designed Marketplace business model and presented in Startup mission.   • Lesson learned and reason for failure was allocating too much time to develop a highly efficient service, which the customer felt complex to understand. 

EDUCATION Mar Athanasius College of Engineering Kothamangalam, Ernakulam Bachelor of Technology (Honors) Computer Science and Engineering GPA: 8.76 2015 - 2019  

CERTIFICATIONS Stanford Online Machine Learning (2020)    IBM AI Engineering Professional Certificate (2020) University of Michigan Applied Data Science (2020) Service Marketing: A practical approach (IIT, Kharagpur) Soft Skills for Business Negotiations (IIT, Kharagpur)