Ritwik Dutta

Worked with Professor Radu Marculescu at Carnegie Mellon University last summer (2015) on big-data analysis of academic social networks. I investigated how different participants in an academic conference collaborate, and outlined a methodology to characterize the "fairness" of such collaborations. My findings offer insights into the evolution of special communities or interest groups that tend to form in an academic network. My results can be used to guide and optimize policies regarding the rules of engagement in academic conferences and workshops; the methodology is applicable to a study of other complex social networks as well.

Worked with Professor Marilyn Wolf at Georgia Tech last year (2014) and implemented a health dashboard software system for collecting patient data in smart homes using household sensors like cameras and fitness bracelets. Built with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, the frontend of the software allows adding users, logging into the system, selecting health data of interest, and specifying health goals.

Prepared a comprehensive set of educational slides for my peers and juniors at my high school computer science club and robotics camp to introduce computer science concepts using JavaScript. Drawing on my learning and experience over the years, I have used my own JavaScript programs, and organized my ideas and opinions in a way that I feel makes many of the concepts easy to understand.

Created a recommendation engine for GitHub - the free-to-use software storage website. If a user specifies a software project of interest, KARE finds and recommends other similar projects on GitHub.

Developed a custom web application for Max Keyboard allowing their customers to design and configure a custom keyboard online, simplying the process of ordering and creating a custom keyboard. The entire application weighs less than 300KB and the entire keyboard is dynamically rendered in CSS, saving resources, decreasing loading time, and increasing the speed of using the application.

Hired as a software engineering intern by Nod Labs, a Silicon Valley-based startup with expertise in virtual reality input devices and motion tracking. I worked on maintaining and improving Nod's in-house testing platform for 6-DoF positional trackin, and created and maintained plugins that allowed product extensibility to the OSVR and Unreal platforms. I mainly developed in C++, largely using the Windows, OSVR, and Unreal Engine APIs, but I also used Arduino C++ and Python as components for the larger systems I worked on.

Hired as independent contractor by FreshPay Inc., a San Francisco-based Silicon Valley startup looking to revolutionize the payments space and do something new with the utilization of digitial currencies. I am a system engineer for the company's backend and I maintain and create extensions for an in-place task-management system.

Hired as an external software consultant by Lytmus, a San Francisco-based company looking to revolutionize the sourcing and assessment of technical talent using a sophisticated virtual-machine based platform that allows engineers to demonstrate their knowledge in realistic and practical settings and simultaneously provides useful, high-quality data to potential employers. I provided detailed feedback and analysis of the tests they created in order to further refine the target and quality of assessments so that the tests provided more meaningful data to potential employers.

Hired as an external project leader and frontend engineer by MAXKeyboard, a Fremont, California based custom keyboard designer. The existing platform for consumer-side customization of keyboards used to be a phone call from the buyer to the company describing the ideal customization. I created an online keyboard-configuration application with an ecommerce-focused design where the user could intuitively customize a realistic-looking yet lightweight imageless keyboard rendered using raw CSS and HTML.