About Me

(in about 1275 words)

Intro

Hello, I am Mayukhmali Das. I am currently in my final year pursuing my B.E. degree in Electronics and Telecommunications from Jadavpur Univerisity, Kolkata, India.

How I developed my research interest

I had a deep interest in Electronics while growing up. When I was 9 years old I had a home tutor, who also was an engineer at that time. He used to bring me various diodes, breadboards etc and used to teach me how to design ciruits. I still remember the first circuit I designed was a full wave rectifier using diodes. My tutor had expressed great enthusiasm, stating that the circuit had the potential to charge a phone. However, I later discovered that it was merely a small component within a more comprehensive charging system. Thus at a very young age old I came across Mosfets and BJTs. I wanted to learn more. All this interest led me on the path to pursue my Bachelor’s of Engineering Degree in Electronics and Telecommunications. While studying in college, I also developed a keen interest and appreciation for Deep learning and Artificial Intelligence. I am very much grateful to get ample research opportunities in both of those fields.

Research in Electronics and Telecommunication:

I began my foray into Electronics research during my second year of college when one of my professors offered me the opportunity to work on RF Energy Harvesting circuits and relaying protocols. Together, we developed a groundbreaking hybrid-complementary Solar-RF Energy Harvesting system. Next in my third year of college during my summer internship, I focused on designing an Electromagnetic Energy Harvesting system specifically for vehicles like electric bikes. Building on my experience with RF and Electromagnetic Energy Harvesting, I delved into the world of FPGAs and ASICs, where I worked on the introduction of Hardware Trojans in SOC-based designs. Corresponding paper has been published in the 2022 19th International SoC Design Conference (ISOCC).

As I approached my final year of college, my research interests shifted to wireless communication, with a particular focus on modulation schemes like OFDM. I designed a complete OFDM transceiver system along with channel estimation. I am currently exploring OFDM jamming and the application of deep learning methodologies for the classification of different types of OFDM jamming. Recently, I presented an exhibition on OFDM jamming at the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) in India. Now, In addition to my research-related work, I have also participated in numerous tech fests across the country. During these events, I designed a range of projects, including RC planes, Arduino-controlled Sand Rovers, hydraulic arm-bearing RC cars, and Soccer-playing bots.

Research in Artificial Intelligence :

My first research work in AI was in my second year with some of my college seniors. We worked in Monocular Depth Estimation , generating Stereo images from Monocular Images and novel algorithms for depth estimation from stereo images. Corresponding paper entitled “Monocular Depth Estimation Using Encoder-Decoder Architecture and Transfer Learning from Single RGB Image” is published in 2020 IEEE 7th Uttar Pradesh Section International Conference on Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering (UPCON). At this point of time, I was getting accustomed to Deep Learning and started studying NLP side by side with Computer Vision. I worked in Sentiment Analysis, Aspect Analysis and Unsupervised Text Classification. Following this journey; in my third year, I started exploring various Neuromorphic architectures like Spiking Neural Networks and others. One such neuromorphic device called Event camera caught my attention. I started working on moving object detection in Event based vision and my paper on application of k means clustering on Event based data got accepted in UPCON 2021. As I dived deeper in topics like clustering, I took an interest in Graph Neural Networks. One of my papers entitled “ Recovery of Missing Sensor Data by Reconstructing Time-Varying Graph Signals” was published in 2022 30th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO).

Research in Optimization :

I also started to study about optimization in my second year. One of my papers on application of Reinforcement learning on Bee Swarm Optimization got accepted in EUROCON 2021. Currently I am working on application of optimization algorithms for efficient EEG electromagnet placement.

Future Goals :

At the moment, I feel more enthusiastic working in an interdisciplinary fashion. I feel that I can achieve my true potential when both of my skill sets in the domains of Wireless Communication and Artificial Intelligence constructively superimpose and amplify each other. As time goes on there is more and more incorporation of Artificial Intelligence in our everyday tech devices and thereby having a major impact on our lives. So it will be a great achievement for me if I am able to contribute to these ever growing field of technology.

Some of my Publications:

Some of my Articles related to SOC and Robotics :

Some of my Achievements and activities

State Rank 16th with the percentage of 96.4 in Class 10 and State Rank 6th with the percentage of 98 in Class 12
Recipient of Swami Vivekananda Merit-cum-Means Scholarship for a span of 4 years ( 2019 - 2023 )
State Rank 1 in RKM Chemistry Entrance Exam and State Rank 4 in RKM Physics Entrance Exam
All India Rank of 235 in NISER NEST
Qualified for Dual Degree at IISER Kolkata
General Merit Rank 228 in West Bengal Joint Entrance Examination
State Rank of 1434 in NEET ( Medical Entrance Exam ); secured government medical college in the first round of counseling
Smart India Hackathon 2022 Finalist
First prize in Circuistics ( A Circuits Design Hackathon ) and Aboltabol 2.0 ( A competition where we had to propose new research ideas ) and Second prize in Spark Hack ( Hackathon for Innovation ) – all of the above were organized by the Electrical Engineering Department, Jadavpur University. I also received the Second prize in Electroniche, a technology quiz event organized in the Jadavpur University Techfest Srijan
Finalist in AirBus Day Innovation Challenge, a hackathon where we had to present Bio-inspired ideas suitable for the aviation industry
Rank 1 in HDLBits Verilog Coding Competition amongst 1,00,000 participants
Designed a) a Radio Controlled Plane, b) all-terrain bot and c) a car with a Hydraulic arm for lifting weights for IIT Kharagpur. Did multiple personal projects using Arduino some of which are cataloged in my blogs at Hackster.io which has more than 10 thousand views