YOGESH SINGH RAWAT
AS6-05-01
Department of Computer Science, School of Computing
National University of Singapore, Singapore
ysrawat.cse@gmail.com
http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~yogesh
RESEARCH INTEREST
My research interest is in Multimedia Content Analysis, Crowdsourcing & Multimedia Computing and
Aesthetics & Emotion Analysis. I have prior research experience in EDA Industry, Handwriting and
Fingerprint Recognition.
EDUCATION
2012 - present
School of Computing
National University of
Singapore
CAP 4.5
Bachelor of Technology
Computer Science and
Engineering
2005-09
Institute of Technology (IIT)
Banaras Hindu University,
India
GPA - 8.45/10
DR - 3/40
CBSE Class XII All India Senior
School Certificate Examination
2004
CBSE
87.6%
CBSE Class X All India
Secondary School Examination
2002
CBSE
87 %
PhD
Computer Science
CONFERENCE PUBLICATION
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Yogesh Singh Rawat, Mohan S. Kankanhalli, "Context-Based Photography Learning using
Crowdsourced Images and Social Media," accepted for ACM Multimedia Grand Challenge 2014.
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Yogesh Singh Rawat, Chidansh Amitkumar Bhatt, Mohan S. Kankanhalli, "Mode of teaching based
segmentation and annotation of video lectures," Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI), 2014
12th International Workshop on , vol., no., pp.1,4, 18-20 June 2014
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U. Bhattacharya, A. Nigam, Y. S. Rawat and S. K. Parui, An Analytic Scheme for Online
Handwritten Bangla Cursive Word Recognition, in the Proceedings of the International Conference
on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR 2008), pp. 320 - 325, Montreal, Canada during 1921 August, 2008
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
RTL Compiler Team
Senior Member Technical Staff
Jan 2010 – 2012
Mentor Graphics (India) Pvt. Ltd.
Worked on the RTL Compiler used with Mentor’s emulation platform, Veloce®.
Performance Optimization, Memory Management and Task Distribution.
 Worked on memory management projects for the compiler
 Implemented mixed language features (system verilog and vhdl) which are not defined by the LRM
 Implemented low power aware features in RTL compiler. Received special recognition for the same
 Trained new hires at the firm in compiler concepts and verilog synthesis for the past 2 years
Member Technical Staff
July 2009 - Jan 2010
RTL Compiler Team
Mentor Graphics (India) Pvt. Ltd.
 Conceived and implemented distributed analysis flow in RTL compiler
 Compilation time for big designs on customer site was improved on an average by 300%
 Received special recognition for contribution to product evaluation on client end
Summer Internship
May 2008 - July 2008
Modelsim(RTL Simulator) Team
Mentor Graphics (India) Pvt. Ltd.
 Performed comparative analysis for various optimizations in Modelsim® simulator for verilog and
system verilog languages
 I was awarded Pre-Placement Offer (PPO) by Mentor Graphics based on my performance in this
project
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
CVPR Unit
Internship
Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, India
May 07 - July 07
Prof. Ujjwal Bhattacharya
Advisor:
An Analytic Scheme for Online Handwritten Bangla Cursive Word Recognition
Project Title:
 Proposed an analytic recognition approach, which involves segmentation of the
input Bangla(Bengali) word
 Modified quadratic discriminant function classifier (MQDF) used for
recognition of segmented strokes based on a chain code histogram based feature
vector
Artificial Intelligence and Vision Lab
Thesis Project
IT-BHU, India
Jan 09 - March 09
Assoc. Prof. Sanjay Kumar Singh
Advisor:
Fingerprint Recognition
Project Title:
 Developed a fingerprint matching algorithm which was based on minutia based
features
 Image enhancement, binarization and segmentation techniques employed before
feature extraction
Operating Systems and Networking Lab
Minor Project
IT-BHU, India
Jan 08 - March 08
Assist. Prof. Ravi Shankar Singh
Advisor:
Resource allocation in computational grid
Project Title:
 Developed a scheme for parallel resource co-allocation
 Used for task scheduling in a computational grid with heterogeneous resource
environment
PROJECTS
 Project: Multi Server Search Engine.
Exposure: C#, SQL
Description: It was based on multithreading. The query being searched is send to more than one
servers set on the network. This makes the search more efficient.
Duration: Feb - 2007. It was presented in the institute’s technical festival. (TECHNEX-07)
 Project: Unicast Chat Server and File Transfer Utility.
Exposure: Java.
Description: It was a one to one chat and file transfer utility which can be used over a network.
Duration: March - 2008. It was my Networking Lab Project.
 Project: Random Crossword Generator.
Exposure: C++
Description: Randomly generates the crossword from the given list of words.
Duration: March - 2007 (B-Tech, Minor Project in II year).
 Project: Website for the national level technical event, TECHNEX-07
Exposure: HTML, PHP
Duration: Nov – 2006 (Can be accessed at http://yogeshrawat.co.nr/technex07)
Computer Skills
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Operating System: Linux, Windows
Languages: C, C++, Java, Verilog, System Verilog, Vhdl, JavaScript, HTML
Tools: Visual Studio, NetBeans, Dreamweaver, Modelsim
ACHIEVEMENTS
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Awarded special recognition for my performance on low power and distributed analysis projects
at Mentor Graphics in the year 2009 and 2010
Qualified highly prestigious exam IIT-JEE with a rank 1139, along with other reputed entrance
examinations
Winner in the software code contest Endeavour and second in Night Shift (Technex-08)
Participated in the All India Senior National Table Tennis tournament in the year 2003
Achieve first position in the city in X and XII standard board examinations
Awarded Merit-cum-means scholarship from 2006 to 2009 at IT-BHU
Granted national sports scholarship from Sports Authority of India for excellence in sports in 2002
Extracurricular Activities
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Gold medial in Table Tennis singles and Bronze in mixed doubles at OlymNUS 2013.
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Conducted induction training on compiler and code contest for new joiners at Mentor Graphics in
2010 and 2011.
I was member of website management group (WMG) of the institute
I was captain of Table Tennis team of IT-BHU from 2007-2009
Represented U.A. and then U.P state in Table-Tennis from the year 1998 to 2003
Represented BHU in East Zone Table-Tennis tournament, held at Tezpur University, Assam in 2006
Winner in IT-Open Table Tennis tournament (IT-BHU) in 2006
Represented IT-BHU at IIT-Kanpur in the national level sports meet held in 2005 and 2007
Achieve third position in the state (Uttarakhand) level Art competition
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