Member Profile

Aditya Venkatraman

Amateur coder, Robotics enthusiast, Hardcore 'Maker'(recently)

Batch: Class of 2016

Currently: Studying at IIT Bombay

Story:

I had near zero exposure to Tech, or coding or electronics when I first came to Kumarans in 11th grade. I knew I had interest in ‘making’ things because I used to tinker around with my Mechanix kit as a kid and did some carpentry over summer. Mostly used to complain about the unavailability of resources whenever I started on something. Made me give up on many, many things Basically, like any 16 year old, I had ideas but no direction. Owing to the fact that we liked learning more than what was there in the curriculum, Gautam Padiyar and I teamed up and we started work on what came to be our 12th grade CS project : Bash for Windows. We also worked on other side projects and learnt a whole lot of stuff along the way. Inspired by Adhesh Shenoy and Aabharan Hemanth, I started learning about and experimenting with electronics and electrical equipments, no matter how low I was, on resources. Essentially, my peer group pushed me to do better things.

Achievements :

Nothing Significant

Projects:

  1. KMUN Moderator App - Contributed ideas and code to the Moderator application developed for KMUN along with Sriram Desai, Arjun Rao and Gautam Padiyar (June 2015)

  2. Bash for Windows - Co-created the interactive Linux Terminal and GUI which quite simply, teaches you the basic commands for Linux terminal (September 2015- Jan 2016) with Gautam Padiyar.

  3. Worked on XLR8 : Building an RC Bot which traverses a certain track in the least amount of time. Failed to completely make it work. (August 2016)

  4. RC Plane : Built a remote controlled plane from scratch which can fly for more than a minute. (Successful attempt) (September 2016 - October 2016) in a group of 4.

  5. Crypto package : Implemented modular arithmetic, discrete logarithm, field operations, RSA Key Generation, Encryption and Decryption. (Public Key Cryptography) using C++ (October 2016)

Present interests

Dynamic programming, Elliptic Curve Cryptography, UAVs, Autonomous bots, Nanoscience, Quantum Mechanics, Time Complexity, System and Control

Contact info

Always available at adityavenkiitb@gmail.com