Resume updated version as of 4th April, 2017

1. Yash Pratap Singh
Management Trainee – HDFC Bank Ltd. | Mumbai, India
B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering (Director’s Gold Medalist) | IIT Gandhinagar
yash_singh[at]btech2012.iitgn.ac.in | yash.iitgn[at]hotmail.com | yash23893[at]gmail.com
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Education
*Minors in Humanities and Social Sciences (10.0/10.0)
Work Experience
Management Trainee – HDFC Bank Ltd. | IT TSG – Digital Integrations | Mumbai, India (July 2016 – Present)
 Working on projects of worth more than 50 million INR in technology areas such as Artificial Intelligence, Automotive
Banking, Machine and Deep Learning, Blockchain, Virtual Reality, Social Banking etc.
 Working with different IT vendors and clients for HDFC Bank Ltd., in formulating business and IT strategy, designing a
solution and integrating it with the bank’s back-end system. The focus is to drive competitive advantage for the bank in
order to enhance customer experience while banking on digital platforms.
Internships
Developed a Module to synchronize Kinect Streams and a multi modal data collection platform for Kinect One | Microsoft
Language Development Center, Portugal and ISCTE, University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal. | Lisbon, Portugal
(May 2015 – July 2015)
Advisor: Prof. Nuno Guimaraes, Full Professor, Information Science and Technologies Dept., ISCTE, University Institute of Lisbon
 Building a multi modal data collection platform for Kinect v1 by implementing a continuous recording module and
synchronizing recorded Kinect streams.
 Acquiring visual, audio and depth corpora using Kinect v1 for phonetically rich sentences.
 Initiating and defining future direction of research that can be carried out in collaboration with IIT Gandhinagar and ISCTE,
Lisbon in areas such as image recognition, driver’s fatigue etc.
Developed a research platform for Community based water purification system, in collaboration with Underwriters
Laboratories Inc., Chicago. | Gandhinagar, India (May 2014 – November 2014)
Advisor: Prof. Chinmay Ghoroi, Asst. Professor, Chemical Engineering, IIT GN
 Reviewed drinking water problems in India, the existing designs of water purifiers, analyzed water samples and designed
a novel purification process for a community based drinking Water Station using capacitive deionization technology.
 The research platform would also be used for a comparative analysis of the widely used Reverse Osmosis with the new
CDI technology. It is proposed to use CDI technology for treating the discharge of RO water for better efficiency.
Achievements
 Awarded Director’s Gold Medal for overall outstanding performance among all B. Tech graduates of class of 2016
at the fifth annual convocation held at IIT Gandhinagar on 6th
of August, 2016
 Award for best overall performance in the subjects of Humanities and Social Sciences given at the fifth annual
convocation held at IIT Gandhinagar on 6th
of August, 2016
 Awarded Dean’s List of IIT Gandhinagar twice during Semester I of academic year 2012 – 2013 and 2013 – 2014.
 Awarded the ‘Nielsen Award’ as a travel grant for internship at ISCTE, University Institute of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal.
 School topper in the subject of Science and Computer Science in class X Board Examinations.
 Awarded Gold Medal at District Level Science Exhibition, Indradhanush on an exhibit explaining “Water Recharging in
Agricultural and Urban Area”.
 Won Gold medal at School level in National Science Olympiad (NSO) in 2005, 2007.
Paper Presentations
Pancholi Dhruv., Singh Yash Pratap, Bhatt Bhaskar. (2014) “Phone Application for Enhancing Physical Therapy Experience”.
Design for Billion International Conference at IIT Gandhinagar on 7th
– 8th
November, 2014
Publications
Singh, Pratap Yash., "Can Markets be timed accurately?", Fair Observer. ISSN 2372-9112. (2016).
http://www.fairobserver.com/economics/can-markets-timed-accurately-04392/
Extracurricular activities
 Awarded first prize in the debate competition held at IIT Gandhinagar during Central Vigilance Week 2015.
 Winner of the Youth Parliament competition held at intra-college cultural fest, Jashn 5.0.
 Representative in National TV Debate “Campus Connect” which aired live on national television channel NewsX prior
to General Assembly Elections 2014 in the month of April, 2014.
Degree Institution CGPA/Score Year
B.Tech (Mechanical Engineering)* IIT Gandhinagar 8.13/10 2012 – 2016
Class XII Ess Ess Convent Sr. Sec. School, Agra (CBSE) 89% 2011
Class X St. Peter’s College, Agra (ICSE) 96% 2009

2.  Successfully participated in India ki Khoj 2014: a one-week long intensive immersion program along with overseas
students to understand and appreciate India through lectures from eminent personalities in the field of arts, science,
engineering, humanities etc. and through field trips.
Positions of Responsibility
Alumni Donations Mobilizer for Class of 2016, IIT Gandhinagar (August, 2016 – Present)
 Mobilized 25% of the batch towards giving monthly donations to the Alma Mater to fund the “Class of 2016” scholarship at
the institute. Working along with Office of Alumni Relations to achieve a target of 80% alumni engagement at the institute.
 Instrumental in creating endowment to award the first entirely alumni funded scholarship at the institute.
Founding Member, Shastrath Socratic Society. (February, 2016 – June, 2016)
 Founded student society with fellow student colleagues which aims to inform people about trends and issues of our times
by engaging in a Socratic back and forth dialogue with industrialists, bureaucrats, entrepreneurs, artists, academicians etc.
 Organized and invited Director at Credit Suisse Mr. Sam Tully, Former RAW Chief Mr. Vappala Balachandran and
Co-Founder Pan IIT movement in USA and author, Mr. Shail Kumar for Socratic dialogue at the institute. Organized
town hall with professors from different IITs to discuss IITs and their role in the project of democracy.
 Organized town hall with professors from different IITs to discuss IITs and their roles in the project of democracy.
Secretary, Industry Relations and Project Council, IIT Gandhinagar Student Executive Council. (August 2015 – April, 2016)
 Headed the newly formed student council of 6 members in managing varied student industry projects at the institute.
 Worked closely with students in monitoring and documenting existing projects, and looking out for new industry projects.
 As a student leader attended numerous networking meets and dinners, collaboration meetings (Duke – USAID – IITGN
collaboration meetings), industry open houses in order to forge collaborations for the institute and bring new student
projects.
Secretary, Cinematheque, Movie Club of IIT Gandhinagar Cultural Council. (August 2014 – April 2015)
 Organized screenings and discussions of over 40 movies pertaining to various themes round the year.
 Generated tremendous appreciation from the fraternity over timely and proper organization of movie screenings.
 Designed the structure, philosophy and logo of the club in consultation with club members.
Exhibition Team Member, Amalthea’ 13 – Annual Technical Summit of IIT Gandhinagar. (January, 2013 – November, 2013)
 Developed and managed a database of exhibitors and convinced industries, start – ups, design schools, Government
organizations to become a part of Design and Innovation Expo held on 19th
and 20th
October, 2013
 Managed to arrange and foster professional communication between CDS (Career Development Services, then SPO) and
faculty with the exhibitors so as to develop ties and collaborations with IIT Gandhinagar
Social Activities
Working in Allahnagar Slum, Ahmedabad.
 Worked in an Urban Slum in collaboration with Mahilla Trust SEWA Organization and Pratham NGO to understand water
and sanitation issues by conducting surveys, contextual inquiry studies, and ecosystem and participant observation.
 Proposed micro level solutions and awareness campaign to solve the issue of drinking water.
Evaluator, POSE and PSS in Rajasthan and Gujarat.
 Involved in evaluating and submitting comprehensive report of Pratham Open schools and Pratham Supported Schools
run by the NGO Pratham in Rajasthan and Gujarat.
Skill Set
Programming: Familiarity with C, C#, C++, Java (in BlueJ IDE), MATLAB
Software: Microsoft Office, Autodesk Inventor, Kinect SDK