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Nishant Mishra

Graduate Student(MS Thesis)

School of Computer Science, McGill University

Education

  • MSc in Computer Science, 2019- Present

    McGill University

    Relevant Coursework - Applied Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing, Graph Representation Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Probabilistic Graphical Models

  • BEng in Electronics and Communication Engineering, 2014-2018

    Birla Institute of Technology, India

    Relevant Coursework - Digital Signal Processing, Speech Processing and Recognition, Engineering Mathematics, Microprocessors and Microcontrollers, Programming in C and UNIX, Data Structures

Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Graduate Research Assistant

School of Computer Science, McGill University

May 2020 – Present Montreal

Working under the supervision of Dr.Peter Savadjiev on application and intersection of Deep Learning in Digital Histopathology.

Responsibilities include:

  • Processing and Exploratory Data Analysis on Head and Neck Cancer detection microscopy data
  • Literature Review and weekly talks on relevant work in the area of Research
  • Training and Experimenting with different models for the task and publishing obtained results
 
 
 
 
 

Software Developer: Machine Learning and Computer Vision

Signzy Technologies

Jul 2018 – Jul 2019 Bengaluru, India
  • Worked on developing machine learning solutions for digitization of the bank account opening process which has now been used to open around 20000 accounts nationwide by premiere banks.
  • Worked on a multitude of Computer Vision and Machine learning based problems including OCR, face recognition, object detection, Image forensics, Liveliness Detection, and Image Quality Assessment.
 
 
 
 
 

Machine Learning and Computer Vision Intern

Signzy Technologies

Jan 2018 – Jul 2018 Bengaluru, India
  • Developed an in-house Optical Character Recognition pipeline including automatic cropping, rotation, text detection and recognition for Indian ID cards. Achieved state of the art performance(equivalent to Google).
 
 
 
 
 

Summer Research Intern

Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse(IRIT), Universite Paul Sabatier

May 2017 – Jul 2018 Toulouse, France
  • Worked on the project ‘Optical Character Recognition in Lecture Videos for the enrichment of Automatic Speech Recognition(ASR) system’ under the supervision of Dr. Christine SENAC and Dr. Benjamin BIGOT.

Select Projects

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Generative Multimodal Learning for Reconstructing Missing Modality
Nishant Mishra, Ankur Agarwal
Report Poster Code
Highlighter(Auto field detection)
Nishant Mishra
Code
Policy Gradient
Shubham Chopra, Nishant Mishra
Code Video Report
Online Learning of temporal Knowledge Graphs
Paniz Bertsch, Albert Orozco Camacho, Nishant Mishra
Report
Generative Adversarial Networks: Reproducibility Study
Shubham Chopra, Nishant Mishra
Report Code
Incremental Knowledge Graphs
Priyesh Vijayan, Ashita Diwan, Nishant Mishra
Report
Image Stitching (Panorama)
Nishant Mishra
Report Code
Modified MNIST [Kaggle]
Shubham Chopra, Nishant Mishra
Report Code
SIFT
Nishant Mishra
Report Code
Reddit Comment Classification [Kaggle]
Aarash Feizi, Shubham Chopra, Nishant Mishra
Report Code
Generic Extraction Module (G.E.M)
Code
Image Quality Assessment
Nishant Mishra, AB Saravanan, Christen Miller
Dory OCR
Nishant Mishra, AB Saravanan
Sign Language Classification [Bachelor Project]
Zainab Feroz, Prasun Anand, Nishant Mishra
Report Project Overview
Cropnet
Nishant Mishra
Code
March Madness [Kaggle]
Nishant Mishra
Code
Activity Recognition
Rohit Mohan, Nishant Mishra
Code Video
OCR to enrich ASR
Nishant Mishra, Benjamin Bigot, Christine Senac
Report Project Overview Code
Speaker Recognition
Zainab Feroz, Prasun Anand, Nishant Mishra
Paper Code Code Speaker Verification
Multilingual Speech Recognition
Zainab Feroz, Prasun Anand, Nishant Mishra
Code Code(Python|English data)

Recent Publications

Performance Evaluation of Neural Networks for Speaker Recognition
Nishant Mishra, Prasun Anand, Mahesh Chandra, Zainab Feroz
DOI

Teaching

Graduate Teaching Assistant

COMP 551: Applied Machine Learning Jan 2021 – Present
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Graduate Teaching Assistant

COMP 558: Fundamentals of Computer Vision Sep 2020 – 2020-12-15
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Graduate Teaching Assistant

COMP 424: Artificial Intelligence Jan 2020 – May 2020
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Accomplishments and Activities

  • Recepient of Mitacs Research Training Award Fellowship – July,2020
  • Recepient of McGill University Graduate School Funding
  • Achieved AIR 45 in Nationwide Education and Scholarship Test (NEST 2017)