Sankalp Khanna

As part of the Business Operations team I regularly find intrenched processes and find ways to optimise and streamline them, employing my growing understanding of the business as well as applying my skills as a software developer. Championing better collection of data to provide solutions that lead to improved business insights and decisions.

• Automated data collation and reporting, reducing time spent on manual work by 90%
• Streamlining and championing processes that rely on existing products and developed solutions
• Developed daily updated data visualisations on Tableau used for driving business solutions
• Interfacing with teams across different countries to improve data collection and quality

As part of Global Technology Services development team I developed and maintained projects that allowed for management and requisition of resources used by the company on a daily basis. These projects catered to I.T. teams across Asia and made use of CI/CD and B.D.D. practices.

• Developing and managing applications which serve internal I.T. teams all over Asia
• Working with various teams to fulfill business requirements and automating processes
• Applying CI/CD & B.D.D. practices to ensure smooth delivery and uptime
• Ensuring stability of services via thorough testing, daily checks and use of Docker images
• Using ReactJS, Bootstrap, FastAPI and internal libraries for full stack, secure applications

Société Générale is a bank originating in France with worlwide operations. Their services range across various industries, providing financial consulations to businesses as well as individuals. As part of the Global Business Services Unit I work closely with the financial team to provided them with webapp solutions to cater to their business needs while providing integration with various internal services for easy useability.

• Developing webapps for projects in cooperation with various financial teams
• Creating and integrating API using .NET and C# with frontend projects for providing dynamic data as expected by clients
• Coordinating with various members of the team for horizontal based projects management
• Using ReactJS, Bootstrap and in house libraries for frontend development

Kin Tech is an upcoming startup based in Hong Kong, working in the healthcare sector. The company is developing a pill dispensing device that is capable of scheduling and dispensing drugs at set sessions, leading to easier management by the user as well as the doctors and caretakers. This novel position has taught me how to rapidly pick up new skills, use them effectively, as well as solve issues and errors that arise with coding and software development.

• Leading development of Kindo, web based Central Management System and mobile app
• Integrating app with hardware components and API for Kindo the drug dispensing device
• Managing and coordinating online and local backend development
• Using ReactJS and React Native to implement UI for Kindo, CMS and mobile app

L.F. Logistics is a leading supply chain company, providing warehousing and distribution solutions in Asia for companies like Nike, Converse, Levis and Lululemon amongst others. During my time with the company I was exposed to a whole new side of business, giving me the opportunity to learn about the needs of the market, and the various forces that are at play when it comes to delivering and distrubting items we have almost come to take for granted. I had the opportunity to visit warehouses and see the solutions that we came up with in action, while also giving us the chance to find ways to make the processes more efficient while getting rid of any redundancies.

• Developed labour management system for Nike, Converse and Levi’s using in-house application.
• Resolved issues due to synchronisation with previously set up Warehouse Management system.
• Generated daily reports tracking efficiency of various warehouse processes
• Worked closely with warehouse managers to reduce total daily untracked time to under 5%

Cadence Design Systems is at the forefront of chip and System on Chip design, with many world class companies ranking amongst its clients. Cadence gave me my first professional experience and introduced me to the heirarchy and structure of an electronics organisation, showing me exactly why they were pioneers when it came to SoC. The experience introduced me to the development of chips from the planning stage, and how testing takes place via simulations and testbenches. It was an amazing introductory experience that inculcated the importance of team work and a clear line of communication within me.

• Updated and implemented corrections for error detection protocol
• Tested synchronisation and efficiency of updates through various testbenches

Wave Function Collapse is a method for reducing entropy of a cell or an item based on the entropy of their neighbours. It is often employed to develop random maps in video games. This project was an experiment in better trying to understand the concept as well as finding ways to generate random maps for my own use.

• Developed an algorithm for resolving states of cells using Wave Function Collapse
• Implemented without using machine learning libraries, applying self developed rules for placing tiles

As humans, we are easily able to focus on a specific voice when surrounded by many people who are also speaking, such as in a party. However machines are not automatically capable of this feat, and special models have to be developed to train them to be able to do so. Termed aptly as the 'Cocktail Party Problem', there have been more than one paper written on the problem, along with various principles that can be used to resolve it. As part of my Final Year Project, I partnered up with two other people to develop an algorithm that is capable of speaker separation and recognition. We developed a model based on uPIT to solve the problem of speaker separation.

• Developed an algorithm for solving Cocktail Party Problem using RNN for speaker separation
• Implemented deep learning principles for speaker separation and identification
• Extracted speech averaged at 80% PESQ value of the reference audio for the separated speaker

Music is something that has quickly become an integral part of our lives. With the popularity of Spotify, it has become even easier for us to find our particular brand of music, as well as discover new artists and genres. Over the course of a semester, I teamed up with 3 other students to try and understand whether specific aspects of a song, such as its tempo, beat, lyrics and various other factors had a relation with the popularity of the song. We looked at: Song Popularity over the year, Feature Similarity of various popular songs and a Feature Analysis to see how popular songs usually trend.

• Created three different visualisations to support our findings
• Analysed a list of over 200 songs to find similarities and differences in different aspects of a song

In our daily life, we often leave our fan running even when we're not there, leading to wastage of electricity. To overcome this, me and my partner developed a fan that would switch on only when it detected a user within 60cm of itself. Furthermore, it would change its speed according to the distance between the user and the fan, reducing its speed as the user got closer.

• Implemented a smart fan using a microcontroller (STM32)
• Fan was able to detect human presence and switch on automatically
• Fan speed based on distance between user and fan

HKUST provided me with the encubation I needed to grow both as a person while also expanding my horizons as well as learning new skills. Through the university I was introduced to people of various backgrounds and made fulfilling connections. HKUST gave me the nurturing I needed to hone myself and prepared me for the challenges of adulthood.

• Graduated with a major in electronics and a minor in I.T
• Received HKD 35,000 scholarship in Year 1 for excellence in academics

• Scored 95% in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics
• Awarded Old Boys’ Scholarship for Academic Excellence in 2014 and 2015

As an engineer, while it is important to innovate new products and ideas, it is also essential to keep in mind the effect we have on our environment. Green Trekkers was an organisation founded by like minded engineers at HKUST. Our aim was to spread the effects our practices had on the environment, and how we could lessen it to promot sustainability. My tenure as a member of the group put in contact with various professionals in the field of sustainability who were able to inculcate in me alternative practices to reduce my carbon footprint.

• Promoted sustainable living on campus
• Hosted talk by various speakers on green living
• Helped organise events to educate students on the impact of life on the environment

As a freshman, navigating university life can be a somewhat daunting task. Learning how to make the most of the various facilities and services offered by the university, along with deciding and planning ones courses can be quite difficult and we can all do with a little direction when we are starting out. The Peer Mentor program provides freshmen with second year Mentors who were best equipped to understand the situation and the mental state they found themselves in. Through the course of the year, we would regular meet with our mentees to check in on them and make sure they were keeping up with the often hectic university life.

• Collaborated with other mentors to organise clan activities during the year
• Counselled mentees and helped them face hardships at critical moments during the year