About Me

 I am a Technopreneur and a System Engineer

Current

Past

Education

  • Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering from IIT Delhi

Experience

Co-Founder and CTO
Yantrr Electronics Systems Pvt. Ltd.
September 2010 – Present (1 year 4 months) New Delhi

As CTO of Y.E.S Pvt. Ltd. I am working in various upcoming technologies and product ideas in the field of communication and navigation (LBS) systems. Of particular focus are Software Defined Radios (SDR) and MEMS INS based navigation systems.

Technical Consultant
Stanford India Biodesign
May 2011 – Present (8 months) New Delhi, India

Development of low-cost hearing screening device for infants based on detection of Auditory Brainstem Response (ABR). Working on developing signal acquisition and detection algorithm and DSP implementation for standalone operations.

Technical Consultant
CSR plc
December 2010 – April 2011 (5 months) Noida, India

Development of MEMS INS based navigation algorithm for pedestrian applications, error benchmarking and performance improvement by incorporating pedestrian biomechanical constraints.

Research Associate
Center for Applied Research in Electronics (CARE), IIT Delhi
August 2010 – November 2010 (4 months) New Delhi Area, India

Error analysis and stochastic modeling of MEMS INS sensors for performance improvement of attitude and trajectory calculation

Engineering Trainee
Texas Instruments India
May 2009 – July 2009 (3 months)

  • Developed an application to gauge performance of GPS receivers during field trials without reference data.
  • Improvised the idea of using Google Maps data as reference to generate error statistics to be analyzed by design teams.
  • Conceptualized and implemented the application from scratch to a stage where it is used across all TI centers.

Patents and Publications

  • A system and apparatus for Auditory Evoked Potential (AEP) data acquisition for hearing screening (Nov, 2011 India Patent)
  • Mayank Kumar and Anuraag Gupta, “Knowledge Management in Academia – An engineering institute’s case study”, KMICe 2010 submitted to American Journal of Economics and Business Administration (AJEBA) 2011.  [PDF]
  • White paper on “Broadband connectivity to Rural masses using TV bands in India”, Yantrr Electronic Systems Pvt. Ltd. [PDF]

Academic Projects

Navigation System using Inertial Sensors and GPS
Advisor: Prof. Arun Kumar (CARE, IITD), Prof. Manish Sharma (CARE, IITD) 
Aug 2009 – May 2010

  • Developed Pedestrian Navigation System (PNS) using in-mobile MEMS Accelerometer, Gyroscope and compass sensors with CSR SiRF for smart phones to track position, orientation and context (walking, running, stationary etc) of users in indoors.
  • Developed an in-field sensor calibration algorithms, Kalman filter based optimal sensor fusion algorithm to calculate attitude and heading, and step-detection and step-length estimation algorithm to determine trajectory of pedestrian with below 3% accuracy.
  • Received the Best B.Tech Project Award by Director, IITD and the work formed integral part of CSR’s upcoming product.

 Knowledge Management in Academia: A case Study – IIT Delhi
Advisor: Prof. Poornima Singh (Humanities Department, IITD)
Aug 2009 – May 2010

  • Research into the scope and need of Knowledge Management in academia (IIT Delhi) and developed a student centric knowledge management model by studying constituents of transferable knowledge and psychological barriers to knowledge sharing.
  • Presented the work in Knowledge Management International Conference (KMICe), 2010 and published it in American Journal of Economics and Business Administration (AJEBA).

 Design and Implementation of Parallel Image Processor on FPGA
Advisor:Dr. Anshul Kumar (Computer Science and Engineering, IITD
Jan, 2009 – April, 2009

  • Designed novel parallel processor architecture to accelerate image processing tasks for real time embedded applications.
  • Implemented image change detection algorithm on an array of four Microblaze processors on Virtex IV Kit for demonstration.
  • Devised mechanisms for inter-processor communication and shared memory architecture for efficient sharing and flow of data.

 Evolutionary Algorithm for FPGA based Design using Genetic programming and VHDL
Advisor: Dr. Santanu Chaudhury, (Electrical Engineering Department, IITD)
 May 2008 – July 2008

  • Developed an automated approach to digital hardware design by applying Genetic Programming on VHDL using GP Kernel.
  • Automatically evolved circuits like multipliers and GCD processors using mutations and crossover operations GP.
  • Awarded Summer Undergraduate Research Award (SURA) by Industrial R&D Center, IITD for the outstanding research.
To know more about my work, please look into my resume/CV or go through my research work. 

Contact Details

Mayank Kumar
Email: mayank [dot] grd [at] gmail [dot] com, mayank [at] yantrr [dot] com
Skype ID: ideas2ignite