Lastest Update: 11th Aug 2024

Scholarships

• Jul 2019：HTRA/HTTA Scholarship (about $4500)
  Government assistantship scheme for MS students to assist the department with 8 hours of work per week related to academic activities of the department, such as laboratory demonstration, tutorials, evaluation of assignments, test papers, seminars, research projects, etc.
• Jun 2016：Summer Internship Scholarship (about $2300)
  Combined summer internship scholarship between UCER India and AIT Bangkok.
  

Competitions

• Aug 2021：First Prize (National championship) (about $2400) in “AI for Healthcare” hackathon sponsored by Derbi Foundation and SINE IIT Bombay. Developed an AI-based solution for disease classification from FUNDUS retina images. XGB-EVM: Ensemble Deep Model for Disease Classification from FUNDUS Retina Images. Link to the project: https://github.com/mshik/XGB-EVM.

Honors

• Jun 2016：Summer Internship Scholarship (Top 0.005%)
  Funded by UCER India and AIT Bangkok.

Services

• Jul 2019 - Jul 2021：Coordinator of Machine Learning Group, IIT Palakkad.
• Jul 2020 - Jul 2021：Lecturer at Data Analytics Club, IIT Palakkad.