Lakshita Mohanty

Second Year Undergraduate Student at IIT Kanpur

About me

Bonjour à tous! Myself Lakshita Mohanty, a second year undergraduate student here at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. My interests include buying endless number of books and not reading them timely. I like to draw and cook occasionally.

I am currently working on relaxing and not stressing out about “not stressing out about academics” My goal for this summer is to finish the pile of books that I’ve created.

Interests

Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Time Dilation
Digital Art

Education

Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
2019 - Present
AISSCE, MM Public School Pitampura, Delhi
2019
Matriculation, SDVM Panipat, Haryana
2017

Experience

Manager Research Wing

Academics and Career Council, IITK

Apr 2021 – Present

Responsible for conduction of research-related activities to promote research interests in the student community

Academic Mentor MTH101/102

Counselling Service, IITK

Aug 2020 – Present

Mentored students who have faced difficulty in their freshman year mathematics courses
Taken academic classes and hall-level doubt clearing sessions for first years

Student Guide

Counselling Service, IITK

Aug 2020 – Present

Helped in organizing Orientation (Y20) for 1000+ freshers
Provided guidance and emotional support to a group of six freshers by helping them adjust to college life

Secretary

Brain and Cognitive Society, IITK

Aug 2020 – Mar 2020

Hosted various Journal Club Talk events by researchers and PhD students on NLP, cognitive studies and ML
Managed the LinkedIn page of the society as a part of the Web Reach team

Secretary

Quiz Club, IITK

Jul 2020 – Mar 2020

Organized and conducted themed quizzes for campus community

Secretary Research Wing

Academics and Career Council, IITK

Apr 2020 – Mar 2020

Approached 15+ startups for internship positions in the field of E-vehicle R&D to help students get internship during lockdown Interacted with IITK alumni and documented their research experience in the form of AnC Blogs

Projects

Facial Emotion Recognition

Science and Technology Council’s Summer Project 2020 under Brain and Cognitive Society, IIT Kanpur.
The project aims to detect 7 human emotions (6 universal +1 neutral) using Convolutional Neural Networks. Emotion recognition is performed on images, videos and live feeds as well.