Portfolio

Hello! I'm Chandan Relekar (alternate name representations: Chandan R T, Chandan Relekar Thukaram). I'm interested in modelling and simulation of complex systems, and in disentangling the interactions and factors that lead to complexity.

Education

• Ph.D. (Math bio):
  Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology @ Plon, Germany
  (yet to start)


• BS - MS (Physics):
  Indian Institute of Science @ Bangalore, India
  (2019 - 2024)


• Higher Secondary Education:
  Deeksha CFL PU College @ Bangalore, India
  (2017 - 2019)


• Secondary Education:
  Sudarshan Vidya Mandir ICSE Academy @ Bangalore, India
  (2012 - 2017)

Positions

• Academic Staff @ Asian Physics Olympiad 2022:
  Part of academic contingent of the organizing team of APhO 2022. Worked on simulating experimental setups in-silico in order to enable participants from various countries to attend the high-stakes exam remotely
  (August 2021 - May 2022)

Academic Projects

• Master's Thesis:
  Data-driven discovery of stochastic dynamics underlying transitions in behaviour of groups of fish
  (August 2023 - April 2024)


• Bachelor's Thesis:
  Investigating spatial patterns and dynamics in ecological systems using cellular automata models, using insights from percolation theory and phase transitions
  (June 2022 - April 2023)


• Molecular Simulations:
  Investigating variaton of line tension with temperature in Ising model following Kawasaki dynamics from height fluctuation spectra
  (December 2022)


• Image Processing:
  Image pre-processing, segmentation, optical character recognition, post-processing and evaluation of hand-written and printed text using ANNs and CNNs.
  (December 2022)


• Evolutionary Algorithms:
  Usage of evolutionary algorithms for behaviour optimization of agents in different settings.
  (December 2021)

Coding Projects

(selected few of many)

• Visualize It:
  A plethora of simulations of interactive simulations and visualizations from various fields of science
  (November 2020 - present)


• Game Development:
  Games developed in C, C++ (SFML), C# (Unity), Java, JavaScript and Python (Pygame)
  (October 2019 - present)


• Verbose:
  An interpreter for my own programming language that resembles English!


• Rangoli Maker:
  A handy tool to create and save lattice-based rangoli art, leveraging the rotational symmetries in the system


• Online Calculator:
  An advanced scientific calculator that evaluates typed expressions, supports an extended array of functions and has inbuilt scientific constants


• Pygame-anim and Pygame-UI:
  Libraries to render particle animations and implement interactive UI in PyGame

Skills

• Academic | Familiar with mathematical methods associated with graduate level physics courses. Working knowledge of various aspects of nonlinear dynamics, pattern formation, self-organization and collective behaviour


• Computer languages | (in decreasing order of proficiency)
  Python (NumPy, SciPy, Matplotlib, TensorFlow, PyGame), JavaScript (Angular), C/C++ (SFML), R, C# (Unity), MATLAB, Java (Android SDK)


• Paradigms | Simulations, Numerical Methods, Object-Oriented Programming, CPU Parallelism, GPU Parallelism (CUDA), Competitive Programming, Software Development, Game Development, Website Development, Artificial Intelligence, State Machines


• Spoken languages | English, Marathi (native), Hindi (full proficiency), Kannada (working proficiency), French (limited proficiency ~ B2 level)


• Misc | LaTeX, Linux environment, HTML/CSS

Awards

• Distinction | Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
  My CGPA was above 8.5 at the end of my BS degree as well as my MS degree in Physics
  (July 2024)


• Top 100 worldwide | 3b1b's Summer of Math Exposition II
  My website, Visualize - It was placed in top 100 worldwide in a competition (organized by famous Math YouTuber 3Blue1Brown) about making math/science explainers.
  (September 2022)


• KVPY Fellowship | Department of Science and Technology, Government of India
  I secured an All India Rank of 233 (General Merit) amongst 200,000 students nationwide in the KVPY SX examination, thereby granting me with KVPY fellowship for the next 5 years.
  (August 2019)


• State Rank 4 | Karnataka State Pre-University Board Examination
  I secured the 4th highest score amongst 500,000 students in this state-wide examination
  (April 2019)


• Letter of Appreciation | Graduation from High School
  Awarded a letter of appreciation for consistent excellence in academics, aptitude in science, excellence in computer skills, achievement in interschool activities and composed behaviour
  (Febraury 2017)

Events

• 6th Bangalore PopGen School | ICTS-TIFR, Bangalore
  Selected to attend the 6th Bangalore school on Population Genetics and Evolution
  (February 2024)


• Winter School on Games in Evolutionary Dynamics | SNU, Noida
  Selected to attend the first winter school on Evolutionary Game Theory
  (December 2023)


• NVidia N-WAYS to GPU | SERC, IISc, Bangalore
  Attended bootcamp on parallelisation using OpenMP, MPI, OpenACC and CUDA
  (May 2023)


• Vijyoshi Science Camp | IISc, Bangalore
  (December 2019)