Manan Raina Kumar, student & developer

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Recent Projects

• PageIt

  A native android app integrated with fine-tuned Gemma-2B that works offline on user's phone and doubles as a server to serve articles to other people in low-income countries via SMS.
  github

• Offline Contest Management System (CMS)

  Contest Management System that works without internet. It was used in CORE15 to organize the programming contest.
  github

• FindYourDate

  A two-stage optimization system combining greedy min-heap initial allocation with Hungarian Algorithm and Edmond's Blossom MWPM to globally minimize cost functions based on cosine similarity embeddings. The project saw over 500 registrations from the student body.
  site

• CourseRush

  Script to check SNU's ERP for courses available and report it to users via email and WhatsApp that works with headless mode. Used by over 10 students during the course registration process.
  github

• evsLM

  A simple tool to speedup learning EVS using RAG and a light-weight language model.
  github

• SSH Forwarder

  A SSH forwarding system that automatically updates SSH port forwarding IP when connected to DHCP connections. Used to ensure that development boards can be accessed through tunnelling.
  github

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Research

• The SALVATION Project

  SALVATION is aimed at multi-epoch spectroscopic monitoring of bright variable sources and spectroscopic follow up of transients in our neighboring Andromeda galaxy (M31) and other nearby galaxies. Our workhorse is the Lick Observatory's Shane 3-m telescope equipped with the Kast spectrograph. We currently harvest our targets from the public alerts of the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) time-domain survey using the ANTARES event-broker.
  As part of the same project we also target some extragalactic transients (mainly supernovae) from the ANTARES output streams for early classification and notification to the community (e.g., via Astronomer’s Telegrams).
  site ATel/16335 ATel/16333

• Research Internship, University of California, Santa Cruz

  Analyzed spectral features of different stars and made a model to classify stars using TheCannon using stellar labels (physical parameters and chemical abundances) from the spectra obtained from Shane 3-m telescope.
  presentation

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