Priyanka DAS 2nd year Student, Ecole Polytechnique INDIAN Physicist Computer scientist Artist

12.30.45 Résidence JOFFRE, 12, Boulevard des Maréchaux, 91120 PALAISEAU, FRANCE

07 82 71 43 64 priyanka.das@polytechnique.edu

OBJECTIVE In search of a 3-month internship in industry from June 2015

EDUCATION

Since 2013 Ingénieur Polytechnicien, Master’s degree in engineering Promotion X-2013 Ecole Polytechnique, France : degree expected in 2017 Main subjects : Mechanical engineering, Computer science and Physics

2010-2013 Bachelor of Sciences (Honours) in Physics Equivalent of BAC+3 St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi

Recipient: INSPIRE Scholarship (Dept. of Science & Tech., Govt. of India)

2010

CBSE AISSCE (graduated with 95% overall) Equivalent of BAC S

The Mother’s International School, New Delhi

Rank 280 (Asia) SOF International Math Olympiad 2010

Recipient: Sri Aurobindo Education Society award for Best All-Rounder

WORK EXPERIENCE

Work related to aerospace sciences Since

May 2014

Project XcubeSat: Currently programming the Electronic Control Unit of the Ecole Polytechnique microsatellite

May 2014 #ActInSpace (CNES): Regional winner (Paris) – for the development of an innovative system of solar panel deployment in a satellite

Since 2014 SpaceUp X (at Ecole Polytechnique): Organiser (proposed the idea)

Sept-Oct 2014 Participated in: CubeSat Symposium, SpaceUp Toulouse, ESTEC Open Day

Research internships

Jul-Oct 2014 SupOptique (IOGS), Paris: wrote an article on the industrial applications of synthetic holograms with Prof Lionel Jacubowiez (Photoniques magazine)

2012-2013 Photonics Research Lab, IIT-Delhi: Extensively studied digital holograms and wrote an algorithm for their reconstruction using MATLAB

June 2012 TIFR, Bombay: Designed an innovative and efficient procedure to map free-fall of an object with minimal error

June 2011

Inter-University Accelerator Centre, Delhi : Extensively studied quadrupole magnets and their focusing action on an ion beam in particle accelerators, with simulations in OPERA3D

Other professional experience and positions held Since 2014 Part-time librarian work, Ecole Polytechnique central library

Nov-Dec 2013 Social-service intern at a retirement home (Bias, France)

Juin 2013 Editorial intern, The Times of India, Delhi (world’s largest-selling English-language daily): Editor, auditor and journalist. Covered three reports.

2012-2013 Treasurer, Electronics Society, St. Stephen’s College

ACTIVITIES AND INTERESTS

Art and craft Designing and Painting, headed the construction of a bar for Point Gamma 2014 (Polytechnique) as creative advisor

Sport Fencing: Polytechnique team-member, organisation of Challenge X-SYSTRA Badminton : Gold medal (Tournoi des Grandes Écoles de la Défense 2014)

Travelling United States, France, Switzerland, China, Spain, Belgium, Turkey, Holland

Theatre Member of the theatre association at Polytechnique, and earlier in college

Literature An avid reader of all genres, I also love writing poetry

LANGUAGE SKILLS

English

Native speaker TOEFL - 109/120

French

Fluent - C1 (TCF) Courses in French

Hindi, Assamese

Other native languages

Spanish, German Working knowledge

COMPUTER SKILLS

Programming Languages :

C/C++ (proficient) Java (proficient)

Other software :

MATLAB OPERA3D MS-Office

Adobe Photoshop Blender 3D

IMPORTANT TESTS

GRE General (2012) 324/340

SAT (Dec 2009)

Physics 800/800 Chemistry 800/800 Math 790/800