Hi there,

I'm Prabhav

I graduated from MIT with a degree in computer science and engineering in 2013. You can see what I'm working on below.

Experience

CEO & Co-founder at Compose Labs
2016-

CTO & Co-founder at EagerPanda
Mar 2013 – Feb 2016

Software Engineering Intern at Microsoft
Jun 2012 – Aug 2012

Lead Software Engineer at RepeatReceipt
Jun 2011 – Apr 2012

Undergraduate Researcher at the MIT Media Lab
Oct 2010 – May 2012

Founder of EasyDefine
Sep 2009 – Current

Neurotechnology Research
June 2009 – May 2010

Language Familiarity

We are a small group aimed at making the web a better place. Check us out here!

We at EagerPanda are trying to build the best platform for sharing knowledge.

Wrote a Windows 8 applications ( Inkarus ) that had thousands of downloads internally
Accepted into the Windows 8 store before the launch of Windows 8
Was a physics-based game that used the WinRT framework with Javascript/HTML5 for the front-end and C# for the physics engine and game logic.

Managed the engineering team and marketing team and built infrastructure to help us scale rapidly
Worked with Android, the LAMP stack, Google Places API, and e-banking API’s to create the entire backend
MassChallenge finalist

Device will use a mobile computing device along with a pico projector that can enhance our interaction with our everyday environment by projecting live information onto it.
Acting as one of the product managers for the open source SixthSense project
Made a prototype of a ‘human USB device’, which allowed one to transfer data from one device to another simply by tapping the two screens
Completed another project involving augmented reality in HD-glasses
Used WPF and C/C# to help create the software backend behind a remote augmented reality device based on SixthSensetechnology

Wrote a web 2.0 app (Website) to quickly define and learn lists of words
Usership in over 185 countries and 10,800 cities with over 290,000 users
Featured in many blogs.

At the UCSD Cognitive Science Lab, I wrote analysis software with MATLAB including graphic user interfaces and worked on behavioral scoring and computational neuroscience data collection techniques for various experiments testing the cognition of rats. I also learned engineering techniques such as creating tetrodes.

Web Frontend:

HTML

Javascript

React

Redux

Backbone

CSS

Web Backend:

Django

Ruby on Rails

Express

PHP

Infrastructure:

MySQL

DynamoDB

Redshift

Firebase

Redis

Gunicorn & Nginx

EC2

ElastiCache

Elastic Load Balancers

Opsworks

Chef/Vagrant

Docker & Compose

Backend:

Python

Ruby

Java

Node.Js

Android (Basic)

IOS (Swift & React Native)

WPF

Mathematica (Advanced Level Certified)

OpenCV (Basic)

Matlab (Basic)

My Projects

Pillow Pal (HackMIT 2013)
Jan 2013

Captcha Captcha (Penapps 2013)
Jan 2013

Screen Squared
Feb-Jun 2012

AdmitSphere
Sep 2010 – Current

InstaDefine
Sep 2010 – May 2012

TickR
Jun 2012

Freelance Web Developer
Jun 2009 – Current

PillowPal is an API for pillows. Your friends now have complete control over when you wake up. PillowPal allows your facebook friends to access your pillow online and turn on lights and music (both built into the hardware inside your pillow) to wake you up in the morning. We were the top 10 teams at the HackMIT hackathon.

PenApps 2013 Hackathon - We made a demo of a new type of recaptcha that uses gesture recognition to authenticate a human. The user is presented with a dial of randomly chosen charactes as well as a challenge character. The user controls the dial by moving his/her face left and right and needs to rotate the dial to the challenge character. It is better than traditional captchas since it can't be broken by image recognition algorithms. We hook directly into the video stream, so a bot would have to directly hack that and then still be able to solve the puzzle. Our backend (in Django) authenticates the users answer, and we generate the dial images using Python Imagin Library. Technologies used include a HTML5 Canvas, WebRTC, ObjectDetect.js, JQuery, and Django + PIL. Github

Imagine being able to pull out your iPhone, bump it with your friends iPhone, and suddenly you have a webbrowser that is seamlessly spread across both of your phones, giving you a much bigger screen area. In our app the webpage could be mirrored or split across two screens. I was the main programmer and wrote the iOS code. See it in action on youtube. Check out the paper.

Why is the process of getting into a good college so expensive? Admissions counselors, SAT prep institutes, etc, etc. We wanted to demistify the entire process so we opened a collaborative wiki and put up a lot of our college essays, admissions, scholarships, and financial aid advice. We got many of our friends to contribute and now we have over 10,000 users and have been featured on the MIT admissions blog. Website. MIT Blog.

Co-created InstaDefine, a web 2.0 application that uses live-search suggestions to make looking up word fast and effortless—worked with optimized databases and server-side C modules. We used PHP and MySQL for the backend.

TickR is a predictive lookup of majority shareholders in stock. It was developed for HackHarvard's SumZero challenge.

Created/designed/supported elements of numerous websites including: