I am an IITian - V1.5

Dear All,

Greetings.!.

This is my first post of the year 2012!

Yup. Became lazy… ok. Here after I will do blog posts regularly . Cool.

Since 27.12.2010 I have been working as a Project Associate in in the Centre for Atmospheric  Science, IIT Delhi in the project named “Development of Framework for Systematic Model Diagnosis” under the guidance of  Prof./Dr. Krishna AchutaRao . Our client is NCMRWF, Noida.

Now 1.5 years passed away.

I am happy to say that I got selected in M.Tech (part-time) Interview which was held on 22.05.2012 in the Centre for Atmospheric  Science, IIT Delhi.

Yes. In my centre itself I am going to do M.Tech programme in Atmospheric & Oceanic Science Technology.  Instead of 2 years the part time M.Tech degree will take 3 years to complete it.

Around 140 students were appeared for the interview. But only 16 people (14 regular, 2 part time) are selected by the committee. I am one among them. Now I am proud to say that “I am an IITian“…

Close enough

Back Side

Hope the T-Shirt Logo suits to me too…

I have been here (in delhi, iit delhi, zanskar hostel) for the past one and half years.

Delhi has two extreme climates in a year, those are Summer and Winter.

I am comfortable in summer than winter….

Initially I dont like north indian food. But I had to accept it by the year passes away.  I am missing my south indian veg food idly, sambar, rice, rasam, keerai, poriyal, pickle, etc., :’(

My Learnings in the past 1.5 years :-

* Python Programming as Standard Way of Writing Scripts

* PyTest – Unit Test

* Sphinix – Python Documentation

* XML, HTML, CSS, JS, JQuery

* Quickly, Glade, PyGtk (Desktop GUI)

* More about CDAT (Climate Data Analysis Tool)

My Contributions to CDAT :-

In the past one and half years, I have fixed two bugs in the cdat.

1. Domain region selector – ‘cc’, ‘co’ bounds

2. Taylor Diagram – Plots Standard deviation lines over the 2nd quadrant.

They have accepted my patches for those bugs.

Under Future Contributions to CDAT:

Also I am working on plotting weather fronts, highs & lows over the map using CDAT.

I am doing this in my free time. Let me update here once I will finish it.

I love to work on CDAT/Python under my Professor/Dr.Krishna AchutaoRao.

Prof./Dr.Krishna AchutaRao

Hmmm… By July 2012, I will be joining in M.Tech Program in IITD. So here after I will post more about meteorology and atmospheric related stuffs. Also I will post about programming.

The thing is I have to learn Fortran/Grads to work in M.Tech Laboratory… OMG!

By the way, I have to be here (in Delhi, IITD) for 3 more years… Still I couldn’t learn Hindi. But I will try to learn it here after.

I have already studied M.C.A (Master of Computer Applications) in Saveetha Engg College, Anna University Affiliated, Tamil Nadu (2007 to 2010 batch).

According to Anna University, M.C.A is a Post Graduation Degree. But according to IIT, M.C.A is an Under Graduate Degree. . I dont know what to say… Each Institutions having their own rules.  So I can not do Ph.D in IIT with my M.C.A degree Or I may need to write GATE.

If I had done M.Sc, then I will be eligible for Ph.D program in IIT. Shhhh..!

So I have chosen M.Tech programme.  To apply/join part time M.Tech programme, we need one year work experience. I have more than that. Finally I got it.

Past one and half years I have been working in the Centre for Atmospheric Sciences.  But I couldnt understand few scientific analytical parts of what I am processing & plotting over the maps.

Hopefully I will fill the gap between the atmospheric science & computer science using the modern language in the future.

See you soon .!.

Regards.,

Arulalan Thanigachalam

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