Project Object Oriented

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Abha Kataria

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EDUCATION

New York University, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York, NY September 2008-May 2010

Master of Science, Computer Science

Related Coursework: Fundamental Algorithms, UNIX Tools, Application Servers, Software Engineering, Computer Graphics and

Vision, Database Systems.

Jamia Hamdard (Hamdard University), New Delhi, India July 2006-

May 2008

Master of Science, Computer Science

Related Coursework: Object Oriented Analysis and Design, UNIX and Shell Programming, DBMS Data Mining and Warehousing,

Web Technologies, Design and Analysis of Algorithms.

Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, India July

2003-May 2006

Bachelor of Computer Applications

Related Coursework: Data Structures and File Processing, Operating Systems, Software Engineering, Object Oriented Programming,

Data Communication Networks.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Research Assistant with Prof Natalie Jeremijenko, New York University May 2009-Present

Worked on various research projects and also helped with web and programming tasks. Some projects are listed below. Also deployed

WordPress websites, wrote custom WordPress themes/plugins and managed servers.

Collaborator on the course “Futures of the Past”, Columbia University March 2010-May 2010

Assisted with the technical aspects for this visual studies course offered by the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and

Preservation in Spring 2010.

Stern School of Business, New York University September 2008-May 2009

Part time worker at Stern’s Information Technology services. Duties included management of labs, troubleshooting all the departmental

PCs, maintenance of printers and manning the customer helpdesk at Stern.

PROJECTS

Project Title : Amphibious Architecture

Environment : PHP, MySQL, Linux, Arduinos, Processing.

Project Details : This was an ubiquitous computing project that was designed to change the interactions with the aquatic

ecosystem of New York. It consisted of an array of an array of tubes in the river housing lights and sensors which communicated with a

local computer for instructions and a server that logged sensor data and also responded to text messages with sensor data about the river.

Project Title : iPhone app for Prof. Natalie Jeremijenko (NYU)

Environment : Cocoa Touch, Mac OS X.

Project Details : This is an iPhone application to log, map and upload flight data for use with a prosthetic strap-on flight simulator

device designed by Prof. Jeremijenko. It collects the accelerometer, GPS and microphone input data for display and analysis.

Project Title : CMS

Environment : PHP, MySQL, Apache, Mac OS X.

Project Details : This is a Content Management System allowing a user to easily and intuitively administer the sections and pages of a

website.

SKILL SET

Operating Systems: Windows, *NIX, iOS/Cocoa Touch

Programming Languages: C/C++, Obj-C, Java, Processing

Databases: Oracle, MySQL

Web Programming: JavaScript, PHP, HTML/CSS, jQuery

PERSONAL INTERESTS AND ACTIVITIES

• Swimming, biking and Netflix.

• Active member of Women in Computing (WinC) at NYU.

• Core Member of Training and Placement Committee at Jamia Hamdard.

• Winner at various inter college IEEE sponsored quiz competitions held at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New

Delhi.

• Member of PETA.

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