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C H E T A N J . S I N G H

Philadelphia PA 19104 abo80f@r.postjobfree.com

EDUCATION

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA Sep 2011 May 2013

M.S.E. in Computer and Information Science, May 2013. GPA: 3.71

Fall 11 Coursework: Machine Learning; Computational Linguistics (NLP); Database and Information Systems.

Spring 12 Coursework: Distributed Systems, Internet & Web Systems and Embedded Systems Programming.

Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi, India August 2007 July 2011

B. Tech in Computer Science and Engineering, July 2011.

EXPERIENCE

June 2012 August 2012

Financial Software Developer Intern, Bloomberg LP

Created a debugging tool that monitors the process of generating Portfolio analytics reports which is a part of Bloomberg

professional services. The tool is used to detect and locate errors, perform debugging tasks and to retrieve consolidated

information.

COURSE PROJECTS

Hitchhiker March 2012

A cloud (Amazon EC2) based search engine. Consists of a scalable distributed crawler based on free pastry, an Indexing and

a Page rank engine based on Elastic MapReduce and a web frontend developed in PHP and jQuery.

Wrote components for indexing, calculating Page rank and results ranking heuristics.

Winners of the Google Award (www.cis.upenn.edu/~cis455/)

DChat Feb 2012 March 2012

A distributed group chat application that supports total ordering of messages and fault tolerance mechanisms such as heart

beat messages and leader election.

Designed and implemented the protocol.

PennPhoto A photo sharing Web application Oct 2011 Dec 2011

An application that allows a user to upload and share photos with other users.

Created a friend-

circle management page that could perform every operation by just dragging and dropping.

Created a friendship browser using JIT that allows a user to browse his friends graphically.

Designed the database schema and wrote code for friend recommendations.

Sentiment Analysis Oct 2011 Dec 2011

Created a tool that reads the text of a user review for a product listing at Amazon and performs sentiment analysis to

predict the rating given by the user to that product. A model is trained with a large set of examples using machine-

learning

methods.

Enhanced the feature set of the data by applying my own text filtering method leading to a reduction in the root mean

square error from 1.428 to 0.983.

EXTRA CURRICULAR PROJECTS

Internet Radio Jan 2011 April 2011

The application allows a user to create their own internet radio stations and broadcast media that many other users can

listen to simultaneously. The radio station can stream song playlists as well as voice.

Used the RTP protocol to send multicast data packets from source to different destinations.

Altered the initial project architecture in a way that reduced the server load to less than half.

Cooperative Environment for Visually Challenged May 2010 Dec 2010

Developed interface for visually challenged facilitating access of computers with regular hardware devices.

Incorporated screen reading, News Feeds, Music Player, Journal & Typing Tutor facilities in the project.

ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE AND AWARDS

Winners of the Best Project of the Year Award for the project Internet Radio at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University.

Three other extra-

curricular projects: A graph renderer, a game involving multithreading and a website facilitating

information sharing.

First Prize in a programming contest out of 150 participants at GATES, University Tech-

Fest 2010

Organized the annual technical fest of our college in 2011 and lead the finance & budgeting department.

Languages and Technologies

Java; C++; C; JavaScript; Python; SQL; PHP; Hadoop, Amazon EC2.

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