Shivani Rao

Research Scholar, Purdue

University, RVL lab Email: abox86@r.postjobfree.com

West Lafayette IN 47906

Objective: To pursue research and development (and if possible teaching) in Large-Scale

Machine Learning,

Text processing, Data Mining and Information Retrieval, Cloud Computing, and On-line

algorithms.

Looking for: Industrial Post-docs and/or full-time positions. Current Visa: F-1, expires

Aug 2013

Expected date of graduation: May 2013Work-Authorization: Will need H-1 to be filed by

employer

Education:

Degree Bachelors Masters PhD

DepartmentInformation Technology Computer Science Computer Engineering,

School of ECE

Institution Mumbai University, Indian Institute of Purdue University,

West Lafayette

Mumbai,India Technology Madras,

Chennai, India

Duration Aug 1999

- Aug 2003Jan 2004- May 2006Jan 2008- present

Class/GPA Distinction 9.8/10

CGPA 3.92/4.0 CGPA

Advisor Uma Rao Sukhendu Das Avinash Kak

Major Computer Vision, Image Computer Vision, Pattern Information Retrieval, Large-Scale

Areas Processing, Simulation and Recognition, Computer Machine Learning, Data-Intensive

Modeling, Robotics, Graphics, Artificial text processing, Map-Reduce, Cloud

Probability and Statistics Neural Networks Computing, Software Engineering

Work Experience:

Software Engineering Intern Google, Mountain view May 2010 Aug 2010 Streetview

Cityblock team

Software Engineer

Nvidia, Pune, India Aug 2006June 2007

Video Codec teamSkills:

Programming: C/C++ Technologies: Cloud Computing (Amazon EMR), MapReduce (Hadoop)

Scripting: R, Matlab, Perl (basic), Python Operating Systems: Windows, Linux

List of Major Projects

Name Duration Advisor/SupervisorDescription/Skills

Use MapReduce to build and test prototype of

Loop-closing using May 2010- Aug David Martin,

large-scale loop-closing problem using

Appearance on CityBlock 2010 Google SWE

appearance only on cityblock data

data

Incremental Algorithms to incorporate RF to

Retrieval from Text and Aug 08- present Avinash Kak,

improve retrieval performance of large-scale

Software Repositories Purdue University

software and text repositories

Estimate orientation of surface using wavelet

Shape

From texture May 04- May 06Sukhendu Das, IIT

decomposition of its image.

Madras, India

Teaching Experience (Teaching Assistant

)

Graduate Computer Vision Pattern Recognition Advances in Visual Perception

Undergraduate Digitial Signal Processing Computer System Design Lab Computer Graphics

Writing Samples and Conferences

Title Author Year and Occassion

1 On the use of Stemming in Concern Location and Bug Emily Hill, Shivani Rao and Accepted

to appear in, SCAM

Localization in Java Avinash Kak. 2012

2 Mining Software Repositories in Flux Shivani Rao Accepted to appear in GHC

2012

3 Retrieval from Software Libraries for Bug Shivani Rao and Avinash Kak. May 2011,

Honolulu, Hawaii

Localization: A Comparative Study with Generic and

Composite Text Models

4 3D surface Texture Analysis Projective Equations and Sukhendu Das, T. Griener and

Pattern Recognition, Jan 2010

M Channel Wavelet Decomposition Shivani Rao

5 Error analysis of DWT based method for orientation Shivani Rao, Thomas Griener IEE

conference on VIE 2006,

estimation of planar texture surfaces and Sukhendu Das Bangalore, India

6 Classification of Textures in SAR Images using Multi-Lalit Gupta, Shivani G. Rao and

NCIP 2005, Bangalore India

channel Multi-Resolution Filters Sukhendu Das

7 Unsupervised Segmentation of Texture Images using a Manika Puri, Shivani G. Rao ICVGIP

2004, Kolkata, India

Combination of Gabor and Wavelet Features and Sukhendu Das

Awards and Scholarships

Teradata Scholarship to attend GHC 2012, May 2012 ACM Travel award to attend ICSE 2011,

May 2011

Department Nomination for GE's Women in Technology Event, GE Global Research, Albany, NY

Ross Fellowship,

Jan '08

-Dec1'1, Purdue University J.R.D Tata Scholarship, Jan 2011,

Mumbai, India

Volunteering and Administrative activities

Purdue Mentor and Activity Leader: Women in Engineering, Introduce a Girl to

Engineering Day (IGED

2009, 2012)

University

Student Volunteer: ICSE 2012, Honolulu, Hawaii, May 2011

IIT Madras Student representative, Masters Program, Dept of CSE. Aug 2005 May 2006

Secretary of Kannada Cultural Association, IIT Madras. Aug 2004 May 2005

Program Committee, Convocation. July 2004

Mumbai Secretary of IEEE-Student Branch

. June 2001- June 2002University

Chairman

of Newsletter committee,

IEEE-student Branch. June 2002- May 2003Hobbies

Purdue University Salsa club and Google Reuda team, Purdue University Tango Club

Dancing

Half Marathons: Indianapolis (2008), Chicago (2009), Purdue (2010) and Midwest Spartan

Race (2011),

Running

Purdue (2012)

Trained in Indian Classical music. Perform locally in West Lafayette. Dec 2010 and April

2011, Jan 2012

Singing

References: Available upon Request

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