Computer Science Data

Vivek Hariharan

*******@***.***, ****************@*****.***

Contact : 1-312-***-****

University of Illinois at Chicago

website: www.cs.uic.edu/~vharihar

Objective: Seeking a challenging internship with a dynamic and innovative company in the

field of Computer Science.

Education: Master of Science in Computer Science, Degree expected: Dec 2012

University of Illinois at Chicago, GPA: 3.48

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science & Engineering

Anna University, Chennai, India, 82%, May 2010

Skills:

Languages C, C++, Java, Ruby, Visual Basic

DBMS Oracle 9i, 10g, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, MS Access

Web Development HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, J2EE, Ruby on Rails

Operating Systems Windows 98/XP/7, Unix/Linux(Debian/Ubuntu), Mac OS X

Other skills Android App Development, Web design, Programming tools, Software and

Hardware Troubleshooting, Working with general Office softwareRelevant Experience:

Software Developer Intern at Motorola Mobility Inc. May2011Present

? Working on an Android client App for an Analytics project

? Experienced developing apps for mobile and tablet devices

? Gained experience with SCRUM Agile software development technique

? Part of the policy and security team at the Applied Research Center

Technical Intern at Blue Cross Blue Shield AssociationJan 2011May 2011

? Developed a generalized testing client for various web services.

? Created automated test scripts that ran on a Continuous Integration System (Hudson)

? Part of the Enterprise Architecture team.

Research Information Specialist at Kittles Lab, Oct 2010Jan 2011University of Illinois at Chicago

? Responsible for formatting large scale genetic data for the purpose of data mining.

? Worked with Bio statistics(data mining) tools like plink and Eigensoft

? Web Master for Institute of Human Genetics web site.

? Configured and Administrated Windows 2008 server

Intern at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras Jan 2010May 2010

? Worked on a text mining project, matching and ranking resumes for a particular posting

? Gained hands on experience with techniques used in text mining and machine learning

? Assisted a Masters student with sentimental analysis research. Was responsible for

automating the process of data set collection and preprocessing.

Other Experience:

Computer Technician at Karna Vidya, Chennai Aug 2009May 2010

? Aided visually challenged students to use computers

? Responsible for assembling and configuring Windows systems

? In charge of troubleshooting errors in the computers.

Projects:

Web Crawler assisted Web page Cleaning for Web Data Mining

Developed a web crawler that extracted useful text information from web pages and cleans

the

content using techniques like stemming and stop words removal.

Technology used: Java, MySQL, MorphAdorner(NLP package), DOM parser

Opinion Spam detection

Developed a classifier that was trained to identify opinion spam(expression of fake

reviews) for

reviews obtained from review websites.

Technology used: C++, Java, MySQL

Clustering of Restaurants

Analyzed restaurant text reviews and designed a clustering technique to group restaurants

based

on its features

Technology used: Java, Weka(machine learning package), Morphadorner (NLP package)

Mini Watson

Designed and implemented a question answering system that parsed human readable

questions,

identified the answer from data provided in a data base. This was inspired by the IBM

Watson.

Technology used: Java, PHP, Stanford Parser

UFO Sighting Visualization

Developed a Visualization tool that allows users to explore UFO sightings in the US.

Designed

the back-end support system, built crawler to scrape data from a UFO sightings website.

Technology used: Java, Processing, XML Parser

Last.fm Users Visualization

Built an interactive visualization tool to analyze which artists are being listened by

region,

genre, gender and age. Made use of static data from Last.fm and Last.fm's developer

service.

Technology used:

References available upon request

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