Information Technology Data
Resume:
Alok Watve
East Lansing, MI *****
United States of America
********@***.***.***
Publications
Under Review:
Data Transformation for Improved Query Performance, S. Pramanik, A. Watve,
C. R. Meiners and A. Liu - IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
(TKDE)
Data Independent Vantage Point Selection For Range Queries, A. Watve, S. Jung,
S. Pramanik - International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB)
The BoND-tree: An Efcient Indexing Method for Box Queries in Non-ordered Discrete
Data Spaces, C. Chen, Al. Watve, S. Pramanik and Q. Zhu - IEEE Transactions on
Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE).
Accepted/Published:
Transforming Range Queries To Equivalent Box Queries To Optimize Page Access,
S. Pramanik, A. Watve, C. R. Meiners and A. Liu. Proceedings of VLDB, 2010,
Singapore.
The C-ND tree: A multidimensional index for hybrid continuous and non-ordered
discrete data spaces, C. Chen, S. Pramanik, Q. Zhu, A. Watve and G. Qian, Proc.
of the 12th International Conference on Extending Database Technology: Advances in
Database Technology, St. Petersburg, Russia, 2009.
CNODE: Clustering of Set-valued Non-Ordered Discrete Data, S. Kumar, A. Watve,
S. Sural and S. Pramanik, International Journal of Data Mining, Modeling and Man-
agement, 2009.
Soccer Video Processing for the Detection of Advertisement Billboards, A. Watve
and Shamik Sural, Pattern Recognition Letters, 2008.
Detection of On- eld Billboard Advertisements from Soccer Telecasts, A. Watve and
S. Sural, Proc. of the IEE International Conference on Visual Information Engineering,
Bangalore, India, 2006.
Experience Amazon.com, Seattle, Washington, USA
Position : Software Development Engineer - Intern (Summer 2010)
Technologies worked on : Java, JSP, Perl-Mason
I was working with the Ful llment By Amazon (FBA) team. The team is responsible for
all the software that third-party merchants (FBA-clients) use to manage their inventory
and orders. I worked on improving the existing merchant removal system for accurate
error reporting and adding more features.
Project Brahma, www.projectbrahma.org
Position : Volunteer programmer (July 2010 - December 2010)
Technologies worked on : PHP
Project Brahma is a wiki project based on Mediawiki platform, driven by volunteers
all around the world. The objective is to document India s bio-diversity and to make it
searchable through semantic database search tools (which come as a standard mediawiki
feature). I volunteered to develop several mediawiki extensions which can be used as
tools for projectbrahma. The tools are meant to simplify inserting and editing data for
volunteers who are mostly non-programmers.
Some of the tools we developed include:
Auto generation of SVG maps highlighting certain regions (i.e. states)
Access other free information sources (through their web services) and populate
data on the website.
Detect and index various features/properties of the data for semantic searching.
D. E. Shaw India Software Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad, India
Position : Member - Information Technology (Jul 2006 - May 2007)
Technologies worked on : Java, Perl
Developed client software to connect to Wombat Feed Handler to parse data feeds
coming for security exchanges. Also worked on some in-house projects.
Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Position: Research Assistant (RA) and Teaching Assistant (TA)
I was as an RA with Dr. Sakti Pramanik. We worked on the problem of clustering high
dimensional data with Non-Ordered Discrete Dimensions (such as genome sequences)
I have twice worked as a TA for Dr. Pang Ning Tan for the undergraduate course in
Database Systems (CSE 480).
I have worked thrice as a TA for Dr. Bill Punch/Dr. Richard Enbody as a TA for the
undergraduate course in programming with Python (CSE 231).
Currently enrolled at Michigan State University, East Lansing
Education
for Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering
Current GPA - 3.9/4.0
Expected date of graduation - May 2012
2006 Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Master of Technology (M. Tech.) in Information Technology
CGPA 9.64 /10.0
2004 Mumbai University, Mumbai
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Information Technology
Percentage of marks: 70.0 % (First class with distinction)
2000 Atomic Energy junior college Anushaktinagar, Mumbai
HSC (Higher Secondary School Certi cate)
Aggregate percentage of marks: 92.33 % (First class with distinction)
1998 New Bombay High School, Vashi, New Mumbai
SSC (Secondary School Certi cate)
Percentage of marks: 88.66 % (First class with distinction)
Theses and Ph.D. Thesis - Indexing high dimensional databases.
Academic My Ph.D. thesis focuses on improving the performance of an index structure
Projects through data transformation techniques. The work involves theoretical modeling
of multi-dimensional index to identify factors responsible for redundant disk ac-
cesses. We then use data transformation to eliminate such factors. Our VLDB
2010 paper presents this idea. One journal paper on the same topic is currently
under review and one more manuscript is under preparation.
M. Tech. Thesis - Detection of on- eld advertisement billboards in soccer telecasts
at the School of Information Technology, IIT Kharagpur.
Objective of the project is to track advertisements in soccer video footage to
nd out time (and size) for which an advertisement billboard was shown. It
is a pattern recognition based application, which uses domain knowledge and
properties of videos for object detection and tracking. System was developed in
C.
B.E. Project - Local Network Monitoring System at Bhabha Atomic Research
Center (BARC) Anushaktinagar, Mumbai.
The system scans the selected hosts in a LAN using port scanner and makes a
database (in postgreSQL) of the gathered data. User can query the database to
detect inconsistencies or abnormalities. The system was developed in C. GUI was
developed using JAVA Swing.
Academic Honors All India rank of 25 (99.74 percentile) in GATE (Graduate Aptitude Test in
Engineering)
Two silver medals and a gold medal for excellence in Mathematics, Science and
Sanskrit
Received National Talent Search (NTS) Scholarship in 1998
Received JRD Tata scholarship in 2002 and 2003
Computer Well-versed with C/C++, Java
Skills
Fluent with Perl, Python (2.X)
Have worked with PHP, Matlab, Mathematica
Have been a full time Linux user for last 5 years.
Databases : Oracle, Mysql, PostgreSQL
Comfortable with IDEs Eclipse and KDevelop and have some experience with
Microsoft Visual Studio
Fluent with LaTeX and Kile (IDE for Latex)
Other Activities Volunteered for International Students Orientation at MSU during Fall 2009.
Installed and administered Oracle database server for course CSE880 (Spring
2008 and Fall 2009)
Web Coordinator of MSU Indian Student Organization during the year 2008-09
General Secretary - Maintenance, of J. C. Bose hall of residence, IIT Kharagpur
Placement Representative of School of Information Technology
Participated in IBM Master the Mainframe contest and won prizes
Represented J C Bose hall of residence in several inter-hall competitions such as
biz-quiz, product design competition, inter-hall maths Olympiad etc.
Dr. Shamik Sural, Professor, School of Information Technology, IIT Kharagpur, India.
References
Email: ******@***.******.*****.**
Dr. Bill Punch, Associate Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan
State University, East Lansing, MI, USA.
Email: *****@***.***.***
Dr. Sakti Pramanik, Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State
University, East Lansing, MI, USA.
Email: ********@***.***.***
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