Software Engineer Engineering

Varsha Shankar

abpejn@r.postjobfree.com

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http://www.seas.upenn.edu/ vasha

Philadelphia, PA - 19104

EDUCATION

**** ******* ********** ** ************, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Philadelphia, PA

Master of Science in Engineering: Robotics, expected in May 2013

Current GPA: 3.95/4.0

2004 2009 Delhi College of Engineering, New Delhi, India

Bachelor of Engineering: Computer Engineering

First Class with Distinction

PROJECTS/COURSEWORK

Spring 2012 RASC-AL Robo-Ops Rover Design Challenge at NASA

Core team member with responsibility for planning and mechatronics

Spring 2012 Brain Computer Interface: Dr. Brian Litt

Predicting nger exion from intracranial EEG recordings

Spring 2012 Learning in Robotics: Prof. Dan Lee

Learning planning costs in aerial maps

2D Simultaneous localisation and mapping

3D orientation tracking using Unscented Kalman Filter

Colour segmentation/object classi cation of a red barrel in images

Fall 2011 Machine Learning: Prof. Ben Taskar

Collaborated on course project to predict Amazon.com customer review ratings

Spring 2009 Undergraduate Research

Proposed bird species classi cation technique for videos using texture analysis

WORK EXPERIENCE

Summer 2012 Summer Intern at Neuromorphics Lab: Boston University

Used a biologically inspired vision system coupled with an SSVEP (steady state visually evoked potential)

based BCI (Brain Computer Interface) to control an iRobot Create

Fall 2011 Teaching Assistant: University of Pennsylvania

Aided with Introduction to Cognitive Science by holding o ce hours, grading, writing homework and ex-

amination questions

June 2009 Senior Software Engineer: Yahoo! Bangalore

June 2011 Implemented advertiser pro le calculation on Hadoop and dashboard for ad quali cation work ow system

Developed test automation framework for Advertising Products Group product suite

Summer 2008 Summer Intern: Institute for System Studies and Analysis, Defence Research and Develop-

ment Organisation, New Delhi

Designed and developed a Geographical Information System

PROGRAMMING SKILLS

Experienced in Java, MATLAB, Python. Intermediate Linux user. Familiar with C++, Perl, Pl/Sql.

AWARDS AND ACTIVITIES

2011 Emcee: Apache Hadoop India Summit, Bangalore, India

2011 Founder and Chariperson: Papyrus, Yahoo! Bangalore Book Club

2010 2011 Vice President: Yspeak, Yahoo! Bangalore Toastmasters Club

2009 Best Student of the Year: Tata Consultancy Services

2009 Meritorious Student Award: DCE Alumni Association

2009 1st Place: Toastmasters International Area Level Impromptu Speech Contest

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