Computer Science Manager

Pranesh Pandurangan

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Atlanta, GA-30318. Phone: 857-***-****

LinkedIn: http://linkd.in/pran1990

Objective

To obtain an Internship in Summer 2012 in the field of Computer Science at a mentally stimulating

workplace.

Education

Master of Science in Computer Science Aug 2011-(expected) Dec 2012

Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA

Current GPA 3.75/4

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) in Computer Science and Engineering July 2007-May 2011

National Institute of Technology, Trichy, India (formerly Regional Engineering College, Trichy)

Cumulative GPA 8/10.00

Technical Skills

Programming C, C++, SQL

Technical Software MATLAB

Operating Systems Windows, Linux (Ubuntu)

Internships and Projects

Issues with Streaming Video Analysis in the Cloud Jan-May 2012

Mentor: Dr. Kishore Ramachandran, College of Computing, Georgia Tech.

Details: Part of a research project for academic credit, I propose to investigate two major issues affecting

Streaming Video analysis in the Cloud: VM Interference and Data Center Network Interference. I also aim

to propose some solutions to make Streaming Video Analysis efficient in the cloud

Exploring Visual Self-localisation Algorithms for Mobile Platforms May-June 2010

Mentor: Dr. Ing Volker Willert, Department of Electrical Engineering, TU Darmstadt

The objective was to track the movement of a robot, given a sequence of stereo images taken from it.

Solved interest point detection, tracking, and camera pose and movement estimation.

Relevant Software: MATLAB, running on Linux (Ubuntu).

Coordinated Behaviour of Multiple mobile robots May-June 2009

Mentor: Dr Ang H Marcelo Jr., Department of Mechanical Engineering, NUS

The objective was to implement a military escort system using a few RovioTM robots from

WowWeeTM.

Wrote a driver for the RovioTM using Player/Stage software.

Implemented obstacle avoidance and localisation algorithms.

Relevant Software: Player/Stage, running on Linux (Ubuntu). All code was written in C++.

Lightweight Recoverable Virtual Memory 2011

Implemented a LRVM library with an undo log and transaction guarantees in C++

RPC-based Proxy Server 2011

Wrote a simple proxy server using RPC and implemented and evaluated different caching schemes.

Barrier Synchronisation 2011

Implemented and evaluated barriers using OpenMP and MPI

GTThreads 2011

Implemented a threads library for C

Chord Program analysis for Java Programs 2011

Implemented intra-procedural, inter-procedural and typestate analysis in Java

Benchmarking Dynamic Spatial Indexing of Commercial DBMS 2011

Compared performance of PostGRES and MySQL on spatial data.

Static Analysis of Network Traffic 2010

Used SNORT to analyse network traffic and automatically frame new rules to filter packets.

Relevant Coursework

Graduate Advanced Operating Quantum Computing Software Analysis and

Systems Testing

Computer Networks Internet Applications and Advanced Internet

Services Application Design

Undergraduate Distributed Systems Database Systems Pattern Recognition

Algorithms and Data Automata and Formal

Structures Languages

Activities

Teaching Assistant for CS 4400: Introduction to Database Systems, for Spring 2012 at College of

Computing, Georgia Tech.

Workshops Attended:

Research Promotion workshop, Geometric Algorithms, NIT Trichy (January 2010).

UK-India Education and Research Initiative workshop, Control of Smart, Reliable and Reliable Air

Vehicles, NIT Trichy. (December 2009).

Bio-Inspired Robotics, by Dr Amir Shapiro, Ben-Gurion University, Israel at NIT Trichy. (February

2007).

Won the robotics event Slam Dunk, at Pragyan 2009, the international technical festival of NIT, Trichy

Event Manager, Micromouse, at Pragyan 2010.

Member of the Robotics and Machine Intelligence club (RMI) at NIT Trichy.

Member of the National Cadet Corps, Indian Air Force wing.

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