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Mudit Agrawal

Objective and Interests

To explore new avenues of exemplary ideas in the area of Image & Video Processing, Computer

Vision and Pattern Recognition.

Education

University of Maryland, College Park Expected May 2007/ 2010

Masters + PhD in Computer Science GPA 4.0/4.0

International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT),

Hyderabad, India July 2004

B.Tech. (BS) in Computer Science GPA 9.52/10

(Honors in Computer Vision) (stood in top 5)

Work Experience

Microsoft Corporation (Tablet-PC group and MSR), Redmond (Software Design

Engineer: May 2006 Aug 2006). Developed a prototype for Online Devanagari

Handwriting Recognition System.

Research Assistant at Language and Media Processing Lab (LAMP), UMCP working

on Generic Printed Character Recognition System for syllabic and non-syllabic scripts.

Hewlett Packard Labs, Bangalore (Full-time Research Consultant: May 2004 July

2005). Worked on Online Handwriting Recognition Systems and Pen Computing

Interfaces.

Hewlett Packard Labs, Bangalore (Internship: May-July 2003) under Dr. Sriganesh

Madhvanath (PhD, University at Buffalo).

Language Training Research Center (LTRC) on Machine Translation (Internship: May-

July 2002) under Dr. Rajeev Sangal (Director, IIIT-H).

Teaching Experience

Teaching Assistant for Introduction to Information Technology, Aug Dec, 2005 for first

year undergraduates (UMCP)

Teaching Assistant for Software Engineering, Nov Apr, 2004 for third year

undergraduates and first year graduates (IIIT-Hyderabad)

Teaching Assistant for Mathematics II, Nov - Apr, 2003 for first year undergraduates

(B.Tech., IIIT-Hyderabad).

Research at HP Labs

Devanagari Continuous Online Handwriting Classifier

Post-processing using n-gram models

Development of annotated datasets of handwriting (next generation of Unipen:

http://www.unipen.org)

Data Collection and Annotation Tool

Coming up with a couple of Patent Disclosures on Pen-input methods

Publications

Agrawal, M., Bali, K., Madhvanath, S. and Vuurpijl, L., 2005, UPX: A New XML

Representation for Annotated Datasets of Online Handwriting Data, 8th

International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2005), Seoul,

Korea, Aug 29 - Sept 1, 2005

Agrawal, M., Bhaskarbhatla, A. and Madhvanath, S., 2004, Data Collection For Online

Handwriting Corpus Creation In Indic Scripts, International Conference on Speech

and Language Technologies (ICSLT-COCOSDA), Vol 1, pp-149-154

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Agrawal, M., Pavan, M.N.S.S.K. and Jawahar, C.V. 2003, Indexing and Retrieval of

Devanagari Text in Printed Documents, National Conference on Document Analysis

and Recognition (NCDAR)

Awards / Scholarships

Qualified National Talent Search Examination (N.T.S.E.) 1997

Qualified Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee, State Engineering Exam (All India

Rank: 29), Indian Institute of Information Technology - Gwalior (16) and Allahabad (230)

and other undergraduate colleges with good ranks

Awarded scholarships in all semesters for being in the DEAN s LIST (top 5%)

nd

Stood 2 in Open Software Competition at the tech-fest of IIIT-Hyderabad (project:

Document Database)

Represented my city in International Maths and Computer Competition (MACfair) in

rd

Lucknow and stood 3 (August 1998)

st

W on 1 prize in Electronic Model contest of National Environment Awareness Program

sponsored by Ministry of Env. and Forest, Government of India: made a remote-

controlled car .

Software Skills

Programming Languages C, C++, Java, Matlab, Basic, Cobol, Fortran

Programming Environments GNU/GCC, VC++, VB

Scripting Languages Perl (OOP), Bash

Programming Tools CVS

Operating Systems GNU/Linux, Windows 2000/ME/XP

Libraries OpenGL, glut

Web-based Technologies HTML, XML, InkML

Other Tools Fireworks, Flash, Dreamweaver, Gimp

Extracurricular Activities:

Organizational Abilities

Vice President of Student Community of India (http://www.scimd.org) at UMCP for 06- 07

Cultural House Captain in IIIT last year and the house stood first in cultural activities

Enthusiastic to work in teams and to take responsibilities. Member of parliament in IIIT

An active member in the organization team of IIIT s Annual fest called Felicity.

Conducting many cultural nights during my stay at HP Labs: Dandiya Night, Diwali Night

etc.

Social Activity

Member of Develop Empower Synergize India (DESI) group at UMCP

Member of Muskaan In My Life Foundation (http://www.muskaaninmylife.org) at IIIT

Cultural Activities

W on several prizes in Elocution Contests (English and Hindi) both at school and college

level.

Have successfully lead prize winning team events like skit and street plays at state and

district Levels

Miscellaneous

W itty, good sense of humor, good communication skills & optimistic

Passionate about traveling to new places and meeting new people

Love playing badminton and cricket

Like listening to music

Creating interior models and sketching as one of the best pastime

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