Engineering Assistant

SARAVANA SOUNDARARAJAN

**** **** ******, *** **, Philadelphia PA 19104

******@****.*****.*** +1-267-***-**** www.seas.upenn.edu/~sarsou

EDUCATION

University of Pennsylvania, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Philadelphia, PA Expected May 2012

Candidate for Master of Science in Engineering in Computer and Information Science CGPA: 3.83/4.00

Coursework: Software Systems, Networked Systems, Analysis of Algorithms, Database Systems, Network Security

Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani, India Jun 2010

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science and Master of Science in Mathematics CGPA: 8.69/10.00

Coursework : Data Structures, Operating Systems, Computer Architecture, Theory of Computation

Teaching Assistant : Digital Electronics and Computer Organization, Pattern Recognition

SOFTWARE SKILLS

Programming Languages: C, C++, Java, Perl, Python, HTML, Java Server Pages, JavaScript, SQL, Visual Basic

Technologies and Tools: Network Simulator 3 (ns-3), Wireshark, Veriwave Test Suite, MATLAB

EXPERIENCE

Research Assistant SAFEST Project Sep 2011 - present

NetDB@Penn Research Group, Computer Science Department, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Working on integrating the RapidNet declarative engine with the ToR anonymity system in order to specify policies

Summer Intern - Cisco Systems, Inc. May 2011 Aug 2011

Wireless LAN Access Point Software Team, Richfield, OH

Developed a throughput analyzer to compare throughput variations across nightly builds of wireless access points

Developed IEEE 802.11 aggregation and link test related enhancements to the wireless access point radio driver

Student Intern - NetApp, Inc. Jan 2010 Jun 2010

Storage Management and Application Integration Team, Bangalore, India

Developed a tool for performance analysis of Linux and Windows servers running the NetApp s DFM Application

Analyzed host system performance and correlated it with DFM Server load characteristics

Summer Intern - Indian Overseas Bank May 2007 Jul 2007

Information Technology Department, Chennai, India

Developed a tool to generate quarterly loan reports and added advanced search capabilities to their web interface

PROJECTS

NEMS Distributed Mail Server (Java) Spring 2011

Developed a mail server which supports SMTP/POP protocols and ensures replication and fault tolerance

Twix A Social News Sharing Website (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JSP) Fall 2010

Designed and developed a website to share, comment and vote on interesting news articles across the web

Penn Search - DHT-Based Peer-to-Peer Search Engine (C++) Fall 2010

Built a Chord overlay network in Network Simulator 3 and added DHT-based keyword search capability

Application Aware Anonymity (A3) Project at Penn (http://a3.cis.upenn.edu/) Spring 2011

Deployed the A3 anonymous system on USC ISI s DETERlab test bed on a 30 node topology

Detecting Sybil Attacks in P2P File Replication Systems (Java) Spring 2009

Proposed a Sybil detection mechanism and evaluated the results using PlanetSim a Java based overlay simulator

Incrementally Securing BGP (Perl) Fall 2009

Proposed an extension to Jennifer et. al. Routing Control System and implemented a bogus route detection algorithm

Dolly A Compiler for an Object Oriented Language (C) Spring 2009

Implemented the scanner, parser and symbol table modules of a compiler for a hypothetical OOP language

PUBLICATIONS

S Saravana, V S Shekhawat, Incrementally Securing BGP: Ideas from P2P Overlays (Student Paper), International

Conference on Emerging Trends in Engineering, J.J.M College of Engineering, Maharasthra, Feb. 2010.

K Haribabu, C Hota, S Saravana, Detecting Sybils in Peer-to-Peer File Replication Systems, in Proc. International

Conference on Information Security and Digital Forensics, London, Sep. 2009, pp. 152-164. Springer 2009.

POSITIONS OF RESPONSIBILITY

Database Analyst Intern, University of Pennsylvania Health System, Philadelphia, PA Oct 2010 Apr 2011

Designed and created reports using Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services

Student Instructor, Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), India May 2008 July 2008

Developed course material to evaluate sophomore year students undergoing internship at different organizations

HONORS

One of the 40 students selected for the Microsoft Research India Summer School on Networking 2009

Merit Certificate in Mathematics for ranking among the top 0.1% in the All India Class X examination 2003

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