Electrical Engineering

Jayanth Kolar *******@***.***

Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering Phone: 408-***-****

University of Illinois, Chicago, IL - 60607 http://www2.uic.edu/~jkolar3

Summary

Graduate student seeking an internship for Summer 2009.

Pro cient in areas of computer vision, digital signal and image processing.

Hands on experience in diverse projects through graduate and undergraduate research.

Education

M.S. Electrical & Computer Engineering Aug 2008 Present

University of Illinois, Chicago (UIC) GPA : 4.0/4.0

B.S. Electronics & Communication Engineering Aug 2004 Jun 2008

M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India (MSRIT) GPA: 3.82/4.0

Professional Experience

Graduate Research, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, UIC Aug 2008 Present

Working on image and video watermarking based on wavelet coe cient quantization.

Developing a method resistant to JPEG compression, linear & nonlinear ltering & gaussian noise.

Exploring a new approach to watermarking using contourlet transforms.

Investigated performance of block-based motion estimation methods used in H.264 & MPEG2.

Graduate Research Assistant, MRI Research Lab, UIC Aug 2008 Present

Implemented fast automatic extraction of the spinal canal boundaries from MRI images.

Performed segmentation using adaptive region growing methods and thresholding.

Developing an IDL-based application for this using an object oriented programming approach.

Web Programmer, School of Architecture, UIC Aug 2008 Present

Designing an Open Content Management System, an online wiki for the School of Architecture.

Developed the wiki based on DokuWiki platform with PHP and le based support.

Research Intern, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore Sep 2006 Dec 2007

Proposed a method for enhancement and pseudo coloring of high velocity schlieren images.

Developed MATLAB modules for target recognition and pseudo coloring.

Restored and enhanced low contrast satellite imagery to aid in target recognition.

Undergraduate Projects, MSRIT, Bangalore Jun 2007 Apr 2008

Designed a ngerprint classi cation technique based on directional ltering.

Implemented an indigenous adaptive classi cation scheme using ridge tracing.

Achieved high immunity to noise and partial ngerprint acquisition with 96% accuracy.

Demonstrated restoration and coloration of old black & white images using template colormaps.

Software Skills

Languages: MATLAB, IDL, C, C++, PHP, SQL, VHDL

Web Technologies: HTML/CSS, JavaScript, Flash, DreamWeaver CS3

Related Coursework

Digital Signal Processing Digital Image Processing

Information Theory Multimedia Systems

Embedded System design Image Analysis & Computer Vision

Key Accomplishments

Best speaker, Seminar on Embedded Applications, Nov 2007.

Vice President, UIC Chess Club, Fall 2008 & Captain, MSRIT Chess Team, Aug 2006 Jun 2008.

Ranked All India 433 - Top 1% in the National Aptitude Test conducted by NIIT, Jan 2007.

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