Software Engineer Assistant

Siddharth Shankar

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Information Pittsburgh, PA 15217, USA E-mail: ************@*****.***

WWW: www.cs.utah.edu/~sshankar

Master of Science, Computing (Graphics & Visualization track)

Education

School of Computing, University of Utah

GPA: 3.96 / 4.00

Graduation: December, 2009

Bachelor of Technology, Information Technology

Cochin University of Science and Technology, India

Percentage: 75.31 (Approx GPA: 3.8 / 4.00), First Class with Distinction

Graduation: May, 2005

Assessment of GPU Computational Enhancement to a 2D Flood Model, A. Kalyanapu, S. Shankar,

Research

E. Pardyjak, D. Judi, S. Burian, To appear in Environment Modeling and Software, August 2011

Publications

A GPU-based Flood Simulation Framework, S. Shankar, A. Kalyanapu, C. Hansen, S. Burian,

Symposium on Application Accelerators in High Performance Computing, 2010

Large Data Visualization on Distributed Memory Multi-GPU Clusters, T. Fogal, H. Childs, S.

Shankar, J. Krueger, R. Bergeron, P. Hatcher, High Performance Graphics, 2010

Physically-Based Interactive Schlieren Flow Visualization, C. Brownlee, V. Pegoraro, S. Shankar,

P. McCormick, C. Hansen, Paci cVis, 2010, Best Paper Award

Software Engineer, Computer Graphics

Professional Feb, 2010 - present

Experience TerraSim Inc., Pittsburgh, PA

I am a developer for a road network extraction tool, RoadMAP, which uses advanced image under-

standing to automate the linear feature extraction process. I am also responsible for performance

optimization of the rendering pipeline, within the TerraTools framework, in order to improve inter-

action with large image les and geometry data.

Programmer Analyst Oct, 2005 - Jul, 2007

Cognizant Technology Solutions, Kolkata, India

As a developer in the team, aided the design, development, testing and maintenance of a web based,

call center application. My personal contribution was to the Car Rental and Billing modules.

Software Engineering Intern Dec, 2004 - Mar, 2005

Siemens Information Systems, Gurgaon, India

As an intern in the Telecom SBU, developed a parser, and a loader for Call Data Record (CDR)

les. This was accompanied with an extensive testing of the Rating and Billing Modules.

Graduate Research Assistant

Academic Jan, 2008 - Jan, 2010

Experience Scienti c Computing and Imaging Institute, University of Utah

As a developer in the C-SAFE group, aided the development and customization of an open source,

parallel visualization tool, VisIt. This included addition of a new database reader, ability to support

Adaptive Mesh Re nement (AMR) data, a new renderer to visualize face centered data, and an

improved setup to speedup particle rendering.

Graduate Teaching Assistant Aug, 2007 - Dec, 2007

School of Computing, University of Utah

As a teaching assistant for the class Software Practice (a C++-based lab course), conducted lab

hours, helped students with their problems, and graded home works, assignments & exams.

OpenGL and Shaders : Image space approach to interactive refraction, ray casting based volume

Selected

renderer

Academic

Projects

Ray Tracing: A kd-tree based acceleration structure, global illumination techniques (ambient occlu-

sion, depth of eld, glossy re ection)

Simulation for Animation: Particle systems (vortex, waterfall), smoke simulator, deformable body

simulator, SPH-based uid simulator

Computer Aided Geometric Design: Di erential properties of Bezier/ B-spline curves, 3D B-spline

surfaces using iso-lines

Image Processing: Adaptive histogram equalization, topological denoising, mosaicing, phase corre-

lation, feature detection

Computer Skills Languages: C, C++, Cg, GLSL Libraries: OpenGL, VTK, Qt, MPI, CUDA Environments: Visual

Studio (VS), Vim (gcc, CMake, gdb) Pro ling tools: VS Pro ler, GlowCode, CUDA Visual Pro ler

Platforms: Windows, Unix/ Linux

Date of Birth: 07th March, 1983 Citizenship: India Work permit: H-1B

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