Computer Science Professional Experience

MEERA SEBASTIAN

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SUMMARY

• Seven years of overall academic and professional experience.

• Ability to take on challenging tasks and drive them to completion.

• Excellent analytical, problem-solving and communication skills. EDUCATION

University of Nevada, Reno Nevada, USA

Master of Science in Computer Science August 2015 – Present Expected graduation: December 2017

• Current GPA: 3.875 / 4.00

• Current Coursework: Robotic Manipulators, Analysis of Algorithm, Fundamentals of Research, Robotics for Humanity, Human Computer Interaction, Automata and Formal Languages, Fundamentals of Integrated Computer Security

• Active member of Women into Computer Science and Engineering (WICSE), UNR and Indian Student Organization (ISO), UNR

Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam Kerala, India

Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering June 2014

• GPA – 7.89 / 10

• Related Coursework: Operating System, Design and Analysis of Algorithm, Theory of Computation, Computer Organization, Object Oriented Programming, Data Structures and Algorithm, Database Management System, Computer Networks, Software Engineering.

• Ranked 14th among 500 students

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming Languages : C, C++, Java, Python

Operating Systems : Windows, Linux, Android, ROS

Web Technologies : HTML, JavaScript, jQuery, CSS, Media Query

Other Technologies : SharePoint 2010 & 2013, SharePoint Designer, SQL Server ACADEMIC PROJECTS

Self Help in Emergency (SHE) Jan 2014 - May 2014

Skills: Android, Java

Developed mobile application to help women ensure safety using their devices.

Initially the user set up a network of five contacts.

User can tap on app to send a predetermined text to these contacts.

The message includes the current location of the user. GPS tracking is used to fetch the current position.

Connect the user to the proper authorities.

Application features: location tracking, call initiation, voice recording, scream alarm, texts.

Sports Events Setter Jan 2013 - May 2013

Skills: PHP, HTML and MySQL

Developed an online website to facilitate the events conducted by sports clubs.

Administrator, clubs, players, guest are the three users of the system.

Administrator verifies the request made by clubs and players and conduct the sport events. The players are rated by the clubs and guests based on their performance. PUBLICATIONS

• Meera Sebastian, Santosh Balajee Banisetty and David Feil-Seifer. “Socially-Aware Navigation Planner Using Models of Human-Human Interaction.” Submitted in In IEEE Proceedings of the International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) 2017.

• Santosh Balajee Banisetty, Meera Sebastian, and David Feil-Seifer. "Socially-Aware Navigation: Action Discrimination to Select Appropriate Behavior." Arlington VA, Jul 2016. AI-HRI Artificial Intelligence for Human-Robot Interaction.

• Santosh Balajee Banisetty, Meera Sebastian, and David Feil-Seifer. "Socially-Aware Navigation: Action Discrimination to Select Appropriate Behavior." Nov 2016. Annual Graduate Poster Symposium (GSA).

PROFESSIONAL SYNOPSIS

Robotics Research Lab Nevada, UNR

Graduate Research Assistant August 2015 - Present

Working on the development of a robotic system that can navigate in a socially appropriate manner in the real environment. The robot has to navigate along with human partners whose trajectories are uncertain and dynamic in nature.

EY (Ernst & Young) Trivandrum, Kerala, India

SharePoint 2013 Developer August 2014 – June 2015

Developed workflow using SharePoint 2010 designer

Created and managed lists, sub sites, web parts, page layouts

Worked as admin (access rights, adding web parts, document library, lists etc.), developer (creating pages, customization of sites and pages, coding etc.) and designer

Projects: Americas Tax Enablement (Americas TTEG), Golden Beam Awards (GBA), EY Worx

Americas Tax Enablement (Americas TTEG) – TTEG is being developed to support the Tax team in EY. The system involves modelling the Product and Project catalogs used in the site. This has been achieved by making use of lists, document sets, workflows and content types in an effective manner.

Golden Beam Awards (GBA) – The Annual awards, is to recognize the employees who are top- drawer performers and who go the extra mile in making the EY branches, all over India, a great place to work. This site has been created to replace existing Lotus Notes solution for the Annual Award nomination process. GBA SharePoint site has been made available to all EY GDN centers in India to help make nominations, rate nominations and generate reports of the nominations entered the site.

EY Worx – A mobile application solution based on XenMobile by Citrix for EY employees. EY Worx is the quickest and easiest way to get the work applications and data on the mobile device. This project makes use of single page architecture. The contents get auto populated based on the current user’s service line, country and rank.

ACHIEVEMENTS

• Outstanding International Graduate Student Award by Graduate Student 2016 Association (GSA) for excellence in academics and extracurricular activities

• International Graduate Student Scholarship 2016-2017

• GE Energy Bently Nevada Corp. Annual Scholarship 2016-2017

• GHC Scholarship Grant to attend the 2016 Grace Hopper October 2016 Celebration of Women in Computing which was held in Houston, Texas

• CRA-W Scholarship Grants to attend the 2016 & 2017 Computing April 2016, 2017 Research Association Women Grad Cohort Workshop

• Active member of Women into Computer Science (WiCSE), Indian Student Organization (ISO)

• Extra Miler award for quarter 2014-2015 for excellence in performing at EY 2015

• Workshops (Android, UNIX, PC Hardware & Networking) 2013- 2014

• 1st place in National level c-Debugging competitions 2013

• Placed in Director’s & Principal’s Honors List 2011-2014

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