JAYASHREE CHANDRASEKARAN
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OBJECTIVE
Master’s student graduating December 2013 looking for a Full-Time Position in the software industry to help create
effective IT solutions to give a better experience to users.
EDUCATION
Aug 2012 – Dec 2013 (Expected)
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
GPA – 3.75
Graduate student in Computer Science (MSCS) specializing in Machine Learning
Courses taken: Machine Learning, Web Search and Text Mining, Computability and Algorithms, Machine
Learning for Trading, Knowledge Based AI, Advanced Internet Computing, Foundations of Programming
Languages, Computer Networks, Internet Architecture and Pr otocols
Aug 2006 – Apr 2010
Sri Sairam Engineering College (SSEC), Anna University, Chennai, India
Aggregate – 87.3/100
Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science and Engineering (CSE)
First Class with Distinction; Topper of Department of CSE
TECHNICAL SKILL SET
: Java/J2EE, Python, PHP
Programming Languages
: HTML, JavaScript, JSP
Web Technologies
: Oracle PL/SQL, MySQL
Databases
: Windows XP/Vista/7/8, Ubuntu
Operating Systems
: NS-2, Weblogic Application Server 9.1, Eclipse IDE, SVN, Struts2, Spring, Hibernate
Tools and Frameworks
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Graduate Research Assistant – Georgia Tech May 2013 – August 2013
Worked on BLIS, a PHP based project initiated by the CDC, which is an open-source system to track patient
specimens and laboratory results http://blis.cc.gatech.edu/index.php
Implemented a currency exchange rate functionality which gives users the ability to select the curr ency in which
they want the customer to be billed.
Assistant Systems Engineer – Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (TCS), India Nov 2010 – Jun 2012
Ownership of a module of an application being designed for the US pharmacy retail chain CVS Caremark. Th e
application provides an online management system for third parties associated with the retail chain. The module
handles all types of inflow and management of funds for all the retail stores .
Provided major bug fixes, performed intensive cross team coordination and management of release planning, post
release support for more than 3 major deliverables. Led a team of 3 as part of my module in TCS and also
provided effective and complete resource training for freshers .
Experience with Agile methodology.
ACADEMIC PROJECTS
Feb 2013 – May 2013
StockDeck: A crowd-sourcing app for market-sentiment analysis (PHP, JS)
Part of a 4 member team designing a system which analyzes market sentiment of news articles available online
and also does a crowd sourcing of these documents and uses these analyses to predict the rise or fall of a stock in
the near future.
Feb 2013 – May 2013
Recommender Systems (Java)
Part of a 2 member team working on the open source p roject graphlab to implement an algorithm for estimating
the unknown rating of a user for an item given a training set and bound this estimate within the range of ratings
Question Classification and Context-Sensitive Response Generation Using Statistical Natural Language Processing
(Python) Nov 2012 - Dec 2012
Part of a 3 member team which developed a system that gives meaningful and contextual answers to questions
Presented a machine learning model which achieves this goal using various surface features present in a question
Static / Dynamic Slicing Algorithm (Java) Nov 2012 - Dec 2012
Part of a 2 member team which implemented a simple slicing algorithm on ‘Chord’
Implemented a precise and efficient algorithm for interprocedural slicing using system dependence graphs that
correctly accounts for the calling context of a called procedure
ACHIEVEMENTS
Secured 34th rank in Anna University in the CSE branch with a percentile of 99.88
“Achiever 2010” of SSEC for the course year 2006-2010
Sun Certified Java Programmer (SCJP 5.0)