SIVAPRAKASH SUBRAMANIAN
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EDUCATION
University of Pennsylvania, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Philadelphia, PA May 2012
• Master of Science and Engineering in Telecommunications and Networking GPA: 3.60/4.00
• Coursework: Networks and Protocols, Web Technologies, Wireless Networks, Machine Learning, Database and Information Systems, Computational Linguistics, Networked Systems
Anna University (Kumaraguru College of Technology), Tamil Nadu, India May 2010
• Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communications Engineering CGPA: 83/100
• Coursework: Data Structures, Computer Architecture, Internet and Java, Computer Networks, Digital Electronics, Digital Communications, Communication Systems, Signals and Systems, Digital Image Processing
• Awarded Mahatma Gandhi Merit Scholarship for academic excellence during academic year 2008-2009
TECHNICAL SKILLS
• Programming Languages : C, C++, Python, Java, MATLAB, SQL, Verilog, S8085 (Assembly Language)
• Web Development : DHTML, XML, JavaScript, ASP.Net, Ajax, PHP, Jquery, JSP, GWT
• Softwares : Eclipse, Visual Studio 2008, Microsoft Expression Web 4, LabView, Modelsim 6E, Xlinx
• Networking : TCP/IP, Routing Protocols, NS3
EXPERIENCE
Research Assistant - Web Developer University of Pennsylvania, Law School, Philadelphia, PA July 2011 - March 2012
• Developed a game based website and backend database to study the nature and behavior of the user playing the game.
• Used PHP and MySQL to design and develope of a Website and the backend database.
Part Time Computer Programmer Proteomics Department, The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, PA September 2011 – January 2012
• Developed a job tracking website and backend database to keep track of all the jobs, projects and their corresponding information undertaken by the Proteomics department.
• Used PHP, Java and MySQL to design and develope of a website and the backend database.
PROJECTS
FaceFlickPlus – A Social Photo Sharing Site (Java, GWT, Oracle, XQueries) Fall 2011
• Designed and developed a website to share, comment and rate on photos across the web.
• Implemented functionalities that include ability to rank and set privacy for the photos, grouping of friends into circles and recommendation of friends.
• Designed an XML Schema for the Database and exported the data from Database in the XML format corresponding to the XML Schema designed.
• Integrated the XML data from three other groups to a common mediated Schema and imported those data to database.
Penn Search - DHT-Based Peer-to-Peer Search Engine (C++) Spring 2012
• Implemented Link-State and Distance-Vector routing protocols based on the NS3 network simulator.
• Built a Chord overlay network in Network Simulator 3 and added DHT-based keyword search capability.
• Implemented I3 Application layer Multicast, used Bloom filters to improve Bandwidth efficiency.
Sentiment Analysis of Amazon Reviews (Matlab) Fall 2011
• Developed a system for predicting the star rating of a review given the review text and other review properties using Machine Learning concepts.
Automatic Classification of News Articles and Summarization of Related Articles (Python) Fall 2011
• Developed a system to classify the News Articles based on the role of verbs in the articles using and automatically summarized all the related articles into a single Article using Computational Linguistics Concepts (Machine Learning).
Human computer interface (LabView) Spring 2010
• Interfacing eye ball movements or any other objects like pen with the cursor using Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Techniques.
PennA-Z Website (ASP.Net and SQL) Spring 2011
• Scrapped various links to departments at the University of Pennsylvania in a HTML page and populated the Database.
• Developed a search engine that searches the links for various departments.
Web and Java based Projects (Java, Swings, ASP.Net, SQL, JavaScript, Ajax) Fall 2010 and Spring 2011
• ‘Friends Browser’ – a Facebook Web Application which fetches the friend’s information of the user and displays it, ‘Even or Odd game’ - a gambling game implemented using web service, ‘Monte Carlo Simulation’, ‘TurnRed game’. ‘Amtrak Reservation Inquiry’ Application a Mobile Application that utilizes Wireless Networking, ‘Wireless Message Service’ – a Mobile Application that is used to send text and multimedia messages using underlying wireless network. ‘Balanced Ternary Calculator’, ‘Frogger Game’, and ‘Text Wrapper’.
LEADERSHIP
• Secretary of ECE Association, Coimbatore, India during 2009-2010. Organized a national level technical symposium named DIGITALK’09. Assigned teams for various events managed funds and supervised the proper functioning of the entire event.