Assistant Software

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July 31, 2012

Varsha Ramakrishnan

Email: ******.************@*****.***

EXPERIENCE: BMU Detector Expert, Fermi National Laboratory 02/'06-05/'12

Responsible for regular hardware maintenance of detector components,

tasked with being the pager carrier for BMU detector to attend to data

quality problems from control room.

Wrote C++ code for analyzing the data taken from the detector

Led the periodic upgrade to the software to assimilate hardware detector changes.

Research Assistant, Fermi National Laboratory 02/'06-05/'12

Studied the probabilistic nature of two proton-proton simultaneous collisions

Coordinated with collaborators on certain analysis modules

Wrote the algorithms that automated individual probabilistic modules to understand the two proton-proton simultaneous collisions

Interpreted the results using statistical and data analysis tools

Supervised undergrads on their summer projects .

EDUCATION: University of Wisconsin -Madison,Madison,WI

Master of Science - Physics 06/'12

PhD Candidate (Status -All But Dissertation)

Indian Institute of Madras (IIT-Madras),Chennai,India

Master of Physics 05/'02

University Of Madras,Chennai,India

Bachelor of Science - Physics 04/'00

AWARDS:

Fellowship in the form of cash endowment of $1500 06/'03

awarded to the top 10% of international students admitted to

the graduate program in physics,UW-Madison

Joseph O. Hirschfelder Award given to one 12/'09

graduate student annually for outstanding achievement

in their field of research by the department of physics

SOFTWARE:

Programming: C++,Java, Visual Basics, SQL

Databases: MS Access,Excel,PowerPoint

Computing Platforms: Unix, Linux

STATISTICS: Regression analysis, Artificial Neural Net, Statistical analysis