Ajit Datar

                        1235 Wildwood Ave, Apt #1
                           Sunnyvale, CA 94089
                                   USA

                       Email: ajitdatar@gmail.com
                       URL: http://ajitomatix.com


Professional Objective:

    To work in a research and/or development position in the Computer
    Science Field.
    

Employment History:

    Summer internship at Microsoft IDC [ June 2004-August 2004
     ] 
    
    * *RRAS UI changes for Win 2003 Server* - Updated Routing and Remote
      Access Service UI on Windows 2003 server according to the changes
      required for the next maintenance release of the OS. Modifications
      were made to the RRAS snap-in, property sheets and the API. Used
      C++ and Win 32 API.
    
    
    MTS (Software) at Persistent Systems Pvt Ltd, India [ March 2003-August 2003
     ] 
    
    * *3-D terrain rendering using quadtrees* - Developed a cross
      platform OpenGL based 3D terrain rendering engine which used
      quadtrees for processing the terrain data. It was developed for
      Navionics. Developed the proof of concept, rendering engine and
      the viewer frontend. Achieved good data compression and realtime
      rendering of terrain. Project was mainly developed on linux and
      windows.
    
    
    Software Developer at Zensar Technologies, India [ October 2002-March 2003
     ] 
    
    * *Content Management System based on .Net* - Worked on testing and
      screen development on Aqueduct Content Management System. Worked
      with ASP.Net and VB.Net and MSSQL server.
    

Education:

    MS (Master of Science) in Computer Science at University of
    Minnesota, Duluth [ August 2003-July 2005 ]
    
      Overall GPA: 3.8 out of 4.0
    
      Subjects: Advanced Machine Learning, Advanced Computational
      Logic, Digital Signal Processing, VLSI, Digital Image
      Processing, Natural Language Processing, Advanced Computer
      Architecture.
    
    
    * *Thesis - Generating hyperbolic patterns for regular and
      non-regular p-gons* - Improved and implemented algorithms to
      generate hyperbolic designs based on the work of Dr. Douglas
      Dunham. Developed HyperArt -- a C++/Qt based cross-platform
      programming framework and application to experiment with repeating
      hyperbolic tessellations. See
      http://ajitomatix.com/Projects/HyperArt and
      http://hyperart.sourceforge.net for details.
    * *Essay grading and Analysis Logic* - Designed, developed and
      deployed EGAL -- a system to grade essays based on four criteria -
      Gibberish Detection, Relevance assessment, Factual statement
      identification and Factual accuracy. Provides a CGI/Perl web
      interface and Perl modules for the four criteria and an installer.
      Implemented the factual accuracy module. Responsible for overall
      design, coordination and deployment. The implementation details
      and sourcecode is available at
      http://sourceforge.net/projects/egal.
    * *Fast Multiresolution Image Querying* - FMIQ is an implementation
      of a paper of the same title. Developed in python, it is a search
      technique which uses Haar wavelet transform to compute signatures
      of the images in its database. These are then used to do a image
      query by example or by a rough sketch. Complete source code is
      available at http://ajitomatix.com/Projects/FMIQ
    
    BE (Bachelor of Engineering) in Computer Science at Pune
    University/BVCOE [ 1999-2002 ]
    
      Subjects: Data Structures and Algorithms, Computer Graphics,
      Databases, Operating systems, Computer Networks, Compilers,
      Object Oriented Design, Software Engineering.
    
    
    * *OMR and Devanagari OCR* - Designed and implemented an *Optical
      Mark Recognition* system to grade multiple-choice style questions.
      The system placed minimum restrictions on the scanned document.
      Experimented with *Devanagari Optical Charater Recognition* system
      using a 3-layer, fully connected backpropagation neural network.
      Successfully converted scanned Devnagari text to electronic format
      with an accuracy as high as 90%. Both the projects used C++. MFC
      was used for the GUI.
    

Software Development Skills:

    Computer Languages: C, C++, Python, Perl, XML, HTML.
  
    Compilers/Frameworks/Tools: Qt, MFC/Win 32, GNU Dev tools, cvs.
  
    Platforms: Windows 98, Windows XP, Windows 2003 Server, Linux,
    Solaris.
  
    Graphics Programming: OpenGL.
  

Hobbies:

    * Acoustic Guitar
    * Linux
    * Hiking
    

Miscellany:

    Latest version of this document can be obtained from
    http://ajitomatix.com/Resume.
    
    References available upon request.
    

Last modified Nov 2005.