PRADHEEP K E

S/o K. Elango

19/2, 2nd Cross

Marappa Garden, Benson Town

Bangalore - 560046

Karnataka State

India

Phone: 91-80-3335836

Email: kepradheep@yahoo.com

 

Academic Details

• B.E. (Honors) Computer Science (August 2000 – Present)

CGPA   9.90 / 10.00

 

• Indian School Certificate (March 2000)

Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations, New Delhi

Aggregate Score 96.75%

 

• Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (March 1998)

Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations, New Delhi

Aggregate Score 91.4%

 

Awards/Honors

• Merit Scholarship for the first semester, 2000-2001, from BITS, Pilani
• Merit Scholarship for the second semester, 2000-2001, from BITS, Pilani
• First Prize in Code Rash, APOGEE 2003 – a team event where programming speed was important.

(APOGEE is an annual all-India inter-university academic festival conducted by BITS, Pilani.)

• First Prize in Flexible Software Contest, APOGEE 2003.
• Second Prize in Novell C Programming Contest, APOGEE 2003.
• Part of 2nd best project team (JListen) among sixteen teams who did the course "Software Engineering" under Dr Aditya P Mathur, Purdue University (Visiting Faculty) during the first semester, 2003-04.
• Part of Best First Year team in Novell C programming contest during Apogee 2001.
• Part of the BITS Chess Team that won the silver medal in BOSM 2003.

(BOSM is an annual all-India inter-university sports festival conducted by BITS, Pilani.)

• Won the Principal’s Trophy of Excellence at Clarence High School, 2000.
• Secured the 21^st rank in the 2^nd National Science Olympiad, 2000, conducted by Science Olympiad Foundation, New Delhi.
• Ranked in the top 1.7% of the 100,000 examinees who took IIT-JEE 2000, conducted jointly by the Indian Institutes of Technology.

 

Skill Sets                             

Programming Languages / Packages

C, C++, Java, VC++/MFC, OpenGL, Perl, Visual Basic, Lisp, Assembly languages (8085, 80x86, 8051, MIPS), Verilog HDL, AutoCAD, Matlab, CLIPS, Rational Rose

Database Systems

Oracle 9i, PL/SQL, Microsoft Access

Operating Systems

Windows, Linux, UNIX, MS - DOS

 

Areas of Interest    

• Operating Systems
• Distributed Operating Systems
• Programming Languages and Compilers
• Computer Graphics
• Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing

 

Relevant Projects Undertaken

• Design and Implementation of a distributed Linux-based kernel

• Design and Implementation of an Operating System (emulating MS DOS)
• Design and Implementation of a Compiler for a Procedural language (Cradle)
• Design and Implementation of a Paint Program (emulating MS-Paint) in Assembly Language

• Development of I²C Communication for an Alarm Annunciation System

• Design and Simulation of a processor with superpipelined architecture

• Application of Natural Language Processing To Information Retrieval
• Domain-specific document clustering using Natural language processing
• Design and Implementation of a Java Program Auralizer (JListen)
• Development of SIMCAD – Software for Conversion of Isometric Views of a given 3D Object to Its Orthogonal Projections

• Development of a Web Crawler in Perl
• Development of a HTTP Server in C

 

Related Courses

•  Computer Programming I (A, Course Topper)
•  Computer Programming II (A)
•  Discrete Structures in Computer Science (A)
•  Data Structures and Algorithms (A)
•  Computers and Programming (A)
•  Programming Languages and Compiler Construction (A, Course Topper)
•  Advanced Computer Organization (A)
•  Database Systems (A)
•  Operating Systems (A)
•  Artificial Intelligence (A)
•  Machine Learning (Currently registered)
•  Software Engineering (Currently registered)
•  Network Programming (Currently registered)

 

Professional Experience

• Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Mumbai: As a part of the Practice School – I programme conducted by BITS, Pilani, I worked at BARC, Mumbai from May to July 2002. Under the guidance of Mr. Vikas Chauhan, we designed and implemented the I²C communication for an alarm annunciation system.
• As a Professional Assistant for the Course “Theory of Computation” in the current semester (first semester of the academic year 2003-2004), my duties include conducting tutorial sessions and preparation of assignments.
• As a part of the Practice School - II programme conducted by BITS, Pilani, I am currently working at Yahoo! Software Development India Pvt. Ltd, Bangalore. I will be working as a six-month intern. I am working on a Matching Engine project, that involves application of Parsers, Expert Systems and Natural Language Processing.
• I am also currently working at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore, with Dr A G Ramakrishnan (Dept. of EE, IISc). I am doing a project on developing a Predictive Texting System for the Tamil language. The project involves Natural Language Processing, and could involve Syntactic and Semantic analysis at a later stage. We have also submitted a paper to SIMPLE '04, a National level Conference on Natural Language Processing for Indian Languages, and look forward to its acceptance.

 

Hobbies and Extra-curricular activities

• I play Chess, Tennis, Badminton and Cricket
• I have participated and have won programming competitions at the inter-school and inter-university levels.
• I have participated and have won inter-school quiz contests during standards X, XI and XII