Prithvi Raj Venkat Raj Curriculum vitae ________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________* Education December 2012 A: 3.62 (4.

0 scale) o Thesis Topic: Palantir ~ CrowdSourced Newsiocation Usi ng Twitter o Adviser: Professor Abdelsalam Helal o Area of Study: Mobile computing and Social Networking Crescent Engineering College, Vandaloor, Chennai, India cember 2010 B.Engg., Computer Science and Engineering First Class o Project Topic: Reverse Image Search on iPhone o Adviser: Professor Angelina Gita De University of Florida, Gainesville, FL USA M.S., Computer Engineering GP

Professional Experience 2 ~ August 2012

LinkedIn, Mountain View, CA USA Software Developer Intern May 201

o Engineered new APIs to support sponsored job listings and updated customer facing webpages to make use of the new functionality Department of Education, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL USA iPad Software Developer for K-CRATI 11 ~ May 2012 o Adapting experiments designed to measure cognitive ski lls of kindergarten students Grooveshark, Gainesville, FL USA Software Development Intern - Data 1 ~ August 2011 o Analysed metrics to characterize Apache Hadoop jobs o Extended Sqoop mySql export functionality to include A pache Hive partitions Microsoft, Chennai, India Microsoft Student Partner June May 201 November 20

2008 ~ May 2010 o Primary liaison between Microsoft and Crescent College , Chennai o Administered MSDNAA and Live@Edu

Thesis Work

University of Florida, Gainesville, FL USA Palantir: CrowdSourced Newsiocation Using Twitter o Envisioned a system exploiting Twitter as a source & s

ink for breaking ne* *ws o Built a tag recommender, which suggests on avg. 2.5 us eful tags per Tweet. o Technology: Python, Amazon Mechanical Turk, Natural La nguage Tookit, Twitter API, Bing API, matplotlib, LATEX, BibTEX

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Project Work

University of Florida, Gainesville, FL USA Large Scale Data Analysis o SAMwise: Providing City Trotting Recommendations o Compared dioeerent topic modeling toolkits, feed

back mechanisms o Technology: Mallet NLP Framework, PHP, CSS, Goog le Maps API Mobile Networking o PRIDE: PRivacy preserving Intelligent riDEsharing o Analyzed wio traces, and computed route similari ty to ond signiocant fuel savings while providing k-Anonymity for use rs o Technology: Google Earth KML generation, MySQL, bash scripting, matplotlib Mobile Computing and Pervasive computing o DroiDrive: Saving fuel with Android and Facebook o Characterized driving style by evaluating sensor output, designed m metrics and incorporated game mechanics for moti vation o Technology: Android SDK, Facebook API, SMSLib, S ensorSimulator o Optimization of Atlas Sensor Platform o Reduced Energy consumption by ~20 percent o Implemented sensor reading caching, dynamic push -pull conversion, lazy sensor initialization o Used ontology to eliminate certain actuator move ment requests o Technology: KnopAEerosh, Atlas Reactive Engine Computer Networks o Implemented a command line peer to peer ole transfe r program based on the bit torrent protocol o Technology: Java Distributed Operating systems o Implemented applications that distribute computatio n to clients, CREW problem, Suzuki- Kasami broadcast algorithm using s ockets and multithreading o Technology: Java Crescent College, Vandaloor, Chennai India

Senior Project o Reverse Image Search on iPhone o Developed a geolocation aware image crawler and search engine o Collaboratively used users' skill to recommend s imilar results o Technology: Objective C, MySql, Java

Software Skills

Computer Programming: o C, C++, Java, Python Mobile and Social Platforms: o iPhone, Android, Amazon Mechanical Turk, Facebook API, Tw

itter API, Neo4j Version Control and Software Conoguration Management: o DVCS (Git), SVN and others