Objective

Seeking a challenging position in Software Design and Development utilizing my background in
Collaborative Virtual Reality  and Computer Graphics.

Summary
 

Over 2 years of Software development experience. Contributed in all phases of Software life cycle including analysis, design, coding, implementation and maintenance. Work experience in Virtual Reality, Computer Networks, Computer Graphics . Technical expertise includes Object Oriented design and development, UNIX(Process control, IPC, socket Programming, RPC), C/C++, Smalltalk, Visual C++, Motif, Performer, VRML and GUI development. Self motivated collaborative team player with ability to coordinate and communicate with others. Keen to learn and implement new methods and strategies. Interest in exploring new technologies leading to development of new products.

Education

        M.S., Computer Science,University Of Illinois at Chicago(GPA 4.7/5.0).

        B.S., Computer Science , Osmania University , Hyderabad , India(Aug 96).
 

Computer Skills
 

• Programming Languages      :  C/C++,Smalltalk,Pascal,ADA,Assembly,PROLOG, Java.
• GUI                                   :  X Windows Motif, Windows(95,NT);
• WWW Tools                      :  HTML,VRML. Perl and JAVA.
• Class Libraries                    :  IRIS Performer, OpenGL, Open Inventor, Standard  Template Library , Rogue Wave library, CAVE Programming library , Socket programming and RPC.
• Operating Systems               : UNIX, Windows(95,NT), Sun O.S , Solaris(2.5.1), IRIX 6.X. MSDOS, Mac OS, Netware, CMS .
• Network Protocols               :  IPX/SPX, TCP/IP, Appletalk, UUCP(Ethernet,Token Ring, FDDI, ATM).

Professional Experience

[Electronics Visualization Laboratory] May ?97 - Present

University of Illinois at Chicago

Research Assistant

• Worked on TeleImmersion and High performance computing
• Responsibilities include debugging and adding features to VRML 2.0 browser for the CAVE(Computer Automatic  Virtual Environment( Projection based VR System)) and the Immersadesk using IRIS Performer. Browser is displayed on three walls of the four wall CAVE. HTML files are shown using a web browser displayed on the fourth wall. The Browser acts as a helper application to a web browser for displaying VRML files.
• Developed an interface between CAVE Networking Library and CAVERN(Collaborative VR Library) to support TeleImmersion in VR environments.
• Worked on Star Tap Project for Internet 2 Demos.
• Collaborating with researchers at the National Center for Super Computing Applications.

System Administrator Jan?97 - July?97

[SCAILAB ( Student computer aided instructional Lab) ]

University of Illinois at Chicago

• Administered and maintained a 120 node Novell 4.1 LAN(PC and Macintosh)
• Setup and administered Unix Web Server running Solaris 2.5.1 on Sun Sparc Station
• Setup and administered Windows NT Server and Workstations.
• Troubleshooting both software and hardware problems on all platforms and operating systems.

Software Developer Jan?96 - Dec?96

[Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Regional Research Labs]

India

• Designed and developed an application for molecular modeling(visualization) of complex organic compounds in 3D on windows platform using Visual C++

Programmer Feb?95 - Nov?96

[Computer Corporation]

India

• Programming in C/C++, Visual C++, HTML on UNIX and Windows NT
• Job involved defining requirements, design, implementation and documentation of projects

Projects

Master's Project:
                                                Working on developing an interface library for the CAVE using CAVERN(Collaborative VR networking library). This interface would allow users to add support for "Avatars"(remote users collaborating in CAVE environment) in a VR environment.. It will be used to add TeleImmersive support for "Ear Demo" project. In this Project a physician will use the CAVE to visualize the details of a human ear. Several physicians could remotely connect to this VR environment and visualize the ear, give suggestions and deliberate on the appropriate treatment in real time. This project is being implemented in C++, OpenGL, using CAVE and CAVERN networking libraries
 

• Predictive Tracking in the CAVE: Using Artificial Intelligence "machine learning" algorithm the movements of a "Wand(3D Pointer)" in the CAVE are predicted.
• CAVE Library: Presently working on developing a pthreaded version of the CAVE VR library.
• TeleImmersion support for VRML Browser: Added support for TeleImmersion to VRML browser for the CAVE. Remote users could connect to VRML world running in the CAVE. Used C++, IRIS Performer.
• Molecular Modeling Worked on developing a molecular modeling software for Windows . This Software allows visualization of complex organic molecules. It also allows engineers to study the behavior of new designed molecules.
• Object Oriented Ray tracing in C++ : Working on developing a Ray tracing engine withsupport for transparencies, shadows, reflection and texture mapping.
• VRML Web Site: Worked on developing a VRML web site for ThinkQuest 97 event.
• Immersagrams Project: This project is being done in collaboration with Art(n). In this project I am developing a software which would allow users to develop a 3D hard copy of their work in the CAVE.
• Star Tap Under this Project I worked on developing a walkthrough apartment model in VRML . Remote users could join in and share views about the apartment model. This Projectwas in joint Collaboration with Singapore University EVL and Ameritech.
• Schedule Organizer Developed a Schedule organizer GUI program in Visual works (Smalltalk) which would maintain a calendar of all the events for a group of people and schedule meetings.
• Reliable Protocol Using UDP sockets, implemented a reliable transaction peer-to-peer protocol.

Papers

• Presented paper on "Object Oriented Petrinets", the modeling power of OOPN?s for design of Distributed systems.
• Presented paper on "Visibility Culling" and "Polygonal Simplification" of arbitrary polygonal environments.

Activities

• Participated in the demo for NICE(Narrative Immersive Collaborative Environment) project at SuperComputing ?97 event.
• Developed VRML demos for ThinkQuest?97 and several other events at EVL.

Relevant Coursework

Object Oriented Programming Artificial Intelligence I Computer Graphics I

Distributed Software Engineering Artificial Intelligence II Computer Graphics II

UNIX network Programming.
 
 
 
 
 
 

References

Available upon request