PINAK PUJARI

Address: 2 West University Parkway, Apt. 403, Baltimore, MD-21218.

Email: pinak (at) cs.jhu.edu

Website: http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~pinak 

Phone(cell): (508)-847-5011

EDUCATION
  JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, Baltimore, USA    (Dec. 2006)
  Masters of Science in Engineering, Computer Science    [GPA: 3.46]
  Master's Project: "Learning 3D Context from a Single Image"

  JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY, Hyderabad, India    (May 2005)
  Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science & Engineering    [First Class Distinction]
  Bachelor's Project: "Design of Privacy-Preserving Data Warehouse"

COURSE INTERESTS: Computer Vision, Computer Integrated Surgery, Artificial Intelligence, Language Processors, Declarative Methods, Computer Graphics, Operations Research, Distributed Systems

TECHNICAL SKILLS: C/C++, JAVA, MATLAB, PL/SQL, Prolog, Lisp, Unix Shell Programming, VB, VC++, 8085/86 Assembly, XML, HTML, Crystal Enterprise XI.
(Platforms: Linux, Solaris, Windows 9x/XP)

EXPERIENCE
  Teaching Assistant, Foundations of Computer Integrated Surgery    (Jul.`06 - Aug.`06)
  Dept. of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University
  - Guided and tutored 21 students through the course and evaluated tests and assignments

  Database Programmer, Dept. of Student Affairs, Bloomberg School of Public Health    (Sept.`05 - Sept.`06)
  - Designed reports using Crystal Enterprise XI to fulfill data requests for business needs
  - Developed stored procedures in TSQL, analyzed existing scripts and remodeled them for scalability

  Course Assistant, Java Programming, Dept. of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University    (Sept.`05 - Dec.`05)
  - Guided 93 students through the course work and evaluated tests and programming assignments

  Summer Intern, Project: Communicating with Web Services using a SOAP Client    (Apr.`03 - Jun.`03)
  Sierra Atlantic Software Services Limited, Hyderabad, India
  - Designed and developed a SOAP Client using JAVA and XML to query Web Services over HTTP

PROJECTS
  "Cone Beam CT Images 3D Reconstruction for Small Animal Radiotherapy"    (May `06)
  - Designed a software collaboratively in a team of 3 for CT image correction and 3D volumetric reconstruction
  - Platform to test novel Image-Guided Radiotherapy techniques to characterize dose response for tumors

  "Reputation Systems: Incentives for Fair Trade in E-Commerce"    (Mar.`06)
  - Game theory based approach to provide incentives for honest play over the Internet

  "3D Reconstruction from Stereo Images"    (Dec.`05)
  - Designed and developed techniques to construct 3D Image data from Stereo Images

  "Design of Privacy-Preserving Data Warehouse"    (Apr.`05)
  - Developed a software system capable of disclosure-limited dissemination of confidential micro data
  - Protects privacy without restricting crucial information flow using K-Anonimization

RESEARCH PAPER: "DNA Sequence Alignment using AI techniques"
Awarded First Prize in Paper Presentation at:
  - `Convergence' (IEEE Students chapter National Level Technical Symposium), VNR VJIET, India    (Mar.`04)
  - `Titan' (National Level Technical Symposium), MGIT, Hyderabad, India    (Mar.`04)
  - `Headstart' (IEEE Students chapter National Level Technical Symposium), CBIT, Hyderabad, India    (Feb.`03)

AWARDS
  - `BEST PROJECT AWARD 2006' (Project: Small Animal Cone Beam CT Reconstruction)    (May `06)
  The NSF Engineering Research Center for Computer-Integrated Surgical Systems and Technology

  - First prize in Game Design Contest and Programming contest    (Jan.`04)
  `CIS-SOIREE-2004' (National Level Competition), RVR & JC College, AP, India