Abhishek Sainani

From Msplacements

E-mail: sainani@research.iiit.ac.in
Contact No: +91 9985074128

Education

• MS by Research (CSE), IIIT-Hyderabad, September, 2010 (expected)
• B-Tech, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad CGPA – 8.06
• Senior Secondary, Army Public School, Jalandhar (CBSE), 2005, 90.6%
• Secondary, Army Public School, Jalandhar (CBSE), 2003, 90.6%

Academic & Work Experience

• Research Assistant and Developer for eSagu: An IT Based Personalized Agro-Advisory System, Agriculture and Rural Development lab (ARD), IIIT Hyderabad, India (May 2008 - Present)
• Teaching Assistant for Data Mining and Data Warehousing (DWDM) course (Monsoon '08)
• Teaching Assistant for Computer Systems course (Monsoon '09)

Academic Achievements

• Dean’s award for academic excellence (for semester VI).

Course work

Data Warehousing and Data Mining, Web Data and Knowledge Management, Information Retrieval and Extraction, Distributed Database Management Systems (DDBMS), Foundations of Ontological Engineering, Pattern Recognition, Cognitive Science, Usability Engineering, Game Theory, Medical Informatics.

Areas of Interest

Text Labeling, Text Analysis, Ontology, Game Theory.

Computer Skills

• Internet Technologies: HTML, JavaScript, PHP, CSS, AJAX
• Database Technologies: MySQL
• Programming Languages: C/C++, Python, Java Swing.
• Operating Systems: Fedora, Windows XP, 7.
• Programming Platforms: Vim, Netbeans

Projects

• IIIT-Hyderabad Seminar Portal
  Advisor: Dr. Madhu Mutyam
  To design a seminar web portal for keeping the relevant details and the related video/audio files. Upcoming seminars were automatically notified by e-mails.




• Data Visualization of ODI Cricket Match
  Advisor: Prof. Kamal Karlapalem
  To display the data of an ODI Cricket Match using colours and a hierarchical model.




• Mining E-Sagu Dataset
  Advisor: Prof. Kamal Karlapalem
  To mine knowledge from e-sagu dataset concerning data about crops like their growth condition and the advice that should be followed to improve crop production. Data mining algorithms were applied and the interesting results were displayed using Weka toolkit.




• First Story Detection
  Advisor: Prof. P. Krishna Reddy
  To understand the notion of Novelty Detection in the context of First Story Detection and enhance the novelty detection mechanism.




• Distributed DataBase Management System
  Advisor: Mr. Satyanarayana Valluri
  The task was to implement a DDBMS with limited functionality which would support Read Only and Update Queries excluding the complexities of group by, order by etc. and work at level of fragmentation transparency.




• Constitution as an Ontological Environment
  Advisor: Prof. Navjyoti Singh
  The task was to show the ontological environment that the constitution of India brings into force. The details of the ontological structure is identified and converted in a form that can be computed or understood and processed by a machine.




• Visual response of Human Cognition towards Animation
  Advisor: Prof. Bipin Indurkhya
  To study the response of students towards three snippets of different animation movies: Cars, Spirited Away and Who framed Roger Rabbit. The eye-movements of the subjects were noted using a device called eye-tracker. Few follow up questions were asked to the subjects to support our results. Few significant patterns were observed in the eye-movements of all the subjects.




• Other Projects
  • Nested Loop Join Algorithm (DBMS course project).
  • Expert Enterprise Search (Information Retrieval and Extraction Project).
  • Non Metric Biometric Clustering (Pattern Recognition course project).
  • Survey on Avian Flu and building a website for increasing awareness (Medical Informatics course project).
  • Extracting Patterns and Relations from World Wide Web (Web Data and Knowledge Management course project).

Extra Curricular

• Blogging
• Writing stories and poems/songs
• Watching Sitcoms