Harith

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Url: http://web.iiit.ac.in/~harith
E-mail: harith [AT] research [DOT] iiit [.] ac [.] in
Contact No: +91 9866 14 55 39

Career objective
My objective is to make significant contribution in any suitable field by creatively applying my knowledge in autonomous agents and distributed simulations.

Education

• MS by Research (CSE), IIIT-Hyderabad, 2009 (expected)
• B.Tech(CSE), IIIT Hyderabad, 2008; 6.89
• Class 12, Gowtham Junior College, Vijayawada (BIE, 2004) , 94.0 %

MS Thesis

• Description: RoboCup Rescue is a disaster simulation platform which helps in designing planning and management strategies during natural calamities. The participants (Agent teams) are required to rescue civilians and extinguish fires during simulated earthquakes and fire accidents. This is a competition and the teams are ranked based on their performance. The score formula currently used considers very few parameters and does not render a true picture of what happens durign the simulation. This inadequacy is the motivation to design a strong evaluation scheme to rigorously test the participating agent teams.
• Contribution: Designed and implemented a new evaluation scheme for RoboCup Rescue Agent Simulation Competition 2009, Graz, Austria. The Score Vector, as the name suggests, is a vector of parameters.The dimensions of the 'vector' are the important factors that influence the game. These parameters monitor the game and provide analysis of the game at a microscopic level.Hence, it poses a multi-parameter optimization challenge and many other multi-agent challenges to the participants. It also possible to design new scenarios to aptly challenge the agent teams.

Major Publications

"Retrospective Analysis of RoboCup Rescue Agent Teams", Harith Siddhartha, Rahul Sarika and Kamalakar Karlapalem. In the proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS) – 2009.

"Database Driven RoboCup Rescue Simulation Server", Rahul Sarika, Harith Siddhartha, and Kamalakar Karlapalem. In the proceedings of Robocup Symposium, Suzhou, China – 2008

Academic Achievements

• Secured All India 2nd Rank in All India Engineering Entrance Examination, B.Arch 2004.
• Runner up in Robocup Rescue Simulation Infrastructure competition, Suzhou, China in 2008.
• Recipient of Pratibha Award of Academic Excellence given by Government of Andhra Pradesh, India in 2004.
• Secured state 523rd rank (among 109,223 candidates) in EAMCET 2004.

Technical Skills

• Internet Technologies Used  : - HTML, CGI, PHP, CSS, Javascript, AJAX.
• Programming Languages Used  : - C, C++, Java, C#.
• Scripting Languages used : - Bash Shell, Python, Ruby.
• OS platforms Used  : - GNU/Linux, Windows.

Detailed Resume is attached here