Omkar M Parkhi
From Msplacements
E-mail: omkar.parkhi@research.iiit.ac.in, omkar@parkhi.in
Contact No: +91 9177215530
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Career Objective
To achieve a path where there is learning, challenges and fun while utilizing
best of my abilities.
Education
- MS by Research (CSE), IIIT-Hyderabad, (expected December, 2010) CGPA 8/10;
- Bachelor of Engineering,(Instrumentation and Control), University of Pune.
Work Experience
3 years of Industry Experience with additional 1 year of experience as Graduate Research Assistant.
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Summer Intern Student,
Visual Geometry Group, Robotics Research Group, Oxford University
(June 2010- July 2010).
Worked under supervision of Prof. Andrew Zisserman, worked on the Masters thesis work listed below. Also looked at the annotation of large scale data for Oxford-IIIT team's participation in TRECVID-2010.
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Summer Intern Student,
Visual Geometry Group, Robotics Research Group, Oxford University
(June 2009- July 2009).
Worked under supervision of Prof. Andrew Zisserman, participated in
Trec Video Retrieval Challenge (TRECVID 2009). Worked on identifying from collection of TV recordings, finding only the shots having closeup of female faces in them. -
Graduate Research Assistant,
Center For Visual Information Technology
IIIT, Hyderabad
(August,08 - till date).
Working on Object Classification using Large Scale Learning. -
Member of Technical Staff, Techzemplary Solutions
Pune, India (April,08 - June,08)
Worked on Java, J2ME ,PHP, MySql based projects in a typical startup company enviroment.
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Software Developement Engineer, Patni Computer Systems Ltd (NYSE:PTI)
(August,05 - March,08)
Work Locations:- Patni Computer Systems Ltd, Pune,India
- Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation, Nishinasuno, Japan
Worked as Developer, Module Coordinator and On- Site Coordinator and Member of Technical Architect's Team in different phases of the employment.
Masters Thesis
Learning for Large Scale Annotated Data
(Advisors: Dr. C.V.Jawahar IIIT,Hyderabad and Dr. Andrew Zisserman, University of Oxford, UK)
Broad Objective :
The broad objective of this work is to work on image analysis using large quantity of reliably annotated data.
In this work we try and solve problems of computer vision domain such as
Image analysis, Segmentation, Classification, Object Detection and Recognition
with the help of high number of manually annotated images. We trying to solve this problem by working on several feature descriptors and working with learning algorithms to suit large scale data.
Professional Achievements
- Was awarded Valuable Contribution Award for work in Patient Scheduler Module in a Team of 40 Developers and 20 Testers while working in Patni, Pune
- Was awarded Letter of Appreciation for Developing Customizable MFC based Windows Controls having features exactly similar to those of Unix X Windows System while working in Patni, Pune
Skillset
- Programming Languages & Tools : - C, C++, Java, J2ME, Visual C++ MFC , Matlab.
- Operating Systems : - GNU/Linux, Windows 95/98/2000/XP.
- Scripting Languages : - Python, Shell.
- Web Technologies : - HTML, XML, CGI, PHP, Javascript, Ajax , Apache HTTP server, Apache Tomcat.
- Libraries : - OpenCV
- Databases : - MySQL
- Publishing : - TeX
Academic Interests
Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition, Computer Vision,Digital Image Processing
Extra Curriculur Achievements
- Have done YES+! course by Art of living foundation
- Was member of team which won 3rd prize at 5th International Convention for Students Quality Control Circles (ICSQCC) 2002, held at Georgetown, Kentucky, USA. The work involved proposing and successfully implementing a solution for a problem of “Lack of help to Financially Weak Students”.
- Worked Member of Lights Committee responsible for providing electricity support during Annual Social Gathering of my Undergraduate College. Worked as a Secretary of the committee during the final year of by B.E.
Other Interests
Photography,Swimming, Reading Books.
