Pavan Kumar Dasari

From Msplacements

E-mail: d_pavan@research.iiit.ac.in, dasaripavan@gmail.com
Contact No: +91 9849293875

Career Objective:

I am driven by an urge to take up challenges and lead from the front with responsibility. Self motivation, positive attitude towards life and team work has helped me to face various challenges in my life. My objective is to utilize my strengths and give my best in what ever I do.

Education

   * Secondary, Viswasanthi Ed. Int., Vuyyuru, Andhra Pradesh, 2002, 91.8%
   * Senior Secondary, Vikas Junior college, Vishakapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, 2004, 95.1%
   * B. Tech. (CSE), IIIT- Hyderabad, June 2008, CGPA 8.42
   * MS by Research (CSE), IIIT-Hyderabad, (expected December, 2009)

Scholastic Achievements

• AIR rank 3451 in IIT-JEE mains 2004, AIR rank 1260 in AIEEE 2004, State rank 645 in EAMCET 2004.
• Recipient of Pratibha Award from government of Andhra Pradesh.
• Recipient of Dean's merit list award for academic excellence, 2004, 2005.

Work Experience

• Internship at Sarnoff Innovative Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Bangalore, May-June 07'.

• Student Intern, CVIT, May - Jul 2006.

• Teaching Assistant, Spring 2006 and Spring 2007, "Computer graphics".

• Co-Instructor for 'Computing Tools', Spring 2007.

• Research Assistant, CVIT, May 2008 - till date.

• Teaching Assistant, Monsoon 2009, "Spatial Informatics".

Research Contributions

Prakhar Jain, Ejaz Ahmed and Pavan Kumar "Tracking for entertainment and interaction", ACM SIGGRAPH symposium on interactive 3D graphics and games, Boston, USA, Feb 2009. (poster)

Conferences and Workshops

• Attended and Presented our work in ACM I3D '09, Boston, USA (Feb. 2009).

• Attended Indian Conference on Vision Graphics and Image Processing (ICVGIP 2008), held in Bhubaneshwar, India (Dec. 2008).

• Attended TechVista, Microsoft Research India's annual research symposium, held in Chennai, India (Oct. 2008).

• Attended and participated in R&D showcase (2006, 2007), ExoR (2007, 2008) held annually at IIIT-H.

Research Projects

   * Large scale mdmv visualizations (Advisor: Prof. P.J.Narayanan)
        Data sets pertaining to domains like weather, stock markets, gene expression, video analysis are very huge, both in 
terms of number of records and dimensionality. We look at ways of visualizing such data for better analysis and understanding.

   * Multiple object tracking for HCI 
        This work aims at tracking multiple objects in high resolution videos in real-time. To enable this, we apply relatively 
parallel tracking algorithms on a CUDA enabled graphics card. Various HCI application domains are explored.

   * Rendering data intensive models (Advisor: Prof. P.J.Narayanan)
        One of the primary aims is to manage the data-intensive models and render them efficiently for real time usages. 
 At present, a huge area of terrain is rendered in real-time to visualize the information.

Major Projects

• Question Answering System
• Video Google for News
• Image morphing
• Intranet search engine
• Paint++
• Library Resource Management
• Middleware app. for HR management
• Local IMDB

Other Projects

• Shell: Top command, shell like bash, simple chat (as part of OS course)
• Games: Developed games like Tetris, DxBall, Pacman, Snake
• Parsers: Parsing schedules for various Television channels like star, zee, AXN and notify user via e-mail with particular program
• Libraries: IGL implements several OpenGL functions, iTransfer implements standard TCP/IP and UDP protocols for file transfer.

Skill Set

Operating Systems	Linux, Windows 2000/XP/Vista
Programming Languages	C/C++, Java
Web Technologies	PHP, CGI, JSP, HTML, CSS, XML
Scripting Languages	Python, Matlab, Shell
Libraries	QT, openGL, OpenSceneGraph, OpenCV, ffmpeg
Tools	Visual Studio 2005, Maya, NetBeans, QtDesigner, Gimp, MS office, Adobe Photoshop
Databases	MySQL
Miscellaneous	CUDA, Lex & Yacc, Nutch, Lucene

Course Work

Computer graphics, Digital image processing, Pattern recognition, Computer Vision, Information extraction and retrieval, Software Engineering, Computer networks, Database management systems, Artificial Intelligence, Algorithms, Compilers, Principles of Programming Languages, Theory of Computation, C Programming , Data Structures, Computer Organization, Operating Systems, Math-I,II, Discrete Mathematics, Signals and systems, Spatial Informatics, Introduction to middleware technologies, linear programming, Internals of application servers, Environmental planning and policy.

Extra Curricular

• Team member for inter-batch, inter-house basketball competitions.
• Semi-finalist (doubles), quarter-finalist (singles) in intra college Table Tennis competitions.
• Organizer of 'Sculpt', an online game designing contest held as part of IIIT-H's annual fest, Felicity.
• Participated and won several prizes in elocution, essay writing and other fine art/ athletic competitions.

Other Activities/ Interests

Philately, reading books related to Indian and world history, browsing random topics, movies, video games.