Karthik Narayan
265, 7th Street, Apt 1, Hoboken, NJ 07030
Phone: 551-358-9997
Email: karthik.narayan1@gmail.com

EDUCATION:

Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey.				
Master of Engineering in Computer Engineering, GPA 3.9	  May 2005
       
Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU), Belgaum, India.			                              
Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science and Engineering, GPA 4.0 May 2003
			
GRE Score 1510/1600 Verbal Reasoning 720 Quantitative Reasoning 790


SKILLS:
Languages:      C, C++, Java, Perl, SQL, Assembly programming, VB, VC++ 
Software:       MATLAB, MP Lab, Dreamweaver, Ns-2, IT++, Crypto++, MS Visual Studio
Data Base:      Oracle, MS Access, Sybase
Environments:  	Windows 98/2000/NT/XP, MS DOS, UNIX, Linux
Key Courses:    Axiomatic Linear Algebra, Cryptography and Applications, Cryptographic 
                Protocols, Multimedia Compression, Error Control Coding, Applied Algorithms

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Merrill Lynch, Senior Specialist, New York						05/06 to present
* Develop structuring tool for colletralized mortgages based on automobile loans using c++ and C#
* Aid traders in structuring and analysing the risk for several CMO's traded by Merrill
	

Citigroup Inc, IT Analyst, Warren, New Jersey                                           06/05 to 05/06
* Develop asynchronous java email and paging systems to monitor status of critical systems
* Part of team developing next generation order execution and crossing engine 
  using Java and tools such as Wily Interscope for performance analysis   
* Implement new security rules on institutional trading accounts using Sql and Perl scripts
* Create and alter Sql stored procedures for the Sales/Accounts Sybase database 
                                           
Stevens Institute of Technology, Research Assistant, Hoboken, New Jersey 
Lightweight error resilient cryptographic systems:				         2/04 to 6/05
* Implemented visual cryptographic schemes for secret sharing 
* Designed novel encryption systems that provide error resilience along with security.  
* Developed a new key distribution algorithms for group-oriented communication 

Larsen & Tubro Ltd, Project Intern, Mysore, India
Design and Implementation of 4-stage power factor controller:			         3/03 to 6/03
* Designed the algorithm for calculating the power factor of input electricity
* Designed, Coded and tested the software and hardware for the device using MP Lab
* The results obtained form this project were used to develop a commercial device by L&T 

Indian Institute of Science, Project Intern, Bangalore, India
Comparative Study of Edge Detectors and Their Implementation:	  	                11/02 to 6/03
* Implemented and compared the performance of several different edge detectors 
* Adapted edge-detectors to be used in motion detection and estimation in video coding     

PROJECT                        
EXPERIENCE:                  

PES College of Engineering, Mandya, India (affiliated to VTU) 
Ping and Traceroute: C++, Socket Programming,					       7/02 to 02/03	
	* Implemented these ubiquitous commands in a robust, error resilient fashion 
Unified Modeling Language Editor: Visual Basic, C++				        3/02 to 6/02
	* Developed a tool to generate UML Case diagrams and the respective C++ skeleton code
Customizable Employee DataBase:  Visual Basic, Oracle 8i			        3/02 to 6/02
	* Designed a database that could be modified to meet the requirements of a generic company

PUBLICATIONS:

On the Design of Secure Error Resilient Diffusion Layers for Block Ciphers 
Masters Thesis

High Diffusion Codes: A Class of Maximum Distance Separable Codes for Error 
Resilient Block Ciphers IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, GLOBECOM 2005