LAVANYA SITA TEKUMALLA

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EDUCATION  
Current Master of Science, Computer Science (Expected Graduation Date: Dec 2004) School of Computing , University of Utah , Salt Lake City, Utah. (GPA: 3.924 /4)
     
  Undergraduate

Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering (August 2002) Osmania University College of Engineering (Autonomous), Hyderabad, INDIA. Aggregate: 90% in CS and Math courses.   89% aggregate overall. (Equivalent to GPA 3.9 / 4)

 

WORK EXPERIENCE  
  Research Assistant Surface reconstruction from Point Clouds , Summer 2003 - Spring 2004 Prof. Elaine Cohen, Research Group: GDC (Geometric Design and Computation)
 

Worked in the Alpha 1 Development Team: Alpha_1 is a software base for geometric modelling.

   
  Teaching Assistant CS5020/CS3510 "Advanced Algorithms and Data Structures", Spring 2003
  Teaching Assistant CS2020 "Introduction to Computer Science", Fall 2002
   
  Summer Intern NRSA (National Remote Sensing Agency), India, S ummer 2001 Dealt with efficient data processing in Real Time Environments,
  Student Project Worked in a team that made GREVISION, a software for preparing for GRE Summer 2001



PROJECTS  
From Point Clouds to Trimmed NURBS: I'm currently working with Prof. Elaine Cohen on surface reconstruction from point clouds to construct CAD models. (Obtaining a tensor product Bspline surface from scattered data). The issues involved include, preserving detail in the input, tackling noise (with some kind of smoothing), dealing with incomplete data and data with holes, finding a suitable parameterization and finally devising a suitable method to fit surfaces.
The work so far has been presented in a talk at the conference "Mathematical Methods for Curves and Surfaces", July 2004.
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  TheAlpha_1 Project, GDC group, School of Computing, University of Utah. Adding Bspline data fitting code to the Alpha_1 repository. The Alpha_1 system is an advanced research software base, supporting use and research in geometric modelling, high-quality graphics, curve and surface representations and algorithms, engineering design, analysis, visualization, process planning, and computer-integrated manufacturing.  

  A Mobile Commit Protocol Based on Timeouts Devised and Implemented a transaction commit protocol taking into account the constraints of the mobile environment. (Report Here)

  Efficient Data Processing in Real Time Environments , National Remote Sensing Agency, India(summer 2001) The NRSA deals with receiving data (typically images) from satellites at real-time rates. We studied the problems involved and implemented image processing algorithms with input received at real-time rates. This was carried out in IRIX environment under the guidance of Dr. Bayya Lakshmi.

  Survey of the applications of Artificial Neural Networks (Particularly control applications).

Presented a student paper at "Technosance", a National Level Technical Symposium at EEE Department, Osmania University College of Engineering, Hyderabad, India.

 

SOFTWARE SKILLS
  Programming Skills C, C++, Java, PERL, COBOL, SQL, VC++, VB, HTML
  Operating Systems Windows NT, UNIX, Linux, IRIX.
  Programming Tools

OpenGL, GLUT, GLUI, FLTK, GTK, Visual Studio MFC

 

COMPETITIVE EXAMS  
  GATE ( Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering): 99.99 percentile - All-India rank 2
   
  EAMCET (Engineering, Agriculture and Medical Common Entrance Test- Andhra Pradesh, India): Rank 112 among over 100,000 students in the Engineering stream. About EAMCET
   
  GRE 2270 / 2400 (q 800, a 750, v 720)
  AGRE Scaled Score: 810 (Subject: CS, Percentile: 84)
   
  Intermediate Examination 1998

Secured 95% in a state wide examination conducted by Board of Intermediate Examinations, Andhra Pradesh, India. Rank: Below 50 in an exam taken by around 200,000 students. Rank in School: 3/1000

 

AWARDS
  National Merit Scholarship for higher studies twice by the government of India for academic excellence on the basis of 10th class (SSC) results and Intermediate Exam results
 

Secured prize in C Language programming competition during undergrad and won prizes in Math Fairs, Science Fairs and Essay Writing competitions during High School.

 

EXTRA CURRICULAR:
    • Student Member of ACM SIGGRAPH
    • Attended ACM SIGGRAPH 2003 and ACM SIGGRAPH 2004.
    • Was a member of Computer Society of India
    • Was the Social Welfare Minister in the School Cabinet(1995)–organized trips to orphanages and introduced mite boxes.
    • Learnt Indian classical dance and music. Performed Indian classical dance in various functions and competitions in India.

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