Praveen Durairaj

32, 3rd Trust Cross St, Mandevelipakkam

Email: [email protected]

Chennai 600 028 INDIA

Phone: +91 (444) 303 – 3332

Summary

·         Senior year Computer Science student at College of Engineering- Guindy at Anna University India.

·         Strong research interests and publications in Networks and Artificial Intelligence

Education

B.E (Computer Science & Engg)

College of Engg Guindy - Anna University

GPA  8.62

2006

Higher Secondary School

TN State Board of Hr Secondary Education

96.4%

2002

Secondary School

Central Board of Sr Secondary Education

89.6

2000

Skills

Operating Systems

Windows XP/NT, Unix (Sun Solaris 7, HP-UX 10.20)

Languages

C, C++, Visual C++, Visual Basic, Java, HTML, Unix Shell

Tools

MS Office, Oracle

Technology

SMTP, 802.11

Publications

·    ‘Improving the Latency of 802.11 Hand-offs Using Sentinel Based Architecture’, International Conference on High Performance Computing (HIPC), Goa , India 2005

Research Work / Projects

Sentinel Based Architecture for Wireless Network Management

·    Clients of a Wireless Network and dedicated Stationary Sensors collaborate to monitor the Wireless Network

·    Used trajectory prediction to train the system

·    Improved 802.11 hand-offs by finding efficient hand-off regions

·    Used location determination in training phase

·    Detected rogue access points and helped disconnected clients to reconnect

Offline Mail Client

·    Designed and developed interactive UI for an offline mail client

·    Synchronized offline store/content in mail client with the mail server on a change trigger

·    Used SMTP mail servers

·    Implemented a Message Store Provider along with search facilities

·    Provided support for an Address Book

·    Synchronized personal store with mail server with the help of an implemented Background Synchronizer

Image Analysis and Strategy Making for Robotic Football

·    Analyzed a robotic football field using the image taken from top of the field

·    Formed an efficient strategy and heuristics for the robots’ motion using graph theory concepts

·    Used image processing techniques to approximate robot and ball positions and find the situation of the game (offense/defense)

·    Formed various frames of complete graph with robot and goal

·    Found the best frame using shortest path, cut-set and other heuristics

·    Implemented a graphical interface to show run time analysis

Moment Based Tamil Character Recognition

·    Designed a moment based nearest neighbor classification for Tamil character recognition

·    Works effectively with printed Tamil characters

·    Implemented a training phase to train any character set before beginning recognition

·    Implemented image thresholding and noise removal as part of image pre-processing

·    Used character thinning and size normalization

·    Used Hu’s invariant moments for feature extraction

Achievements

·    5^th position in the Asian Regional Finals of the 30^th ACM Inter College Programming Contest held at Kolkata India

·    Awarded Gold medal for achieving a perfect score in Math in Higher Secondary Examination 2002 by Indian Institute of Professional Education

·    2^nd position in National Debate Competition 2001 conducted by the National Council of Educational Research & Training

·    Awarded ‘Best Speaker’ at the International Debate Competition 2004 conducted by Institute of   Biotechnology and Applied Bioinformatics and BIOCON Bangalore India

Honors/Positions

·    Executive member of ACM Chapter of CEG (2005 – 2006)

·    Conducted intra college ACM programming contest through the ACM Chapter at Anna University

·    Executive Committee Member to conduct inter-college competitions for ABACUS 2004, SYNC 2004 and inter-school competitions for PRODIGY 2005

·    Moderated group discussion in university radio Anna FM, India’s first campus community radio