PALASH AGRAWAL

http://cs.ucla.edu/~palash

: 310-956-7393 : palash.ucla@gmail.com

865 Pomeroy Avenue, Apt#202, Santa Clara, CA 95051, USA.

EDUCATION Master of Science, Computer Science March 2012 University of California, Los Angeles GPA: 3.89/4.00 Selective Coursework: Web Information Management, Machine Learning Theory, Principles of Data Mining, Online Algorithms, Statistical Programming, Databases and Knowledge Bases, Participatory mHealth. Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Engineering August 2010 University of Mumbai, Fr. Conceio Rodrigues College of Engineering (Fr. CRCE) GPA: 4.00/4.00 Selective Coursework: Intelligent Systems, Neural Networks and Fuzzy Systems, Advanced Databases, System Programming, Operating Systems with UNIX, Analysis of Algorithms, Computer Networks. WORK EXPERIENCE Software Development Engineer Yahoo! Inc. April 2012 Present Developing RESTful web services in the Yahoo! Shopping team. Skills: Java, JAX-RS using Jersey, Tomcat, JSON, SubVersion. Programmer Analyst I Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, UCLA July 2011 March 2012 Worked on ISCDS project. Skills: Java, MS SQL Server, PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, YUI, Twitter Bootstrap. Software Engineering Intern Symantec Corporation June 2011 September 2011 Developed internal tools which improved the productivity of the team. Tools were used for generating Code Audit, Build Status reports and WPP Logs Rehydration. Skills: C++, MFC Development, Perforce and Perl. Computer Resource Specialist I UCLA Center for Digital Humanities October 2010 June 2011 Developed and tested modules and blocks for UCLA CCLE (http://ccle.ucla.edu). Skills: PHP, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, Apache, MySQL, SubVersion and Git. PROJECTS Internet Services for Collaborative Data Sharing (ISCDS) Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, UCLA July 2011 March 2012 Built an application which predicts success of a research grant application. Built web services and developed application logic for prediction and analysis from past data. Developed an easy to use UI which allows community entry and analysis of data. Implementing AndWellness in m.ucla.edu HTML5 framework UCLA Computer Science Department March 2011 June 2011 Ported the AndWellness Android Application built by CENS to UCLA Mobile Web Framework. Understood the architecture of existing application and built a multi-platform application using HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript. Auction Search Website and Web service UCLA Computer Science Department January 2011 March 2011 Provided SOAP based Web service interface for searching and retrieval using Apache Axis2. Created inverted indexes for keyword search using Apache Lucene. Naive Bayes Classifier in DB2 UCLA Computer Science Department January 2011 March 2011 Implemented a Naive Bayes Classifier using PL-SQL commands and SQL aggregate functions in DB2. Implemented bagging and boosting of classifiers. Compared the results with a 1R classifier. HACKS Linguipendence - 3rd Prize Yahoo! Hack U at UCLA. October 2011 A Google Chrome extension which translates the status updates and comments on Facebook to the home page language of the user. I am Bored ! (apps.facebook.com/i_am_bored/) - 2nd Prize Facebook SoCal Hackathon. May 2011 Takes the likes and activities from user's Facebook profile and pulls related videos from YouTube. Upload .m3u format playlist and the app prepares a video playlist. Web of Riddles Online Treasure Hunt October 2009 Participants were to answer questions correctly by connecting information from various sources. Built to learn PHP and MySQL. T20 Cricket Scorecard October 2008 Simulated my favorite board game which was based on the sport - Cricket. SKILLS Languages : Java, C++, C, Python(Beginner), Perl(Beginner) DBMS Packages : MySQL, MS SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, MS Access Operating Systems : Windows, Linux(Red Hat, Ubuntu), Mac OS X Web Technologies : PHP, HTML5, CSS3, AJAX, JavaScript, jQuery, JSON, XML, JSP, ASP ACADEMIC HONORS 2010 : Recipient of J N Tata Endowment and K C Mahindra Scholarship for study abroad. 2009-10 : Rank #1 in Computer Engineering Department of Fr. CRCE. 2009-10 : Recipient of BE All-rounder of the Year Award from Fr. CRCE.
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