Graduate Research Assistant Resume Athens, GA - Hire IT People

EDUCATION Masters in Science (Computer Science) Bachelor of Engineering (Information Systems)

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Object Oriented Databases: Conceptual Design: UML diagrams, Relational Database Design Theory, lossless joins, preserving depend, Normal forms up to 4NF, BCNF), MySQL, MS Access
Servers: TOMCAT Apache Server, IIS, GlassFish
Languages: C, C++, Java, HTML, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, JSP on Eclipse and NetBeans
Testing Tools: LoadRunner, Quick Test Pro
Operating Systems: Windows, Unix, Mac OS X, Linux
Internet Protocols: HTTP, TCP/IP, Chat Room Protocols (YMSG, IRC)

EXPERIENCE

Graduate Research Assistant Athens, GA Confidential Aug 2007 - Present Network Systems Security Lab (NSS)

Created a bot based on YMSG protocol that has an intelligence of a chat bot to help in detecting other spam bots.
Spam detecting bot first analyzes the current conversations in the chat room and then detects tentative spam bots based on different filters and then interacts with them to be certain that they are spam bots.
Implemented a machine learning system (Bayesian Network) using a open-source package to detect bots without interacting with them.
Funding for the NSS lab is provided by National Science Foundation and Georgia Research Alliance. We partner with the Georgia Tech Denial- Of-Information group on this project.

Graduate Student Athens, GA Confidential 2007 - 2009

Created a project called BlogB(zar) [Blog Recommendation System] in Java that was inspired by the recommendation system of Netflix and LinkedIn. This system recommends users a variety of blogs based on their meta-data (tags) and comments on their blogs.
Designed and developed two Facebook (FriendRanker & MyEvents) applications to study the intricate details of social networks. One of the app ranks your friends based on your relationships and photo-tags. Another app recommends different events that the user might be interested to attend based on what his friends are attending.

INTERNSHIPS

Quality Assurance Intern Columbus, OH Confidential Summer 2008 PassKey - A Prescriptive Learning System

Analyzed the underlying J2EE design of the PassKey online learning system and proposed a black box testing design process to be used in all the upcoming online learning systems.
Used tools like QTP (Quick Test pro), LoadRunner and also defined better test-cases based on functionality.

Software Developer Intern Confidential Spring 2006 Automation and consolidation of project based tools.

Requirement phase: sat down with the Tools group to understand their problem and assess the proposed solution.
Design phase: followed Wipro's project development guidelines and created a backend working architecture.
Development phase: developed the solution in Java and with server-side scripting using PHP & JSP.
Testing Phase: testing which was done with the help of different licensed testing tools. Some of the tools used were JTest, JCover. Improvement was done on the basis of the outcome in the coverage and effective implementation.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION

Co-founder/Executive Member-Association for Computing Machinery for Women (ACM -W) Student Chapter, UGA (2007-2009)