SOWMYA PARTHAN

834-1 S Oakley Blvd., Mobile: (312) 342-9175

Chicago, IL 60612 http://www.ece.uic.edu/~sparthan

SUMMARY

Dedicated and hardworking Master’s graduate with three years of experience coding with C, C++ and Matlab. 3 years of algorithm development and implementation for image processing and computer vision problems. Possess an excellent understanding of software engineering and object oriented programming concepts. Efficient problem solver, excellent communicator, comfortable being part of a team/acting independently.

EDUCATION

Master of Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, May 2003

Bachelor of Engineering, Instrumentation and Control Engineering, University of Madras, India, May 2000

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming Languages: C, C++, FORTRAN, MATLAB

Systems and Platforms: LINUX, UNIX, Windows (NT, 9X, XP), Solaris

Database Programming: ORACLE, MS Access, My SQL

Web Design Software: HTML, Java/VB Script, Dreamweaver, ASP, PERL, CGI

Assembly Language: Micro controller 8031, 8051, Microprocessor 8085, 8255

WORK EXPERIENCE

Resource and Policy Analyst, Office for Access and Equity, UIC June 2003 – Present

·  Collecting and analyzing data using C, C++, Java and HTML for university hiring procedures and faculty equity study.

·  Designing and developing ADA (W3C) compliant web sites using Dreamweaver, Adobe Photoshop, Perl and CGI (http://www.uic.edu/depts/oae, http://www.uic.edu/orgs/LLEAP/LLeap.html)

·  Providing technical and computer networking support to staff and student workers.

Research Student, Machine Vision Laboratory, UIC July 2002 – May 2003

·  Implemented a view-based human face detection technique using Principal component analysis and statistical clustering techniques.

Graduate Research Assistant, Office for Access and Equity (OAE), UIC August 2000 – May 2003

·  Web design and database programming using MS Access, SQL, Dreamweaver, Perl and CGI.

·  Performed regression analysis to study faculty equity data distribution using SPSS.

Lab Consultant, EECS Department, UIC August 2000 – October 2000

·  Maintained over 100 Sun Solaris and SGI machines. Assisted students with C and C++ programming assignments and coding in UNIX platform.

Project Intern, Adsensors India Pvt. Ltd., Chennai, India May 1999 – May 2000

·  Designed and developed an embedded system using microcontroller 8031 for turbidity and temperature data acquisition, monitoring and transmission.

·  Developed instrumentation algorithms using assembly language programming.

GRADUATE RESEARCH

View-Based Human Face Detection, Implementation: C++ and Matlab July 2002 – May 2003

Guide: Prof. Jezekiel Ben-Arie, Director, Machine Vision Laboratory, UIC

·  The project involves detecting vertical frontal views of human faces in complex scenes using principal component analysis.

·  Implemented pre-processing techniques such as bilinear interpolation to reduce image dimension, binary masking to eliminate near boundary effects, histogram equalization and normalization to compensate for illumination shifts.

·  Designed a user interface for the system.

GRADUATE COURSEWORK

Image analysis and machine vision / Computer Communication network
Software Engineering / Wireless communication network (GSM, IS –54 TDMA Systems)
Digital signal processing / Advanced Wireless Communication Networks (CDMA Systems)
Neural networks / Statistical communication and signal processing
Digital networks / Random signal analysis
PROJECTS

Database Programming:

·  Designed and developed a database to keep track of civil service applicants, promotions, referrals and examination for the different campuses of U of I using MS Access and Visual Basic.

·  Designed and developed a database to keep track of open and closed position at the Chicago campus of U of I using MS Access and Visual Basic.

·  Developed a banking application to facilitate data entry, and maintain records of customers in a banking environment using PL/SQL and Developer 2000.

Web development:

·  Designed the official web site for the Office for Access and Equity using Dreamweaver and Adobe Photoshop (http://www.uic.edu/depts/oae, http://www.uic.edu/orgs/LLEAP/LLeap.html).

·  Designed real-time web based Equal Employment Opportunity forms to facilitate online data entry for the job applicants at UIC using CGI and Perl.

C++ Implementations:

·  Implemented a human face detection and recognition system using unsupervised technique for visual learning based on density estimation in high-dimensional spaces through eigen-space decomposition using Principal component analysis technique.

·  Implemented a minutiae (finger print) classification system using LAMSTAR neural network.

·  Developed bottleneck architecture to implement image compression and reconstruction using back propagation network.

·  Implemented vector quantization based image clustering using counter propagation network.

·  Designed and compared the performance of madaline, hopfield, self organizing map and back propagation algorithm based neural networks for recognizing alphanumeric characters.

Java Implementation:

·  Developed a software system to catalog, manipulate and maintain an image library in adherence to software engineering life cycles.

C Implementation:

·  Implemented a noisy half duplex communication channel using Stop and Wait Protocol. 4 members team project. My role in the project involved the implementation of the channel with noise introduced and final integration of the individual portions.

Matlab Implementations:

·  Studied the results of global and local histogram equalization as applied to image enhancement.

·  Implemented edge detection techniques using Compass, Sobel, Prewitt, Canny operators and Laplacian of Gaussian filters.

·  Compared and documented the effects of filtering techniques to reduce noise in images.

·  Designed FIR and IIR filters and studied their characteristics.

·  Designed a noisy digital communication channel and studied the effect of noise on transmitted signals. Compared the bit error rate probabilities with the theoretical design.

·  Estimated and plotted the density functions of independent random variables and compared the results with theoretical values.

References:

Joann Gras, Special Assistant to the Associate Chancellor, Office for Access and Equity, UIC,

Jezekiel Ben-Arie, Professor and Director, Machine Vision Laboratory, UIC,