AKASH SHAH

Present Address: 1111B, State Street NW, Atlanta, GA, USA - 30318
Telephone: +1-404-725-4193
Email Id: akash.shah@gatech.edu

EDUCATION Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA (December, 2010) (expected)
MS in Computer Science (GPA: 4.0/4.0)
Nirma University of Science and Technology, Ahmedabad, India (May, 2008)
B. Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering (GPA: 8.65/10)
WORK Graduate Research Assistant at Computer Perception Lab, Georgia Institute of Technology(January 2010 – present)
EXPERIENCE Advisor: Dr. James M. Rehg (Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology)
Software Engineer at Motorola, Bangalore, India (July 2008 – July 2009)
- Responsible for testing installation, upgrade, migration and re-parenting of CDMA network elements as part of the
CDMA System Integration and Test team.
- Developing and running scripts in order to gather data from the various network elements of the Simulate Field
Environment and present them graphically on a single web-page
Project Trainee at Tata Consultancy Services, Gandhinagar, India (January 2008 – May 2008)
- Responsible for developing a single sign-on framework and integrate it into existing modules
- Developed a framework for single sign-on across various modules of a live project.
- Project done in J2EE using JSF, Hibernate and Spring
PROJECTS/ Phurnish (February 2010 – present)
SEMINARS - Develop an Android app to help consumers make furniture purchases. The app allows the user to create a 3d model
of own room from the camera, drag and drop pieces of furniture in the room and hence visualize the how the new
furniture will look in actual room settings.
Gaze-tracking system to track joint attention (Aug 2009 – present)
- Developing a gaze-tracking system to enable tracking of joint attention in children to detect behavioural disorders
- Project involves developing an end to end system including cameras, camera control software, eye-detection, gaze-
tracking and analysis of the same
Optimizing D2 – A case-based reasoning system for strategy games (October 2009 – December 2009)
- To optimize the performance of D2 for real time games.
Technical analysis of stock market (Jul-Nov 2007)
- Developed a website and an application to analyze the Indian stock markets using various technical parameters and
give buy/sell/hold signals based on those parameters. The website was also be capable of managing user portfolios
and give the users options to view basic charts, technical charts and historical prices.
- Project developed using Java, JSF, JFreeCharts
Arkanoid (Apr 2005)
- Developed a game based on projectile motion using graphics features of C
Iris Recognition
- Summarize the various steps taken to acquire the image, locate the iris, encode it and compare it with the other iris
codes stored in the database developed at Cambridge University by John Daugman.
SKILLS Languages: C, C++, Java, Python, Assembly (8085/8086), HTML, SQL, Prolog
Operating Systems: Linux, Windows
Other tools/software: Matlab, Oracle, Microsoft Visual Studio, Eclipse
TERM PAPERS Content Based Image Retrieval (Semester 6)
Group theory using Rubik’s Cube (Semester 3)
RELEVANT Grad school: Computability Complexity and Algorithms, Knowledge Based Artificial Intelligent, Case-based
COURSES Reasoning, Data and Visual Analytics, Machine Learning in Finance, Probabilistic Graphical Models
Undergrad: Object Oriented Programming, Operating Systems, Theory of Computation, Digital Image Processing,
Data-structures and Algorithms
ACHEIVEMENTS - 2nd prize in paper presentation on ‘Iris Recognition’ at Prevoyance, 2006 held at Institute of Technology, NU.
- Governor’s Scout Medal – Awarded by the Governor of Gujarat in 2002 for achievement in scouting.
- Technical Director of the Indian Society for Technical Education, Nirma chapter - Organized many
competitions and workshops during my tenure at ISTE.
- Elected administrator of the English Wikipedia - Awarded fully paid scholarships twice by the Wikimedia
Foundation to attend their annual conference Wikimania (Taipei, Taiwan in August 2007 and Alexandria, Egypt in July
2008). Active editor of articles on the state of Gujarat. Article on Ahmedabad selected as a featured article.
- Co-ordinator of an inter-school cultural festival called Odyssey at St. Xavier’s High School in Nov. 2003