Technical Skills/Abilities

• Languages: C, Java, HTML, ASP, PHP, JavaScript, perl, XML, C#
• Operating Systems: Windows XP/2000, Linux/Unix
• Database Systems: MySQL, MS SQL 2000, Oracle 9i
• Versioning Systems: CVS, SVN

Projects

MTech Project: Declarative means of defining Events and actions in RFID, Advisor Prof. Bernard Menezes
RFID systems are at the verge of data explosion. Also, RFID applications like the supply chain and inventory management systems require event triggered actions to be taken. Not much research have followed up for generalisation of event triggered actions in RFID Systems. We are proposing a way to generalize the process of event triggered actions by specifying a language to define rules. We will also try and incorporate/integrate the concept into already existent Sun Java RFID system.

Seminar: RFID Security, Advisor Prof. Bernard Menezes
One of the main concerns for RFID security is tracking. Using cryptographic primitives to thwart traceability issues is not a feasible approach. We surveyed some of the existing protocols (OSK, Molnar-Soppera-Wagnar, etc) in this seminar and also looked into various issues in those protocols.

B.E. Project: Application Firewall Framework, Advisor Mr. Deepak Sharma
The Application Level Gateway is one way of filtering data but is more sophisticated. Most scenarios do not require such detailed level of filtering. Filtering of data has to be done efficiently. We designed and implemented an identity based filter for efficient fitering at application layer.

Course Projects

Systems Lab: Eclipse plug-in titled "ArchEd"
"ArchEd" is an eclipse plugin to provide visual editing capabilities based on Software Architecture developed by a team of 48 students. The project provided immense exposure to the Eclipse Framework, the Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF), the Graphical Editing Framework (GEF), XML Schemas, XML files, parsers and a lot of Design patterns. Exposure to the Large project management and Software Development Life Cycle were add-ons.

Network Security: Offline micro-payments without trusted hardware.
We surveyed many of the proposed protocols for electronic payments and in particular micro-payments. We compared those with one of the de-facto means of payment in existence, the Credit Card. One of our goals in this project was to facilitate electronic payments of small denominations using portable hand-held devices. We analyzed the PayWord protocol and proposed a modification to it.

Object Oriented Systems: Design and Implementation of Feed Aggregators.
We designed and implemented a RSS and Atom feed reader using Java. The project emphasized on the study and the use of Design Patterns in the Object oriented Development.

Mobile Computing: Performance comparison of two Ad-hoc networking protocols (TORA and AODV) using Opnet network simulator

Experience

Intern, Webaroo Inc., Mumbai (December 2005), Worked on Personalization and GUI for handheld devices
Internship included design and development of a module on Personalization and modifications to the existing GUI for handheld devices.

Teaching Assistant:

• Network Security, IIT, Mumbai (July 2006 – till date)
• QoS in Networks (DEP mode), IIT, Mumbai (Jan 2006 – April 2006)
• Computer Networks (DEP mode), IIT, Mumbai (July 2005 – Nov 2005)

Extra curricular activities

• Organized many events by being in the council of IT Association, KReSIT during graduation
• Have contributed a lot of technical articles to the undergraduate college magazine, "Kshitij" some of which include "A Simple Surround Sound decoder", "An Introduction to RFID Technology", etc.
• Took active part in organizing seminars during the annual technical undergraduate college festival "Abhiyantriki 2003" (Most of which were given by active and retired IAF personnel)
• Won Second Prize in the Robotics (Level I) competition at "Technovanza 2003" held at the Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute, Mumbai
• Won Third Prize in Corporate Edge event held at "Abhiyantriki 2006" held at K.J. Somaiya College of engineering.