Shivakar Vulli

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Srinivasa Shivakar Vulli

107 Edinboro Ln, Apt. C23,                                                      ssvh27[AT]mst.edu
Oak Ridge, TN 37830.                                                      http://www.shivakar.com
Ph: (573)-578-4554                                                                                            n

OBJECTIVE:

To obtain a government or industry sponsored research position in the areas of data mining, machine learning and/or modeling of complex systems.

EDUCATION:

  • [ May 2008 - May 2010 ]                    Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO.
    (formerly University of Missouri – Rolla)
    M.S. in Computer Science, GPA: 3.67.
  • [ January 2006 - May 2008 ]              Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO.
    M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, GPA: 3.56.
  • [ December 2000 - May 2004 ]           Acharya Nagarjuna University, Vijayawada, AP, India.
    Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering, GPA: 76.6%.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

  • [ June 2009 - December 2009 ]          Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
    Advanced Short Term Research Opportunity (ASTRO) appointment with Computational Earth Sciences group. Applying and improving existing multi-variate cluster analysis methodologies, combined with other statistical and data mining techniques to facilitate model-data comparison for observations from DOE’s atmospheric radiation measurement program.

RESEARCH:

  • [ January 2006 - Present ]                 Graduate Research Assistant, ARIA Lab.
    Graduate Research Assistant with the Airborne Reconnaissance and Image Analysis (ARIA) Lab, with support from Department of Electrical Engineering and Intelligent Systems Center (ISC).
  • Current Thesis (Comp. Sci.):  Funded by ARIA Lab and ISC.
    Artificial Life as a Framework for Optimization.

    • Developing an Artificial Life (ALife) based multi-objective evolutionary algorithm, for problems with multi-modal and dynamic fitness landscapes.
  • Thesis (Mech. Engg.): Funded by ARIA Lab and ISC.
    Individual-Based Artificial Ecosystems for Design and Optimization.

    • Developed an Individual-based (agent-based) framework inspired by naturally occurring ecosystems for solving engineering design and optimization problems.
  • Airborne Minefield Detection: Funded by ARIA Lab.
    • Developed a C++/IPP (Intel Performance Primitives) based application for image registration using optical flow and anomaly detection using RX (Reed-Xiaoli) detector.
    • Developed a distributed image registration application using Matlab Distributed Computing Toolbox.
    • Developed a Matlab based application for geo-registration of airborne imagery using ground control point information and bundle adjustment.
    • Developed a C++ based wrapper to interface exiting Matlab application with NITF (National Imagery Transmission Format) imagery.
    • Developed an in-memory JPEG2000 decoder using JasPer library.
  • Geospatial Database Administration: Funded by ARIA Lab.
    • Administered and maintained a PostgreSQL/PostGIS database.
    • Developed and maintained a MEX connectivity program using libpq library for querying PostgreSQL database from MATLAB.
    • Performed query development and optimization for accessing image analysis information from the database.
    • Developed, administered and maintained a PostgreSQL database linked to the geospatial database, for false alarm mitigation study.

AREAS OF INTEREST:

Data Mining, Machine Learning, Evolutionary Algorithms, Robotics, Agent-Based Modeling, Computer Vision, High Performance Computing, Modeling and Simulation of Complex Systems.

RELEVANT COURSEWORK:

Analysis of Algorithms, Data Structures, Discrete Mathematics, Mobile and Sensor Data Management, Web Data Management & XML, Java GUI & Visualization, Advance Evolutionary Computing, Robotic Manipulators and Mechanisms, Advanced Dynamics of Machines, Introduction to Neural Networks, Vector & Tensor Analysis, Digital Image Processing.

SKILLS:

  • High Level Languages: C, C++, Java, Python, C#/.net, MATLAB, PL/SQL.
  • Scripting Languages: BASH, Perl, PHP.
  • IDEs: Eclipse, KDevelop, Microsoft Visual Studio.
  • Revision Control: Mercurial, SubVersion, CVS.
  • Compilers: GNU GCC, Intel, Pathscale, Portland Group.
  • Libraries: MPI, ROMIO, OpenCV, IPP (Intel Performance Primitives).
  • GUI Toolkits: Qt, OpenGL/GLUT.
  • Debugging Tools: gdb, Total View, Valgrind.
  • Documentation: Doxygen.
  • Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL.
  • Operating Systems: Linux, Windows.
  • Agent-Based Modeling Tools: MASON, Swarm, Netlogo.
  • GIS Tools: Mapserver/Mapscript, PostGIS, GRASS.

CERTIFICATIONS:

  • Red Hat Certified Engineer, March 14, 2005. Certificate No.: 803005935514227.

PROJECTS:

  • Dynamic Social Grouping and Routing in Delay Tolerant Networks:
    Developed a dynamic routing algorithm inspired by social networking dynamics for Delay Tolerant Networks (DTNs).
  • Evolving Web Personalization Mining:
    Developed a hybrid k-means-PSO algorithm for web usage mining from web server logs.
  • Beowulf Cluster:
    Configuration and maintenance of research group cluster.
  • Face Recognition Using Eigenfaces and Neural Networks:
    Designed a multi-layer feedforward backpropagation neural network for face recognition from image data.
  • Visualizing Rigid Body Collisions:
    Developed a simulation for visualizing the dynamics of multiple circular bodies in a container (rigid body collisions without friction and gravity).
  • Using Open Source Software for Real Time Geospatial Applications – A Feasibility Study:
    Conducted an extensive survey to assess current open source geospatial solutions for a real time web-base geospatial analysis system.
  • Multi-Robot Formation Control:
    Developed  a leader-follower based multi-robot formation control scheme using only vision data from a single monocular camera for formation detection, formation maintenance and formation modification.
  • Learning Applied to Ground Robots:
    Member of UMR LAGR team, aimed at developing an innovative learning architecture for vision-based navigation of autonomous ground robots.
  • Six Legged Robot:
    Designed and Fabricated a six legged robot, and its associated gait mechanism and control system.
  • Dynamic Modeling and Control of Quadrupedal Robot with Bounding Gait:
    Developed the dynamic model and simulation of quadrupedal robot with bounding gait.

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS:

  • Agarwal, S., Vulli, S., Malloy, N., Lord, E., Fairley, J., Sabol, B., Johnson, W., Ess, R., Trang, A., “Collection and Evaluation of False Alarm Signatures in Background Data,” in the Proceedings of the SPIE 2009, Detection and Sensing of Mines, Explosive Objects, and Obscured Targets XIV, April 2009.
  • Sanaka, A., Vulli, S., Agarwal, S., Ess, R., Trang, A. H., “Spectral and Spatial Analysis of False Alarms in Background Data,” in the Proceedings of SPIE 2009, Detection and Sensing of Mines, Explosive Objects, and Obscured Targets XIV, April 2009.
  • Artificial Life as a Framework for System Design, ISC Poster Presentations, Missouri S&T, Nov. 2008.
  • Vulli, S.S., Agarwal, S., “Individual-Based Artificial Ecosystems for Design and Optimization,” in Proceedings of Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2008, (GECCO ‘08), pp. 273-280, June 2008.
  • Directional Vision Based Multi-Robot Formation Control, ISC Research Symposium, UMR, Rolla, Apr. 2007.
  • Visual Perception and Navigational Learning for LAGR, ISC Poster Presentations, UMR, Rolla, Oct. 2006.
  • A Real Time Traffic Simulation for DARPA Urban Challenge, ISC Poster Presentations, UMR, Rolla, Oct. 2006.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:

Student member of ACM, IEEE and Linux Foundation.

REFERENCES:

Available on request.