EDUCATION
University of Wisconsin-Madison Aug 2012 - Present
M.S. Computer Science, GPA 4.0/ 4.0, expected to graduate in May 2014
Relevant Courses: Advanced Operating Systems, Wireless and Mobile Networking

Birla Institute of Technology & Science - Pilani, India Aug 2006 - May 2011
B.E.(Hons.) Computer Science, GPA 9.23/10.0
M.S.(Hons.) Economics, Major GPA 10.0/10.0
Relevant Courses: Computer Networks, Network Programming,Operating Systems, Parallel Computing
Database Systems

WORK EXPERIENCE
Flight Simulation Lab, University of Wisconsin-Madison Sep 2012 - Present
Research Assistant (Shell Script, Python, Java, MySQL)
- Designing high fidelity flight simulation environment using historical weather data
- Responsible for end-to-end development of backend data management tool

Oracle India, Bangalore July 2011 - July 2012
Member Technical Staff (Shell Script, C, Java, Oracle DBS)
- Worked with database development team to optimize performance on Oracle Exadata machines
- Implemented storage solutions to mitigate I/O bottleneck in clustered machines

INSEAD Business School, Singapore Jan 2011 - June 2011
Application Developer (C#, VB.net, Oracle, ColdFusion, SharePoint)
- Worked with Front End Applications team to develop, support and maintain web based applications
- Designed bidding based course allotment application for student enrollment in elective courses

Dresden University of Technology, Germany May 2010 - July 2010
Research Assistant (Java, MySQL, HTTPClient, WebDAV)
- Designed a middleware adapter to find high throughput path for multi-hop routing between the grid nodes and to unify access to heterogeneous distributed storage systems on the German grid network

Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, Dehradun, India May 2008 - June 2008
Web Application Developer (PHP, MySQL, AJAX)
- Worked on remodeling the website using PHP and AJAX
- Designed backend support for managing and querying students and book keeping details

SKILL SET
Programming Languages: C, JAVA, C++, Shell Script, SQL, PLSQL, Verilog HDL
Web Technologies: HTML/CSS, PHP, ColdFusion, JavaScript, .NET
Databases: Oracle, MySQL, SQLServer
Platforms: Windows, Linux (Redhat, Ubuntu)
Softwares: MATLAB, MASM Simulator, Eclipse, AutoCAD, LATEX, SPSS

PUBLICATIONS

A Genetic Algorithm based dynamic bandwidth allocation scheme for Local Area Networks, Prashant Saxena, J P Misra, International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Information Technology – CIIT 2011, Pune, India

HONORS
- Awarded prestigious GE Foundation Scholar Leaders scholarship for exceptional leadership and academic skills. Scholarship amount covered all expenses for two years of study [24 Students all over India]
- Recipient of German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) scholarship for research internship in Germany

ACTIVITIES
Executive committee member of National Service Scheme(NSS), a social service organization
Coordinator of Computer Literacy Programme, an initiative of NSS to spread computer literacy in rural areas

OTHER INTERESTS
Web comics, puzzles, blogs, Music, travel