SANKETH NALLI

nalli.sanketh@gmail.com

sankey@cs.wisc.edu

OBJECTIVE

To pursue PhD. in Computer Science at University of Wisconsin, Madison (Fall 2012)

ACADEMIC

INTERESTS

• Operating Systems

• Distributed Systems

• Algorithms Analysis and Design

• Parallel Algorithms

PUBLICATIONS

1. V. S. Borkar, J. Nair, and S. Nalli, “Manufacturing consent,” in Proc. of 48th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, 2010, pp. 1550–1555. - UIUC, USA

   (Link : http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=5707097)

2. V. S. Borkar, J. Nair, A. Karnik and S. Nalli, “Manufacturing consent”,

   Under submission to IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

RESEARCH

EXPERIENCE

Tata Institute for Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, India

Summer Research Fellow, School of Technology and Computer Science

May-July 2010

Advisor

Professor Vivek Shripad Borkar

Project

Algorithms for Selecting Significant nodes in a Social Network

IBM, Bangalore, India

Intern, Linux Technology Center (LTC)

May-July 2011

Advisor

Mr. Srivatsa Vaddagiri, Senior Technical Staff Member

Project

Study of workload performance characteristics on modern multi-core architecture

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Technology

National Institute of Technology (NIT) Karnataka, India

Department of Information Technology

July 2008 –

May 2012

Position

2^nd rank

out of 85 students

GPA

9.04/10

12^th grade

Kendriya Vidyalaya Hebbal

Bangalore, India

April 2007 – March 2008

Position

1^st rank

out of 150 students

Score

94.6%

10^th grade

Kendriya Vidyalaya Hebbal

Bangalore, India

April 2005 – March 2006

Position

2^nd rank

out of 250 students

Score

95.4%

RELEVANT COURSEWORK

Advanced Data Structures & Algorithms

Distributed Systems

Compilers & Automata Theory

Microprocessors and Interfacing

Discrete Mathematics

Operating Systems

Probability Theory

Parallel Computing

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS

• Summer Research Fellow - Selected by Indian Academy of Sciences (IAS) - a conglomerate of IITs, IISc, TIFR, JNCASR, which are prestigious front-end research institutes of India

• Awarded cash prize by CBSE for outstanding performance in 12th board exams

• Awarded cash prize by CBSE for outstanding performance in 10th board exams

• Qualified for the Final Round of “JN TATA Memorial Quiz” conducted by IISc

• Selected for “Student Interaction Programme at NIAS-IISc” with Dr. Kasturi Rangan, one of the leading space scientists of India

• Selected for Regional Level Science Exhibition during 10th grade

• Awarded distinction in Green Olympiad in 9th grade

• Participated in various Math, Science and Green olympiads during 8th,9th, and 10th grades

PROJECTS

• The System of Powerful Computer Laboratory Class via Socket Programming

  • An implementation of IEEE paper that aims to develop the system of powerful computer laboratory class by simulating the ideal learning procedure

  • Implemented using concepts of Socket Programming in C

• TrailBlazer

  • A simple looking web-browser with basic requirements

  • Implemented primarily using JavaScript

• Android Scrabble

  • A mobile implementation of the popular board game Scrabble for android platform

  • Developed using Eclipse IDE and Java

• Segmenting Medical Images using Mathematical Morphology and improved watershed transform

  • An implementation of a research paper describing an algorithm to obtain simple representation of complex medical images of the human brain

  • Developed using MATLAB

• Graphics Editor

  • A hand-crafted paint application that provides facilities comparable to modern day paint applications

  • Implemented in C using BGI (Borland Graphics Interface) library

• Sports Information System

  • A customised online application to keep track of sporting events

  • Developed using PHP and MySQL

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages

C, C++, Assembly 8086, Javascript, Java

Operating Systems

Linux, UNIX

Database Systems

MySQL

Applications

MATLAB, Microsoft VC++