Academics


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E-mail: rajan@cs.umn.edu

Education

Master of Science, Computer Science, (May 2010), University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

Bachelor of Technology, Information Technology (May 2008), College of Engineering, Guindy, Anna University, India

Bachelor of Engineering, Geo-Informatics (May 2007), College of Engineering, Guindy, Anna University, India

Projects

Integrating Location Aware Data Model for Moving Object Database - Jul 2007 to May 2008
    A database to store and manipulate moving objects towards travel guidance was developed under my final year thesis of B.Tech., (IT) degree.

Banking System - Dec 2006 to Apr 2007
    MySQL and JSP were used in implementing a web based banking system as a part of Software Components Practical course.

Automated Road Extraction from High Resolution Data - Nov 2006 to Apr 2007
    This was done as a part of final year project of B.E., (GI) degree focusing on extraction of roads from high resolution satellite imagery as well as from LiDAR data and integrating both datasets to enhance the results. The results from each were assessed. All processing were done in Matlab 7.0.1

Visual Programming - Nov 2007
    A WMA converter was developed in VB using windows media reference library for converting mp3 audios into WMA format for effective compression and a replica of Minesweeper game was done in Visual C++ using MFC were implemented.

Fuel Distribution Management System - Dec 2005 to Mar 2006
    A user-friendly system, for efficient management of fuel distribution and logistics which can provide optimal routes with crisis management for Indian Oil Corporation, was developed using VB, Map Objects and Net Engine.

Electricity Distribution Management System through GIS - Dec 2005
    A customized environment for decision-making and managing electricity network at sub-station level using data from State Electricity Board was developed using Visual Basic, Map Objects and Net Engine.

Areas of Interest

GIS Programming and Data Structures

Software Development

Web Design

Paper Presentations

Vehicle Emissions during Children's School Commuting: Impacts of Education Policy, Environmental Science and Technology, Volume 44, Issue 5, pp 1537-1543

A poster titled Regressive Morphological Filter for Ground Point Extraction from LiDAR Data was presented at Map India 2008, New Delhi, India.

Presented a paper titled Electricity Distribution Information System in a 3-day International conference Map India 2006 at New Delhi, India.

Presented a paper titled Multi-Integrated Positioning System in TECHSHOW, inter college competition and won second prize.

Presented a paper titled GPS & GIS Approach to Online Vehicle Tracking System for Call Taxis in Celestia ‘05, inter-departmental Symposium and won Second Prize

Computer Skillset

GIS : ESRI ArcGIS, ArcLogistics, ArcObjects, MapObjects, NetEngine

CAD : Microstation Geographics, Google Sketchup

Image Processing : Erdas Imagine, ENVI, Photoshop

Terrain Model : Socetset, Photomod, Visopret Capture

GPS : Trimble Geomatics Office

DBMS : Oracle-SQL Plus, MySQL, MS-Access

Programming : C, C++, Java, Visual Basic, Visual C++, Matlab

Web Development : JSP, AJAX, PHP, Java Script

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