Prajakta Kalekar
D1, Hermes Complex, Dhole patil Rd
Final Year M.Tech.
Pune-411001, Maharashtra,
Information Technology
India
IIT Bombay
+022-25764967
praj@it.iitb.ac.in


Educational Record

  • Post Graduation : M.Tech. Information technology, IIT Bombay (2006). CPI : 9.41
    • In the top 5 in a class of 30
  • Graduation : B.E. Computer Engineering, Govt. College of Engineering, Pune (affiliated with the Pune University) (1999-2003) with distinction. 73.28%
    • 3rd in a class of 60

Experience

  • Persistent Systems Private Ltd., Pune
    Member of technical Staff, July 2003-July 2004
    • Worked on the enList Server, a product that gives a seamless SQL access to the directory data.
    • Roles and Responsibilities : Design and implementation of the JDBC driver for the enList Server, Design and implementation of the Java based Client.
  • Government College of Engineering Pune
    Visiting Lecturer, July - Dec 2003, Jan - May 2004
    Taught the subjects Discrete Structures and Graph Theory and Database Management Systems

Research Experience

  • MTech Project: Compressed Flash memory based Database Systems
    Guide: Prof. Sudarshan, Prof. Krithi Ramamritham
    Flash memory is a medium of choice in mobile and handheld devices, as opposed to disks, due to its attractive features such as fast I/0 speed, lower power consumption and smaller size. However, due to high cost per GB and limited storage capacities, Flash memory databases need to be stored in compressed form. The goal of the project is to compress in such a way that the Database fits in the available space and at the same time, the overall query performance over this compressed database is within acceptable limits. The compression strategies take into account flash characteristics such as limited write-erase cycles and inability to update in-place.

  • BE Project: Consultant for Constraint Satisfaction in Grids
    Calsoft Systems Pvt. Ltd, Pune
    Worked in a team of three on the design and development of an extension to the Globus Grid Toolkit that enables search for resources that satisfy specified constraints and which are optimal according to a given cost metric.

  • MTech Seminar: Time series Forecasting using Holt-Winters Exponential Smoothing
    Guide: Prof Bernard Menezes
    Analysis of seasonal time series data using Holt-Winters exponential smoothing methods.

MTech course projects

  • Log Based Recovery System for DELite : Database Management Systems
    DELite is an Open Source Light Weight Database Management System targeted at resource-contrained platforms like Simputer. In a team of three, developed a Log based Recovery System for DELite.
  • Intrusion Detection using Datamining techniques : Data mining and warehousing
    An Anomaly-Detection based Intrusion Detection System. Schemes such as Out-lier Detection for Network based IDS and Prediction of system calls for Host based IDS, were used for the same.
  • Query Execution in Distributed Text Databases : Term Paper for Principles of Distributed Systems
    Study of various distributed index organization schemes and the algorithms for processing in parallel batches of queries using these organizations.
  • Integrated e-Learning Environment over the Internet : Systems Lab Project
    Tools : J2EE (JBoss 4.0), Java Swing, EJB-QL
  • Web-based LDAP Browser : Foundation Lab
    Tools : PHP, Apache Web Server, LDAP APIs
  • Weak Keys in Diffie Hellman Protocol : Network Security
    A study of attacks and vulnerabilities in the Diffie Hellman Protocol
  • Solving Feature Interaction Problems using Java Filter objects : Object Oriented Systems

    Other courses

  • Algorithms and complexity, Foundations of Information Technology, Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS), Foundations of IT

Other Experience

  • Teaching Assistant for the course Database Management Systems conducted by Prof. Sudarshan and Prof. Krithi Ramamritham. (Autumn 2005)
  • Teaching Assistant for the course Principles of Distributed Systems conducted by Prof. Umesh Bellur. (Spring 2006)
  • Current Industry Interactions Secretary for Information Tech. Association(ITA), KReSIT.

References