Prajakta Kalekar  
Room no. 40, Hostel 11, IIT Powai, Mumbai - 400076 
praj[at]it.iitb.ac.in, 
http://www.it.iitb.ac.in/~praj/resume  
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Areas of Interest
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Databases, Distributed Systems, Algorithms
 
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Education
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1. Master of Technology in Information Technology, July 2004 till present (in progress)
Kanwal Rekhi, School of IT, IIT Powai, Mumbai
CPI for 3 Semesters : 9.41

2. Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science and Engineering, July 1999 - May 2003.
Government College of Engineering, Pune. (Affiliated to University of Pune, Pune)
Average Percentage of four years: 73.275
Overall Rank for four years: 3rd out of 60 students.
 
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Experience
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1. Persistent Systems Private Limited 
Member of Technical Staff
Pune 
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.
See 
http://www.persistentsys.com/products/enlist/enlist.htm  
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2. Government College of Engineering, Pune 
Visiting Lecturer
July - Dec 2003, Jan - May 2004
Taught Discrete Structures and Graph Theory and Database Management Systems
 

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Projects
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1. Compressed Flash memory based Database System 
	MTech Project

under guidance of Prof. Sudarshan, Prof. Krithi Ramamritham 
July 2005 - present 

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. 

Tools : DELite ( http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/delite  )

2. Consultant for Constraint Satisfaction in Grids 
	B.E. Project

in Calsoft Systems Pvt. Ltd, Pune 
July 2002 - May 2003 

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. 

Tools : Globus Grid Toolkit

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Seminars
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1. Time series Forecasting using Holt-Winters Exponential Smoothing 
	MTech, Semester I

under guidance of Prof. Bernard Menezes 
August 2004 - Nov 2004

Analysis of seasonal time series data using Holt-Winters exponential smoothing methods.

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Other Projects 
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1. Database Management Systems Course Project 
	MTech, Semester I 
Oct 2004 - Nov 2004 

Log Based Recovery System for DELite
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. 
Tools : C, DELite
 
2. Data Mining and Warehousing Course Project 
	MTech, Semester II 
Jan 2005 - Apr 2005 

Intrusion Detection using Datamining techniques  
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.  
Tools : Java, Weka, Perl
 
3. Principles of Distributed Systems Term paper  
	MTech, Semester II 
Jan 2005 - Apr 2005 

Query Execution in Distributed Text Databases 
Study of various distributed index organization schemes and the algorithms for processing in parallel batches of 
queries using these organizations.
 
4. Systems Lab Project 
	MTech, Semester II 
Jan 2005 - Apr 2005 

Integrated e-Learning Environment over the Internet  
Tools : J2EE (JBoss 4.0), Java Swing, EJB-QL
 
5. Foundation Lab Project
MTech, Semester I 
Oct 2004 - Nov 2004 

Web-based LDAP Browser  
A Web Interface for LDAP Data Browsing and Editing  
Tools : PHP, Apache Web Server, LDAP API's
 
6. Network Security Course Project 
	MTech, Semester I 
Oct 2004 - Nov 2004 

Weak Keys in Diffie Hellman Protocol 
A study of attacks and vulnerabilities in the Diffie Hellman Protocol

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Other Experiences  
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1. Teaching Assistant for the course Database Management Systems conducted by Prof. Sudarshan and Prof. Krithi Ramamritham.  
2. Teaching Assistant for the course Principles of Distributed Systems conducted by Prof. Umesh Bellur.  
3. Current Industry Interactions Secretary for Information Tech. Association(ITA), KReSIT.
 
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References
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1. Prof. S. Sudarshan 
Professor 
Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Bombay, Powai, Mumbai - 76 
Email : sudarsha@cse.iitb.ac.in 
 
2. Prof. Krithi Ramamritham 
Head 
Kanwal Rekhi School of Information technology IIT Bombay, Powai Mumbai - 76 
Email : krithi@cse.iitb.ac.in 
 
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Declaration 
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I hereby declare that all information above is true to the best of my knowledge.
 
[Prajakta Kalekar]