Sandesh D. Tawari ----------------- ::: Permanent Address ::: c/o Vinod G. Fafat Dr. Bedi's House, 217, Laxminagar, Nagpur - 440022, Ph: +91-712-2227008. ::: Web ::: http://www.it.iitb.ac.in/~sandesh/ sandesh@it.iitb.ac.in ::: Academic Profile ::: - Currently pursuing M.Tech (IT) at Kanwal Rekhi School of Information Technology, IIT-Bombay. CPI - 9.40 (semesters 1 and 2, and MTP first stage). Expected to graduate by July, 2005. - B.E. (CSE) from S.G.G.S College of Engg. & Tech., Nanded (S.R.T. Marathwada Univ., Nanded) in July 2004 with 81.9% - 12th from K.P.C.V.S.S School, Chennai (Affiliated to AICBSE, New Delhi) in July 2000 with 89.2%. - 10th from K.S.V.S.S. School, Chennai (Affiliated to AICBSE, New Delhi) in July 1998 with 81.2%. ::: Projects, Seminar, and Termpapers Detail ::: - M.Tech Project => Web based Named Entity Recognition. Guide: Prof. Sunita Sarawagi. Web-NER aims at extracting entities of interest from web pages. The scale, unstructuredness, and diversity of the web pose challenges to NER on the web pages. The rich HTML structure, that encloses the web content, opens opportunities for exploiting visual/spatial cues, in addition to the information available from the text sequence. We intend to capture this notion of visual representation, which is easily perceived by humans, through feature engineering. Also, we intend to exploit auxillary sources of information related to the entity. We propose an integrated multi-stage approach towards the problem. In our initial attempts, we have used CRFs for the task of extraction. - M.Tech Seminar => Classification, Clustering and their Application for Damage Detection in Mechanical Structures. Guide: Prof. Sunita Sarawagi. Here, we surveyed some of the classification and clustering algorithms and discussed an application involving use of Instance-based learning techniques for damage detection in mechanical structures where huge amount of data is available and where the number of target variables to be predicted are also very high. - B.E project => Design and Implementation of a Native XML Filesystem. Guide: Mr. P.S Nalawade (SGGS College of Engg. and Tech.) and Mr. Akhilesh Shirbhate We designed and gave a proof of concept implementation of a Native XML Filesystem. Such a filesystem is XML aware in sense that it is specially designed for natively storing XML and provides logical access to XML data. Native XML databases ignore the underlying storage model and care for providing only logical access, and hence, performance of applications using these databases suffer. We feel that a solution for storage and access of XML forms a building block of many big XML systems, and hence it must be at filesystem level. In our approach, the storage and access models are inspired by XISS system. - Course Projects and Termpapers =>First Semester = Implementation Techniques in DBMS - Implementation of left-deep tree based Query Optimization for light weight DBMS(Delite) for handheld devices using C. = Object Oriented Technology - Design and implementation of Query Engine of XMLSpaces - An Associative Distributed Shared Memory System for XML documents. We defined our own Query language which was similar in some aspects to XPath. Tools used - Java, JavaCC, JUnit, XML, XPath, XQuery. = Course termpaper in Object Oriented Technology- Applications of Aspect Oriented Programming to Middleware Systems. =>Second Semester = Systems Lab - Secure Grade System using the Smart Cards in circulation at IIT Bombay. It allows a professor to sign the grades which are then stored in an untrusted database. These grades can later be verified for checking any tampering. Tools used - Java, Java WebStart, PC/SC Smart Card API and its JNI wrapper. = Data Mining - Implementation of the Scalable EM clustering algorithm in Weka, a popular Data Mining platform. Tools used - Java, Weka. = Web Mining \& Information Retrieval - Study and implementation of Blelloch's document-id reordering algorithm for improving gamma-coding based inverted index compression. Tools used - Lucene. = Course termpaper in Principles of Distributed Computing - Dependency Based Root Cause Localization. ::: Extra Curricular Activities ::: - Was the Cultural Secretary in year 2002-2003 at S.G.G.S. College of Engineering and Technology. - Was the one of the editors for QUASAR - the technical journal of dept. of C.S.E at S.G.G.S. College of Engineering and Technology, Nanded. - Was the web admin in year 2003-2004 at S.G.G.S. College of Engineering and Technology. - Won prize at College level software contest in 2003-2004. - Selected for 10 day NSS camp in 2002-2003. Organized few blood donation camps under NSS. ::: Skill sets ::: OS: Linux, Windows, DOS. Programming Languages: C, C++, Java. Scripting Languages: Perl, PHP, Shell Scripting. Databases: MySQL, Postgresql. W3C Technologies: HTML, DHTML, CSS, Javascript, XML, XSchema, XPath, XSLT. Other Tools: Matlab, Linux Tools. ::: Summer Internship ::: Summer Internship at Deusco Technologies, IIT-Bombay in June,2002-July,2003. We were involved in building of a Rich Web based Widget Toolkit. ::: Other Academic Details ::: - GATE-2004 percentile was 98.83 with an All India Rank of 406. - Qualified NCST G-Level examination-2004 and was among the top 2 of the country. - Qualified NCST D-Level examination-2001 and secured 95 percentile. - Topped University in 1st,2nd, and 4th Year of B.E.(CSE). ::: Personal Details ::: - Date of Birth: 4th February, 1983. - Nationality: Indian ::: Declaration ::: - The above furnished information is true to the best of my knowledge. Sandesh Tawari October, 2005 IIT Bombay, Mumbai.