AISHWARYA VENKATARAMAN
7693, Palmilla Drive, #2103 ¥ San Diego CA 92122
(858)-731-6723 ¥ avenkata@cs.ucsd.edu ¥ http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~avenkata/ 

Education:	
 1) Masters in Computer Science (Expected May 2012)                                                                            
    University of California, San Diego
    Specialization: Distributed Computing and Web Security

 2) Bachelor of Technology in Information Technology (July 2004 - May 2008)                                     
    College of Engineering, Guindy, Anna University, Chennai, India                                        
    Thesis: Music Information Retrieval System

Relevant Courses:            
  Programming and Data Structures; Algorithm Design Techniques; Computer Networks; Distributed Systems; 
  Internet Programming; Operating Systems; Computer Security; Unix Internals; 
  Network Programming and Management; Advanced Java Programming; System Software

Skills:                
  Languages Known: C, C++, Java, Python, SQL, Perl, PHP, Groovy.
  Frameworks: Struts2, Spring, Ibatis, Grails, Django
  Platforms: Unix, Mac OS X.

Professional Experience:     
1) Software Developer, DE Shaw and Co India Pvt Ltd, Hyderabad, India (Jun 2008 Ð May 2010)
 Scriptlauncher          
  * Built web interface with Java Web Services and client side Javascript to    
    replace existing Swing client 
  * Utilized internally to run Perl, Tcl scripts remotely for financial 
    calculations.                        
 
 Termite Ð Financial Data mining tool
  * Refactored Java code and reduced response time by 20% for searches and 
    updates.
  * Introduced meta data changes to eliminate redundant data storage.
                          
 Learning and Management System 
  * Added authorization to the learning and management web application used for 
    training purposes.

2) Core member, Team Kurukshetra 2008, International engineering festival of 
   Anna University (Mar 2007 Ð Feb 2008)
  * Developed and maintained the website www.kurukshetra.org.in
  * Acted as liaison between Team Kurukshetra and bharathstudent.com for 
    sponsorship.
  * Co-authored a content management system in PHP used by coordinators to 
    update event pages. 

3) Intern, HCL Technologies, Chennai, India (May 2006 Ð Jun 2006)
  * Developed a web application in ASP.NET titled ÒFacility MovementÓ to 
    facilitate HCL personnel movement to and from a new venue. 

Research Experience: 
1) Analyzed the Crossdomain policies of Flash Applications, UCSD, California (Jan 2011 - Present)
  * Implemented crawler to crawl the Flash crossdomain.xml files of Alexa top 50,000 websites.
  * Build a Graph to analyze the vulnerabilities present in the cross-domain policies of these sites.
  * Found vulnerabilities in 17 % of these sites and submitted a research paper to 2011 IEEE    
    Symposium on Security and Privacy (Results will be out by April 22, 2011).
 

2) Bachelors thesis - Music Information Retrieval System (Jul 2007 Ð May 2008)      
  * Extracted Indian classical songs from repository based on userÕs query. 
  * Songs were indexed based on high level features using Melodic Contour Index 
    Scheme.
  * User query was converted to intermediate representation and pattern matching  
    algorithms were used to match it against the song index. 

3) Intern, TeNet, Indian Institute of Technology(IIT), Chennai, India (Dec 2006   
   Ð Jan 2007)
  * Built a vehicle tracking system with Google Maps API, JavaScript, PHP for 
    Chennai City Corporation.
                             
Teaching Experience:
 Teaching Assistant, Basic Data Structures and Object Oriented (Mar 2011 - Present)    
 Programming, Computer Science Department, UCSD                                                                  
 *Will be leading discussion sections and grading programming assignments.

 Awards:            
  * 1st in the AMCHAM (American chamber of commerce in India) corporate chess 
    tournament in Ô09 and second prize in Ô08.
  * 1st in Zonal Team Chess Tournament organized by Anna University in Ô06 Ð 
    Ô07.