Jaikishan Jalan
Computer Science and Engineering graduate from Indian School of Mines University, currently pursuing MSc at Iowa State University and working as Research Assistant at Ames Laboratory.
| Headline: | Engineer |
| Skills: | C/C++, Computer Engineering, Java, Languages and Platforms |
| Interested in: | Consulting opportunities, Finding team mates, Meeting new people, Providing services to startups, Trading services |
| Schools: | Iowa State University |
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA |
| Position: | Research Assistant |
| Time period: | January 2009 - Present |
| Description: | Working with Dr. Jennifer Davidson, Department of Mathematics, ISU to build a blind universal stegnanalyzer. The research should be able to take a JPEG image as input and tell if the image has hidden message or not irrespective of embedding algorithm used to embed the message in image. |
| Employer: | Projects |
| Position: | Work experience |
| Description: | Title: Topology Control in power aware ad-hoc networks
Course Project for Distributed Algorithms, ISU Spring 2008 This project surveys various algorithms proposed in the literature for the topology contorl problem in ad-hoc network, do a comparative analysis of the scheme and brings out positive aspects and limitations of each of these schemes. Title: A polynomial time supertree construction method Course Project for Evolutionary Problems in Computational Biology, ISU Fall 2007 Researched and developed a new supertree construction method which guarantees to produce a su- pertree that will always contain some special structured clusters which are present in all the input trees. Title: Digital Watermarking for images and videos Bachelor Thesis, Indian School of Mines University, Dhanbad, Jharkand, India 2005 { 2006 Developed a new spatial domain watermarking system for images and videos by studying, analyzing and improving an existing spatial domain watermarking algorithm for images. The code was written in MATLAB 6.0 and the algorithm was tested against Stirmark Bench attacks to check its robustness. Title: Using Visual Cryptography for Secure Password Management in Hand Held Devices Spansion, Munich, Germany August 2005 { October 2005 Worked online with senior project manager of MTS System Hardware and developed software protocol in Java for the demo on Visual Cryptography and for user scenario of its application for secure password management. |
| Employer: | Nolidz |
| Position: | Starter |
| Description: | Started a product based company named Nolidz. It has released one product so far - Nolidz School which is in BETA stage. It helps to track, monitor and analyse student school level academic data.
It also provide information which helps parents to shape their child academic and non-academic personality. |
| Employer: | Google, Bangalore, Karnataka, India |
| Position: | Engineering Intern |
| Time period: | May 2008 - July 2008 |
| Description: | Developed a geo based android application which tracks user interests based on user movements in physical world with the help of Mapmaker backends. Also developed a new Circle based ranking algorithm (CBRS) to rank the businesses based on user interests. |
| Employer: | Department of Computer Science, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA |
| Position: | Teaching Assistant |
| Time period: | August 2007 - May 2008 |
| Description: | Guided undergraduate students through their course project and administered all their grades for Software Engineering course. |
| Employer: | TATA Consultancy Services, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India |
| Position: | Assistant Systems Engineer |
| Time period: | June 2006 - July 2007 |
| Description: | - Web Analytics Migration, McKinsey & Company, USA
Studied and researched independently on the feasibility of the Omnitures Site Catalyst as a new Web Analytics Tool for their internal portals and websites. Developed system architecture and implemented it for some websites to give a head start to other developers. - Web Communication, McKinsey & Company, USA Developed website for their new offices and conferences from requirement phase to production deployment. Also optimized quality assurance process to met the project requirement. |
| Employer: | Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India |
| Position: | Software Developer Intern |
| Time period: | May 2005 - July 2005 |
| Description: | Developed HTML parser in Java for NEWSRACK (http://newsrack.in) along with its database
schema design. |
EDUCATION
| University: | Iowa State University |
| Time period: | 2007 - 2009 |
| Degree: | Computer Science, MSc |
INFORMATION
| Memberships: | Sankalp, a student organization at Iowa State Universty for funding projects in India
Volunteer 2007 { 2008 Helped in various fund raising activities like football volunteering, Daawat - Dinner for Development, Coin and Can Collection and organized Younkers Community Day Event. Association of Comuting Machinery, Indian School of Mines University Student Chapter Chair 2005 { 2006 Organized various lecture series, programming and gaming contest for on campus student. Collaborated with di erent student chapters to promote inter chapter activities. Increased the chapter membership by 50. School Chalo Project - A Digital Vision Fellowship project at Stanford University, USA Volunteer December 2004 Focused on understanding the economic, societal and hidden factors behind the widespread illiteracy among the extremely disadvantaged. Conducted a survey in villages to nd the basic reason for lack of primary education despite the advance in science and technology. |
| Awards: | Teaching Excellence Award, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA, 2007-2008.
Customer Appreciation Certi cate, TATA Consultancy Services, May 2007. Appreciation Certi cate for outstanding contribution towards problem solving, McKinsey & Com-pany, September 2007. Gold Medalist, Indian School of Mines University, Dhanbad, Jharkand, India, 2002 - 2006. Among top 2% quali ed students out of 200,000 in IIT - JEE from India (2002). |
