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Saurabh Nangia

B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Guwahati (2004-2008), M.S in Computer Science from University of Illinois (2010), Junior Researcher at KBS Research Center (2007), Intern at Amazon.com (2009).

Headline: Entrepreneur
Work status: Full-Time Student
Website: http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/homes/nangia1/
Skills: Business, C/C++, Computer Engineering, Editing, Engineering, English, HTML / CSS, Java, Javascript, Languages, Languages and Platforms, Leadership, Management, Software Engineering, SQL, Web Development, Windows applications, Writing
Next step: When I graduate in May, I will be working on recommendations as a Software Developer Engineer at Amazon.com
Location: Urbana, IL
Groups: V. Dale Cozad New Venture Competition
Visas: USA, Schengen (Europe), India
Interested in: Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding team mates, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Recruiting for my startup
Tags: Computer Science, information technology, Internet
Schools: Indian Institute of Technology, University of Illinois System - Urbana-Champaign

FEATURED STARTUP

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  • Startup type: Competition Entry
  • Status: Active
  • Stage: Prototyping

WORK EXPERIENCE

Employer: Amazon.com
Position: Summer Intern
Time period: May 2009 - August 2009
Description: Implemented heuristics for ensuring high performance in websites. Profiled browsers to identify the expensive components in websites. Offered a full-time position based on my performance.

Employer: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Position: Researcher
Time period: February 2009 - May 2009
Description: Implemented signature based NIDS for analyzing huge packet logs by parallelizing IDS algo-
rithms using MapReduce paradigm on Hadoop running over UIUC’s cloud

Employer: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Position: Teaching Assistant
Time period: January 2009 - May 2009
Description: Held discussion sessions, lab hours and office contact hours.
Graded exams and lab assignments.

Employer: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Position: Teaching Assistant
Time period: August 2008 - December 2008
Description: Taught review sessions and held contact hours for doubt clearing sessions.
Created homework and examination problems and graded them.

Employer: KBS Research Center
Position: Junior Researcher
Time period: May 2007 - July 2007
Description: Proposed and implemented two solutions for image based email spam detection - one based on classification of visual features and other for near duplicate detection of spam images.

EDUCATION

University: University of Illinois System - Urbana-Champaign
Time period: 2008 - 2010
Degree: Computer Science, MSc

University: Indian Institute of Technology
Time period: 2004 - 2008
Degree: Computer Science and Engineering, BEng

PUBLICATIONS

Articles: • B. Mehta, S. Nangia, M. Gupta, W. Nejdl “Detecting Image Spam using Visual Features and
Near Duplicate Detection ”, WWW 2008, 17th International World Wide Conference, Beijing,
China, April 2008. (Acceptance Ratio: 11%)

INFORMATION

Memberships: Member of the IEEE Computer Society
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