www.ece.arizona.edu/~chandanp/

Objective

Seeking a professional full time position that will utilize and challenge my technical skills and experience

Education

University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

Masters in Computer Engineering, December 2004

Overall GPA: 4.0

Graduate Tuition Scholarship, Academic year 2002

Thesis Title: Intelligent Reuse of CAD models and Manufacturing plans

G.V.P. College of Engineering affiliated to JNTU, Hyderabad, India

Bachelor of Technology in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, June 2002

Coursework

Artificial Intelligence, Database Design, Geometric Modeling and Computer Graphics, Knowledge Systems, Independent Study, Algorithms, Digital Image Analysis, Computer Integrated Manufacturing, Advanced Topics in Algorithms

Projects

Developed a website for Online Web Shopping (IBM Project)

Visual aid System for Scorbot robot using Logitech web cam to help in automatic navigation was developed

Developed a software for Optical Character Recognition of Cursive Handwriting

Developed a Multi-user Interactive System for Simultaneous Embedding of Graphs (MISSEG) which uses DiamondTouch table from Mitsubishi Electric Research Lab

Designed and Implemented a Virtual Network Computing. Using VNC one can operate any computer with any other computer both of which are connected to the Internet

Developed a software which corrects defective floppies by directly accessing floppy disk controller such as NEC PD765 or Intel 8272 and DMA

Relevant Experience

University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

Research Assistant, Computer Science Department, Aug 2003 Present

Developed GUI based Application software for DiamondTouch table from Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs

University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

Java and Flash Programmer, Chemistry Department, Sep 2002 Present

Develop Flash movies, animations in Applets to demonstrate principles of Physics and Chemistry.

Created concept maps using JDBC, Java applets and JavaScript

Skills

	Operating Systems	UNIX, Solaris, Linux, Windows 98/2000/NT/XP
	Programming Languages	C, C++, Java, Pascal, Visual C++ (Win 32 API, MFC), Python, Assembly Language (8085, 8086), BASIC, JavaScript, Servlets, Applets
	Applications	HTML, MS Access, Lotus Notes, MySql, Oracle, ACIS, DirectX, MS Office, Open GL, Pro Engineer, ColdFusion, Dreamweaver, Flash
	Spoken Languages	English, Hindi, Telugu

Awards and Activities

IBM-Application Developer Certified

Brainbench Certification in C

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Student Member

1^st prize in Software Contest at www.designnotes.com for Computer based Function Generator

Awarded 1^st prize in National Level Software Contest, GYAN JYOTI 2001 for Simulation of shunt motor

Achieved 1^st prize in National Level Software Contest, ECHO 2001 for Simulation of shunt motor

Publications

Chandan Pitta, Cesim Erten and Stephen G. Kobourov, Morphing Planar Graphs, 20th Annual Symposium on Computational Geometry (SCG), to appear in 2004

Chandan Pitta, Cesim Erten and Stephen G. Kobourov, Intersection-Free Morphing of Planar Graphs, 11th Symposium on Graph Drawing (GD), p. 320-331, 2003.