CHANDAN PITTA

(520) 248 4345
chandanp@ieee.org
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
	* Comparitive study and implementation of various graph morphing techniques

	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

Awards and Activities
	* IBM-Application Developer Certified
	* Brainbench Certification in C
	* Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Student Member
	* 1st prize in Software Contest at www.designnotes.com for ‘Computer based
	  Function Generator’
	* Awarded 1st prize in National Level Software Contest, GYAN JYOTI 2001 for
	  "Simulation of shunt motor"
	* Achieved 1st 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.