PANKAJ RAJAN 2733 47th Street S 221, Fargo, ND 58014 • 9795712463 • sachuin23@gmail.com

EDUCATION

Master of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, College Station 3.7/4.0 Bachelor of Technology (Honors), Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology-Rourkela (India), May 2006 8.00/10.0

RELEVENT COURSE WORK

• Analysis of Algorithms • Pattern Recognition • Gesture Recognition

• Distributed Objects Programing • Human Computer Interaction • Industrial Management

• Operating system • Speech and Face Recognition • Computer Vision

PROGRAMING SKILLS

• C • C# • C++ • MATLAB • PHP • Ruby • MySQL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Software Development Engineer in Test, Microsoft Corporation Jan 2011 – till date

• Working as a SDET with Microsoft Dynamics Ax Client Team for development of UI Automation framework using C#. Other responsibilities include participation in code reviews, test feature development and exploring areas for automation.

Product Development Engineer II, Advanced Micro Device June 2008 – Jan 2011 Team Lead AMD Fusion and AMD Bulldozer • Day to day responsibility includes gathering requirements from various teams, scoping projects,

designing and developing code in C++, supporting AMD overseas production facilities and helping team members with their technical issues and concerns.

ACADEMIC RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Sketch Recognition Lab, Texas A&M University College Station Feb 2007- Dec 2008 Research Assistant • Developed vision based gesture recognition system.

• Conducted research on extraction of meaningful stroke data from scanned in drawings images that can be recognized on state of art sketch recognition systems.

• Participate in different research activities like proposal review, paper review, ethnographic studies etc.

Department of Architecture, Texas A&M University College Station Feb 2007- May 2008 Graduate Assistant Research

• Helped PI to write proposal which was selected for $30,000 startup grant by National Endowment for Humanities.

• Worked on High Dynamic Range Imaging Applications in monitoring color information using digital images.

• Developed algorithms for image segmentation, dynamic ranging and tone mapping.

• Researched and implemented algorithms for shadow removal from digital images and color retrieval.

Pankaj Rajan

Image Processing and Computer Vision Lab, NIT Rourkela, India Sep 2003- Mar 2006 Undergraduate Research associate

• Worked on supervised Image Segmentation.

• Assisted in development of Markov Random Fields based image segmentation.

• Implemented image processing algorithms in C.

Computer Vision Lab, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich May 2005- Aug 2005 Undergraduate Research Intern

• Worked on detection of Dissection membrane in Aorta using dicom images.

• Developed Nonlinear Line Detection Filter in MATLAB. • Implemented Aorta Modeling of Aorta using Mevislab a C++ image processing library.

PUBLICATION

• "Neural Network Based Learning Technique: Application in Intelligent Driving." International Conference on Systemic, Cybernetics and Informatics-2004 India. 2007

• "Recovering Sketch Information from Sketched Data." IAP-Texas A&M University. 2007

• "Free-Sketch Recognition:Putting the CHI in Sketching." CHI 2008. ACM , 2008

• "Neural Network based Approach For: Text Recognition in 3D." International Conference on Neural Information Processing of the Asia-Pacific Neural Network Assembly. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2008

• "Primitive Sketch Recognition Using Gestural and Geometric Features to Produce Normalized Confidence Values." IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing Herrschingam Ammersee, Germany. 2008

• "From pen to machine: Extracting strokes from images for sketch recognition." Fifth Eurographics Workshop on Sketch-Based Interfaces and Modeling Annecy France June-10-June-11. ACM, 2008

• "Digital Imaging and HDRI based approach for preserving cultural Heritage." The 14th International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia VSMM 2008, dedicated on Digital Heritage. February 2008

• "Cast Shadow Removal using augmented region enhancement and reconstruction." International Conference on Advances in Pattern Recognition . IEEE Computer Society, 2008

• "Applying Online Sketch Recognition to a Scanned in Document." User Interface Software Technology. January 2009

• "Recording and Documenting Chromatic Information of Architectural Heritage." Journal of Cultural Heritage. Elsevier, April 2010.

• “Evaluation of Paper Pen based interface”, The 16th International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems, USA, Oct 2010

HIGHLIGHTED CAREER ACHIEVEMENTS

• Computer Science Fellowship, 2008-2009- out of state tuition waiver and $1000 scholarship.

• Startup Grant, National Endowment for Humanities, 2007 to 2009 - Assisted Dr Wei Yan, Asst. Professor TAMU for writing a grant proposal which was selected for $30,000 NEH grant.

• One of the seven students selected from all over India for Bharat Petroleum Scholarship, 2007-2008 worth $8000.

• Two times winner of State Talent search fellowship , awarded to top 20 students in the state on basis of written test and interview, by Department of Science and Technology, Jammu and Kashmir .

• Secured 21st rank in state of Jammu and Kashmir (India) in Secondary school examination. 1997