Prateek Srivastava Room-211, Hostel-8,

B.Tech IIT Bombay,

Computer Science and Engineering Department Powai, Mumbai-400076.
IIT Bombay +91-9819089176
11th October 1987
Email: prateeksri@cse.iitb.ac.in

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION

Percentage
Educational status Year Institution
obtained

City Montessori School, Gomti

High School 2003 95.6%
Nagar, Lucknow
(ICSE)

City Montessori School, Gomti

Intermediate 2005 94.5%
Nagar, Lucknow
(ISC)

B.Tech GPA(upto 6th

Due to complete in
(Computer Science) IIT Bombay semester)
May 2010
8.71(out of 10)

SCHOLASTIC ACHIEVEMENTS

 Attained a GRE score of 1540 (2009)

 Institute Rank 4 at the end of first year (2006)
 Placed in top 1% student in National Physics Olympiad (2005)
 Ranked 10th all over India in National Cyber Olympiad (2004)
 Ranked among top 30 students all over India in National Astronomy Olympiad (2004)
 Ranked 30th all over India in National Mathematics Talent Competitions (2004)
 Cleared National Talent Search Examination (NTSE) upto semi-final stage (2003)

RESEARCH INTERNSHIPS

UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, Vancouver, Canada (May „09 - Jul „09)

“The Curious George Project”
 Selected for internship by the prestigious MITACS Canada among 150 applications from several IITs
 Work was locating different objects in the room by using a pair of cameras(computer vision)
 Used MATLAB/C++ for coding and learned statistical techniques such as RANSAC and SVD
 Presented my work at an International Research Symposium held at UBC attended by faculty
members and graduate students from various Canadian universities

VIRGINIA TECH, Virginia, USA (May „08 - Jul „08)

“Analyzing Properties of Social Network”
 Designed and implemented a new faster heuristic to identify different cliques in a graph
 The heuristic was to be used to analyze clustering properties of social networks
“Outbreak”
 Developed a RPG prototype for an educational game on XNA Game Studio using C#
 Played a key role in game conceptualization and designing

RESEARCH PROJECTS

GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM (Senior Thesis) (Jul „09 – till date)

 GIS is a technological tool for comprehending geography and making intelligent decisions
 Extracting road network from vectorized map information
 Identification of discontinuities in road networks due to obliteration by trees, tunnels, bridges and others

SEMANTIC KNOWLEDGE BASED SCENE COMPLETION (Junior Thesis) (Dec „08 - Apr „09)
 Extensively surveyed various Image Completion techniques
 Studied and implemented algorithm for filling in the missing region of an image using its semantics
 Applications include automatic replacement of undesirable parts of an image

AUDIO STEGANOGRAPHY AND AUDIO WATERMARKING – AUDIOCRYPT (Jul „09 - till date)
 Studied various techniques for hiding data in audio files and audio watermarking to develop a
cryptographic library (AudioCrypt) for MATLAB
 Applications include covert communication, copyright protection and broadcast monitoring

OTHER PROJECTS

HINDI MOVIE DATABASE (HMDB) (Database Project) (Oct „08 - Nov „08)
 Designed and developed a web application HMDB, an IMDB analogue exclusively for bollywood movies
 Technologies used were JSP, Java Servlets, Ajax, SQL and JavaScript

HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (Software Systems Project) (Feb „08 - Mar „08)
 Developed an online portal to manage the profiles of job applicants and providing an interface to the
companies to look for potential employees
 Technologies used were JSP, Java Servlets, JavaMail, SQL, JavaScript, HTML and CSS

ROUTING ALGORITHMS VISUALIZATION (Data Structures Project) (Oct „07 - Nov „07)
 Developed a user interactive Java applet for visualizing different network routing algorithms
 The applet explained the working of these algorithm in detail on a user created graph

EXTRA-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

 Yahoo HackU Day Organizer, Offered the position of Campus Ambassador for the year (2009)
2009-10 and a summer internship at Yahoo India, Bangalore for May- July 2009
 Secured 1st position in a business competition THE GAME organized by ECell, IITB (2007)
 Worked as a Coordinator in Techfest, the annual science and technology festival of IIT Bombay (2008)
 Was part of the dance team which was awarded 2nd position in PAF, IIT Bombay (2007)
 Held the post of Captain in the school (04-05)
 Participated in several dance competitions in school
 Ranked among top 10 out of 200 teams in Puzzle Hut, Techfest (2009)
 Done a course in reading and writing French
 An avid trekker and adventure-sports enthusiast, hiked to numerous peaks around Mumbai,
Virginia(US) and Vancouver(Canada) and done activities like Scuba-diving, Rafting, Mountain
Biking, Ice Skating and Rollerblading
 Have an avid interest in fine arts, playing table tennis and learning new words (linguistics)
MAJOR COURSES

 Mathematics I (Calculus and Analytic Geometry)

 Mathematics II (Linear Algebra)
 Mathematics III (Differential Equations)
 Discrete Structures
 Data Structures and Algorithms
 Formal Methods
 Probability, Random Processes and Stochastic Processes
 Computer Organization and Design
 Design and Analysis of Algorithms
 Theory of Computation
 Operating Systems
 Databases and Information Systems
 Theory of Computation
 Principles of Programming Languages
 Computer Networks
 Artificial Intelligence
 Language Processors
 Linear Optimization
 Cryptography and Network Security (Elective)
 Advanced Network Security (Elective)
 Advanced Computer Networks (Elective)

REFERENCES

 N.L. Sarda
Professor,
Department of Computer Science,
IIT Bombay, India
Email : nls@cse.iitb.ac.in

 Jim Little
Professor,
Department of Computer Science,
University of British Columbia, Canada
Email : little@cs.ubc.ca

 Madhav Marathe
Professor,
Department of Computer Science
Virginia Tech, US
Email : mmarathe@vbi.vt.edu

 Anil Vullikanti
Assistant Professor,
Department of Computer Science
Virginia Tech, US
Email : akumar@vbi.vt.edu