Shrenik Devasani

833 Hopkins Avenue Redwood City, CA 94063 dshrenik@gmail.com shrenikdevasani.com

EDUCATION Master of Science in Computer Science Co-major: Human Computer Interaction Iowa State University, Ames, IA Thesis: Intelligent Tutoring System Authoring Tools for Non-Programmers GPA: 3.66 Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science and Engineering Jain College of Engineering, Bangalore, India EXPERIENCE Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), Palo Alto, CA August 2011 - Present Software Developer, Intelligent Systems Laboratory - Working on Digital Nurse Assistant, a software assistant for nurses that provides just-in-time information - Developed Java-based intelligent decision-support tools, software agents and designed user-interfaces - Developed a website for Parxus, a collection of urban parking services Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), Palo Alto, CA May - August 2011 Software Developer Intern, Intelligent Systems Laboratory - Developed an analytics-engine in Java for Brahms, an agent-based modeling and simulation environment - Analytics-engine helped visualize what-is and what-if scenarios and improve the accuracy of existing models - Designed a model-independent language and architecture that helped generate analytics directly from a simulation Virtual Reality Applications Center, Iowa State University, Ames, IA May 2010 - May 2011 Research Assistant - Was responsible for R&D of intelligent tutoring systems, including user interface design and evaluation studies - Authored five papers and one poster for four international conferences Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, IA Research Assistant - Designed and developed interactive educational material and computer simulations of experiments PROJECTS ConceptGrid August - December 2010 - Domain-independent Java tool that helps non-programmers develop support for natural language processing - Helps provide customized just-in-time feedback to students responses to open-ended questions - Achieved an accuracy of over 0.87 while scoring student-responses Web Authoring Tool - Browser-based C# .NET application that allows users to develop, manage and deploy tutors on the Web - Logs users actions and events for the purpose of data mining - Successfully used by over 50 participants in research and evaluation studies May - June 2010 January - May 2010 December 2011

June 2009

Aqua Gesture Framework May 2010 - Developed a driver in C++ for Windows Touch and AquaG, a framework for developing gesture-enabled applications Video Analysis Tool for Tennis Matches - Generates vital match statistics from a video of a completed tennis match - Ball tracking, event detection and gesture recognition done with OpenCV, a C++ library SKILLS Languages: Java, C, C++, C#, JavaScript, Python, SQL Packages and Platforms: ASP.NET, MATLAB, Adobe Flash CS4, Natural Language Tool Kit, OpenCV March - April 2010

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