Product Engineer Pavan Kumar Phone: 858-­‐366-­‐8284 9450 Gilman Dr., UCSD #40078, La Jolla, CA 92092-­‐0100 E-­‐Mail: pavan@eng.ucsd.edu Website: http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~pavan/ | LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/pavankumarpn Education University of California, San Diego September 2013 – March 2015 Master of Science, Computer Science and Engineering | GPA: 3.66 Primary Concentration: Software Engineering; Secondary Concentration: Entrepreneurship; Certifications: Micro-­‐MBA. Activities and Societies: Ubiquitous Computing Lab, William von Liebig Entrepreneurism Center, Moxie Center for Entrepreneurship. M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India September 2008 – June 2012 Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics and Communication Engineering | GPA: 8.96/ 10 Activities and Societies: Data Mining and Machine Learning Laboratory, IEEE MSRIT Student Branch, Robotics Club, TEDx MSRIT. Work Experience Chief Technology Officer / Co Founder, Wearless Tech Inc., San Francisco, CA. October 2014 to Present •
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Product: Cocoon Cam – Wearless Smart Baby Monitor (cocooncam.com) Developed application to measure heart rate, respiratory rate from video and temperature sensing using infrared technology. Designed hardware and cloud platform to stream video and sensor data over Wi-­‐Fi network and perform computer vision. Received several awards including NSF I-­‐Corps, Zahn Prize by The Moxie Center, Most Practical Solution Award at MedHack. Worked with 8000+ lines of C/ C++, Perl, Swift and Ruby on Rails Code. Staff Research Associate – 2, University of California, San Diego, CA. April 2015 to Present • Designed MySQL database schema and developed computer scripts to automate Cocoon Cam data collection and analysis. • Created AWS/ RDS infrastructure and developed scheduler to manage connected devices, process and store experimental data. • Designed and developed next-­‐generation outreach technology for UCSD AVRC. Engineering Intern, Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA. June 2014 – September 2014 • Developed simulation framework to measure the performance of job scheduling algorithms in a complex queuing system. • Designed database connector optimized for transaction time and incremental data storage using Perl DBI and SQL. Technical Marketing Engineer, NetApp Inc. •
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July 2012 – August 2013 Developed solution for storage administrators to transition storage management software (received good customer adoption). Designed and developed script-­‐plugins in Perl to perform active storage management tasks and demonstrate product features. Conducted performance analysis, developed technical reports to highlight best practices and provided customer support. Owned storage protection and performance management features of NetApp OnCommand Unified Manager. Product planning (technical/ functional specs), alpha/ beta programs, product demonstration and technical support. Managed a testing environment consisting of servers, storage controllers and virtual machines. Technical Skills Programming: C, Java, Perl, Python, SQL, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, OpenCV and MATLAB. Operating Systems: Linux -­‐ Ubuntu, CentOS, KVM, OSX, Windows -­‐ Desktop/ Server, VMware ESX, NetApp Data ONTAP. Version Control: Git, Perforce, SVN. IDE: MS Visual Studio, Eclipse, Xcode and VIM. Technologies: Computer Vision, Algorithm Design, Data Engineering, Ubiquitous Computing, HCI, Software Engineering. Entrepreneurship: Business Model Canvas, Go To Market, Customer Interviews, User Interaction Design, Technical Marketing. Publications and Patents •
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Patent Pending: ‘System And Method For Monitoring Biological Status Through Contactless Multi-­‐Sensing’ 2015 Patent Pending: ‘Sensing Method for Non-­‐Contact Vital Sign Monitoring’ 2014 ‘Intelligent Collaborative Surveillance System’, IEEE -­‐ ICATE 2013 ‘Comparison of Classification Algorithms for Network Intrusion Detection Systems’, Elsevier -­‐ ICECIT 2012 ‘Ingenious Approach to the Design of Unmanned Ground Vehicular Systems’, ASME -­‐ ICCAE 2012 Page 1 of 2 Product Engineer Projects MyePlay: Eye Tracking Based Entertainment Suite for LIS Patients | myeplay.herokuapp.com October 2014 – December 2014 • Designed a eye-­‐movement controlled YouTube player and pong game using ‘The Eye Tribe’, Webkit, NodeJS and AngularJS. • Managed a team of 7 undergrad students and developed algorithm for precise eye tracking on different display resolutions. Learnr: In-­‐Video Search Engine | learnrsearch.herokuapp.com March 2014 – June 2014 • Designed an in-­‐video search engine to index and search within audio transcripts and play the video from relevant location. • Developed web-­‐application using MVC Framework, HTML/ CSS/ PHP/ YouTube API and deployed it on Heroku platform. Dataflow Analysis Framework for LLVM Compiler March 2014 – June 2014 • Designed a dataflow analysis framework to create, manage control flow graphs with worklist algorithm, using C++. • Developed client analyses such as Constant Prop, Available Expressions, Range Analysis and Intra-­‐procedural Pointer Analysis. Intelligent Collaborative Surveillance System January 2012 – June 2012 • Conceptualized and developed an intelligent system to identify and track people through surveillance camera networks. • Developed application for real-­‐time face detection, recognition and tracking in surveillance video using OpenCV/ C++. Classification Algorithms for Network Intrusion Detection System March 2012 – June 2012 • Implemented Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm for clustering of network data using C and pcap library. • Evaluated the accuracy, training time, memory performance of classification algorithms on NSL-­‐KDD dataset (Data Mining). Moksha: Intelligent Autonomous Ground Vehicle March 2011 – June 2012 • Designed an autonomous vehicle capable of lane, obstacle detection (Camera/ LIDAR/ Ultrasonic sensors) and GPS navigation. • Developed software to perform lane tracking, localization and vehicle control and using C++, OpenCV and Visual Studio. Achievements •
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Completed Micro-­‐MBA Certification from Rady Center for Executive Development, UC San Diego. 2015 Technical Reviewer for the book, ‘OpenCV with Python By Example’ for PACKT Publishing 2015 Received $50,000 NSF Innovation Corps Award (#1542255) to commercialize project ‘Cocoon Cam’ 2015 Winner, ‘Zahn Prize’ by The Moxie Center, University of California, San Diego 2015 ‘Most Practical Solution Award’, MedHack, San Francisco (30+ judges from Technology and Medical domain) 2014 Best Paper Award, International Conference on Electrical, Communication and Information Technology, India 2012 Co Organized TEDx MSRIT and Received delegate scholarship to participate in world TEDx Summit, Doha, Qatar 2012 th
5 Place in Design Group, Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition, Oakland University, Michigan 2012 Received INR 300,000 project grant from Karnataka Knowledge Commission, IEEE AIYEHUM and MSR foundation 2010 st
1 Prize – Website Design Competition, VITM, India 2007 Awarded ‘Intel Fellowship’ and interned under Prof. Soumitra Das at Indian Institute of Science, India 2006 ‘Best of Subject Category Award’ for project ‘Mastitis Treatment Supporting Formula’, Intel Science Talent Discovery Fair 2005 Mentions in Media • Cocoon Cam, the first Wellness Video Baby Monitor. Jacobs School of Engineering, UC San Diego, 2015. http://jacobsschoolofengineering.blogspot.com/2015/07/cocoon-­‐cam-­‐first-­‐wellness-­‐video-­‐baby.html • Building a Better Baby Monitor, Newsletter, Computer Science and Engineering Department, UC San Diego, 2014. http://www.cse.ucsd.edu/node/2674 • Theisen, Bernard L., and Andrew Kosinski. "The 20th annual intelligent ground vehicle competition: building a generation of robotists." IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging. International Society for Optics and Photonics, 2013. • Robots in slugfest, Highlight of National Robotics Competition at MSRIT was a physical showdown between the robots which tested their strength, maneuverability and technical superiority, Bangalore Mirror, February 23, 2012. http://www.scribd.com/doc/214039542/Robots-­‐in-­‐Slugfest-­‐Bangalore-­‐Mirror-­‐Article • When R2D2 meets Endhiran, The Times of India, Crest Edition, April 2012. http://www.timescrest.com/coverstory/when-­‐r2d2-­‐meets-­‐endhiran-­‐7695 th
• Indian team ranks 10 in Vehicle Design Contest, News India Times, New York, July 22, 2011. http://www.scribd.com/doc/101615298/Indian-­‐Team-­‐Wins-­‐10th-­‐Place-­‐in-­‐US-­‐Competition Page 2 of 2