Kunal Deepak Shah
kdshah@unity.ncsu.edu
http://www4.ncsu.edu/~kdshah
1707/3, Crest Road
Raleigh, NC 27606
Ph#: (919) 829 0532
Objective
A full time position that will help me create niche in the areas of computer
networking, embedded systems and systems programming.
Education
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M.S. Computer Science (June 2003)
North Carolina State University,
Raleigh, NC
GPA: 4.16/4.00 (A+ = 4.33 GPA)
Computer
Skills
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Languages: C, C++, Java, Assembly (x86), SQL
Operating Systems: Solaris, VxWorks, Linux, Windows NT/2000/9x, DOS
Database Systems: Oracle 8i, MS Access, MySQL
Tools/Packages/SDE: MPICH, J2EE, J2SE, Apache Axis, Tornado, Opnet Modeller,
ClearCase, System Architect, Rational Rose, MS Project
Web Development: PHP, ASP, Java Servlet, Java Script, HTML
Protocols/Technology: MPI, OpenMP, XML, WSDL, SOAP, MPLS, LDP, VLAN,
IGMP, TCP/IP, SIP, OSPF, RSVP, DiffServ, IntServ, RTP, RTCP, ATM, OOP, OOD.
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Work
Experience
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B.E. Information Technology (June 2001)
Nirma
Institute
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Technology,
Ahmedabad, Gujarat University
GPA: 3.98/4.00, Rank: 2/46
Software Co-op – Allied Telesyn Networks (May’02- Dec’02)
Developed a configurator for coordinating message passing between layer 2 protocol
tasks using C, C++ in VxWorks RTOS under WRS Tornado environment.
Graduate Research Assistant - Computer Science Dept., NCSU (Aug’01-May’02,
Jan’03-May’03)
Developed a vision system for object recognition in gaming systems (for use by a
cognitive model) based on image segmentation algorithms.
Intern – Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India (Jan’01 –April’01)
Redesigned and implemented a smart card application to make it platform and
database independent. It involved embedded SQL programming in C.
Relevant
Courses
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Design and Analysis of Algorithms
Cluster Computing
Internet Protocols
Multimedia Computing and Networking
Operating Systems Concepts
Awards &
Publications
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“Connecting a cognitive model to dynamic gaming environments: Architectural and
image processing issues”, Kunal Shah, Sameer Rajyaguru, Robert St. Amant and
Frank Ritter in International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (ICCM), 2003.
Awarded Gold medal for securing first position in Gujarat University in 2nd Year.
Selected to present a paper on ‘UMTS: From 2G to 3G and Beyond’
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Academic
Projects
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Web Services
High Speed Networks
Data Structures and Algorithms
Software Engineering
Adv. Database Management Systems
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Implemented WSTx-a middleware for providing transaction support in the current
Web Services framework and conceptualized at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center.
Conducted design study to provide DPCL (Dynamic Probe Class Library) support
for MPICH on Linux and implemented some feasibility tests for its verification.
Proposed changes in MPICH and DPCL, some of which have now been incorporated
in the actual implementations.
Implemented a simple reliable transport protocol (SRTP) which provides the
reliability and robustness of TCP on top of UDP datagram service
Implemented few compiler optimizer components such as basic block, dominator
and loop detectors and a peephole optimizer.
Developed a user level non-preemptive thread library (POSIX compliant).
Implemented JPEG algorithm for image compression.
Simulated various process/thread scheduling policies (MLFS, SJF and the like).
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Student Ambassador in the “Minority Career Fair” at NC State University.
Organized the ‘Programming & Debugging’ Contest in a state level IT fair
Former Member of Linux Users Group, Ahmedabad and Computer Society of India
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Activities
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