Amitabh Trehan
Department of Computer Science,
University of Computer Science,
University of New Mexico,
Albuquerque
New Mexico - 87106
U.S.A.
Website: www.cs.unm.edu/~amitabh
E-mail: amitabh at cs dot unm dot edu
Phone : 505-242-0826
Summary
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Research Assistant (Los Alamos National Labs T-10 Div) and PhD Student, CS, UNM;
M.Tech (Computer Applications) from IIT Delhi
GNU/Linux SCO-system-V RDBMS (admin),C, C++, Java,\LaTeX, SQL, *nix shell, Sybase, Board member, TUGindia, visiting faculty, I.I.T. Roorkee, experience in Organisation Setup, Programming, Sytems administration, Publishing, Research (Algorithms, Digital Publishing, Linguistics, AI) and Education.
Degrees
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Fall 2004 --- University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA
Computer Science, graduate student.
2000 - 2002 --- Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
M.Tech (Computer Applications)
Thesis: A Proposal for a Phonetic based encoding for Indic scripts.
1996 - 1999 --- Indira Gandhi National Open University, Delhi
M.C.A. (Masters in Computer Applications)
Thesis: Neural Networks, Black boxes? and Fuzzy Rule Acquisition.
1993 - 1995 --- NIIT Ltd.
Honours Diploma in System Management
1991 - 1994 D.A.V. College, Punjab University, Chandigarh
B.Sc. (Biology)
Experience
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May 2004 - Aug 2004 Consultant, Sarai
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- Sarai, The New Media Initiative; A project of Center for Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi.
Fall 2003: Visiting faculty, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee
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Database Management: Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Technology.
Feb 1999 - Mar 2004: Project Officer, LILA[1], MGAHV[2]
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- Setup and administration of LILA, lead 4-member team, managing projects,
research, educational activities, Consultation on Free/Open-Source Software
(GNU/Linux, TeX etc.), and education, to various entities
June 1996 - July 1997: Faculty and System Administrator, NIIT Gurgaon Centre, Gurgaon
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- Teaching NIIT courses including UNIX and Sybase, System administrator (SCO System V and Sybase).
Computing skills
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C/C++ (using Libraries math, curses(Terminal graphics),OpenGL(Graphics), etc.) , LaTeX/TeX, *nix Shell scripting, SQL, TSQL, HTML, Java(JDK1.3) with RMI, Intel Assembly, Functional Programming(Lisp, SML), PROLOG.
Platforms:
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GNU/Linux (Administration), SCO Unix, MSWindows. Hardware setup, MySQL, Sybase System 10 RDBMS.
Publications
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- BioSPLASH: A sample workload from bioinformatics and computational biology for optimizing next-generation high-performance computer systems, (Poster Session),
D.A. Bader, V. Sachdeva, A. Trehan, V. Agarwal, G. Gupta, and A.N. Singh,
at 13th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB 2005),
Detroit, MI, June 25-29, 2005.
- Input/Output Technologies, Chapter; Course Book for IGNOU, Sep. 2003.
- Production Editor and Assistant Content Editor, "LILA" [4].
- Typesetting in Devanagari, Persian and Arabic: A beginners Experience: TUG2002 [3], Trivandrum, Sept 2002
Published:- TUGBoat 23(1), 2002, April 2003.
- Multilingual Publishing in the 21st Century, ZiCR (Conference on 21st Century Realism), MGAHV, New Delhi, November 2002.
- Neural networks, Black boxes? and Fuzzy rule acquisition: An Implementation
International Conference on Cognitive Systems(ICCS'99), NIIT Ltd., Phoenix Publications, December 1999.
- poetry: New Quest Jan-Mar 2004, CrimsonFeet Jan-Feb 2004.
Other Professional activities
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-Course Designing of Computer Science curriculum and Teacher training for GNU desktop Publishing course.
-Development/Testing for various Free SW and TeX projects.
-In-charge, Organisation of Caturanga 2001, Pune, Caturanga2002, Trivandrum, MGAHV.
- Organising Committee, TUG2002, Trivandrum.
- Presented at and Organised `Workshop on LaTeX and Free Mathematical Software' Organised by Bhaskaracharya Pratishthaan, Pune and University of Pune June 9-14, Pune.
- Course Writer, MCA course, IGNOU
- Examiner, BCA/ADCA courses, IGNOU
Projects
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-procv: LaTeX package: Sep. 2003 -; developing this package for professional c.v, used for pdf version of this document .
-CyberCampus: MGAHV, 2000-; leading 4-man team for Design, Development of MGAHV websites (www.hindivishwa.org), towards a complete education portal; LaTeX2html Devanagari technology, Free SW, Linux solutions.
-"PanIndic Codes": I.I.T. Delhi, July-Dec. 2002; Phonetic based Encoding for Indic Scripts, developed in my M.Tech. Project. Plan to use in applications like Indian Language keyboard,Voice-to-text and other conversion systems, etc.
-"TeXIla": MGAHV,2000-; TeX for Indian Language Applications. I enhanced devnag support in TeXLive CD, LaTeX2html, developed multilingual documents.
-"OpenGL Graphics": I.I.T. Delhi, 2002; various Graphics assignments using OpenGL.
-2-pass Assembler:I.I.T. Delhi, July-Dec 2000; Java (JDK1.3), Win98.
-JNFS: a cross-platform telnet like system: I.I.T. Delhi, July-Dec 2000; Java (JDK1.3), RMI, Windows, GNU/Linux; A-Grade project in Programming Lab course.
-"Neural Networks and Fuzzy Computing": I.I.T. Delhi, Mar-Oct 1999; C++, GNU/Linux, Win98. M.C.A. Project, equality study of ANNs and Fuzzy Rule-based systems giving automated knowledge acquisition procedure; implementation.
-"Branch Execution Prediction": IGNOU, July 1998; C++, Win95 (Developer Studio) - C++ program for testing conditional branches, included compiler concepts like lexical analysis and parsing and operator precedence.
-"Simulation of a Network Model": IGNOU, Jan 1998; Turbo-C, DOS. Simulated a transport protocol and sliding window protocol, using the same software as sender and receiver.
- ATBase: Microdatabase Management System: NIIT, Sep-Oct 1995; C/curses library, SCO system-V Unix. developed microDBMS with table construction, manipulation, input, indexing and simple query facilities. Discovered the use of difficult curses library for graphical front-end, developed own algorithms.
Memberships
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-President, India Students Association, University of New Mexico.
-General Secretary, UNM Cricket Club, University of New Mexico.
-Board Member, TEX Users Group, India.
-Secretary, TEX Users Group India, Delhi chapter.
-Linux Users Group, Delhi.
-President, Bose Biological Association, D.A.V. College, Chandigarh.
Awards
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- College colour in Public Speaking.
- Awards for Dramatics, Writing, quizzing etc.
- Sports: Teams: IIT Cricket team, College chess team; captain, Hostel, Lawn
Tennis team.
Personal information
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BirthDay: 05 January
-Languages: English (Fluent), Punjabi, French.
-MBTI Personality type: ENTP
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March , 2005
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FootNotes/Endnotes
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[1] Laboratory in Informatics for the Liberal Arts (Computer Science department
of MGAHV)
[2] Mahatma Gandhi Antarrashtriya Hindi Vishwavidyalaya
[3] Annual international conference of the TEX users group
[4] Magazine on and of Free SoftWare, produced by LILA
[5] Annual Conference of MGAHV on Computing and Liberal Arts
[6] Organised by Bhaskaracharya Pratishthan, Pune and University of Pune.
[7] Indira Gandhi National Open University
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