ÿþADITYA SANKAR E-mail: aditya[at]cs[dot]washington[dot]edu Web: http://www.adityasankar.com EDUCATION 2009 - Present Ph.D. Student Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA Advisor: Steve Seitz 2004-2008 B. Tech. in Information and Communication Technology Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DA-IICT), Gandhinagar, India CPI (CGPA): 8.08/10 SKILLS " Proficient in C, C++, C#, Java and JavaScript " Familiar with .NET Framework, OpenGL, MySQL, LaTeX, HTML, CSS, ASP and JSP " Experience using Adobe Photoshop, Flash, Premier Pro, Microsoft Silverlight, Blend and WPF " Development experience in both Windows, Mac and UNIX environments " A keen sense of Design PROJECTS & RESEARCH India Digital Heritage Project  Mentors: P. Anandan and Joseph Joy (Microsoft Research) Primary designer and developer of a system that enables users to experience an interactive, immersive virtual tour of a famous South Indian Heritage site, built upon Photosynth and HDView technologies. Digital Travelogues  Mentor: Dr. Kentaro Toyama (Microsoft Research) Designed and developed an application to author and display digital travelogues, enabling travel enthusiasts to share their experiences online. Shared Media Annotation  Mentor: Joseph Joy (Microsoft Research) Created a tool that allowed users to remotely collaborate over the task of annotating a video. Participants could chat with their peers and alter each other s interpretation resulting in more accurate annotations. A vision-based perceptual user-interface  Mentor: Prof. Asim Banerjee (DA-IICT) Conceptualized and developed an HCI application to capture a user's hand movements and gestures via a webcam and transform them into cursor motion and actions on the computer screen. Terra Mercuria, a visual representation of music  Mentor: Prof. Nitin Raje (DA-IICT) Implemented a music visualization application, wherein a song is rendered as a dynamic terrain, the features of which change with the pitch, loudness and tempo of the music. MetaCode, a programming contest portal  Mentor: Prof. Asim Banerjee (DA-IICT) Developed a web portal which lets users create customized competitions and have other users compete in a virtual programming arena. (C, C++ and Java languages supported.) ARINC 429 Instrument Testing Software  Mentor: Mr. K. Shridharan (Air India) Developed GUI applications to assist in the testing and overhaul of Air India's Airbus and Boeing aircraft avionics using an aviation standard ARINC 429 serial port adapter. PUBLICATIONS AND PATENTS Sankar, A., Prasad, A., Joy, J., Datha, N., and Manchepalli, A. 2009. Digital heritage. In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Boston, MA, USA, April 04 - 09, 2009). System and method for creating generalized interactive narratives, A. Sankar, J. Joy, A. Prasad. US Patent filed, under review (2009) EXPERIENCE Research Software Developer July 2008  August 2009 Microsoft Research, Bangalore, India Working in the Advanced Development and Prototyping team, contributing to the design and development of ongoing research projects at Microsoft Research India. Research Intern Jan 2008  July 2008 Microsoft Research, Bangalore, India Research Intern with the Advanced Development and Prototyping Group. Developing user interfaces and interaction models to simplify the process of collaboration over the Internet. Research Intern May 2007  July 2007 Microsoft Research, Bangalore, India Research Intern with the Digital Geographics Group. Researched methods to effectively represent location tagged images in the form of a digital travelogue. Student Intern May 2006  June 2006 Air India, Mumbai, India Worked in the Instruments Overhaul Division. Developed applications to aid in the testing of aircraft avionics and flight instruments. Student Volunteer May 2005  June 2005 Sahaj, an NGO for women's development, Gujarat, India Collaborated to apply ICT solutions to the problems faced by the rural community in the Dahod district of Gujarat, India. RELEVANT COURSES OF STUDY " Computer Graphics " Digital Image Processing " Science, Technology & Society " Computer Algorithms " Operating Systems " Computer Networks " Security Protocols " Structured Programming " Object Oriented Programming " Computer Systems Organization PERSONAL ACHIEVEMENTS & HOBBIES " Organizer  Microsoft Research India Puzzle Hunt 2008, Winner  2007. " Meritorious in  IQuizitive , an IQ challenge conducted by Anxa " Lead Designer for Synapse 2007, DA-IICT s annual college festival " Captain of the DA-IICT college basketball team " Stood 1st in Sanskriti School, in the Grade 12 All-India High-School Examinations " Selected as the Vice-Head Boy of Sanskriti School in 2004 CONTACT INFORMATION Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of Washington, Box 352350, Seattle WA 98105 References available on request. ---=x=---