September 2007 - September 2008 School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh

I worked as the bio-informatician for the Edinburgh Sequencing Facility of the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), and the School of Biological Sciences Sequencing Service (SBSSS) of the University of Edinburgh.

Jagori needed a website where they could easily add and update information about their campaigns, services, and products. I customized Wordpress (an open source PHP + MySQL publishing platform) for Jagori, so that the Production team could make changes to their website from anywhere in the world, using just a browser, and without knowing any HTML. More…

July 2005 - September 2005, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
Visiting Scholar: Developed tools for classroom research. Analyzed data for studies on how children learn to read, and how novices and experts watch classroom video.

August 2002 - December 2003, Cognitive Development Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Designed and maintained two web sites:

• DV Guide - a guide on using digital video for research
• SMIL Tutorial and Examples - a guide on automating research tasks using the Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language

August 2001 - December, 2002, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Teaching Assistant for three semesters for ‘Computer Simulation in the Social Sciences,’ a graduate level methods course that uses the Mathematica programming language to simulate macro-level phenomena using agent-based interactions. The course was taught by Richard Gaylord.

May 2001 - May 2004, Cognitive Development Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Research programmer for several projects - with Kevin Miller [University of Michigan, Beckman Institute, TimelySnow]:

• Developed a software system for transcribing and presenting digital video. [DV Tools]
• Wrote MATLAB, Mathematica, and Visual Basic scripts to automate data analysis tasks.
• Developed information visualization techniques using Scaleable Vector Graphics (SVG). [SVG Data Visualizations]
• Wrote Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL) code for creating complex research video presentations (synchronizing multiple views, adding voiceovers, close captioning). [SMIL Examples]

March 2000 - May 2000, AmSoft Systems, New Delhi, India
Documentation Designer: Designed and implemented an SGML based documentation system for a dynamic information server developed for Kidata AG (Germany)

July 1998 - January 1999, AmSoft Systems, New Delhi, India
Software Engineer and Resource provider: Planned resources for projects, staffed and trained project teams, and studied new technologies.

January 1998 - June 1998, AmSoft Systems, New Delhi, India
Trainee as part of the Practice School II program of BITS, Pilani: Designed and developed a template based TV and Web Information graphics production system.

June 1998

Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani
More…