Astroquery
Google Summer of Code 2013
I was selected as a student developer in the Google Summer of Code 2013. I worked for Astropy under the Python Software foundation. My project involved re-writing and implementing several core modules of Astroquery, a python package that helps astronomers query web data. Check out this publication or browse my contributions below (github handle : jdnc)
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Robot Soccer
While at UT Austin I took the Autonomous Robotics class under Dr Peter Stone. The class involved several challenging projects that involved programming the Nao robot to play soccer. For my final project I worked on a Visual odometry system to help the robot navigate during the match, albeit with mixed results.
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Implementing GNU cp with Linux Async I/O
In this project I re-wrote the cp command in GNU coreutils to use asynchronous I/O. For the purposes, I wrote implementations using both the POSIX AIO as well as the kernel AIO and analyzed performance outcomes. This is now available on my github repo.
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Predictive Analysis
During my research assistantship at the Poldrack Lab (then at UT Austin), I worked on applying predictive analytic techniques to synthesize fMRI images from a large body of textual data. All the code was based of python libraries including scikit-learn and nilearn
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Semantic Textual Similarity
During my grad course on Natural Language Processing, at UT, I explored the Sematic Textual Similarity challenge and approached the problem using tree kernels to compare parse trees. this approach yielded a significantly better approach compared to the winning entry in Sem Eval
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Gamifying Crowd-Sourced Relevance Assessments
I took a diversity course on Information Retrieval at UT, in which I explored the success of crowd-sourced relevance assessments when it was gamified. I implemented a prototype of the game and we carried out a Usability survey
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Symbolic Code Execution : A Survey
Not so way back in my undergrad, I presented a seminar on Symbolic Code execution, the amalgam of static and dynamic code analaysis. This survey will be published in the upcoming issue of the Computer Science Journal of India.
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