balajibytes - Professional activities

Professional services

Ø Nebraska Educator's Certificate/ Permit - taught dual credit courses.

Ø Supervised three work-study students at Central Community College (CCC), Nebraska, USA.

Ø Advisor for ~40 students every semester at CCC.

Ø Web development course students developed a website for the Cairo Public Housing Authority for apartment rental.

Ø Served in the faculty hiring committee and student scholarship committee at CCC.

Ø Served and worked alongside of the College technology team for college wide in-house projects.

Ø Serving as an advisory board member for the Career Pathway Institute.

Ø Conducted workshops for companies and school students on Data Analysis and Robotics respectively.

Ø Took college students for the industrial visit and conducted guest speaker talks.

Forum

Stack overflow flare

Github repository

I have created a virtual machine for one of my class projects. Some interesting facts about this virtual machine is that it comes pre-installed with SAGE (free open-source mathematics software system), Z3 (theorem prover from Microsoft Research), KLEE(symbolic virtual machine built on top of the LLVM compiler infrastructure), Java, JPF(system to verify executable Java bytecode programs) and Junit. Most importantly, it includes DIG or SymInfer - a state of the art tool for generating numerical invariants using symbolic states extracted from a symbolic execution tool (please visit https://bitbucket.org/nguyenthanhvuh/symtraces/wiki/Home to know more).

Please find the virtual machine here (github) .

Professional activities

IEEE-CAS students workshop [Website]

The IEEE-CAS outreach workshop is planned to give hands-on experience in various image processing and pattern recognition techniques for high school students and teachers. Students will be trained through simple image processing projects, using a set of predefined and easy to use image processing libraries. During the workshop students will be introduced to local research scientists from Industry and Academia, to share their insights and to enable them to think about a career in Circuits and Systems Society themes (CASS).

Although Indian varsity produces a large number of Engineers, the percentage of the school going students to that taking up higher education in CASS related area is very less. The number of students opting for a research career path after their university undergraduate studies in this area is even more depressing. Through this workshop, we intend to advocate and introduce the ever emerging CASS areas of multimedia and image processing, among the high school students and teachers. Further, this area is of prime importance to a society like India, where the use of multimedia technologies has been constantly increasing and has resulted in an increasing demand for CASS professionals. In addition, there is no interaction between the university research labs and high schools in India, which has impaired the quality of students and their interest shown towards learning Electronics and allied subjects.This workshop would act as a program to bridge the gap between the schools and academic research labs.

Service: Reviewer / Technical program committee member

Journal - Served as a reviewer for Information fusion published by Elsevier and IJAPR, IJMISSP published by Inderscience.

Conference - International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI), Pattern Recognition and Image Processing (PRIP). [Springer URL --- Preview URL]

DB training

IBM DB2 UDB - While working as a system engineer in multinational Tata Consultancy Services company, our project involved interaction with different teams such as development, testing, configuration, support, administration, etc. Since most of them are focused only on their day-to-day task and naive or completely unaware about other technologies that help in the overall software product suite, I plan to conduct sessions that would introduce basic concepts of database, followed by project-specific database designs - both online and offline environment.

The training session was conducted during the working hours, therefore, I had to plan each session not more than 2 hours in a day and circulated the benefit of attending this training. People from different teams showed interest to understand the database, the duration of the course was 2 weeks. Through this sessions, the knowledge of back-end technology in software applications became clearer and also the participants felt that the understanding of the database helped in their day to day activities to take well-informed decisions.

IEEE students seminar [Certificate]

During undergraduate, in an attempt to educate 9th to 12th standard students about various possibilities that 20th century has provided them, we organized a seminar that will help school students make aware of different education programs before embarking into the journey of career deciding degree programs in college. The IEEE sponsored event is planned to give an introductory knowledge about the various degree programs. The idea was to help them understand what each degree course signifies through various applications in a real world that they can relate to either research activities, Industry projects, etc. As part of this, final year undergraduate students presented their project and we saw an overwhelming interest from students asking questions as they were better able to relate and understand a particular field of engineering (Computer science, Electronics & Communication, Instrumentation, Electrical, etc).