Vivek Krishna

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C'est Moi

Who Am I?

Born on March 14th of 1985. Brought up in Coimbatore, TamilNadu present in southern parts of India. Went to Lisieux Matriculation Higher Secondary School. Here, I got to learn my basic skills, discipline, friendship and also basketball :).

Where Am I?

424, South Henderson Street, Apt 4, Bloomington, IN

What Am I Doing?

Doing my second year Masters' in Computer Science Department, Indiana University, Bloomington. My courses include Advanced Databases, Data and Search Informatics, Software Engineering, Advanced Scientific Computing, Database Internal Design, Pervasive Computing and Semantic Web.

What Was I Doing?

Had a long journey before I landed up in Bloomington. I went to Coimbatore Institute of Technology (amongst top 25 technology colleges in India) and studied Computer Science Engineering. I graduated with Disctinction in the year 2006. After which I went in search of a living. :) IBM India Pvt Ltd, offered to help me live, so continued to work for a leading Telecom Client during the year 2006-2008. Here, I worked in several technologies including Java, Struts, Cobol, DB2, SAS, JCL and developed managing skills as well.

How Do I Pass Time?

I am a movie freak, I watch Tamil, Telugu and English movies. Listen to Music(Mastero Illayaraja's, SoftRock and more). I keep stumbling upon when bored. My recent addiction being southpark and Rubik's Cube.

Why Are You Here?

Looking for my Resume ....?

Thinking of joining IU? You can find useful links here and here and here. Life at IU is like this. You can mail me if needed.

Time Pass? Instead you can try this..

If you are really bored, then you can have a look at my pics :)

Also check out what Search Engines' gotta say about me

What Will I Be Doing?

Work with Prof. Mark Hess, shall help him in making his algorithms work better and faster.

Continue attending NaN meeting to gain insight knowledge on complex systems.

Build my abs :)

What Project(s)/Paper(s)/Work(s) Was I Involved? (In the Chronological Order)

Mini Project on cracking the Rat in the Maze Puzzle (Using Backtracking) - 2003

Effective Compression using AVL Trees - 2004

Modelling Astronomical Data @ Indian Institute of AstroPhysics, Bangalore, India - 2006

Build Applications for EMBARQ- An US Telecom Company, IBM India Pvt Ltd - Technologies - Java · MySQL · Cobol · JCL · SAS · IBM-DB2(Certified) · Informatica - 2006-08 · Peek

Worked as a Database Application Developer at UITS, Indiana University, Bloomington - Technologies - PostgreSQL · Python - 2008 · Peek

Project on building a web application from scratch for Recreational Sports, Indiana University. Technologies - PHP · MySQL. - 2008-09 · Peek

Research Assistant under Prof. Mark Hess. Here I work on optimizing algorithms written for accelerator physics and make them run in parallel. - 2009 · Peek

Project on RDF Schema Generation - Technologies - RDF · XML · Java -2009 · Peek

Independent Study with Prof. Fil - Technologies - Ruby and Rails -2009 · Peek