S A G N I K      B H A T T A C H A R Y A

1800 - Jefferson Park Avenue,
Apt #208, 
Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 
sagnik@virginia.edu
Phone: (434) 296-6218

Department of Computer Science,
University of Virginia, 
Charlottesville, VA 22901
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~sb2jb
Phone: (434) 982-2298



OBJECTIVE
Looking for a challenging full-time position in software design/development in the field(s) of Software Engineering / Distributed Systems / Systems Software.

EDUCATION
* University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 
School of Engineering and Applied Science
Master of Computer Science
May 2002 (Expected)
GPA - 3.87 /4.0

* Indian Institute Of Technology, Kharagpur
Bachelor of Technology (Computer Science & Engineering)
Honor: First Class with Distinction
May 2000

COMPUTER SKILLS
* Languages: C, C++, Java, Visual C++, Tcl, 80x86 Assembly
* Platforms: SunOS, Unix, Linux, Windows 2000/NT/98, DOS
* Tools & Others: NS-2 simulator, Lex, Yacc, HTML, Socket Programming

WORK EXPERIENCE
* Graduate Research Assistant
University of Virginia, Department of Computer Science

* Working as a part of the Deeply Embedded Networking Group that deals with providing an infrastructure for aggregation and communication in sensor networks. Currently working on the problem of developing distributed content distribution heuristics using multicast techniques for conserving bandwidth and battery power.
Nov 2000 - Present

* Graduate Teaching Assistant        Sept 2000 - May 2001
      University of Virginia, Department of Computer Science
   * Computer Architecture (Graduate level , Fall 2000)
   * Introduction to Computing (Spring 2001)

* Summer Intern Member of Technical Staff
Regional Computer Center, Calcutta, India
   * Contributed to development of software support for the distance education program.
  June 1999 - August 1999


RELEVANT GRADUATE COURSEWORK
* Ubiquitous / Pervasive Computing
* Theory of Computation
* Building Complex Software Systems
* Advanced Operating Systems
* Stochastic Processes
* Computer Networks
* Deeply Embedded Networks
* Advanced Algorithms


PUBLICATIONS

* Data Placement for Energy Conservation in Wireless Sensor Networks - Sagnik Bhattacharya, Tarek Abdelzaher. Submitted to ICDCS 2002.

PROJECTS AND SEMINARS

* Developing distributed data placement heuristics for conserving bandwidth and battery power in multi-hop wireless sensor networks. (under Prof. Tarek Abdelzaher of University of Virginia.)
* Design and implementation of a distributed telemedicine data network, which shall be used for long distance conferencing and knowledge retrieval. This involved text, image, audio and video transfer over low bandwidth channels (typical data rate in the range of 28.8 kbps). Also there is provision for offline data transfer at low traffic times. (Undergraduate Senior thesis, under the guidance of Prof. A. K. Mazumdar and Prof. J. Mukherji of IIT Kharagpur; Project sponsored by Institute of Tropical Medicine, India)   
* Developed a framework for a hierarchical network of web-enabled components.
* Developed a compiler for a C-type language without pointers and structs.
* Developed a small-scale enterprise management system using front end Java interface to connect to an Oracle database. Special features include the ability to generate time-variant statistics and making simple predictions.
* Gave class lecture on "Simulation of wireless sensor networks".
* Presented a class seminar on "On the design and development of Program Families". 
* Presented a class seminar on "Cellular Disco: Resource management for fault-tolerant virtual clusters".
 
ACHIEVEMENTS AND AWARDS
* Ranked 275th among approx. 120,000 students in the IIT-JEE exam

VISA STATUS
* F-1 (Student Visa)

* REFERENCES - Available upon request