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OBJECTIVE
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Seeking full-time software Applied
Research / Development / Consultant position with interests in Agents,
Semantic Web, Mobile Data Management and Sensor Networks. |
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WORK EXPERIENCE
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Research Intern (June 2002 to August 2002)
Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, California
Working on investigating the confluence of Web-Services and Context-Aware
Computing
Research Assistant (January 2001 - Present)
Joint Advising by Dr. Tim Finin and Dr. Anupam Joshi
Darpa Agent Markup Language (DAML): Designed and Developed xTalks
(http://www.ittalks.org), a JSP/Servlet based system wherein DAML
seamlessly integrates with the web and provides daml-marked information
for agents to do intelligent reasoning
Research Intern (Summer 2001 and Summer 2002)
Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, California
Prototyped a Context-Aware Software Agent System, CoolAgent RS that
allows contextual information with shared semantics to be freely
distributed among agents and represent this information uniformly
for machine processes. RDF was used to construct ontologies, JADE
as the underlying agent platform, Sicstus Prolog for rule-based
inferencing and Cooltown as the Sensing Infrastructure
Teaching Assistant (August 2000 - December 2000)
Course: Structure of Programming Languages under Dr. Charles Nicholas
and Dr. Timothy Finin. Teaching and Grading Assignments of over
100 students
Associate Consultant (June 1999 - June 2000) and Coop Intern (January
1999 - May 1999)
Iflex Solutions Ltd. (Formerly Citicorp Information Technology Industries
Ltd.), India
Document Workflow in Project Monitoring, Tracking Tool and Active
Alert System for Flexcube Intelligent Framework
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EDUCATION
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Master of Science, Computer Science, August 2002
University of Maryland Baltimore County, GPA: 3.75/4.00
Master of Science (Tech) (equivalent to Bachelors) Information
Systems, May 1999
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, India, GPA: 8.96/10.0
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THESIS
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"MagicWeaver: An Agent-Based
Simulation Framework for Wireless Sensor Networks"
Supervisor: Dr. Anupam Joshi, Associate Professor, University of Maryland
Baltimore County
The purpose of this work is to design a simulator for dynamically
configurable sensor network in which sensor nodes are able to switch
between heterogeneous sensing tasks and are able to provide dual mode
of accessing sensed data. It provides abstract models for sensor tasking
and communication, device constraints, network topologies and the
physical environment. It also supports a special class of applications
characterized by streaming data-feeds. MagicWeaver illustrates ways
in which agents paradigm extends it's flexibility to incorporate teamwork
and coordination between sensor agents. This work further encompasses
comparison with existing simulators for sensor networks and the performance
of Hierarchical Processing Scheme for streaming data.
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PROJECTS
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- Simulation of Fully-Pipelined DLX Processor using VHDL, Fall
2001
- Rendezvous: An Agent-Based Conference Assistant, using JADE
and Java, Spring 2001
- Voice-Enabling ITTalks using VoiceXML, Spring 2001
- MilJul: Design and Development of Distributed Process Execution
Environment using Java, Fall 2000
- Macha: Design and Development of Real Estate Database Management
System using Oracle and Java, Fall 2000
- Implementation of SILC, Secure Internet Live Conferencing Protocol
using C, Fall 2000
- COMPDOC: A Medical Expert System using Prolog Inference Engine,
January1998-March1998
- Design and Implementation of a Unix Shell, March 1998 - May
1998
- Rain Drop Virus-Implementation for DOS using 8086 Assembly Language
September 1997 - November 1997
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PUBLICATIONS
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Tolia S., Joshi A. and Finin T., "MagicWeaver: An Agent-Based
Simulation Framework for Wireless Sensor Networks", accepted
at Workshop on Ubiquitous Agents on embedded, wearable and mobile
devices to be held at AAMAS '02 at Bologna, Italy in July 2002
Tolia S., Khushraj D. and Finin T., "ITTalks Event Notification
Service: An Illustrative Case for Services in the Agentcities Network",
accepted at International Workshop on "Challenges in Open Agent
Systems" to be held at AAMAS'02 at Bologna, Italy in July 2002.
Chen H., Tolia S., Sayers C. et al, "Creating Context-Aware
Software Agents", -- presented in First GSFC/JPL Workshop on
Radical Agent Concepts, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, MD, USA
and HPLabs Technical Report - HPL-2001-231
Cost R, Perich F., Tolia S., Chen H., Finin T., Joshi A. et al,
"ITTALKS: A Case Study in Semantic Web and DAML" - published
in IEEE Intelligent Systems Special Issue, January 2002
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COURSES
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Engineering Multi-Agent Systems,
Mobile Computing, Advanced Operating Systems, Advanced Networking
Architectures, Advanced Databases, Developing Palm Top Systems (attended),
XML Technologies |
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SKILLS
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Proficient Java, RDF, DAML, XML,
C
Familiar C++, Prolog, Visual Basic, HTML, ASP
Operating Systems MS-Windows NT/2000, Redhat Linux, Unix System V
and MS-DOS 6.22
Protocols/Platforms TCP/IP, SILC, Pentiums, SGIs
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PERSONAL DETAILS
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Nationality Indian
Marital Status Single
VISA Sponsorship Required |
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References
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Dr. Tim Finin (Research Advisor) - finin@cs.umbc.edu
Dr. Anupam Joshi (Thesis Advisor) - joshi@cs.umbc.edu
Bernard Burg (Manager HP Labs) - bernard_burg@hp.com
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