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Senthil Nathan
Gandhi
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Senthilnathan_g@hotmail.com
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134 Seventh Cross St, Arulanandha Nagar,
Thanjavur (TN) 613 007, India
Tel +91 (04362) 233190
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Don Bosco Matriculation Hr. Sec School, Thanjavur, India
Placed Third in a Class of 60
Don Bosco Matriculation Hr. Sec School, Thanjavur, India
Placed among the First Ten in the class of 60
Placed First in
the B.Sc. Class during the Final Year.
Masters in Computer
Applications, June 2002
Anna University, Chennai, India.
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I have been selected for and
attended the MTTS (Mathematics Training And Talent Search) conducted by the
National Board Of Higher Mathematics. [NBHM] at the IIT, Madras [May –
June‘98], and at Regional Institute Of Education [RIE], Mysore [May - Jun 99].
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Represented Anna University at
Version 2000 at Regional Engineering College, Trichy - A National Level
Technical Symposium.
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Won the Brain
Teaser Contest at ABACUS 2000, held at Anna University by the School
Of Computer Science in the year 2000.
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I was listed in the IBM Problem Solving Challenge - months
October 2000 and January 2001 for ‘problem solving’ ability. [List accessible
at http://domino.research.ibm.com/Comm/wwwr_ponder.nsf/challenges/January2001.html]
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Won
a Software Contest in High School.
· Designed the official web site for a non-profit teaching organization funded by the Government of India. (https://www.angelfire.com/tn/mtts/firstpage.htm).
· Designed, Created and Currently Maintaining the Web Site “The Red Collection” – With the theme Sweet Memories of Anna University https://www.angelfire.com/art2/red/Home.htm - Which attracted over a thousand hits in the first week of it’s opening.
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Designed the Science Awareness Exhibition at ABACUS, - A National Level
Technology Symposium on Computers at Anna University, Chennai.
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Proficient in OOAD and expertise in
implementing OO Systems using C++ and VC++
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Sound Understanding of Operating
Systems and Network Systems basics.
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High level of expertise in the C
Programming Language.
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Sound understanding of the
Relational Systems Concept and experience with the Oracle Database System.
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Hands on Experience in COBOL,
ForTran77 programming languages and other DBMS application systems.
This
project involved the simulation of the Point to Point Protocol (PPP) as defined
in RFC 1661. PPP resides on the data link layer of the TCP/IP protocol stack.
Apart from encapsulating the messages between two communicating entities
through the physical layer, the protocol requires a communication link to be
configured for the upper layers of the protocol stack to use the link. This is
done with Link Configuration Protocol (LCP). One of the major responsibilities
of LCP is to set the Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU) for the session. Another
important role of PPP is authentication, this done with the Challenge Handshake
Authentication Protocl (CHAP). The simulation was done in a Linux/(UNIX if you
prefer) system using sockets as the physical layer. The simulation can
potentially be implemented in the real world by replacing the socket calls with
AT commands to a modem to establish the physical link.
Tetris is a popular game on the Internet. Visit www.doob.de/bricks2000 to get a version of
the game. It is a strategy game. The aim of the project was to make the
computer play the game and play it better than any human, the approach that was
followed is called the Top-Down
approach, where the programmer codes his experience into the program. The
issues encountered during the project were that of making the program feel.
i.e. one has to Implement all the common sense constraints like you can't walk
through a wall, you can in fact walk through a door etc. Subsequently after we
have an environment with the desired constraints in place, we put in one more
layer of rules on the system, this time the rules of the game. After this
begins the actual work of making the computer make the decisions that make the
best moves in the game. Listing out all possible moves and analyzing the
relative merits of each move achieved this. The process of analysis proceeds
with rough estimates for various weights and later it was fine-tuned when the
program was up and running for optimal performance.
Modeling light in a virtual environment is one of the
most challenging tasks. The number of sources in the location, their intensity
and the texture of the objects all play a role. My project consisted of
modeling a simple 3D object and a source of light in its vicinity. One could
slowly building up the complexity to achieve dazzling and realistic effects.
Elementary notions in Vector Algebra were involved in the algorithms that were
used.
Digital Signal Processing: VC++ in Windows 2000
Project to implement something similar to the Dolby
Noise Reduction Technology using VC++ in simulating Computer aided noise
reduction and Deconvolution of audio signals with poor quality. The algorithms involved making a low pass
filter and adapting it to a wav file. Subsequently the quality of the audio
signals was enriched by increasing the amplitude of the overtones that might
have been present in the original sound. Various perk features were also experimented
with eg)Adding Reverberation, Pumping up the Bass etc. The project gave me a
sound understanding of the nature and the computer representation of sound.I
also learnt to manage and debug a complex program in a visual enviromment.
[VC++]
Other Interests and Activities
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Participated
and completed the National Himalayan Winter Trekking Expedition in the winter
of 1999, organized and guided by the Indian National Army.
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Won the Junior Level State level
Table Tennis Tournament
· I have a passion for Photography, love riding the motorcycle. Music and Books take a good amount of my spare time.
