Rajat Mittal

Computer Science Graduate Student with a passion for Information Design

Professional Projects

Project Bhoomi (IBM & Gujarat Informatics Ltd. initiative, INVITE)

  • Developed a web based, cross platform Geographic Information System (GIS) for effective land record management.
  • The Survey records were digitized with a graphic interface enabling the user to fetch/edit details of any point on a map (like Yahoo Maps).
  • Worked on technologies like XML, Javascript, CSS and mySql. VideoProject SRS

Mobile Buddy (DADP Programme of Reliance Communications Ltd., India)

  • Designed an animated, speech interactive mascot which would read out news, stock quotes etc. as per user convenience on Java enabled phones.
  • Gained hand on experience of J2ME toolkit, TTS Engines and additional mobile libraries of Reliance Communications Ltd.
  • Worked as the Project Team Leader of a team of 4 people.

Academic Projects

Visualizing Feelings(MS ‘Multimedia Systems - Analysis, Communication and Interaction’ Class Project)

Developed a visualization interface using WeFeelFine API and Processing 1.0 to analyze the temporal behavior of human emotions and to correlate human emotions like Sad,Happy with generalized external events like Unemployment,Stock Market Index. The project lead to interesting discovery of things like more blogger on east coast then on west coast etc.[report]

 

Semantic XML Search Engine(MS 'Data on Web' Class Project)

Developed a web based semantic search engine for XML implementing AND, OR and NOT semantics.The project presented a web interface to upload xml files and search for elements using queries involving AND, OR, NOT semantics.[report]

 

Image Retrieval Engine (MS 'Multimedia and Web Databases' Class Project)

  • Developed a similarity based retrieval engine for images.
  • The matching was done on color,texture and shape features of an image.
  • Positive Relevance feedback was integrated.

 

Data Mining Tools (MS 'Data Mining' Course Projects)

  • Decision Tree based Classifier for discrete attributes data set.[report]
  • Association Rule Analysis by implementing Apriori algorithm.[report]

 

BookShelf & Shipment Tracker (MS 'Distributed Software Development' Project)

  • A web application built in ASP.net by consuming Amazon web services to allow users to browse and buy books on Amazon.Features like shopping cart were designed and implemented.[report]
  • A web application for tracking shipments for a mock courier service provider.

 

Focused Crawler (Undergraduate Thesis) at LTRC, IIIT Hyderabad, India

Developed a focused crawler which selectively crawls through Hindi Language web pages of Tourism Domain.[report]

 

Softsync (UG 'Software Engineering' Course Project)

  • Implemented a web based customizable single information interface (on the lines of iGoogle) to integrate various web services on one interface.
  • Drag and drop interface to rearrange feeds on screen, notepad gadget, calendar gadget.
  • Worked as the Project Team Leader of a team of 10 people.

Writing Samples

"Aid Management in Disaster Situations- A GIS Framework"

- Selected for poster presentation at the Second Internation Symposium on Geo-information for Disaster Management (Gi4DM).[pdf]

"Second Life Syndrome"

- Paper draft submitted for graduate class "Media Theory".[pdf]