SOWMYA PONUGOTI
			  4814 Eldon Green,
			 Baltimore , MD 21227
		       Work Ph :(410) 455-1760
		       Home Ph :(443) 543-0598
		     Email: psowmya1@cs.umbc.edu
		URL: http://www.cs.umbc.edu/~psowmya1

Objective
        To obtain a position that involves building robust and effective 
        software applications as a Software Engineer

Special Interests
        Machine Learning, Data Mining, Multi- Agent Systems, Web Application 
        Development
                                                      
Work Experience

Teaching Assistant  (Jan 2003-Present)
        Teach, Mentor, Grade and Code Projects in C for a section of 40 
        undergraduate students 

Web and System Administrator  (Jan 2003-Present)
        Administer Windows machines and maintain the official web site of the 
        JCET department at UMBC

Research Assistant  (Jun 2002-Aug 2002)
        Integration of agents and the web using Semantic Web concepts

Research Assistant   (Jan2002- Jun 2002)
        Analysis of the impact of communication sensitive decision making in 
        Multi-Agent Systems using Teambots Simulator 

System Administrator  (Sept 2001-Dec 2001)
        Assisted in the administration of Unix/Linux/Solaris machines in the 
        Mechanical Engineering Department

Grader	(Sept 2001-Dec 2001)
        Evaluation of the projects for the course, Object Oriented Programming 
        in C++

Education        
      M.S in Computer Science University of Maryland Baltimore County(UMBC)  
      (Expected) Aug 2003       
      B.E in Computer Science Osmania University, India  Jun 2001

Courses  	

    Graduate:     Advanced Software Engineering, Data Warehousing and Mining, 
                  Information Retrieval, Artificial Intelligence, Agent 
                  Architectures and Multi-Agent Systems, Unix System 
                  Administration, Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Advanced 
                  Operating Systems, Advanced Computer Architecture   
    Undergraduate:Operating Systems, Computer Organization, Data Communication, 
                  Automata Theory, Computer Graphics, Programming Languages, 
                  Analysis and Design of Algorithms, Computer Networks

Computer Skills
           
Operating Systems:      Unix/Linux/Solaris, Windows 95/98/NT, MS DOS
Programming Languages:  C, C++, Java, Lisp, VC++, Perl, VHDL, COBOL, HTML
WebServers & Database:  Apache, Tomcat, Oracle (PL/SQL)
Packages & Simulators:  WEKA, Casteneda, MLC++, Jess, TeamBots, GameBots, JADE

Projects
More information available at: www.cs.umbc.edu/~psowmya1/Projects.html 

Grouping Categorical Values in Decision Trees(M.S Project) (Dec 2002 - Present)
     A greedy approach for grouping values of categorical attributes is being 
     analysed to build efficient decision trees. This is being implemented in 
     C and will be compared to methods in C4.5 

Text Retrieval Engine  (Sept 2002 - Dec 2002)
     Design and development of a text retrieval engine in Perl and Java. This 
     system indexes a ½ GB collection and uses the vector space model for 
     retrieving the relevant documents. Various differential weighting schemes 
     are explored while assigning weights to terms appearing within the HTML 
     tags and anchor text

X-TALKS Project	 (Jun 2002- Aug 2002)
     Modification of the behaviour of X-TALKS Personal Agent and development of 
     a system that allows an agent to query other agents using DAML and Jess
     (Java Expert System Shell).This is built on JADE platform and is FIPA 
     compliant

Linux Kernel Programming   (Jun 2002-Jul 2002)
     Modification of Linux kernel to incorporate two new system calls that 
     would set and get the system variables
 
Linux Intrusion Detection   (Jun 2002-Jul 2002)
     Installation and configuration of Linux Intrusion Detection Software which 
     protects the system even from the root 

Simulation of DLX pipeline  (Apr 2002-May 2002)
     Design and development of a simulator for simplified DLX pipeline, using C 
     and STL, with data forwarding and delayed branching. It is optimised using 
     loop unrolling and computes the number of stalls involved 

Competitive Bot Development  (Apr 2002-May 2002)
     Development of a bot using Gamebots simulator, in Java, that competes with 
     other bots in a Multi-Agent environment
 
Web Caching Proxy Server  (Oct 2001-Dec 2001)   
     Design and Development of Client side Proxy Server with caching to reduce 
     page fetch delay. Implementation involved Client - Server Networking 
     concepts of Java 

Cryptography – Digital Signature Algorithm   (Sept2000 - May 2001)
     Implementation of the Digital Signature Algorithm in C++ for encrypting 
     the data being sent from one port to anothers    

References     
     Available on request