Academic Projects

• Vipani:
• E-market implementing First price and Second Price auctions.
• Using JSP and JavaScript to design an intuitive and simple User Interface.
• Used Java beans to implement a powerful backend Server capable of handling 1 million simultaneous auctions.
• P2P File Sharing Network:
• Implemented P2P file sharing network coded in JAVA.
• Users could share directories and search for files on the network.
• Searching in distributed network using heuristics to minimize network traffic.
• Tested with 50 peers at a time sharing files over the intranet.
• Online Super market experience:
• Implemented using OpenGL and GLUT in C++ to bring the shopping experience as close to reality as possible.
• We maintained the inventory in simple flat files, but in a well thought format, which helps us to easily parse the file and load the inventory.
• Inventory will be displayed in aisles and the users are given a shopping cart and can move around the store freely, picking any item they like from the aisle and putting them in their cart.
• Collision detection algorithm was used to simulate the placing of the items(falling into the cart).
• Bin placing packing algorithm was used to optimally show the contents of the cart.
• Several pet projects to implement different algorithms in Machine Learning, Game Theory and Scientific Visualization which helped us in our research.

M.E. Dissertation Project

• Shape Descriptors for protein molecules (Guide: Prof. Vijay Natarajan)
• By studying the shape of the molecules, interaction between protein molecules can be understood. Moreover, the docking between molecules happens only if the Shapes of the molecules match (i.e. if the shapes are complementary).
• To analyze the shape, we have shape descriptors which give information about the shape of molecule by measuring a particular feature of the molecule.
• The aim of this project is to analyze different shape descriptors already available and get a suitable shape descriptor for the protein molecule which helps in the study of docking between molecules.
• Implemented several different algorithms and also a tool to visualize the 3D molecule and color map each point using its feature vectors.