1. POOJA BHANDARI
2656 Ellendale pl., #5 Los Angeles, CA 90007 poojab@usc.edu 213-357-9031
OBJECTIVE: Actively looking for Full Time Software Engineer position starting Jan 2017.
EDUCATION:
Master of Science in Computer Science GPA: 3.6
University of Southern California, Los Angeles May 2017
Related Coursework: Artificial Intelligence, Algorithm Analysis, Applied Natural Language processing, Web Tech.
Database Systems, Information Retrieval & Search Engines, Web Semantics & ontologies
Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science (Secured 3rd
Rank) GPA: 3.92
Vishwakarma Institute of Technology, Pune University, India. May 2014
Honors in Computer Networking CPI 9.1/10 (≈ GPA: 3.64)
Related Coursework: Databases & Data mining, Advanced Data Structures, Object oriented programming
SKILLS:
Languages: Java, Python, C++, C, PHP
Web development: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, Bootstrap, Struts, Spring MVC framework
Tools & Platforms: Eclipse, MATLAB, TestNG, Git, MySQL, Ubuntu, NoSQL, AWS
WORK EXPERIENCE:
1. Associate Software Engineer Intern at Core Digital Media May 2016 To November 2016
 Increased automation coverage by migrating Python framework to new Java framework using Selenium web driver
 Incorporated new robust logging framework & meta testing using Sauce labs automated testing cloud for all devices
2. Software Developer at eQ-Technologic July 2014 To May 2015
 Developed, tested and maintained Rolls-Royce Service Dashboard using JavaScript, JSON, HTML5 and CSS3
 Innovated & developed Ping Utility to track and report multiple sites using advanced Java, Java Mail API & Log4j
 Trained in Optimistic system designing, Object Oriented Principles, Web development, Reporting & Analytic tools
3. Software Project Intern at Persistent Systems Ltd. March 2013 to May2014
 Ipl-2013 Semantic Web Search Engine: To get precise answers and URLS for English queries using efficient space
and time. Collaborated with team in Ontology design, Natural Language Processing and SPAQRL query formation.
ACADEMIC PROJECTS:
 Uninformed Search: To find the fastest water route using BFS, DFS and UCS strategies.
 First order Logic: Inference of queries from the knowledge base using backward chaining algorithm.
 Mancala: Predict the next move for a player in the board game using Greedy, Minimax & Alpha Beta pruning.
 Hidden Markov Model part-of-speech tagger: Implemented Viterbi algorithm for Catalan language corpus.
 Naive Bayes classifier: To classify hotel reviews as truthful, deceptive, positive or negative.
 Cross Language Classifier for news articles: Trained Hindi data & classified Marathi data using Naive Bayes and
SVM approach to classify news in political, business, entertainment and sports category.
 Context Based English to Marathi Translator: Built Rule based trained model to translate English declarative
sentences into Marathi. Computed BLEU score of the candidate translation relative to set of reference translations.
 Responsive Web Design: Interactive feature rich stock market website using Bootstrap, Ajax, PHP, jQuery, AWS.
 Web pages: Designed web pages using HTML, Bootstrap, PHP, JSON and XML data parsing.
 Federated Ontology: Inter-relate books ontologies to build meta ontology in Protégé & enable SPAQRL queries.
ACHIEVEMENTS:
 Presented seminar on Ontology based Semantic Matching between Database schemas at USC Sematic web lab.
 Invited to attend IBM Watson Developer conference 2016.
 Selected for American College of Radiology Hackathon and proposed strategy for reinventing journal access.
 Won BYTECODE Java Programming Competition Mélange Technical event. Selected in judging committee.
 Recipient, SAKAL All India Foundation Scholarship July 2015.
 Recipient, Middle School scholarship, secured 12th rank in the state.
 Selected for student exchange program with Pennsylvania State University.
 Completed ‘Sangeet Visharad’ and passed 6 exams of Indian classical music with first class.
 Lead singer during intercollegiate band competitions and also performed in annual gatherings.