Resume for Balaji Sharma (balajirsharma@gmail.com)

1. BALAJI SHARMA
balajirsharma@gmail.com | (513) 739 4356 | Greater New York City | http://www.linkedin.com/in/balajirsharma
EDUCATION
PhD, Mechanical Engineering,
University of Cincinnati, 2013
MS, Mechanical Engineering,
University of Cincinnati, 2010
SKILLS
Data Analysis and Visualization
MATLAB ● ● ● ●
MS Excel ● ● ● ●
Python ● ● ● ●
PowerBI ● ● ● ●
Web and Databases
HTML/CSS ● ● ● ●
SQL ● ● ● ●
WordPress ● ● ● ●
Grav Flatfile CMS ● ● ● ●
Hardware, Sensors, Protocols
Accelerometers ● ● ● ●
Load Cells ● ● ● ●
GPS Sensors ● ● ● ●
Raspberry Pi ● ● ● ●
Arduino ● ● ● ●
Serial/RS232 ● ● ● ●
TCP/IP/UDP ● ● ● ●
NMEA/MAVLink ● ● ● ●
DATA PROJECTS
Developed a data-driven
framework for identifying
strategic universities and
educators for deep technical
engagement.
Performed exploratory data
analysis on a large dataset (~30M
rows) from Bureau of
Transportation Statistics to
characterize and compare the on-
time performance of airports.
Analyzing location history for
spatial and temporal patterns,
shopping preferences and other
personal habits based on raw
location data from Google (WIP).
SUMMARY
4+ years of experience in data-driven technical marketing and strategic post-sales
engagements. Strong technical background and interest in engineering, data analysis,
visualization and presentation for technical and non-technical audiences.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Technical Evangelist/Customer Success Engineer
MathWorks, Sep. 2013 – present
• Helped grow product adoption and usage of select online products by over 300%
at priority universities (more than twice the organic growth levels) via targeted
outreach, awareness campaigns and technical engagements.
• Consulted with over 400 thought leaders in academia on pedagogy and STEM
curriculum enhancements in higher education.
• Developed automated methods to obtain data using web APIs for account and
customer prioritization and strategic engagements.
• Developed content, delivered workshops and presentations at conferences to
strengthen product awareness and adoption.
Entrepreneurial Lead
NSF I-Corps Program, University of Toledo, Jul. 2013 – Aug. 2013
• Selected and funded by the National Science Foundation by a competitive process
for commercialization of doctoral research.
• Held discussions with over 100 federal and commercial agencies on requirement
assessment, technical and business feasibility.
Research Assistant
Cooperative Distributed Systems Lab, Univ. of Cincinnati, Sep. 2009 – Jun. 2013
• Developed novel algorithms for a multi-agent ground-robot system for
cooperative perimeter tracking.
• Developed a low-dimensional Kalman-filter based spatio-temporal estimation
method for tracking wildland fires with UAVs.
• Developed code for acquisition of flight telemetry and video data from sensors
onboard a hobbyist UAV for forest fire tracking.
• Led efforts towards the establishment of a new test bed for implementation of
multi-robot distributed control algorithms.
Graduate Researcher
Structural Dynamics Research Lab, University of Cincinnati, Jun. 2007 – Jun. 2009
• Developed novel algorithms for modal analysis of vehicle structures based on
experimental studies and processing of large experimental datasets using time and
frequency-domain estimation methods.
PUBLICATIONS
“Cyclic pursuit in a multi-agent robotic system with double-integrator dynamics under
linear interactions”, Sharma, B. R., Ramakrishnan, S., Kumar, M., Robotica, May 2013.
“Spatio-Temporal Estimation of Wildfire Growth”, Sharma, B. R., Kumar, M., Cohen, K.,
Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, Washington (DC), 2013.
3 journal publications and 8+ conference proceedings – Full list available upon request
or on Google Scholar.