Kritika Gulati is seeking a challenging position utilizing her technical and intuitive skills. She is completing her Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from USC in May 2011 and has completed or will complete courses in databases, web technologies, data structures, programming, and microprocessors. She has skills in languages like Java, C++, SQL, HTML, XML, programming tools, and platforms like Windows and Linux. She has completed projects involving multimedia authoring tools, Google Maps emulation, image compression, Android and Facebook application development, AJAX and servlets, image quantization, and data structures. She has work experience as a student supervisor at USC IT services and as the founder of a dance academy. She is involved in

1. Kritika Gulati
2707 Portland Street, 201, Los Angeles, CA 90007 (213) 361-4909 kgulati@usc.edu
Objective: Seeking a challenging position in an organization that will enable me to utilize my technical and intuitive skills in a competitive
yet nurturing environment.
Courses of Interest(Completed or to be completed by May 2011)
Database Systems  Multimedia Systems
Web Technologies  Introduction to Programming Systems Design
Data Structures and Algorithms  System Design using Microprocessors
Education
Master of Science in Electrical Engineering: University of Southern California (Expected May 2011)
JSS Academy of Technical Education, UPTU University, UP, India (July 2008)
Skills
Languages: JAVA (J2SE, JDBC, JSP, Swing), C++, SQL, HTML (XHTML, DHTML), XML, XSLT, JavaScript, Perl
Tools/Software: Oracle10g, Apache, MSOffice, Cadence, ePd
Platforms: Microsoft Windows (XP, Vista, 7), Linux, UNIX
IDE: Netbeans, Eclipse
Projects completed
 Media Authoring Tool and Video Player (Multimedia Systems, USC, April 2011)
Built an Interactive Media Authoring Player (Java) having features to add images, audio, video and links frame by frame to
the video. The end product of the authoring tool was a published file which can be used to play in the Video Player (Java)
designed to play the modified frame (as designed by the user in the authoring tool). It involved multithreading for synching the
audio and video. The Video Player also included a feature of the user clicking on an area on the frame (decided by the published
file) which would navigate the user to a webpage.
 Google Maps Emulation (Database Systems, USC, July 2010)
A Database Development Project, built using Java and Oracle 10g as database (Spatial database).Developed a downsized
version of the USC map including an interactive GUI which enables the user to draw and select points on the map. On
selecting one or all radio buttons, the respective queries are sent to the database and the result is shown on the map.
 Jpeg Compression using 3D Color Histogram (Multimedia Systems, USC, March 2011)
A Jpeg Image is compressed using vector quantization, where each pixel is considered as a 3 channel vector and is built using
Java .The entire image is divided into number of cubes (quantization factor required by the user) and then each value of RGB
in that cube is mapped to a particular value from the code book (constructed according to the image) according to if Uniform
or Non Uniform quantization is implemented .
 Android Application using the Facebook Sdk (Web Technologies, USC, Nov 2010)
An android application where the user can select an image from the gallery of images and post it on Facebook , also allowing to
publish on the wall .
 AJAX/JAVA Servlets based Application (Web Technologies, USC, Facebook-Yahoo finance API Mashup)
This application extracts the data of the stocks entered by the user by retrieving the data from finance.yahoo.com using Java Servlet
and Perl(Web Scraping) at the server side (TomCat Server) and JSON, JavaScript, DOM, XML and HTML at the client side.
The Facebook’s API is used to post the stock values selected on the user’s Facebook page and use the data for further manipulation
to display the output as required.
 Analysis of Quantization and Subsampling of an Image (Multimedia Systems, USC, Feb 2011)
Conversion of an image from RGB color space to YUV color space and reconstruction(upsampling) of the image back in the
RGB color space after implementing the various methods of subsampling of Luma and Chroma samples and quantization
required by the user using Java
 Implemented an array of Java programs(Introduction to programming, USC, August 2010-Dec 2010)
 Implemented a program which randomly generates the words and prefixes from the input file and the words printed on
a new output file using Markov’s process. The data structure used here was hash maps to increase the efficiency.
 Implemented a User Interactive Command Line Math program which deals with creating a polynomial according to the
number of terms entered by the user, printing of the sparse polynomial, addition and multiplication of the polynomials
using different data structures, also keeping in mind the complexity of the algorithm.
 Implemented an efficient HashMap permitting chained collisions in C++. (USC, Nov 2010)

2. Work Experience
 USC Information Technology Services, Student Supervisor (Aug 2009-present)
 Troubleshoot and solve various technical IT problems that arise for professors and students
 Managing and training a team of 9 students.
 Academy of Contemporary Dance, Founder (Jan2007-Dec 2008)
 Trained 24 students ranging from the age group of 3-14 years
 Co-ordinated a stage show for the students
Extra Curricular Activities
 Organizing member of the Indian Society at USC (Aug 2009-present)
 Member , IEEE (Jan 2010-present)
 Organizing member of the English Literary Club in my undergrad college (Jan2007-Dec 2008)