Alok Watve
Publications
“Transforming Range Queries To Equivalent Box Queries To Optimize Page Access”,
S. Pramanik, A. Watve, C. R. Meiners and A. Liu, To appear in Proceedings of VLDB,
2010, Singapore.
“The C-ND tree: A multidimensional index for hybrid continuous and non-ordered
discrete data spaces”, C. Chen, S. Pramanik, Q. Zhu, A. Watve and G. Qian, Proc.
of the 12th International Conference on Extending Database Technology: Advances in
Database Technology, St. Petersburg, Russia, 2009.
“CNODE: Clustering of Set-valued Non-Ordered Discrete Data”, S. Kumar, A. Watve,
S. Sural and S. Pramanik, International Journal of Data Mining, Modeling and Man-
agement, 2009.
“Soccer Video Processing for the Detection of Advertisement Billboards”, A. Watve
and Shamik Sural, Pattern Recognition Letters, 2008.
“Detection of On-field Billboard Advertisements from Soccer Telecasts”, A. Watve and
S. Sural, Proc. of the IEE International Conference on Visual Information Engineering,
Bangalore, India, 2006.
Experience
Amazon.com, Seattle, Washington, USA
Position : Software Development Engineer - Intern (Summer 2010)
Technologies worked on : Java, JSP, Perl-Mason
I was working with the Fulfillment By Amazon (FBA) team. The team is responsible for
all the software that third-party merchants (FBA-clients) use to manage their inventory
and orders. I worked on improving the existing system for accurate
error reporting and adding more features.
D. E. Shaw India Software Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad, India
Position : Member - Information Technology (Jul 2006 - May 2007)
Technologies worked on : Java, Perl
Developed client software to connect to Wombat Feed Handler to parse data feeds
coming for security exchanges. Also worked on some in-house projects.
Education
Currently enrolled at Michigan State University, East Lansing
for Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering
Current GPA - 3.9/4.0
Expected date of graduation- Dec 2011
2006 Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Master of Technology (M. Tech.) in Information Technology
CGPA 9.64 /10.0
2004 Mumbai University, Mumbai
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Information Technology
Percentage of marks: 70.0 % (First class with distinction)
2000 Atomic Energy junior college Anushaktinagar, Mumbai
HSC (Higher Secondary School Certificate)
Aggregate percentage of marks: 92.33 % (First class with distinction)
1998 New Bombay High School, Vashi, New Mumbai
SSC (Secondary School Certificate)
Percentage of marks: 88.66 % (First class with distinction)