PRIYAL MEHTA

337643 Georgia Tech Station 713.376.9458

Atlanta, GA 30332 priyal@gatech.edu

EDUCATION
GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, College of Computing, Atlanta, GA (present)
Master of Science in Computer Science; expected December 2010. GPA: 3.75/4

NIRMA UNIVERSITY, Institute of Technology, Ahmedabad, India

Bachelor of Technology in Computer Engineering; May 2009. GPA: 8.82/10

COURSE WORK
Operating Systems, Computability and Algorithms, Mobile Applications Lab, Machine Learning and Machine Learning in
Finance, Digital Image Processing, Real time & Embedded Systems, Computer Networking, Object Oriented Programming,
Software Architecture & Design

WORK EXPERIENCE
• GRADUATE RESEARCH ASSISTANT for Computational Perception Lab, School of Interactive Computing under Prof. Jim
Rehg
• GRADUATE STUDENT ASSISTANT for USABLE HEALTH: Usability research and application development (February 2010
– May 2010)
o Responsible mainly for front-end development of the portal. Also responsible for writing query generation scripts for
related module. Development using PHP, MySQL, HTML, JQuery and CSS

ACADEMIC PROJECTS
• As part of course work at Georgia Tech:
o When ‘n’ Where Reminders: Created a handy Android application which provides reminders for saved events and
augments it with Driving Directions from current location to destination using Google Maps. Yelp API is used to provide
recommendations for specific search tags of a certain business. Tools: Android SDK, Google Maps API, Yelp API
o Event Profiler: To provide a statistical assessment of how the occurrence of an event impacts returns on a stock.
Language: Python
o Multithreaded HTTP server and proxy: Developed as a part of the Graduate Introduction to Operating Systems
programming assignments. Also, built RPC server and client to handle computationally intensive tasks. Language: C
• Phurnish (1st Runner up in the Convergence 2010 Competition): Part of team responsible for development of a
mobile application that facilitates purchase of furniture and aids interior design by providing the customers a way to
visualize the objects in their current home environment. The application allows taking pictures, creating models of rooms,
saving the model, loading an already existing model, loading the 3d model of furniture and barcode scanning. Tools:
Android SDK, OpenGL
• Multithreaded file server and client: A file search and download application with multithreaded servers and GUIs for
client and server operations. Developed using Java Networking, FTP and MySQL.
• Web based image editing tool: An online application which allows users to upload, resize, crop, apply effects and save
images to disk. Implemented using PHP and XHTML.
• Web design/development: Online portal for college symposium, site design for a memorial foundation.

PUBLICATIONS
• Aleksandar Matic, Priyal Mehta, James M. Rehg, Venet Osmani and Oscar Mayora, "AID-ME: Automatic Identification of
Dressing failures through Monitoring of patients and activity Evaluation" To appear in Proc. 4th International ICST
Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, Munich, Germany, Mar 2010.
o Candidate for Best Paper Award (1 of 4 nominated papers)
o Performed clustering of colors for a pair of input images using k-means algorithm followed by spatial analysis to
determine whether the color belongs to the top or the bottom clothing item.
o Developed rule-based inference system in MATLAB to determine whether there is a dressing failure
RELATED EXPERIENCE
• CURRENTLY WORKING ON: Visual Place Categorization (MS Project under Prof. James Rehg; January 2010 – present)

• Research Intern; January 2009 - May 2009

DHIRUBHAI AMBANI INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY
o Analyzed and researched existing algorithms and mathematical formulations for image retrieval.
o Developed an innovative algorithm to return relevant image results based on shape and color features.
o Coded all functions of the system in MATLAB.

• POSTER PRESENTATION ON “WEARABLE COMPUTING”

Awarded 3rd position; March 2007
o Presented the research taking place in this field to an audience of 100-odd students and faculty members.

COMPUTER SKILLS
Programming Languages
Database
Web Technologies
Other Tools
Operating Systems
C, C++, Java, MATLAB, Python
Microsoft Access, MySQL
HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP
Photoshop, Dreamweaver
Windows, LINUX

ACTIVITIES
• Served as Joint Secretary of Computer Society of India (college chapter) 2007-08. Organized and managed numerous
events, workshops and symposiums.
• Volunteered for the “Gyanjyoti” initiative for providing basic computer awareness and English and Math lessons to
underprivileged children (January 2007 - August 2007).