UMANG SHAH

Dallas, TX | umang.shah@utdallas.edu | (214) 600-2932 | github.com/umangkshah | linkedin.com/in/umangkshah

OBJECTIVE Obtain a full-time Software Engineering position, starting May 2018, in a growing team to
utilize software planning, coding and testing skills. Bringing hands on experience of Java,
C++ and Python to contribute to the evolution of the company and its products.
EDUCATION M.S. Computer Science, The University of Texas at Dallas. Expected May 2018
GPA: 3.95/4.0
B.E. Computer Engineering, University of Mumbai, India. May 2016
GPA: 3.65/4.0

SKILLS Programming: Java, C++, Python, C, MATLAB, Socket Programming, TCP.

Web and Databases: Javascript, HTML5, CSS, J2EE, PHP, MySQL, Oracle, Hibernate ORM.

EXPERIENCE Software Engineer Intern, Autonomous Cars Jun 2017 Aug 2017
Telenav Inc., Santa Clara, CA.
Improved the performance of Sensor Fusion and Obstacle Tracking modules by creating a
visualization tool.
Gained working knowledge of developing for Robotic Operating System (ROS) and Nvidia
DrivePX2 platforms and successfully deployed new components for existing modules in C++.
Developed and compared approximation techniques for depth estimation from still images.
Created a probabilistic Lane Model to improve lane keeping and also overcome errors
introduced by noisy and missing sensor data.
Took part in vehicle testing and and analyzed collected results to discover anomalies,
correlating both video and numeric data using Python.
RELEVANT Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing Algorithms
PROJECTS A github repository: github.com/umangkshah/Machine-Learning-and-NLP where I maintain
various ML and NLP mini projects done to understand algorithms as well as work done for
Advanced ML and NLP Courses.
Implemented Decision Trees, Naive Bayes, Logistic Regression and other algorithms.
Coded simple Perceptron and Multilayer Perceptron in python using scikit-learn.

Web Application Question-and-Answer Website Aug 2016 Dec 2016

Implemented an MVC , Service Oriented Architecture for web app where, users create profiles, ask
questions, submit bids to answer questions and selected bidders can post answers.
Front end Used Javscript, jQuery, JSP, HTML5/CSS to create dynamic webpages.
Back end - Java Servlets to manage request and response from front end and web services.
Developed 6 RESTful Web Services with Apache Jersey using JSON for data transmission.

Pose Independent Face Recognition Jul 2015 Apr 2016

Developed on MATLAB using Computer Vision and Statistics & Machine Learning Toolkit.
Generated a front face view from side oriented face pictures using 3D transformation.
Training Support Vector Machine was trained for classification.
Achieved accuracy of 75%. Chosen in top 10 best projects out of 100 at the Competition
DJASCII 2016.
ACHIEVEMENTS Richardson Community Hackweek 3rd Place (article) Sep 2016
Proposed a solution to solve the problem of roadway safety in the city of Richardson and
reduce accidents by using an RFID sensor network.
Vehicle traffic was recorded and a timestamp based algorithm detected red light violators.
Projected decreased collisions at 10 major intersections, based on publicly available data.