UTHAYASANKER THAYASIVAM

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Education

Ph.D. Student in Computer Science, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA (Since 2008 Fall)
  • Cumulative GPA: 4.0/4.0 (Up to Fall 2010)
  • Research Day:Best Demo Award 2010
  • Expected Graduation: May 2013

B.Sc. (Eng) in Electronics and Telecommunications, University of Moratuwa, Moratuwa, SriLanka (2006)
  • November 2006
  • Overall GPA : 3.75/4.0
  • First class distinction
  • Sri Lanka Inventors Commission (SLIC) Scholarship & Award for best research projects for the undergraduate final year project.
    • Interactive Autonomous Baby Sitting Robot
  • Published the final year research project in International Conference on Information and Automation (ICIA).
    • Uthayasanker.T, Abdul Cader M.F.M.A, Iynkaran.N (2006) Interactive Autonomous Baby Sitting Robot. International Conference on Information and Automation (ICIA), Colombo, December 2006
  • Mahapola Higher Education (Merit) Scholarship for Undergraduate studies 2002 – 2006
  • Dean’s List honor for outstanding GPA during Undergraduate studies 2002 – 2004

Research Interests

Semantic Web
  • Ontology Alignment
Web Services
  • Automatic Serivce Composition
Data Mining
  • Text Mining
Work Experinces

Academic

  • Research Assistant, THINC Lab, Department of Computer Science, The University of Georgia; May 2009 - Present
    • Leading the research and development of Optima: An Ontology Alignment framework.
    • Evolved an inexact ontology alignment algorithm from ‘Expectation Maximization’ algorithm.
    • Introduced a novel ‘Integrated Semantic-lexical Similarity’ measure for Ontology concepts.
      • A novel and intutive way of integrating semantic similarity with lexical matching
    • Studied the effect of WordNet in Ontology Alignment.
      • Submitted a conference Paper to IAAI 2011 conference (awaiting conformation).
    • Derived a flavor of SAGE algorithm for ‘Large Scale Ontology Mapping.

  • Research Assistant, AI Lab - UAV, Department of Computer Science, The University of Georgia; Aug 2008 - April 2009
    • Developed a UAV simulator to test various autopilot algorithms.
    • Analyzed and implemented a UAV autopilot algorithm using PID.

Industry

  • Research Intern, Accenture Tech Labs, Accenture, San Jose, California; May 2010 – Aug 2010
    • Redesigned and released the beta version of ProcGap - the tool to automatically match SAP requirements to capabilities.
    • Solved the problem of long execution time by proper coding practise and tuning thealgorithims.
    • Solved the problem of low F-measure time by integrating WordNet.
      • Derived useful versions of existing similarity measures to integrate WordNet effectifely and efficiently.
    • Improved the inferencing and matching capability of ProcGap by developing a universal ontology (CR Ontology) for Capabilities and Requirements.
      • Developed a set of semi automatic tools set to build the CR Ontology.
    • Submitted a conference Paper to IAAI 2011 conference (awaiting conformation).

  • Software Engineer – Research & Development , Creative Search Solutions Limited, Colombo, Sri Lanka (part of FAST - A Microsoft subsidiary, Norway); Jan 2008 – Jun 2008

    I was actively involved in the research and develpment sprints of FAST search's next generation platform Juno for next generation search solution Mass. Later this compony has been accuired by Microsoft and the Juno project too. Now this project delivers search capability to Microsoft's Sharepoint.

    • Designed, implemented and tested configuration service for Next Gen. JUNO search framework of Next Gen. Mass search engine.
      • The responsibilities included development of RMI style server client which will read an XML configuration host provider services and inject request services.
    • Management & Monitoring tool development to optimize the Juno platform.
    • Developed JDBC driver and JDBC-ODBC Bridge for FAST Index, a propriety database for FAST Search.

  • Software Engineer – Product & Development , Learna Education Inc, Ontario Canada; Nov 2006 – Dec 2007
    • Lead the Software Development Team (JAVA & Flash) and Testing Team.
      • The responsibilities include designing, work assignment, training, and recruitment, motivating and leading the team to meet the goals.
    • Designed and developed the Security Manager & Live Update Manager Module for the whole software system.

Languages & Skills

Programming Languages Extensive Java experience and some experience with: C#, C, C++, Lisp, Scheme, Python, Perl, Matlab and the ability and interest to pick up new programming languages. Administration and use of CVS, SVN, Linux, Windows, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Apache.
  • Expert: JAVA, C#, SQL, XML, HTML, XSD, OWL, RDF/S
  • Intermediate: VB, C++,Python, CSS, JSP, SPARQL
  • Beginner: C, Ruby, Perl

Databases
  • Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL

Operating Systems
  • Windows (98 – Win 7) , Linux (RedHat, Fedora, and Ubuntu)

Specialized Softwares
  • Expert: Matlab, R
  • Intermediate: Verilog HDL ,FPGA Advantage , OR-CAD & AUTO CAD

Tools and libraries
  • Protégé, Eclipse, soapUI, GATE, BPEL
  • ANT, Maven, NLP Parsers (Stanford,Open NLP), EJB

Traits
  • Team management, Leadership, Presentation
  • Analytical problem solving, System design

Awards

Best Demo Research Day, Department of computer science, University of Georgia, 2009 – 2010.

Sri Lanka Inventors Commission (SLIC) Scholarship & Award for best research projects 2006 – 2007.

Mahapola Higher Education (Merit) Scholarship for Undergraduate studies 2002 – 2006.

Dean’s List honor for outstanding GPA during Undergraduate studies 2002 – 2004.

Publications & Presentations

Publications

Uthayasanker.T & Prashant Doshi; “On the Utility of WordNet for Ontology Alignment: Is it Really Worth It?”, IEEE ICSC, Palo Atlo, September 2011.

Uthayasanker.T, Kunal Verma, Alex Kass & Reymonrod Vasquez; “Automatically Mapping Natural Language Requirements to Domain-Specific Process Models” AAAI / IAAI 2011, San Francisco, August 2011.

Uthayasanker.T & Chinmay Kale; “DisMash: A Distributed Mashup Framework”, Advanced Distributed Systems mini conference, University of Georgia, 2009.

Uthayasanker.T, Gurinder.G & Hari.D; “Soccer Event Detection using Hierarchical Markov Model”, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition mini conference, University of Georgia, 2008.

Uthayasanker.T, Abdul Cader M.F.M.A & Iynkaran.N; “Interactive Autonomous Baby Sitting Robot”, International Conference on Information and Automation (ICIA), Colombo, December 2006.

Uthayasanker.T “Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Simulator” Research Day, University of Georgia, 2006. Posters & Presentations

Uthayasanker.T Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Simulator (2008) Research Day, University of Georgia.

Uthayasanker.T, Kunal Verma “Interactive Autonomous Baby Sitting Robot” , “Automatically Mapping Natural Language Requirements to Domain-Specific Process Models” AAAI / IAAI 2011, San Francisco, August 2011. Uthayasanker.T “Interactive Autonomous Baby Sitting Robot” , International Conference on Information and Automation (ICIA), Colombo, December 2006.

Publications in Progress

DisMash - Distributed Mashup Framework.

A frame work for Ontology learning: Semi automatic framework for learning an ontology from Web.

An Advanced Concept Similarity for Ontology Alignment.

Projects

OptimaResearch Assistant
Ontology Alignment using EM (JAVA)
  • Semi automatic ontology alignment using Expectation Maximization algorithm.
  • New integrated similarity measures for concepts using semantic and lexical similarity measures.
  • Probabilistic framework for word-similarity.
TaxonLeader - Class Project
Semi automatic taxonomy learner (JAVA)
  • A semi automatic taxonomy builder from web.
  • A novel iterative algorithm which utilizes an existing taxonomy to leverage the learning process.
DisMashTeam - Class Project
Distributed mash-up execution engine (JAVA)
  • Distributed execution of mash-ups to enhance the performance.
  • First ever distributed mash-up execution engine.
WSATResearch Team Lead
Tool to automatically generate, categorize and publish web services from APIs. (JAVA)
  • Semi Automatic web service generator – categorization of methods using Semantic similarity measures.
PID UAVResearch assistant
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Simulation System 3 members team, research project Matlab, ANTLR, C#
  • Autopilot using PIDs – drive a UAV automatically to achieve specified targets while stabilizing the frame.
RDISLeader
Research Document Inventory System 3 members team, term project Java (AJAX, JSP, struts, spring), CSS, HTML, Oracle.
  • A user friendly tool to maintain a document inventory with special features for Research document.
RDMTeam
Mozilla Firefox Plug-in for Research Document Management (JAVA, XML, JSP).
  • A Mozilla plug-in that enhances the experience of reading a document, especially a research document by automatically extracting keywords and their definitions and reference links.
Babysitting Team
An Autonomous Interactive Mobile Robot for babysitting 3 members team; final year project; Matlab, PicBasic, ORCAD, VB..
  • A robot capable of following a baby automatically while avoiding obstacles.
  • Voice command driven / interactive capabilities.
  • Anomaly detection including steep (e.g.: staircase) detection
  • cry detection etc.
  • Records baby’s voice and video log of baby’s activities.
  • SLIC award for best undergraduate project.
  • Published a paper and presented a presentation on ICCIA IEEE conference.

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Department of Computer Science, The University of Georgia
415 Boyd Graduate Studies Research Center
Athens, GA 30602-7404
e-mail: uthayasa AT cs DOT uga Dot edu
Tel: (706) 542-2911
Fax: (706) 542-2966

2091 S Milledge Ave.
Apartment A27
Athens, GA 30605
e-mail: uthaya AT uga Dot edu