About Me

Hi! I am a first year student pursuing Masters in Computer Science at University of Maryland, College Park. I am interested in Computer Vision, Graphics, Machine Learning and High Performance Computing. Before joining University of Maryland, I did Bachelors of Technology (Honours) in Computer Science from IIIT Hyderabad. During my stay there, I worked on Computer Graphics with Prof. P J Narayanan at Center for Visual Information Technology. I am a open source enthusiast and often contribute to Sahana Software Foundation and the OpenDaylight Project.

Publications

• Piyush Bansal, Somay Jain and Vasudeva Varma. Towards Semantic Retrieval of Hashtags in Microblogs. In proceedings of the 24^th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), May 2015, Florence, Italy. [PDF] [CODE]


• Somay Jain, Nitish Tripathi and P. J. Narayanan. Interactive Simulation of Generalised Newtonian Fluids using GPUs. In Proceedings of the 9^th Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing, Dec 2014, Bangalore, India. [PDF] [Poster] [Presentation] [Video]

Work Experience

• University of Maryland, College Park. Teaching Assistant for CMSC216 Introduction to Computer Systems. (Fall '16)
• Software Engineering Research Center, IIIT-Hyderabad. Research Assistant. (Spring '15)
• Worked on devising methods for distributed model checking using SPIN under Prof. Suresh Purini.
• OpenDaylight Project. Software Development Intern. (Summer '15)
• Worked on Jenkins Job Builder (JJB) to improve it's plugins support.
• Made every option in the OpenDaylight Jenkins instance configurable by JJB.
• Amongst the top 10 contributors of the JJB project.
• Contributions throughout the project can be found here.
• IIIT Hyderabad. Teaching Assistant for Computer Graphics. (Spring '14, Spring '15)
• Google Summer of Code. Software Developer for Sahana Software Foundation. (Summer '14)
• Led the Sahana Sunflower Project, a community management tool used to manage tasks and track Sahana volunteers, projects and deployments.
• Amongst the top 5 contributors of the Sahana Eden project.
• Responsible for gathering the requirements from all stakeholders of the project.
• Sahana Software Foundation. Software Development Intern. (Spring '13)
• IIIT Hyderabad. Teaching Assistant for Digital Logic and Processors. (Fall '13)
• Google Summer of Code. Software Developer for Sahana Software Foundation. (Summer '13)
• Developed an Automatic Testing Framework and a Continuous Integration Sever for Sahana Eden which tests the fast moving code-base and reports daily via email.
• Worked as a bug marshal, reporting and fixing bugs by regularly monitoring the test results.
• Sahana Software Foundation. Software Development Intern. (Spring '12)

Open Source Contributions

• Sahana Eden : Commits. #4 overall contributor as of September 2015
• OpenDaylight Project : Commits. #9 overall contributor as of September 2015.
• Mentor at Google Code-in 2013 & 2014: Mentored pre-university students so as to introduce them to open source development.
• Coordinator, Open Source Development Group (OSDG), IIIT-Hyderabad from 2013-2014.