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2921 Harvard Dr.
Madison, WI 53705
(608) 260-8357
e-mail: tlmille2@students.wisc.edu(probably the best way to contact me)
web pages: my home page(www.cs.wisc.edu/~tamaram) and my vision page(www.cs.ucf.edu/~tamaram)
School:University of Wisconsin Madison Class: Senior G.P.A.: 3.77
Majors -- Math , Computer science
I have finished the requirements for a degree in Math, including a graduate class in Mathematical Logic (math 770). I am also working on a degree in Computer Science, focusing on the area of Artificial Intelligence and am currently taking 2 classes in this field, Graduate Computer Vision and Bioinformatics. My primary interests lie in combining both math and computer scienceand exploring the points where they intermix. I am often interested in the realms of theoretical math and computer science, but also enthusiastically undertake problems in the applied areas of these fields. I have also taken quite a few physics courses, but decided not to pursue a full degree due to time constraints.
Work Experience
Computer Vision REU (Summer 2000) -- I spent last summer at the University of Central Florida in Orlando working on an Eye Tracking system which could be used in a variety of human computer interface devices such as a computer eye mouse. This could be used as an aid for the handicapped or in freeing up hands of computer users for other tasks. I worked with Dr. Mubarak Shah and Dr. Niels Lobo and am planning on submitting a paper with them to some conferences this year.
CERN European Laboratoty for Particle Physics(Summer 1999) -- I worked at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland under the direction of Prof. Sau Lan Wu, discoverer of the gluon. I worked on analysis for the the Babar project, a project to study the B mesons produced by an electron-positron collision. The Babar experiment attempts to pursue the question of why we live in a matter-dominated Universe. At the beginning of the Big Bang, matter and anti-matter were produced in equal ammounts. So, what tipped the balance in favor of matter? In the study of B meson production, Babar helps to gain experimental evidence of the mechanism responsible for this matter excess. Sau Lan has offered to provide a reference via e-mail( WU@wisconsin.cern.ch) or phone ((41) (22) 767 7171 (office)) to anyone who wishes more information about me.
ESS-Technologies(Summer 1997) -- I worked at ESSTech the summer before my freshman year and gained experience in software design, Quality assurance and using the UNIX environment. I worked on a surround sound system for their DVD player, did some QA. and also aided in some office work such as preparation of presentations.
Independent Research Projects
3D reconstruction(currently) I am currently working on a senior honors thesis in computer vision. My project is on the 3D reconstruction of scenes. I am working with Prof. Dyer to extend his work on 3D reconstruction using world voxels to non-lambertian surfaces. Voxels are small world volumes which if we divide our scene into we can determine from different viewpoints where surfaces in the world are located and thereby reconstruct a model of our world scene. I am trying to extend his technique to non-lambertian surfaces, those which do not reflect uniformly in all directions.
Inductive Logic Programming (Spring 2000) I worked on a research project with Prof. David Page. My project was using Inductive Logic Programming as applied to drug research. ILP is an approach to machine learning which concentrates on the representation of theories as logic programs. One tries to build theories based on observations and prior knowledge. I specifically worked on a project concerning predicting mutagenicity. This gave me a chance to bring my extensive math and especially mathematical logic background into computer science.
Computer Skills
Programming - I have considerable experience in the following languages: C, C++, Pascal. I have also used somewhat extensively: Java, Perl, Mips assembly, HTML and prologue. One language I especially like and admire because of it's elegancy is scheme.
I am familiar with and have used the following environments: MS-Windows, UNIX, linux
I also have some experience in Bayesian nets, Mentor Graphics for use in machine architecture, neural nets, hidden markov models, and inductive logic programming.
Varsity LightWeight Crew Team(97-98, 98-99 school years) -- I was a member of the Varsity lightweight women's crew team for two years, during which I was in the first boat which placed 4th overall in the nation both years and for which I received two athletic letters from the University of Wisconsin. I am very passionate about rowing, but decided not to participate this year in order to devote myself more completely to my studies and to research in my fields of interest. I plan to continue rowing, though as a hobby for the rest of my life.
Other Hobbies -- my other hobbies include: ballroom, swing and ballet dancing, the computer science and math clubs which put on very interesting talks and discussions about current topics of interest, cryptography, /., Space, and especially anything related to Mars and future missions to the red planet.