RITESH JAIN
506 E White, Apt 20, Champaign, IL 61820
Tel. No: (217) 378-6960 (h)  / (217) 333-1515(w)
E-mail: rjain1@uiuc.edu
http://www.students.uiuc.edu/~rjain1


Job Type: Full Time
Date Available: June 2001
Areas of Interest: Networking, Security/Encryption, Multimedia and Operating Systems Design

Education:
Master of Science (Computer Science)
Graduation Date: May 2001
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).
GPA: 3.85/4.0

B.S. (Computer Engineering)
Graduated July 1999
REC Kurukshetra, India.
GPA: 73.0/100.0

Experience:

Research Assistant 
Jan 2001 - present
Department of Computer Science, UIUC 
* Active member of the MONET research group (details on the web page).

Summer Intern
May 2000 - Aug 2000
Inktomi Corporation, Foster City, CA

Teaching Assistant 
Aug 1999 - Dec 2000
Department of Computer Science, UIUC 
* Responsibilities included instruction of students for courses in programming in Java.
* Conducted laboratory teaching sessions and assisted students in gaining hands on learning experience.

Summer Intern
Jun 1998 - Aug 1998
Bhabha Atomic Research Center, Bombay, India 


Projects: 
* Designing and implementing a secure multicast protocol with copyright protection in C to stream video over the network.
* Developed a video-conferencing system in C and Java as a class project in a team of five.
* Integrated SOAP with Jini/RMI to take the JVM load off the clients who cannot support it.
* Developed software in VJ++ to import external profile data from portal's database to Inktomi's database.
* Wrote filters in VC++ to pull html pages and images from the merchants' websites to Inktomi's database.
* Implemented various framing techniques in TCP like fixed-length, variable length, sentinel-based etc. in C on Solaris platform.
* Implemented a reliable file transfer protocol in UDP by putting a new layer on top of the regular UDP layer (used CRC, and 2-D parity checking).
* Implemented a bulletin board in TCP with the capability of transferring files and sending remote commands.
* Simulated the various features of an Operation System like virtual memory, synchronization, file systems, deadlocks etc on the baseline nachos operating system.
* Developed software in C to define and represent solid objects in memory as 3-D array of bits and modules to perform various operations like translation, rotation, intersection etc. on them, and then to display them in isometric and orthogonal views.
* Developed a Chart Master in C++ to display various forms of charts like Bar Charts, Pie Charts, Line Charts etc. depending upon the given data.
* Developed a user-friendly, menu-driven, text-editor in C for the Unix environment on the lines of the Turbo editor in DOS.
* Developed an interactive computer game called Rattle-Race in C++.
* Developed animation in Java to show the structure of paged-segmentation for virtual memory in various Operating Systems.

Awards and Honors:
Recipient of the National Talent Search Scholarship awarded by the Government of India.

Software Skills:
Programming Languages:		C, C++, Java, VC++, VJ++, XML, HTML, SQL
Platforms: 			UNIX (Solaris 2.5.1), Windows 9x/NT v4.0
Networking: 			TCP/IP, UDP, Unix Socket Programming
Distributed Systems:		RMI, JINI, SOAP

Courses Completed:
Communication Networks for Computers, Multimedia Systems Design, Computer Networks & Distributed Systems, Operating Systems Design, Combinatorial Algorithms, Logic Design and Switching Theory, Design and Construction of Distributed Object Component Systems.