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Vineet Bhatawadekar |
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University of Minnesota, Twin Cities |
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PERSONAL |
505 University Ave SE Minneapolis MN 55414 Phone: 612-770-5256
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bhat0089@umn.edu |
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EDUCATION |
MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering |
Fall 2008 – Present |
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University of Minnesota- Twin Cities Key Areas: Robotics, Computer Vision, Robotic Sensor Networks CGPA = 3.557 / 4.000, Expected Graduation in Spring 2010 |
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B.Tech Electronics and Telecom Engineering |
Fall 2004 - Spring 2008 |
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The College of Engineering Pune, India Key Areas: Digital Signal Processing, Control Systems CGPA = 8.2 / 10.0
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EXPERIENCE |
Graduate Research Assistant |
Spring 2009 - Present |
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Prof. Dr. Nikos Papanikolopoulos, Department of Computer Science Working towards 3D reconstruction of moving objects |
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Student Head, Robot Study Circle |
Fall 2005 – Spring 2008 |
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Robotics and Automation Lab at The College of Engineering Pune Design and development of modular robotics systems, lead instructor in various workshops conducted for high school and junior students.
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PUBLICATIONS |
Pratap Tokekar, Vineet Bhatawadekar, Duc Fehr and Nikos Papanikolopoulos |
Spring 2009 |
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“title withheld for review”, submitted to the 17th Mediterranean Conference on Automation and Control |
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Vineet Bhatawadekar, Pratap Tokekar, Duc Fehr and Nikos Papanikolopoulos |
Spring 2009 |
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“title withheld for review”, to be submitted to the IEEE Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems 2009.
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PROJECTS |
Reconstruction of Moving Objects Under Prof. Dr. Nikos Papanikolopoulos Developed Algorithms for optimal view planning and 2D reconstruction of moving objects. |
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Navigation and Localization in a Robotic Sensor Network Under Prof. Dr. Volkan Isler Focused mainly on vision-based localization with artificial landmarks. Worked on adaptive color filtering and distance measurement with a monocular camera. |
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Robocon Asia Under Prof. S.S. Ohol Team Lead in design and development of autonomous robots to perform in the Asia-Pacific Level Robotics Contest. Developed navigation systems using inertial and optical sensors for pick-and-place type mobile robots |
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Advanced Audio Compression Under Prof. S.P. Mahajan in association with Sasken Communication Developed an AAC codec using Temporal Noise Shaping and Perceptual Noise Substitution methods. Achieved an improvement of upto 30% over standard MP3. |
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Micromouse Autonomous maze solving IEEE standard Micromouse. Complete implementation of IR sensors, step motor driving circuits and floodfill algorithm. Competed in international contest at IIT Bombay.
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SKILLS |
Operating Systems: Linux, Windows |
Tools: OpenCV, Player/Stage, SVN, LaTeX, Robotics Studio |
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Programming Languages: C, C++, Matlab, Java |
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