Viral Gupta

Viral Gupta
Masters Student
College of Computer and Information Science
Northeastern University

Acedemic Interest

Semantic Web, Complexity Analysis, Parallel Computing

Educational Background

Candidate for Master of Computer Science at Northeastern University, December 2008
Bachelors from National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, April 2004

Graduate Coursework

Advanced Algorithms (Networks), Spring 2008, Prof. Ravi Sundaram
General Purpose GPU(Graphical Processing Unit) Programming, Spring 2008, Prof. Gene Cooperman
Principle of Programming Languages, Spring 2007, Prof. Mitchell Wand
Managing Software Development, Spring 2007 , Prof. Kenneth P. Baclawski
Algorithms, Fall 2006
Networks, Fall 2006, Prof. Ravi Sundaram

Projects

PMWX ( PurpleMediaWiki Extension )

Implement a purple number extension for MediaWiki; including support for both hierarchical (stateless; hid) and
stateful (nid) purple numbering
Add support for transclusion
And to be compatible with: Tagging (see details on the companion Tiki project), and the Semantic MediaWiki
Extension

Tiki

Implement a Fine Grain Tagging Extension for MediaWiki
Implementing it as a folksonomy (user generated taxonomy) to enable more complex semantics through tagging.
This should include support for:
- tagging (capturing the tag & presenting the tag-cloud), and
- search (categorizing and retrieval)
- Go the "folksonomic" approach, and will stay out of explicit or implied "controlled vocabulary"

Static Performance Evaluation for Memory Bound Computing

Develop model for static evaluation of memory-bound general purpose programs written for NVIDIA G8 series graphics card (also referred to as General Purpose GPU)

Other Random Stuff

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