The Great Mind Challenge 2006

Dr. Rajendra Sahu (Associate Professor)
Prof. Rajendra Sahu, BTech, MTech, Master in Industrial Management, Ph. D (IIT, Kharagpur)
Prof R. Sahu, has been associated with the teaching profession for the past 19 years, and has been closely involved with industrial consultancy projects in prestigious organizations like CMC, PWC, NALCO, SPINCO, Aura, IMB, MP Police and as an external Consultant for IIT, Kharagpur. His primary area of interest from his academic background has been Systems Approach to Management, Business Process Management, Business Analytics, e-Commerce, and IT enabled Services. He has guided 6 PhD students and more than 250 MTech / MBA thesis works. Management Consultancy has been his forte, and has been associated with prestigious projects in the past, and has also published more than 70 papers in his areas of proficiency and interest. He has conducted 2 national level conferences, MDP programmes on Advance Networks and Knowledge Management, in-house Computer Training Programmes for Senior Executives of AG, Gwalior & Chhatishgarh and of BSF, Tekanpur. He is active participating member of Systems Dynamics Society of India. During his tenure as Secretary, he conducted workshops on International Systems Dynamics and for working level managers in System thinking in Management.

Anuj Kumar Goyal
Anuj Kumar Goyal student at Indian Institute of Information Technology & Management, Gwalior is pursuing 5 year Integrated Post Graduation (B.Tech + M.Tech) course in IT having CGPA 8.75/10.0. He is also working as Multimedia Lab administrator at IIITM. He loves to play with J2EE as well as .Net Technologies and is also IBM certified for J2EE, XML, DB2, Websphere and Rational. He has good research experience in the field of ‘Digital Watermarking’ with 3 research papers already published with various IEEE & IASTED International Conferences. He was also a member of the R&D team of the project ‘VMark - Digital Watermarking of Video’, sponsored by Ministry of Communication & Information Technology, DIT, Government of India, Delhi. Some of his achievements include, Appointed as Microsoft Asia pacific Student Ambassador in 2005, Zonal Finalist - Microsoft Imagine Cup’05 (Software Design) and National Winner - IBM Great Mind Challenge’06. He has also worked as Student Coordinator of IBM Linux Campus Club, Microsoft Student Champ from IIITM and Technical Consultant & Developer for FMSF, Noida.

Kunal Garg
Kunal Garg student at Indian Institute of Information Technology & Management, Gwalior is pursuing 5 year Integrated post graduation (B.Tech + M.Tech) course in IT having CGPA 8.63/10.0. He is currently working at Image Processing Lab in IIITM. His Programming expertise is in C/C++, J2EE. He has good research experience in the field of Image Processing. He has done B.Tech dissertation on Machine Vision. He has done projects on “Object Recognition” and “Contour Classification using Fourier Description”. His Career Interest includes Software Design and Machine Vision. He qualified Gate-IT with a rank of 107 in 2006. Some of his achievements include Zonal Finalist - Microsoft Imagine Cup’05 (Software Design), National Winner - IBM Great Mind Challenge’06 and besides he was the winner of Bot Programming Contest held at IIITM tech-fest. He has also worked as a Technical Consultant and Developer with Pratham Education Initiative, New Delhi for 3 months

Mohit Garg
Mohit Garg, a student at IIITM, Gwalior is pursuing 5 year Integrated post graduation (BTech + MTech) course in IT. He is currently working at Image Processing Lab in IIITM. His Programming expertise is in C/C++ and has an experience with J2EE technologies. He has taken his Bachelors thesis in the field of Machine Vision. He is doing projects on “Object Recognition and Pattern Classification”, “Contour classification using Fourier descriptor and PNN” and Image Registration. His career interests include Software Design, Machine Vision and Statistical Learning. He qualified Gate-IT with a rank of 102 in 2006. Some of his achievements include National Winner - IBM Great Mind Challenge’06, RedHat Scholarship Winner for s/w competition - Lords of the Code- 2006, Zonal Finalist - Microsoft Imagine Cup’05 and besides that, he is two times consecutive winner for the software competition - La Ingenious, organised annually at IIITM. He has also worked with Prayas - Institute of Juvenile Justice, a leading NGO, as technical consultant for 3 months.

Mr. J. Shri Krishnan, B.Sc., DCPA (National Computing Center, UK), PGDCS Executive-Training, ICTS, Amrita School of Engineering.

Over 5 years of teaching experience in School of Engineering and School of Business. Cisco-Sun certified Instructor for teaching Java Technologies in Cisco Networking Academies. Involved in the management of computer labs, recruitment, and training of teaching staff for Amrita Vidyalayams, a chain of 50+ schools across the country. Courses taught include Object Oriented Programming using Java, Database Management Systems.

Interest Areas are Object Oriented Software Engineering, Object Oriented Modeling using Design Patterns, Software Project Management, Database Management Systems, Enterprise Computing.

Hobbies are Street Photography, Blogging, Infusing Technology in Education.

Harikrishna Menon A, Currently I am doing my B.tech-(3rd year) from Amrita School Of Engineering.

Professional Interests are Cluster Computing, Enterprise Application Development with J2EE using IBM Technologies. I am a student member of ACM and an active participant in some Linux Forums. I swear by Technology and its proponents MIT Technological Review and Digit.

Professional Interests Apart I would be your stereotype definition of a Football aficionado and go nuts whenever a league game is around .I am quite a crazy about PC games and is an ardent fan of the Matrix Trilogy and a diehard believer of its Philosophy. If not jacked to the computer you will find me reading books by Tolkien or Terry Goodkind .

Pranay mahulikar, currently I am doing my 3rd B-tech from Amrita School of Engineering.
Professional Interests are Cluster Computing, Enterprise Application Development with J2EE using IBM Technologies. I am a student member of ACM .I like to read journals like MIT - Technological Review, PC - Quest and Linux For You.

Jenendra Jain , Currently I am doing my B. Tech(3rd yr) in Information Technology from Amrita Viswa Vidyapeetham. Right now I am looking forward to Cluster Computing… Well !!!! close the window of professional world and I am a sports freak. Any sports as long as it’s a team game... Count me in… Same applies for video games where I do rule my domains… And I forgot to mention Music from my new iPod… “I m lovin it” Apart from being a freak I like to spend time with nature, writing journals or poems… I try to see logically why nature chooses one path and not the other… doesn’t work out always but I keep up…

My Driving Force: There is always a work around, and there is always a better work around. And the “better” always tends to the “Optimal Solution”.

Paras Kumar, Currently I am doing 3rd year B.Tech from Amrita School of Engineering.I am a java fanatic and the current rage in my team is cluster computing on which we are planning to do our fourth year project. Apart from this I am student member of ACM. Technology is my fantasy... Something interesting and new… I am on it…

In free time you can find me in Gym… not to become Schwarzenegar, but to play T.T. … some times I too take a plunge in the decisively real world of Computer games… I am obsessively compulsive perfectionist. I don’t stop until I achieve it… And I love to teach others…My leisure is reserved for Art & Literature… my choice of authors is Paulo Cohelo and Ayn Rand. I love sketching cartoons.

P. Vijaya Krishna is a Computer Science Engineering student, pursuing his BTech in St.Martin's Engineering College, Hyderabad, AP, graduating in May 2007. He is an enthusiastic and seasoned developer and has strong inclination for developing applications in Java and J2EE. His ability to innovate new concepts makes him special... He is a member of the team Invincibles, who developed a project on File Tracking System which earned wide recognition and was adjudged 4th in the IBM's Great Mind Challenge 2006. His extensive research and work on Requirement Analysis, DB2, Advanced Search features and documentation made the team get the best out of DB2 and gave them time to complete two versions of the project.

He has a first class with distinction academic record throughout his career and is the topper of Computer Science branch in his college. He has also been adjudged as the Best Outgoing Student for the year 2003 - 2007 in his college. Vijay has also developed an automated Pay Roll package for Suncrest Creamaries Ltd, Malawi, Central Africa. He worked as an Intern at Pyro Networks, Hyderabad, to explore and get first hand knowledge and experience in Cellular/Telecom/Software Industry. He has keen interests on the latest technologies like Ajax, Reverse Ajax, SVG, Flash, Voice XML, SIP and DB2.

V.N.S. Chaitanya, a final year BTECH student of St.Martins Engineering college Hyderabad computer science branch has excellent problem solving, logical reasoning and analytical abilities. He is good at mathematical and programming abilities. His innovative and creative way of doing things makes him distinguished. He completed his schooling from CRR Public school Eluru with CBSE affiliation and has excellent academic track record. He did a handful of projects in C, Java and J2ee. Some of them are, GUI library and graph plotter in C. He did a small but extremely useful tool for real estate people. Image manipulation tool in java which can even read and write SVG. Their team Invincibles won 4th place in TGMC for File Tracking System project in J2EE. His quick learning ability helped the team to implement the second version of the application in Struts and AJAX. He worked as an intern in Pyro Networks, a mobile software company to gain real time experience. He is an open source supporter and is keen to contribute to open source projects.

K.S.Pavan Kumar, a team member of INVINCIBLES and a student of Computer Science Engineering, pursuing final year B.Tech at St.Martins Engineering College, won 4^th place in IBM's "The Great Mind Challenge 2006" (TGMC 2006). His innovative thinking led to the creation of a new feature called "Password Padding" that is implemented in the project "File Tracking System". His creative thought brought new look and feel for the web user interface (UI).

Devoting lots of time on learning new technologies such as AJAX, reverseAJAX, voiceXML, VRML and many others, he has first class academic performance. He worked as an intern at Pyro Networks, a mobile software company, dealing with a real time project. Previously he has worked on many projects. He was awarded outstanding grade on 13th march 2004 for successfully completing "Programming in C and Data Structures" course. Some of his projects include "GUI library" in c language on ms-dos environment, SVG parser along with a basic viewer for SVG are among many other projects.

Praneet Anand Pyati, a final year student pursuing Computer Science Engineering course in St.Martin's Engineering College, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India, is a member of the victorious Invincibles team in the Great Mind Challenge 2006 contest conducted by IBM. The project File Tracking System (FTS) which was undertaken by the team secured 4^th place in the prestigious contest.

He is an active team player with an ability to make good use of the resources, thereby creating an opportunity to solve complex problems. He has flair to excel and achieve the goals in an efficient manner. From an early age, he has shown a keen interest in learning the concepts of software programming. This interest has propelled him to learn different operating systems, languages and coding logic.

The software FTS was an end product of a coordinated team work with accuracy maintained throughout the design and development phases. The project involved design and development of a system aimed at the Government sector for tracking the status of a file through various departments and individuals. Highlights of the package included a user friendly interface and the package has an ability to use different Indian languages for the front end.

By organizing the contest IBM provided a huge opportunity and platform for the students to prove themselves. Such contests are to be held regularly to extract budding students and develop them at an early stage of their career. Having undertaken the project, the Invincibles team has been able to learn the importance of team work and discipline required in the successful completion of a project.

P Srinivasarao (Project Guide):
P Srinivasarao is working as an Associate professor and Head of the Department for Computer science and MCA in St Martins's Engineering College. He completed his BTech from CBIT Hyderabad with 69%and MTech (C.S) from JNTU with 75% and also doing PHD from JNTU from 2006 onwards. He has 5 years Industrial Experience and 5 years of Teaching Experience. He has Software knowledge in C, C++, JAVA, VC++, Advanced UNIX like IPC and Socket Programming, UML RATIONAL ROSE. Tivoli, DB2 and Dataware House. He was trained by IBM on Rational Rose and Rational Robot. He also got 7th rank in JNTU MTech entrance Exam. He was trained by LEAD Institute of personality development Bangalore and guided more than 100 students for projects in BTech and MCA. He also attended as judge for National Technical symposiums in various college. He is also an active member in IEEE Hyderabad. He is the project guide of the Team Invincibles which recently won 4th place in "IBM's Great Mind Challenge".

Mir Faizal Ali, am a final year MCA student from BMS College of Engineering, Bangalore with USN 1BM04MCA34. I have participated in “The Great Mind Challenge 2006”, IBM’s National Level Programming Contest and ranked 3rd in that competition where my team name was KFPS Unit and the project was Core Banking. I am very much thankful to IBM that they have conducted such a good competition. While working on project I learnt new tools of IBM and also learnt some new technologies. I am very much obliged to one and all at IBM who has made this possible for me and my team. I really look forward to be one amongst the family of IBM.

I am Md. Mudesser Pasha being a final year MCA student from BMS College of Engineering, Bangalore with USN 1BM04MCA32. I really feel eminent to have been a part of the “The Great Mind Challenge 2006”, IBM’s National Level Programming Contest and ranked 3rd in that competition where my team name was KFPS Unit and the project was Core Banking. This has been an experience that I will take a pleasure for the rest of my life. Thank you to one and all at IBM who has made this possible for me. I really look forward to be one amongst the family of IBM.

I am Kezar Mader, doing MCA (final Semester) from BMS College engineering, Bangalore. This has been an experience that I will cherish for the rest of my life. I really feel elevated to have been a part of THE GREAT MIND CHALLENGE 2006 organized by IBM.I feel this is the kind of event will bring out the best in each one of us. I am grateful to one and all at IBM for giving me an opportunity to show my skills and innovative things. I really look forward to be one amongst the family of IBM.

I am Surojit Mandal, basically from Moynapur, a village of Bankura, west Bengal. I have completed my schooling from West Bengal and completed my degree from Bangalore University. I am pursuing my M.C.A 6th semester from B.M.S college of engineering. In 5th semester I have participated to “The Great Mind Challenge 2006” which is really helpful to the students. I have completed the project “Core Banking”. Before doing this project I was totally unaware of so many helpful tools like WASD, Rational Rose, and DB2 etc. I really enjoyed working on these tools. I am thankful to IBM for providing all tools and specially thanks for WSAD because students like me are always in trouble to remember the variable names and goes wrong on typing but WSAD solve all head-breaking such problems.In this competition I enjoyed every moment, starting from the registration to end of felicitation.

Thank you IBM for your helping hand, hospitality, and made me more confident to face any challenge in my life.

Manikandan S is currently doing his Bachelor of Engineering (BE) degree in Computer Science(6th Semester) at Anna University (College of Engineering, Guindy). He contributed to the design and the implementation of the project GPS Ambulance and was very much a team player.

Chitra M is currently doing his Bachelor of Engineering (BE) degree in Computer Science(6th Semester) at Anna University (College of Engineering, Guindy). She was very interactive and productive throughout the period of project development. Her creativity and diligence kept the project going.

Manjeet Chayel is currently doing his Bachelor of Engineering (BE) degree in Computer Science(6th Semester) at Anna University (College of Engineering, Guindy). His liveliness and ability to explore new things in quick time was a great asset to the project development. He was specifically involved in creating the user interface and database (DB2) management.

Guruprasath.K, is currently doing his Bachelor of Engineering (BE) degree in Computer Science(6th Semester) at Anna University (College of Engineering, Guindy). He was actively involved in the design and implementation of the project. His earlier experience in programming using several languages helped him in this project

I like to play and watch cricket but I hate world cup 2007. I am an avid devotee of table tennis .My other interest include bugging my team mate Hari. I love reading Harry Potter and watching Lord of the Rings(Current Count : 28 times, man its awesome).