PRASANTH KARUMANCHI

110 East Columbia Street,                                                                                e-mail:  kvp24@purdue.edu                    

Apt# 202, W. Lafayette,                                                                                   web: http://stat.purdue.edu/~kvp24       

IN  47906                                                                                                        Phone: 765-409-3571             

                                                                                                             

EDUCATION

Master of Science in Statistics with emphasis on Computational Finance             May 2004

            Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA

·        Designed and organized a graduate level course on financial algorithms offered in spring 2004.

·        Credited all courses in the Investment Track, MBA program, Krannert School of Management.      

             

            Integrated Master of Science in Mathematics and Computing                                          May 2002

            Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India

·        Courses include Linear Programming, Operations Research, Compiler Design, Operating Systems, Distributed Systems, Algorithms, Graph Theory and Database Design. 

 

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

            Research Assistant (Under Prof. Sugato Chakravarty)                                                   Aug. 2003 - date

            Purdue University, IN

§         Designed and implemented algorithms in C, SAS and SQL.

 

            Summer Intern                                                                                                              Summer 2001

            Hughes Software Systems, India

§         Programmed in C for a prototype of DIAMETER base protocol.

§         Part of the team that analyzed the utility of the protocol.

 

            Summer Intern                                                                                                              Summer 2000  

            GraphoNET, Hyderabad, India

            Programmed for a Java based desktop auction ticker to track items being auctioned.

 

COMPUTER SKILLS

·        Programming Languages     : C and Data Structures, C++, Java 1.2, Basic, SQL, VBA.

·        Statistical Software : SAS, R, SPLUS

·        Financial Software  :WRDS, Ox Professional

·        Other Software                   :MATLAB, MS Excel, MS Office, MS FrontPage,

·        Operating Systems  :UNIX, Linux, Windows NT, Windows XP

·        Browsers                            :Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, Opera, Firebird, Lynx

·        Related Skills                      :Monte Carlo Simulations, , LaTeX

 

HONORS

·      One of the twenty five recipients of Andrews Fellowship, Purdue University.                     2002

·        Membership in Omicron Delta Kappa, National Leadership Honor Society.                        2002

·      Invited to present a talk at Madrid (International) Conference of Queueing Theory.              2002

·        One of the seven interns chosen all over India by Hughes Software Systems.                        2001

 

LEADERSHIP AND COMMUNICATION SKILLS        

·        Represented 6000 graduate students in University Student Affairs Committee.                     2003-04

·        Organizational Head, Ideon - the annual technological festival, IIT Kharagpur.         2001-02          

·        Student Representative, Alumni Liaison Committee, IIT Kharagpur                          2001-02

·        Editor, Wallpaper journal, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India.      2001-02