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Thank you for visiting my home page. I am Arun VR, fondly called Newton besides other nicknames by friends at college. I am a small, young and smart guy from Indias's Garden City, Bangalore. I am currently studying in my final semester of a Bachelor of Engineering course in Computer Science.

If you want a precise description of me, please see my Curiculam Vitae.

Or, write to me now!

Some interesting stuff

SS7 - Signalling System 7

Introduction

I am from the city of Bangalore. Bangalore is known as the garden city of India and is in the southern state of Karnataka. It is also the silicon valley of India. I was born in Madras in Tamil Nadu. But I have been brought up entirely in Bangalore. As a kid, I used to visit Madras every summer.

I am an easy going, reserved kind of person. I am usually found only in the company of a select few people. You will hardly find me in any small talk. I am seldom found hanging around with friends without a good reason.

I have always wanted to be a pilot. I have always wanted to join the Indian Air Force. Even now, given the chance, I will happily join the IAF. But if I do join the IAF, I will only join as a flying officer and not as a member of technical staff. Given my physique, I doubt if I will ever make it.

My interests

I love nature. Many times, I escape to some isolated place where I can enjoy nature in all its splendor. However, it is hard to find company and whenever I don't find any, I go alone. I enjoy sitting on the bunds of lakes and gazing away at sheep and cattle grazing away peacfully.

I love animals. I like dogs the most. I had a cute little pomeranian called Vicky. She died after a surgery. Now my house is swarming with kittens! There are about six cats and kittens in my house now!

Electronics

I had a very a keen interest in electronics when I was in school. This also won me a couple of accolades in high school. I started with an electronic kit and then went on to building circuits on my own printed circuit boards. I later imagined and designed circuits for various fancy devices. I almost never built complete devices. Some of my exciting projects were

Bicycle odometer using a calculator
Fire work detonator - complete with 7 segment time display!!
Out ball indicator for tennis courts
- won 2^nd prize at IETE.
Timer cum stop watch cum electronic dice cum ....
- won 3^rd prize at IETE.
Z80 microprocessor kit - never completed due to lack of funds.
Hi funda automatic water level controller.
Sound activated flash for stop action photography
Listening bugs! For eaves dropping on girls!!

Photography

Though a very interesting hobby of mine, I have not been able to spend much time on it because it is too expensive. I own a Minolta X-700 camera. Some of the pics I have taken are here. I tried to build an enlarger myself but never managed to make it light proof. I wish to dedicate some time and money to this hobby once I finish college.

Sports

I have never been good at any sport!! However, I used to cycle long distances when I was in school. I used to cycle some 35kms up & another 35kms back to my favourite place, T.G.Halli resorvoiur outside Bangalore. But now I dont have the time for it.
I have been trying to learn to swim for the past 1 year! No matter how hard I try, I simply cant swim!
I used to practice shooting with an air pistol. I seem to be a good shot.

Fantasies

Planes - f16, stealth, MIGs, Mirages and Micro-lites.
Cars - Porsche, BMW and Benz in that order
Motor Bikes
Cruise boats

Academic background

Schooling

I did my schooling at B. P. Indian Public School in Bangalore. Though I stood among the top 10 in my secondary school and amognst the top 5 in high school, no one (including me!) gave me enough credit for it!! But I was known for my practical science knowledge and capabilities. In high school, in two consecutive years, I won 2^nd and 3^rd places in electronic exhibition competition conducted by the Institute of Electronic and Telecommunication Engineers, Bangalore. The next year I all was set to participate in the state level electronic exhibitions, when a nasty bicycle crash prevented me from participating in the event.

Pre-University

I completed my Pre-University college at the Vijaya College, Bangalore.
Pre-university was rather uneventful.

My school and pre-university marks are here.

Graduation

I am from one of Bangalore's premier academic insitutes, the M. S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology. I am currenlty pursuing the Bachelor's Degree course in Computer Science & Engineering offered by the Bangalore University. I am ranked 1^st in my class, being the topper in 4 out 6 semesters I have completed so far.
My scores in the first 6 semesters are here.

During my second year, an inter-collegiate fest was held. I participted in a debate and jeopardy. The topic of the debate was 'Is religion the opium of the masses?' I won the 2^nd prize in it!

During my seventh semester, another inter-collegiate fest was held in the Bangalore Institute of Technology. I participated in a technical seminar contest. I delivered a seminar on data mining for which I won a computer as the FIRST PRIZE!!

Near the end of the 7th semester, few of us from our class went on trek to Yedukumeri. To read more about this exciting trek, click here!

Click here to see my class photograph.

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MS Word for Windows format.

CURICULUM VITAE

Name:	Arun Vikrapandian Rajagopalan.
Date of Birth:	13^th September, 1976.
Sex:	Male
Father's Name:	Rajagopalan V. S.
Address:	130, V.H.B.C.S.L. Layout, II stage, West of Chord Road, Bangalore - 560086 Karnataka, INDIA.
E-MAIL:	[email protected]
Phone:	080-3490348

School and Pre-university

	Institute	Board	Marks Secured
School	Karnataka State Secondary Education Board	B. P. Indian Public School	86.67%
Pre-University	Karnataka Pre-University Education Board	Vijaya College	86.67%

Graduation.

Course:	Bachelor of Engineering
Specializtion:	Computer Science & Engineering
College:	M. S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology
University:	Bangalore University

Semester	Marks
I	83.76%
II	88.9%
III	80.2%
IV	84.6%
V	74.9%
VI	73.4%

The VII semeseter resilts are yet to be announced. I am currently in the VIII(final) semester.

Technical Knowledge

A thorough overall understanding of Digital Electronics, Electrical Science, Communication theory, Microprocessors, Computer Organization, Computer Architecture, Computer Networks, Mathematics(including calculus), Design and Analysis of Algoritms, Discrete Mathematics, Finite Automata, Parallel Processing, Operating Systems, Object Oriented Programming, Compiler Design and many other computer related subjects.

Hardware Platforms used

IBM PC compatible 286, 486 and Pentium machines.
Silicon Graphics workstations.
8085 and 8086 microprocessor kits.

Operating Systems Used

DOS - Good knowledge of DOS internals.
Microsoft Windows - Basic MS Windows Programming.
UNIX - Currently studying.
Novell Netware - Have done some IPX/SPX socket programming.

Pogramming Languages known

C - thorough knowledge and good programming experience.
C++
PASCAL
FORTRAN
BASICA, QBASIC
COBOL
Visual Basic
Visual C++ - Currently learning

Data Bases
Good knowledge of client-server architecture. Have used ORACLE 7.0 and Developer 2000.
Have also done a project - Co-operative Society Database using ORACLE 7.0 database server and DEVLOPER 2000 for Microsoft Windows.
Databases do not interest me as much as other systems programming.

Projects

Full fledged Screen based text editor for DOS.
Written in C and comprable to the editor in the TURBO C IDE.
2-d Graphics editor.
Written in C on DOS platform. Supports scaling, shear, rotation, magnification, patterned fill amognst a host of other standard features.
PDP11 cross assembler
Written in C on DOS platform. Includes support for Macros, conditional assembly etc.
Database System for House Building Co-operative Socities
Developed for Co-operative Society which provides basic banking and housing services.
Back end is a ORACLE 7.0 server running on SCO UNIX. Front end is a GUI for Microsoft Windows developed using DEVELOPER 2000 RAD tools.
Data Mining using Neural Networks.
I am doing this project currently at the Centre for Electronic Design Technology (CEDT) in the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore under the esteemed guidance of Dr. L.M. Patnaik, an expert in Neural networks, VLSI, parallel processing and many other fields.
This project is being coded in C. My initial focus is on finding interesting clusters and association rules in huge databases. For a brief synopsis of my project, click here.

Achievements

Won II prize in 1988 and III prize in 1989 in the electronic exhibition contest held by the Institute of Electronic and Telecomunication Engineers, Bangalore.
Won II prize for debate on 'Religion is the Opium of the Masses' held during the inter-collegiate festival Deluge 96 held at MSRIT.
Won a Computer as I prize for techinal presentation on Data Mining at the Mrighatrishna inter-collegiate fest held at Bangalore Institute of technology.