Rajat Mittal

Piscataway, N.J.,08904.

Phone: - 732-445-2001 (9613), ramittal@cs.rutgers.edu

Education

   PhD candidate – Department of Computer Science (May 2009), Rutgers University G.P.A 3.93

    B. Tech – Computer Science and Engineering (May 2004), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay G.P.A 3.5

Academic Honors

·   Stood 4th in Indian National Mathematics Olympiad conducted by National Board of Higher Mathematics (Department of Atomic Energy, Govt. of India).

·   Secured 53rd All India Rank in JEE 2000, the Joint Entrance Examination to the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT).

·   Recipient of National Talent Search Scholarship, given by Indian government.

Teaching Experience

Teaching Assistant, Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University                                    Sep 2004 – May 2005

·   Take recitations and lectures for databases and discrete structure courses

·   Teaching and grading a section of about 25 students

Research experience

   Quantum Computing

·   I am presently working on Quantum Entanglement and Distillation with Prof. Mario Szegedy, Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University from September 2004.

Set Systems with restricted intersection mod 6

·   I worked on the problem of finding large set systems having restricted intersection modulo 6 with Prof. Sundar Vishwanathan, IIT bombay, India from Aug 2003 to May 2004.

Determining maximum number of vertex covers in a hypergraph

·   I worked on the problem of determining hypergrpahs which have maximum number of vertex covers with Prof. Jaikumar Radhakrishnan, TIFR, India in the summers of 2003.

Publications

   Product rules in Semidefinite Programming, with Mario Szegedy, FCT 2007.

   Product Theorems via Semidefinite Programming, with Troy Lee, ICALP 2008.

Computer Skills

Programming Languages:  Proficient in C, C++, FORTRAN, Perl

Operating Systems: Worked on Unix, Windows (all versions), GNU, Linux platforms, DOS

Packages: LATEX

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