Rajinder Sodhi

University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL
Master of Science in Computer Science

University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with Honors

CS 101: Introduction to Computing for Engineers & Scientists
Teaching Assistant for Prof. Thomas Gambill. Taught three lab sections to supplement lecture material. Ranked as top University instructor by students.

University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Research Assistant
Researching computational tools that foster individual and collaborative creativity in the early conceptual stages of design.

Beckman Research Institute
System Administrator
Worked on systems and tools involved with helping faculty and graduate students in their research work on membrane biophysics and neurobiology. Maintained high performance systems used for scientific computational experiments.

Office of Technology Management
System Administrator
Helped develop programming tools used to improve the workflow for identifying and licensing intellectual property generated by research activities at the University of Illinois.

Venkataswamy, A., R. Sodhi, Y. Abdildin, and B.P. Bailey. Groupware for Design: an Interactive System to Facilitate Creative Processes in Team Design Work. Accepted to Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-42), 2009.

Millennium Scholarship
Barringere Cello Music Scholarship

Programming: C, C++, JavaScript, Flex/Flash, PHP, Python, OpenGL, VTK, CUDA, Assembly
Applications: Matlab, Eclipse, Adobe Creative Suite, Photoshop, Illustrator, Gimp, Visual Studio, MS Office
Sample Coursework: Computer Vision, Pervasive Computing, User Interface Design, Programming Massively Parallel Architectures, Scientific Visualizations, Algorithms, Numerical Analysis
Languages: Punjabi, Spanish

Member
Association for Computing Machinery
ACM Student Chapter President (2004)

Volunteer
ACM SIGCHI 2009 (student volunteer)