- Education
- Ph.D. Candidate, Advised by Dr. Yehoshua Perl, Department of Computer Science, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Spring 2008 - Present
- Bachelor of Computer Engineering, Purbanchal University, Kathmandu, Nepal, 2002 - 2006
- Work Experience
- Teaching Assistant, NJIT, Sep 2011 - Present, Sep 2010 - May 2011, Sep 2009 - May 2010, Jan 2008 - May 2008
- Research Assistant, Medical Informatics lab, NJIT, Jun 2009 - Aug 2009, Jun 2010 - Aug 2010, Jun 2011 - Aug 2011
- Research Assistant, Remote Sensing Lab, NJIT, Jun 2008 - May 2009
- Assistant Lecturer, Kantipur City College, Nepal, Jun 2007 - Dec 2007
- Teaching Assistant, Kantipur City College, Nepal, Dec 2006 - May 2007
- Recent Research Publications
- Paper: Agrawal Ankur, Elhanan Gai, Halper Michael, "Dissimilarities in the Logical Modeling of Apparently Similar Concepts in SNOMED CT", AMIA 2010 Abstract
- Poster: Impact of Climate Change on Coastal Water Quality - A Remote Sensing Approach, Spring 2009
- Poster: Remote Sensing Application in Optically Complex Estuary -- Hudson/Raritan Estuary, Fall 2008
- Recent Presentations
- Presented at the 34th Annual Symposium of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) on Nov 15, 2010 in Hilton Washington
- Presented at The Dana Knox Research Showcase on Apr 8, 2009
- Recent Projects
- Similarity Sets: Creates sets of concepts from SNOMED Hierarchies based on lexical similarity between the concepts, helps in auditing. Written using Java and Oracle/Access
- MatchFind - Aligns and Compares an RNA Block with those in the Database Using the BlockMatch Tool. Written using Java and PHP
- DateFind - Compares the User Interest with those of the people in the Database and Displays the Matching ones. Written using JSP and Oracle
- ABook - An Online Address Book. Written using Java and Oracle
- WebCrawl - Crawls the web to find similar web pages. Written using Java and Oracle
- Awards and Honors
- NJIT Presidential Leadership Award 2012
- NJIT Outstanding Graduate Class Award 2011
- GSA club of the year award to DeepCS for 2009-10 under my leadership
- NJIT Teaching Assistantship/ Research Assistantship, 2008 - Present
- KCC Academic Excellence Scholarship, 2002 - 2006
- Memberships
- American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), 2010
- National Geographic Society, 2009
- Nepal Engineering Association, 2007
- Nepal Engineering Council, 2007
- Activities
- Member of the NJIT Presidential Search Committee 2011-12
- Member of the NJIT Shared Governance Committee 2011-12
- President of GSA (the Graduate Student Association at NJIT), 2010-12
- President of DeepCS (Graduate Student Association of the College of Computing Sciences at NJIT), 2009-10
- CS Department Representative at NJIT, 2009-10
- Volunteered in the Career Fair at NJIT, Fall 2008
- Volunteered in the JETS/TEAMS High School Competition at NJIT, Spring 2008
- Volunteered in a Flood Relief Campaign in Nepal, 2006
- Organising Member of the College Project Exhibition, 2005
- Organising Member of KCC Inter College Cricket Tournament, 2004
- Undergrad Class Representative, 2003 - 2007
- High School Prefect, 1998 - 1999
