Dawn Thomas

Dawn Thomas

Education

• Pursuing Bachelor of Architecture at Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

                        Current CGPA: 8.19/10 after 6 semesters, 2^nd position in the department

• All India Senior Secondary Certificate Examination, 2002

                        Performance: 477/500 (95.4 %)

• Secondary School Leaving Certificate Examination, Kerala Board 2000

                        Performance: 580/600 (96.6 %), 9^th position in the state

Work Experience & Projects

Center for Study of Complex Systems(June 2007 - ongoing): Summer Program

• Working under Dr. Rick Riolo of CSCS, University of Michigan Ann Arbor towards developing an ABM for an agent-based approach to interpretation of Urban Spaces and Morphology to aid in Urban Design.
• Funded by Google Inc. under the Google Summer of Code Program 2007
• http://code.google.com/p/urbance

Studios Architecture (May 2007 - ongoing): Architect Intern

• Working as an Architect Intern for a period of 24 weeks on various projects being done by Studios Architecture ( http://www.studiosarch.com/ ) particularly Louis Vuitton Fondation for Creation of Art, a museum in Paris in collaboration with Frank Gehry Associates.

Design Simulation Lab ( January 2007 - ongoing): Programmer

• Set up in January 2007, Design Simulation Lab at IIT Kharagpur works on fields such as parameterization of aesthetics, Design computation, generative and parametric design etc.

Resurgent Consultancy (November 2006 - ongoing): Project Manager, Tech Team

• Leading a team of developers towards developing a framework for Real Estate related Services.
• Development of a portal for in a B2B and B2C scenario for such services as joint ventures, rental, lease, property transfer etc.

Portland State University ( Google summer of Code 2006 ): Open Architectural Space Programming

• Developed an abstract representation of architectural space and associated framework for easy analysis.
• Developed an algorithm and tool for mathematical computations associated with architectural design in terms of space programming.
• Interpretation of Architectural Design as a mathematical process over abstracted structures of architectural spaces.
• Trac: http://svcs.cs.pdx.edu/trac/oasp

CET Student Research Group(July 2005 - ongoing): Development of various technologies in the field of Technology assisted learning and E-learning specifically Virtual Laboratory.

• Virtual Laboratory is an interactive 3-D VRML environment which lets the user perform physical experiments as if he were performing it in a laboratory. This system has specific application in places where resources such as laboratories are limited due to unavailability or scheduling issues.
• Simulation of the real environment is done through MATLAB Simulink which produces the noise in the values as well as responds to the messages from the User interface by providing all the readings/ changes in the readings of various dials/ meters.
• Project Details: http://www.cetonline.iitkgp.ernet.in/CET/projects.html
• CSRG: http://www.cetonline.iitkgp.ernet.in/csrg/index.php

Mission Mars: A swarm intelligence approach to area covering: Won "Best Algorithm Design" award in Robotix 2006.

• Mathematical modeling to find a score-based approach to program "ants" to cover as much area as possible on a server based map
• Competition Details: http://www.robotixiitkgp.org/lyp.php?page=mm
• Source Code: http://www.freewebs.com/asimpleton/junk/code.c
• Algorithm: http://www.freewebs.com/asimpleton/junk/algorithm.pdf

Awards and Honors

• Recipient of the National Talent Scholarship, awarded by the Government of India to the top 750 meritorious students in India
• Recipient of Merit cum Means scholarship awarded to 80 students per batch in IIT Kharagpur
• Recipient of President's Scout Award awarded by the Honorable President of India

Positions and Responsibilities

Convener, Entrepreneurship Cell (2005-ongoing)

Student Alumni Coordinator under the Dean of Alumni Affairs & International Relations (2005-ongoing)

Unit Secretary of IIT Kharagpur at the National Association of Students of Architecture (2005-06)

Governor of English Technology Dramatics Society IIT Kharagpur (2005-2006)

Organizing Team Head of Careerz 2005, a career counseling meet organized by IIT Kharagpur

Organizing Team Member of Spring Fest 2005, annual social cultural festival of IIT Kharagpur (Eastern India's biggest Intercollegiate Festival) (2004-2005)

Student Coordinator, Centre for Educational Technology Student Research Group