Abhishek Pradhan

I am a Software Engineer at the Microsoft Corporation on the Bing team. I was previously an undergraduate student at the University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign where I earned my Bachelor of Science in Computer Science.

• Bing

  I work on the search platform team and have contributed to various cool projects over the course of my tenure here.

• Dogepack

  I worked on a dogecoin mining pool with Andy Hou and Kevin Chiu. I developed a Windows desktop miner to enable easy mining on our pool. I also contributed to the pool's initial setup and maintainence. Emma Zhang made our nice website icon here on the right.

• Illinois Phone

  Illinois Phone was a mobile phone application developed with Joe Fernandez and Amey Chaugule. It's objective was to enable students to schedule adhoc meetings and control access to resources.

  I worked on aspects of the mobile phone application which was built on the Windows Phone platform along with a cloud component built on the Google App Engine. I also implemented a Windows desktop component which was responsible for managing windows user accounts to control resource usage.

  This project began as part of a course taught by Constantine Polychronopoulos and Yih-Chun Hu.

  Awards

  • Microsoft Research - Project Hawaii - Most Innovative Application - (Spring 2011)
  • Siebel Center Computing Habitat Competition - Grand Prize, Best Use of Mobile Devices

  News

  • ECE course enables students to create smartphone apps

• EcoG Cluster

  This project was part of a course that was led by William D. Gropp and Wen-mei W. Hwu. We built this cluster over the course of the semester with the objective of building a power efficient supercomputer.

  During the course I gained experience in CUDA and MPI programming and helped build the cluster which ranked as the third-greenest supercomputer at the time. The cluster's architecture was published in a journal and it was later used by researchers in high-energy physics.

  References

  • Top500 Profile

  News

  • Green Machine
  • US tops new list of greenest supercomputers

• Powers of Two (One More Time)

  This was a musical composition made for a course taught by Sever Tipei. The mode of music synthesis was the SoundMaker software developed by the Experimental Music Studios at UIUC. The program I used to compose this piece is hosted on my GitHub.

• Object Search

  I worked with Kim Cuong Pham to develop focused crawling techniques to build a corpus of Computer Science related course homepages.

• News Gen

  This was a python application that obtained news stories from the internet to produce a PDF that contained the aggregated news stories and resembled a classic newspaper. This project secured second place at the UIUC Yahoo Hackday. I was responsible for creating a component that interfaced with YQL. The source code for this project is hosted on Google Code.

• Senior Thesis

  My undergraduate senior thesis was under Tarek Abdelzaher and was related to the time analysis in distributed real time systems.

• Introduction to Computer Science

  I worked as a course assistant to Lawrence Angrave for a class that was responsible for teaching introductory concepts of Computer Science.

• Personal Homepage

  Personal homepage built with the help of Quinn Baetz.