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Hrayr Artunyan

hrayr@artunyan.com (for other contact information please email me)

EXPERIENCE:     UCI DARPA Grand Challenge Team                                                                                  August 2004-Present
University of California, Irvine - Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Simulation and Path Planning Team
Building of an autonomous vehicle to traverse a 175 mile course through the Mojave Desert.

·          Design and implementation of a simulation system as a test bed for various path planning algorithms

·          Collaboration with robotics and obstacle detection teams to determine interfaces between the AI of the vehicle and the various components

·          Research utilizing online databases such as arXiv e-print Archives and CiteSeer. Topics include: Nonholonomic Motion Planning for Mobile Robots

                                Student Independent Research Internship (SIRI)                                           October 2003-February 2004
                                Jet Propulsion Laboratories, Pasadena
                                Intern

·          Software development for the Mars Spacecraft Atmospheric Observation project

·          Design and development of a UNIX based tool to calibrate the Inertial Measurement Units (IMU) on board of the Mars Exploration Rovers

·          Implementation of mathematical concepts such as cubic spline interpolation and quaternion conversion on multiple data streams

·          Involved in the development process - preliminary design review, critical design review

·          Followed software engineering practices - produced requirement and design documentation

                                 Student Services – Retention Program 
                                Glendale Community College, Glendale                                                            November 2002-August 2004
                                Student Assistant

·          Optimized project management thru development of several database programs for various programs

·          Produced VBA code for cross object data manipulation and multi level data entry

 EDUCATION:     University of California, Irvine                                                                                               June 2004-Present
                                Major: B.S. in Information and Computer Science
                                Expected Graduation: June 2006

Glendale Community College                                                                                                             2001-2004 Scholar’s Program
Alpha Gamma Sigma (AGS) Honors Club
Major: Computer Science

QUALIFICATIONS:

                            Languages

C, C++, C#, Java, Visual Basic, Pascal, HTML, VBA, VBScript, Flash script, Jscript; basic knowledge of  CGI, PHP, XML, IDL

                            Systems

Windows (98, 2000, NT, XP), UNIX, Linux, Solaris, MacOS, DOS

                            Software

Visual Studio .Net, Visio, JBuilder, MS Office, Eclipse, Macromedia (Flash, Dreamweaver)

                            Projects

                                    Graphics 3D: Design and implementation of a 3D wire-frame graphics engine to demonstrate linear algebra topics such as transformation matrices, perspective and also stereo anaglyphic display of 3D objects. Source code published at www.artunyan.com, www.vbcode.com, www.codearchive.com, www.a1vbcode.com and www.programmersheaven.com.

                                    Scheduling System: Research of various techniques for effective layout design of a calendar-dispatching system. Design and implementation of a scheduling system for dispatch center.        

                            Courses

                                    Software Engineering, Data Structures and Algorithms, Computer Architecture and Design, Technical Writing, Java, C/C++, UNIX Shell Programming, Networking-Telecommunications