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PETER PESTI<br />
1760 Northside Dr NW, Atlanta, GA 30318 ~ 404-933-1574 ~ pesti@gatech.edu<br />
OBJECTIVE Seeking research-oriented internship for Summer 2<strong>01</strong>0.<br />
RESEARCH<br />
INTERESTS<br />
Distributed Systems, Mobile Systems, Internet Computing,<br />
Middleware Systems, Cloud Computing<br />
EDUCATION 2006– PhD in Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA<br />
Area: location based systems, mobile computing<br />
GPA: 4.00/4.00<br />
IMPACTFUL<br />
PROJECTS<br />
HONORS,<br />
AWARDS<br />
WORK<br />
EXPERIENCE<br />
2004–2006 MS in Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA<br />
Area: computer vision; human-computer interaction<br />
GPA: 3.66/4.00<br />
2000–2006 MSc in Technical Informatics, Budapest Univ. of Technology, Hungary<br />
Area: speech synthesis; software technologies<br />
GPA: 4.54/5.00<br />
“Google Maps Nighttime!”: mashup webpage (165,000 unique visitors in first month),<br />
2006 (www.cc.gatech.edu/~pesti/night/)<br />
“mGraffiti”: satellite and map imagery based community interaction software for<br />
Windows Mobile powered PDAs. US national finalist and regional 1 st prize winner at<br />
Microsoft Imagine Cup software design competition, Redmond, WA, 2005<br />
(www.cc.gatech.edu/~pesti/mgraffiti/)<br />
Corpus-based speech synthesis engine in C++ for Hungarian. Received thesis award of<br />
the Hungarian Scientific Association for Infocommunications (2006). Presented at the<br />
Student Researchers’ Conference: 1 st place award by John von Neumann Computer<br />
Society (2004). Published results in a journal and at a conference.<br />
MSc diploma with distinction, Budapest, Hungary, 2006<br />
Invited to highly selective McKinsey & Company EuroAcademy, Athens, Greece, 2005<br />
Full scholarship from Naumann-Etienne Foundation, for studies at Georgia Tech, 2004<br />
Scholarship of the Hungarian Republic (top 0.8% of all university students), 2003–2005<br />
Scholarship from the GE Foundation’s Scholar-Leaders Program, 2002–2005<br />
Software Engineering Intern, Google, Kirkland, WA<br />
XFA/AdX Reservations Marketplace group, Summer of 2009<br />
Wrote production and experimental algorithms in Java and C++ for ad search & ranking.<br />
Research Intern, Microsoft, Redmond, WA<br />
Microsoft Research, Systems and Networking Group, Summer of 2007 and Summer of 2008<br />
Created and coded new algorithm in C++ and C# for MapCruncher/Stitcher project.<br />
Graduate Research Assistant, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology<br />
Center for Experimental Research in Computer Science, 08/2006 – Present<br />
Projects: Distributed Location-Aware Computing Systems, with Prof. Ling Liu.<br />
Working on RoadTrack Project and FastExpand Project.<br />
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WORK<br />
EXPERIENCE<br />
(cont’d)<br />
TECHNICAL<br />
SKILLS<br />
TECHNICAL<br />
REPORTS &<br />
PUBLICATIONS<br />
Graduate Teaching Assistant, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology<br />
CS8803: Advanced Internet Application Development, <strong>01</strong>/2008 – 05/2008<br />
Teaching Assistant, Budapest University of Technology and Economics<br />
Software Project Lab, Spring of 2003, 2004 and 2006<br />
Research Assistant, Budapest University of Technology and Economics<br />
Speech Technology Laboratory, September 2003 – July 2004, September 2005 – May 2006<br />
Team project: Design, implementation and testing of speech synthesis software system.<br />
Programming: Java, C, C++, C#, Matlab, Prolog<br />
Software development: Eclipse, Visual Studio, UML, OO design, Rational Rose, CVS, SVN<br />
Web technologies: XML, HTML, PHP, JavaScript, Apache/Tomcat servers, socket<br />
programming, SOAP web services in C# and Java, RPC<br />
Databases: SQL, MySQL, MS SQL, H2, JDBC<br />
Operating systems: Linux, Windows, Windows Server, Windows Mobile<br />
<strong>Peter</strong> <strong>Pesti</strong>, Ling Liu, “FastExpand: Efficient Processing of Long Distance Queries on<br />
Road Networks”, Under preparation<br />
<strong>Peter</strong> <strong>Pesti</strong>, Ling Liu, Bhuvan Bamba, Arun Iyengar, “RoadTrack: Tracking Location of<br />
Mobiles on Road Networks with Query Awareness”, Submission to MobiSys 2<strong>01</strong>0<br />
E. Martin, L. Liu, M. Weber, P. <strong>Pesti</strong>, M. Woodward, “Unified analytical models for<br />
location management costs and optimum design of location areas”, 5th International<br />
Conference on Collaborative Computing (CollaborateCom 2009), Washington D.C., 2009<br />
L. Liu, B. Bamba, M. Doo, P. <strong>Pesti</strong>, M. Weber, “mTrigger: An Event-based Framework<br />
for Location-based Mobile Triggers”, To appear in the Handbook of Research on Advanced<br />
Distributed Event-Based Systems, Publish/Subscribe and Message Filtering Technologies, Edited by<br />
Annika Hinze and Alejandro Buchmann, IGI Global, 2009<br />
P. <strong>Pesti</strong>, J. Elson, J. Howell, D. Steedly, M. Uyttendaele, “Low-Cost Orthographic<br />
Imagery”, 16th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic<br />
Information Systems, Irvine, CA, 2008<br />
B. Bamba, L. Liu, P. <strong>Pesti</strong>, T. Wang, “Supporting Anonymous Location Queries in<br />
Mobile Environments with PrivacyGrid”, 17th International World Wide Web Conference,<br />
Beijing, China, 2008<br />
M. Fék, P. <strong>Pesti</strong>, G. Németh, G. Olaszy, Cs. Zainkó, “Corpus-Based Unit Selection TTS<br />
for Hungarian”, Ninth International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue,<br />
Brno, Czech Republic, 2006<br />
M. Fék, P. <strong>Pesti</strong>, G. Németh, Cs. Zainkó, “Generation Change in Speech Synthesis” (in<br />
Hungarian), Hungarian Journal on Communications, vol. 2006/3, pp. 21-30,<br />
Budapest, Hungary, 2006<br />
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TECHNICAL<br />
REPORTS &<br />
PUBLICATIONS<br />
(cont’d)<br />
T. Westeyn, P. <strong>Pesti</strong>, K. Park, T. Starner, “Biometric Identification Using Song-Based<br />
Blink Patterns”, 11th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction,<br />
Las Vegas, NV, 2005<br />
A. Nagy, P. <strong>Pesti</strong>, G. Németh, T. Bőhm, “Design Issues of a Corpus-Based Speech<br />
Synthesizer”, Hungarian Journal on Communications, 2005/6. special issue, pp. 18-24,<br />
Budapest, Hungary, 2005<br />
ACTIVITIES External reviewer for WWW2008.<br />
Participated in professional one-week course (on university scholarship), Ecole Nationale<br />
Supérieure d’Arts et Métiers, Paris, France, November 2005<br />
Initiated and coordinated offering innovative Computational Neuroscience course<br />
(Prof. <strong>Peter</strong> Érdi), December 2003<br />
Participated in professional one-week course (on university scholarship), Ecole Nationale<br />
Supérieure des Télécommunications, Paris, France, November 2003<br />
Participated in professional one-week course (on university scholarship), Ecole<br />
Polytechnique, Paris, France, March 2003<br />
OTHER Languages spoken: English (fluent), French (intermediate), Hungarian (native)<br />
Invited member of Lifeboat Foundation’s “Futurists” Scientific Advisory Board<br />
Interests, hobbies: value investing, photography, blogging, traveling, futurology<br />
SELF-<br />
STATEMENT<br />
I am a high energy PhD student with a strong drive for innovation and achievement,<br />
frequently taking the initiative in my pursuit of excellence. As a flexible team player with<br />
great communication and problem-solving skills, I have gained over 5 years of experience<br />
in various R&D environments. With a genuine interest in the future, I am deeply<br />
motivated to take on new challenges and projects.<br />
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