Abdul Basit - Graduate Computer Science Systems - Rutgers, The ...

Abdul Basit
CONTACT
INFORMATION
Department of Computer Science Email: abasit@cs.rutgers.edu
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey Phone: +1 732 445 2001 ext. 9660
110 Frelinghuysen Road WWW: http://paul.rutgers.edu/ ∼abasit
Piscataway, NJ 08854-8019, USA
EDUCATION Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
New Brunswick, NJ USA
PhD, Computer Science
Advisor: William Steiger
2011 to Present
RESEARCH
INTERESTS
PUBLICATIONS Journal Papers:
RESEARCH
EXPERIENCE
Lahore University of Management Sciences
Lahore, Pakistan
Bachelor of Science (Honors), Computer Science
2004 to 2008
• Discrete and Computational Geometry
• Combinatorics
• Discrete Algorithms
• “Hitting Simplices with Points in R 3 ”. Abdul Basit, Nabil H. Mustafa, Saurabh
Ray and Sarfraz Raza.
Discrete and Computational Geometry, vol. 44(3), pp. 637-644, 2010.
• “Centerpoints and Tverberg’s Technique”. Abdul Basit, Nabil H. Mustafa, Saurabh
Ray and Sarfraz Raza.
Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications, vol. 43(7), pp. 593-600,
2010.
Conference Papers:
• “Improving the First Selection Lemma in R 3 ”. Abdul Basit, Nabil H. Mustafa,
Saurabh Ray and Sarfraz Raza.
Proceedings of the 26th ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG
’10), 2010.
Research Assistant July 2009 - December 2009
Lahore University of Management Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan
Advisor: Dr. Ashraf Iqbal
• Editing an undergraduate and graduate level text on Graph Theory & Algorithms,
which approaches the subject from a learning theory perspective.
• Helping develop a course on Graph Theory & Algorithms, lectures for which were
recorded for Virtual University, Pakistan.
Research Assistant March 2008 - June 2009
Lahore University of Management Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan

TEACHING
ASSISTANT
HONORS &
AWARDS
WORK
EXPERIENCE
Advisor: Dr. Nabil H. Mustafa
• Worked on various problems in discrete and computational geometry.
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ USA
• CS 513 - Design & Analysis of Data Structures & Algorithms Fall 2012
Instructor: Endre Szemerédi
• CS 206 - Discrete Structures II Spring 2012
Instructor: William Steiger
• CS 344 - Design & Analysis of Computer Algorithms Fall 2011
Instructor: Michael Fredman
• CS 111 - Introduction to Computer Science Spring 2011
Instructor: Pradip Hari
Lahore University of Management Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan
• CS 511 - Advanced Algorithms (Grad) Spring 2009
Instructor: Nabil H. Mustafa
• CS 515 - Computational Biology (Grad) Spring 2009
Instructor: Ashraf Iqbal, Dr. Fatima W. Khwaja
• CS 294 - Object Oriented Programming Spring 2008
Instructor: Naveed Arshad
• CS 571 - Network Protocols and Standards (Grad) Winter 2007
Instructor: Zartash A. Uzmi
• CS 471 - Computer Networks Autumn 2007
Instructor: Zartash A. Uzmi
• Excellence Fellowship at Rutgers University (2011 - 2012)
Freelance Programmer February 2009 - December 2010
• Built multiple web applications from ground up. Languages: PHP, Javascript.
Tools: HTML, XML, CSS, MySQL, JQuery.
Software Engineer August 2008 - February 2009
Confiz Solutions, Lahore, Pakistan
• Part of a team developing an online music portal (www.urfilez.com). Role of
problem solver/developer. Languages: PHP, Javascript. Tools: HTML, XML,
CSS, MySQL, JQuery.
SKILLS Programming Languages: PHP, Python, C, C++, Java, Javascript.
Operating Systems: Linux, Windows.
Tools and Applications: HTML, XML, CSS, JQuery, MySQL, Unix Shell Scripting,
L ATEX, Matlab.