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Curriculum Vitaé
Sharad V. Oberoi, PhD
Education
PhD in Civil & Environmental
Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh,
PA, USA: 2007-December 2011
Doctoral
Dissertation: Towards
a framework to support engineering design student projects
Advisors:
Susan Finger, Daniel P. Siewiorek and Carolyn P. Rosé
MA in International Relations
The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL,
USA: 2010-11
Thesis: Population-centric counterinsurgency as
seen through the Iraq War Logs
Advisors:
Michael J. Reese and Matthias Staisch
MS in Civil & Environmental
Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh,
PA, USA: 2005-06
Bachelor
of Technology in Civil Engineering
Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi,
India: 2001-05
Undergraduate
Diploma in German Studies
Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi,
India: 2002-04
Research Experience
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA,
USA
Visiting Scholar, The Robotics Institute: March 2012-present
● ADEPT:
Assessing design engineering project classes with multi-disciplinary teams
o Contributed
to this NSF-funded project by extracting noun phrases from student documents
and using them as a surrogate measure for assessing design team dynamics.
o Working
on an open-source release version of the research prototype developed for my
doctoral research.
o The
research has implications for enhancing our understanding of how students
create design knowledge and providing additional assessment metrics to
instructors.
Graduate Research Assistant,
Civil & Environmental Engineering: 2005-2010, (Jun-Dec)
2011
● Group Cognition: Learning in
engineering project teams
o Lead
PhD student on an NSF-funded project to address the problem of information
management in engineering design projects by using computational linguistics.
o Developed
a research prototype to aggregate the documents and student discussion threads
in project-based courses to extract an interactive concept-map based graphical
representation (called DesignWebs)
for navigating the project corpus.
o The
research has implications for design learning by allowing researchers to
understand how the underlying structure of the artifact changes as the project
progresses.
The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
MA Candidate, Committee on International Relations: 2010-11
●
Population-centric
counterinsurgency as seen through the Iraq War Logs
o This
research builds an assessment model for measuring the success of
population-centric counterinsurgency (COIN) in Iraq by using machine learning
approaches on the Iraq War Logs.
o The
analysis demonstrates that the COIN campaign did not succeed in achieving its
goals and the US led coalition forces should focus on population-related
activities.
o The
research has implications for the current US strategy in Afghanistan that
relies on the Iraq War as a successful counterinsurgency model.
Work Experience
The
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Technical Computer Support, Urban Education Institute: 2010-11
● Responsible for installing, maintaining and
upgrading computer systems for 30 research and administrative personnel
● Awarded bonus for exceptional handling of work
emergencies 8 months after joining
Carnegie Mellon University,
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Technology
Development Lead, ADEPT
Research Group: 2009-present
●
Managed and co-programmed an
online version of MIT’s Delta Design game for use in engineering project
classes. The game demonstrates the importance of team communication and
negotiations to students
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Responsible for designing,
coordinating and running user studies for different versions of the Delta
Design prototype with engineering project classes (average size: 35 students)
Linux
Administrator, Research in
Computing Committee (CEE): 2009-10
●
Responsible for installing
software packages, updates, troubleshooting and
setting up new Linux research computers in Civil & Environmental
Engineering (120 faculty and graduate students)
●
Led discussions on
department-wide strategy to streamline Linux machine acquisitions.
Recommendations allowed standardized policy to avail CMU’s central licenses
Teaching Experience
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Statics
(12-235) course: Spring 2006, Fall 2007, Fall 2008
●
Held weekly office hours for classes of about 44 undergraduate students
●
Developed homework and exam solutions and evaluated assignments
Relevant
Course-work
Machine
Learning in Practice, Intermediate/Advanced Programming, International
Security, Strategy, Nuclear Policy, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics,
International Political Economy, Database Management Systems, Decision Context,
Decision Support, Symbolic Product & Process Modeling
Theses
Oberoi, SV, “Towards a framework to support engineering design
student projects,” PhD Thesis, Civil & Environmental
Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, December 2011.
Oberoi, SV, “Population-centric counterinsurgency as seen through the Iraq War Logs,” MA Thesis, Committee on International Relations, The University of Chicago, August 2011.
Refereed Journal Publications
Oberoi, SV, and Finger, S, “Assessing design team
dynamics through noun phrases used in student project documentation” (Manuscript in
preparation).
Oberoi, SV, Finger, S,
Nguyen, D, and Rosé, CP, “DesignWebs to support
engineering design student projects” (Manuscript in preparation).
Oberoi, SV, and Staisch, M, “Evaluating
the success of population-centric counterinsurgency through the Iraq War Logs” (Manuscript in
preparation).
Kumar, B, and Oberoi, SV, “Aspects of legislative cognizance of
noise pollution in India,” Journal of Environmental
Science & Engineering, National Environmental Engineering Research Institute,
Nagpur, India (In press).
Oberoi, SV, “Nurturing the timeless profession of civil
engineering: A case study of Summer Camp @ IIT-Kanpur,” Indian Concrete Institute (ICI)
Journal, 5(1), April-June, pp. 37-39, 2004.
Select Peer-reviewed Conference Publications
Oberoi,
SV, and Finger, S, “Tracking design knowledge in engineering student projects
around course milestones,” 119th ASEE Annual Conf & Exposition 2012, San Antonio, TX, June
10-13, 2012 (Extended abstract accepted, draft under review).
Oberoi, SV, Nguyen, D, Finger, S, and Rosé, CP,
“Automatic extraction of conceptual maps from design team documents,” 7th Symp
on Intl Design & Design Education (DEC), Montreal, Canada, Aug
15-18, 2010.
Oberoi, SV, and Finger, S, “Interactive design
navigational tools,” 6th Symp
on Intl Design & Design Education, San Diego, CA, Aug
30-Sep 2, 2009.
Oberoi, SV, and Finger, S, “DesignWebs:
An interactive organizational memory assimilation and navigation tool,” 17th Intl Conf on Engg
Design,
Stanford, CA, Aug 24-27, 2009.
Oberoi, SV, and Finger, S, “DesignWebs:
Towards the
creation of an interactive navigational tool to assist and support engineering
design learning,” 116th ASEE
Annual Conf & Exposition 2009, Austin, TX, June
14-17, 2009.
Oberoi, SV, and Thakur,
NK, “Disaster preparedness in the
hills: natural hazard modeling using GIS and remote sensing,” ASCE Intl Conf on Computing in Civil Engg
2005,
Cancun, Mexico, July 12-15, 2005.
Oberoi, SV, and Thakur,
NK,
“Risk evaluation of hill
road using remote sensing and GIS based models,” Intl Conf on Struc
& Road Transp Engg
(START) 2005, IIT Kharagpur,
Kharagpur, India, Jan 3-5, 2005, pp. 886-893.
Oberoi, SV, and Thakur,
NK, “Generation of disaster management
model based on GIS and remote sensing,” Third Intl Conf on
Theoretical, Applied, Computational and Experimental Mechanics (ICTACEM’04), IIT Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India, Dec 28-30, 2004, pp. 295-298.
Oberoi, SV, and Thakur,
NK, “Prioritization of a mountainous area for
natural hazards using remote sensing and GIS,” 25th Asian Conf on Remote
Sensing (ACRS), Chiang Mai, Thailand, Nov 22-26,
2004.
Oberoi, SV, “Total quality management: Need of the hour
for civil engineering,” Proceedings of
All India Students’ Technical Session & Seminar on the occasion of 12th IEI
Convocation and Technicians’/Students’ Convention, organized by the
Institution of Engineers (India), Bhopal, India, Oct 15-17, 2004, pp. 14-16. [Third Prize] Reproduced in the Institution of Engineers (India) Students’ Chapters Newsletter, Jan-July,
2005.
Oberoi, SV, and Thakur,
NK, “Temporal remote sensing data and
GIS application in avalanche and landslide hazard analysis of Manali-Leh Highway,” Map
Asia 2004, Beijing, China, Aug 26-29, 2004.
Kumar, B, Oberoi,
SV, and Goenka,
A, “A brief review of the legislative aspects of noise pollution,” Proc of Workshop on
Environ Pollution: Perspectives and Practices, organized by Inst of Engg & Tech, Lucknow, India, April 30, 2004, pp. 53-65.
Binyala, V, Oberoi,
SV, and Rao, KS, “Detection and
analysis of growth of sea-ice using MSMR brightness temperature data,” Map India 2003, New Delhi, India, Jan 28–31, 2003. [Best
Students' Paper Award]
Binyala, V, Oberoi,
SV, and Rao, KS, “Monitoring and assessment of sea-ice using
IRS-P4 BTD,” Symposium on Advances in Microwave Remote Sensing
Applications, organized by Centre of Studies
in Resources Engg (CSRE) & ISRO–IIT B Space
Technology Cell, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India, Jan 21-23, 2003.
Book Chapter
Kumar, B, and Oberoi,
SV, “Noise pollution: Legislative aspects and concerns,” P. Mohan (Ed.): Noise Pollution & Environ Concern,
Amicus Books, ICFAI University, Hyderabad, India, pp. 12-38, 2009 (Invited
Chapter).
Posters/Talks
Oberoi, SV, Nguyen, D, Gweon, G, Finger, S, and Rosé, CP, “DesignWebs:
A tool for automatic construction of interactive conceptual maps from document
collections,” V Aleven, J Kay, and J Mostow (Eds): ITS 2010, Part II, LNCS 6095, pp.
387–389, June 14-18, 2010 (Poster).
Oberoi, SV, Nguyen, D,
Finger, S, and Rosé, CP, “Capturing group knowledge through concept maps from
design documents,” Innovation with Impact
Exhibit, CMU, April 8, 2010 (Poster).
Oberoi, SV, “DesignWebs:
Learning in engineering project teams,” Advanced
Infrastructure Systems Seminar, CMU, March 19, 2010 (Talk).
Oberoi, SV, and Finger, S, “DesignWebs:
Towards creating an interactive organizational memory assimilation and
navigation tool,” Innovation with Impact
Exhibit, CMU, April 3, 2009 (Poster).
Oberoi, SV, Leite, FL, Akinci, B, Garrett, Jr, JH, and
Akin, O, “Integrated approach for interpreting and fusing building and mobile
sensor streams in a facility into high-level information,” Inst for Complex Engineered Systems (ICES) Open House, CMU, April 25, 2006 (Poster).
Oberoi, SV, Akinci,
B, and Karimi, HA, “CAD/GIS integration through
semantic interoperability,” Inst for Complex
Engineered Systems (ICES) Open House, CMU, Nov 2, 2005 (Poster).
Oberoi, SV, and Thakur,
NK, “Safety assessment of existing road in the Himalayas
using geographic information system and satellite imagery,” Proc of Third Intl Symp on New Tech
for Urban Safety of Mega Cities in Asia, organized by IIT Kanpur and Intl Center for Urban Safety Engg (ICUS), Inst of Industrial
Science, Univ of Tokyo, Agra, India, Oct 18-19, 2004,
pp. [Poster Session] 11-20.
Professional Review Activities
● Reviewer for Springer Journal Research in Engineering Design (2009-10)
●
Reviewer for AKM Azad, ME Auer, and VJ Harward (Eds): Internet Accessible Remote Laboratories: Scalable E-Learning Tools for
Engineering and Science Disciplines, IGI Global, 2011
● Reviewer for the 116th, 117th,
118th & 119th ASEE Annual Conferences & Expositions 2009-12
Honors
and Awards
● Inducted as member of the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi (2011)
● The
University of Chicago Unendowed
Scholarship for MA in International Relations (2010-11)
● Fenves Travel Grant, CMU (2009)
● Inducted as member of the Chi Epsilon Honors Society (2009)
● Graduate Research Assistantship, Civil & Environmental Engineering, CMU (2005-06; 2009-10; 2011)
● Carnegie Institute of Technology Dean's Fellowship 2007
● JN Tata Scholar 2005
● The Institution of
Engineers (India) Gold Medal in Civil Engineering 2004
● Best Students’ Paper Award at Map India 2003, New Delhi, India
● National Talent Search (NTSE) Scholar 1998
Leadership
● Elected as member of the Committee on Recognized Student Organizations
(CORSO), Student Government Cabinet, The University of Chicago (2010-11)
● CIR Representative, Social Sciences Graduate Student Activities
Committee, The University of Chicago (2010-11)
● Founding Vice President (Media Affairs),
Scientists & Engineers for America-CMU Chapter (Jan-Sep 2010)
● Indian
Graduate Students’ Association at CMU: Advisory Board member (2009-present),
elected as President (2008-09), Membership Co-Chair (2007-08) and Executive
Committee Member (2006-07)
● Organizing
Committee Member, CEE Talent Show at CMU (2010)
● Linux
Administrator for the Research in Computing Committee, Civil &
Environ Engg, CMU (2009-10)
● Member of
the Facilities Management Services-Student Advisory Committee for GSA, CMU
(2009-10)
● CEE Representative, Graduate Students Assembly at CMU (2008-10)
● Acted as compère for many cultural events at CMU and IIT(BHU) (2001-10)
Community
Outreach
● Volunteer for National Engineers’ Week at the Carnegie Science Center (2010-12)
● Volunteer
for SciTech Festival at the Carnegie Science Center (2009)
● Student
volunteer for Graduate Student Orientation, CMU (2006)
Relevant Computer Skills
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Languages: Java, UNIX Shell
programming, SQL, HTML
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Platforms: Linux, Windows, Mac OS X
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Application
Software: MATLAB, Weka, Oracle 10g, mySQL, ERDAS Imagine, ArcGIS
Interests
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Designing and making greeting cards
● Writing short stories and reading non-fiction
● Listening soft music
References
Available upon request
Last updated
on April 22, 2012.