Sharad V. Oberoi, PhD
Some
of my recent research activities are listed below. Kindly feel free to contact me
for more details.
Major Research Areas
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Geospatial Information Systems
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Design
Learning & Computational Linguistics
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Quantitative
Social Sciences
Geospatial Information Systems
2013- Technical
Development Manager
The Sanborn Map Company,
Colorado Springs, CO
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Coordinating the new technology
development initiative for Sanborn.
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Responsibilities include formulating
theoretical research models, designing and constructing experiments, performing
preliminary experiments and data analysis.
2005-06 Graduate
Research Assistant
Advisors:
Burcu Akinci, PhD and James H. Garrett, Jr., PhD
Civil & Environmental Engineering, Carnegie
Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
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Project:
CAD-GIS Integration using Semantic Web-services
oThis
project is based on a query-based approach to formalize engineering tasks, such
as location of a tower crane on the construction site and to develop a
prototype of the web-service architecture.
oMy
main contribution in this research was oriented towards the identification of
functional requirements for CAD and GIS integration.
oThis
research has implications for providing seamless integration between CAD and
GIS systems.
2004 Summer Intern
Advisors:
Praveen Mathur and Narinder Kumar Thakur
Snow and Avalanche Study Establishment,
Defense Research & Development Organization, Chandigarh, India
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Project:
Natural hazard modeling using GIS and remote sensing
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This research operationalizes a working
methodology for disaster management in mountainous terrains.
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Analyzed geo-environmental parameters to
develop models for generating landslide/avalanche hazard maps using remotely
sensed data and GIS.
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The research has implications for
strategic planning of future developmental activities in hazard-prone
mountainous regions.
Design Learning & Computational Linguistics
2012-13 Visiting
Research Scientist
Host:
Daniel P. Siewiorek, PhD
The Robotics Institute, Carnegie
Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
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Coordinated with software consultants and
programmers for open source releases of research prototypes using Agile
software development methodologies.
2007-11 Graduate
Research Assistant
Advisors:
Susan Finger, PhD, Daniel P. Siewiorek, PhD and Carolyn P.
Rosé, PhD
Civil & Environmental Engineering, Carnegie
Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
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Project:
ADEPT - Assessing design engineering project classes with multi-disciplinary
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 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.
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Project:
Group Cognition - Learning in engineering project teams
o My
contribution in this project relates to using noun phrases as a surrogate
measure for assessing design team dynamics.
o This
research shows that monitoring the design vocabulary over time as it is shared
across team boundaries can reveal insights about the extent of successful
collaboration among the team members.
o The
research has implications for enhancing our understanding of how students
create design knowledge and providing additional assessment metrics to
instructors.
2010-11 MA Candidate
Advisors:
Michael J. Reese, PhD and Matthias Staisch
Committee on International Relations, The
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
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Project:
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.
2005-06 Graduate
Research Assistant
Advisors:
Burcu Akinci, PhD and James H. Garrett, Jr., PhD
Civil & Environmental Engineering, Carnegie
Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
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Project:
Assistance to First Responders using Building and Mobile Sensor Streams
Information
o This
research reasons with the maintenance history and building/mobile sensor
streams information to assist facility managers in diagnosing faults during
building emergencies.
o My
contribution in this project was to develop the research framework of
maintenance history information for the HVAC, electrical and plumbing
equipments in a facility.
o The
research has implications for improving the building commissioning process
practices.
2003 Undergraduate
Research Assistant
Advisor:
Brind Kumar, PhD
Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of
Technology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India
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Project:
Mathematical modeling of traffic flow in urban areas
o This
research analyzes traffic behavior in Varanasi to build a mathematical
relationship between the various factors affecting traffic flow in urban areas.
o Speed-flow
studies were carried out along nine major roads of Varanasi city at both the
peak and off-peak hours.
o The
research has implications for making rational decision of investments on urban
transportation planning from limited financial resources.
Last updated on April 21, 2013.