Curriculum Vitae

Employment

Louisiana State University

Department of Computer Science

Assistant Professor, August 2007 – Present

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Department of Computer Science

Assistant Professor, September 2000 – June 2007

Education

Brown University

Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2000
Thesis title: “A Study on Distributed Structures”
Supervisor: Prof. Maurice Herlihy

 

M.Sc. in Computer Science, October 1997
Thesis title: “Counting Networks of Width pk“
Supervisor: Prof. Maurice Herlihy

University of Crete, Greece

M.Sc. in Computer Science, August 1995
Thesis title: “Design and Development of a Frame Grabber  for Still High Resolution Images”
Supervisor: Prof. Apostolos Traganitis.


B.Sc. in Computer Science, January 1992

Funding

·         PI in NSF project 1018273:

Nets: Small: Modelling and Analysis of Multilayer Jamming Games in Wireless Networks.

PI: Konstantin Busch; CoPIs: Rajgopal Kannan and Shuangqing Wei.

NSF, CISE, CNS.

$300,000.

September 1, 2010 – August 31, 2013.

Louisiana State University.

 

·         PI in NSF project 0846081:

Collaborative Research: NeTS-NOSS: Distributed Algorithms for Sensor-Aided Directories to Mobile Objects.

PI: Konstantin Busch.

NSF, CISE, CNS.

$87,689.

February 15, 2008 – January 31, 2011.

Louisiana State University.

(Transferred grant from RPI, NSF project 0520009) 

 

·         Co-PI in NSF project 0709099:

CRI: IAD: A Digital Microfluidic Testbed for Combinatorial Biosynthesis and Screening.

PI: Srinivas Akella; CoPIs: Konstantin Busch; Jonathan Dordick, and Robert Linhart.

NSF, CISE, CNS.

$200,000.

August 2007- August 2008.

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

 

·         PI in NSF project 0520009:

Collaborative Research: NeTS-NOSS: Distributed Algorithms for Sensor-Aided Directories to Mobile Objects

PI: Konstantin Busch.

NSF, CISE, CNS.

$179,738.

September 2005 - August 2008.

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

(In collaboration with NSF project 0520102 of Srikanta Tirthapura and Daji Qiao at Iowa State Univiversity. Total awarded amount of both projects $500,000.)

Conference Program CommitteeS

·         TRANSACT 2012  (ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Transactional Computing)

·         CMC 2012 (International Conference on Communications, Mobility, and Computing)

·         ALGOSENSORS 2011, 2007 (International Symposium on Algorithms for Sensor Systems, Wireless Ad Hoc Networks and Autonomous Mobile Entities)

·         MOBIWAC 2011 (ACM International Symposium on Mobility Management and Wireless Access)

·         DISC 2011  (International Symposium on Distributed Computing)

·         SPAA 2011 (ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures)

·         GAMENETS 2011 (International ICST Conference on Game Theory for Networks)

·         WASA 2011, 2010 (International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications)

·         CSNS 2011 (International Workshop on Collaboration and Sensors Networks and Systems)

·         SSNE 2011 (ACIS International Symposium on Software and Network Engineering)

·         SNPD 2011 (ACIS International Conference of Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking and Parallel/Distributed Computing)

·         SERA 2011, 2009 (ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering, Management and Applications)

·         IPDPS 2010, 2009, 2004 (IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium)

·         SENSORCOMM 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007 (International Conference on Sensor Technologies and Applications)

·         ICFCC 2010 (International Conference on Future Computer and Communication)

·         DCOSS 2008, 2006 (IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems)

·         SIROCCO 2008 (International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity)

·         CCNC 2007 (IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference)

·         ICDCS 2007 (International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems)

·         ICPP 2005 (international Conference on Parallel Processing)

·         MOBIHOC 2005 (ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing)

·         OPODIS 2005 (International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems)

·         Applied Computing 2005 (IADIS International Conference on Applied Computing)

·         EUROPAR 2002 (International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing)

Organizing CommitteeS

·         PODC 2007, 2008 – Workshops organizing co-chair (Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing)

·         WASA 2010 – Workshops organizing co-chair (International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications)

EditorIAL BOARD

·         MDPI Sensors, special issue on “Sensor Algorithms”, guest editor.

·         MDPI Algorithms, special issue on “Sensor Algorithms”, guest editor.

·         MDPI Algorithms, member of general editorial board.

·         International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communication Systems (IJAACS), special issue on “Algorithmic Game Theory”, guest editor.

Invited Talks

·         Louisiana State University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Talk title: “Atomic Routing Games on Maximum Congestion”. April 2009.

·         The IEEE 22nd Annual Computer Communications Workshop (CCW), Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Speaker in panel: “Energy-Efficient Distributed Algorithms for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks”. October 2008.

·         University of Paderborn, Germany, Department of Computer Science. Talk title: “Oblivious Routing in Wireless Networks". February 2007.

·         IBM Research, White plains. Talk title: “Oblivious Routing in Wireless Networks". November 2006.

·         University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Department of Computer Science. Talk title: “Oblivious Routing in Wireless Networks". November 2006.

·         Yale University, Department of Computer Science. Talk title: “Oblivious Routing in Wireless Networks". November 2006.

·         Brown University, Department of Computer Science. Talk title: “Oblivious Routing in Wireless Networks”.  May 2006.

·         RPI, Center for Pervasive Computing and Networking. Talk title: “Oblivious Routing in Wireless Networks". April 2006.

·         MIT, Laboratory for Computer Science. Talk title: “Greedy Hot-Potato Routing”. April 2000.

·         University of Cyprus, Cyprus, Department of Computer Science. Talk title: ``Introduction to Balancing Networks”. November 1993.

PhD Students

·         Alfred Samman, In progress, Louisiana State University.

·         Gokarna Sharma, In progress, Louisiana State University.

·         Dengpan Yin, Data-Aware Workflow Scheduling in Heterogeneous Distributed Systems, PhD Thesis, Department of Computer Science, LSU, November 2011 (Co-supervised with Dr. Tevfik Kosar).

·         Srivathsan Srinivasagopalan, Oblivious Buy-at-Bulk Network Design Algorithms, PhD Thesis, Department of Computer Science, LSU, May 2011 (Co-supervised with Dr. S. S. Iyengar).

·         Ryan LaFortune, Techniques and Data Structures for Efficient Information Access and Retrieval in Distributed Networks, PhD Thesis, Department of Computer Science, RPI, April 2008 (Co-supervised with Dr. Christopher Carothers).

·         Jing Xi, Stretch Preserving Oblivious Routing Algorithms, PhD Thesis, Department of Computer Science, RPI, May 2006.