Research Activities
Professional Service
I co-organized the MSR India Summer School on Wireless Networking (at IISc in June 2014) and the First Mysore Park Workshop on Building and Programming the Cloud (January 2010, Infosys Campus, Mysore, India).
I served as the Associate Editor of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (2006-2009), Area Editor of ACM SIGMOBILE MC2R (2004-2005), Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (2001-2006) and Technical Editor of IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine (1999-2006).
I served as the Program Co-chair of COMSNETS 2014 (opens in new tab), ACM CORONET 2011 (opens in new tab), ACM MOBICOM 2006 (opens in new tab), and IEEE ICNP 2004 (opens in new tab).
I also served as the General Co-chair of COMSNETS 2018 (opens in new tab) and WICON 2006 (opens in new tab).
Service on conference program committees include:
- USENIX NSDI 2020 (TPC Member)
- ACM MOBICOM 2015, 2012, 2011, 2010 (TPC Member)
- ACM SIGCOMM 2010 (TPC Member)
- ACM SIGMETRICS 2011 (TPC Member)
- IEEE INFOCOM 2010, 2008 (TPC Area Chair)
- ACM SENSYS 2008 (TPC Member)
- IEEE ICNP 2017, 2016 (TPC Area Chair)
- ACM MOBIHOC 2016, 2013 (TPC Member)
Teaching
I taught two graduate courses “Wireless and Mobile Networking I & II” (Spring’03 and Fall’03) in the Electrical Engineering Department at Columbia University, New York.
Education
- Ph.D. Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1997
Title: Supporting Connection Mobility in Wireless Networks
Advisors: Prof. Jim Kurose and Prof. Don Towsley. - M.S., Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1994
Title: Adaptive Playout Mechanisms for Packetized Audio Applications in Wide-Area Networks
Advisors: Prof. Jim Kurose and Prof. Don Towsley. - B.Tech., Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, 1992.