Research Experience
Research and Development Engineer
Myriads Research Group, INRIA Bretagne-Atlantique Research Center, Rennes - France
January 2011 - present
Contrail Project, Jan 2011 - present
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- Design and development of virtual execution platform for cloud services.
- Development of overall Contrail cloud federation architecture.
- Participate in federation security discussion with other teams
- Evaluation of open source cloud technologies for inclusion in Contrail.
- Support for open standards including OVF, OCCI, and REST.
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Gray Networking, June 2009 - Dec 2010
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- Came up with the original concept behind Gray Networking.
- Did background research on brain functions and organization.
- Extracted computing principles shown in brain's macro-level functions.
- Came up with a large scale hypothetical network design based on the Gray Networking design model.
- Principal author of the seminal paper on Gray Networking presented at ACM SIGAPP SAC 2010 meet.
- Collaborated with two CISE faculty members in formulating a research grant proposal.
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mDNS: DNS Aware Multicast Session Directory, Aug 2007 - current
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- Researched multicast session directory requirements and its need.
- Proposed our solution which is scalable, hierarchical and distributed.
- Incorporated geocoding, developed hash-based routing scheme and the necessary data structures.
- Developed the software demonstrating our research.
- Co-authored several conference papers and developed presentations.
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UF-IBA: Image Based User Authentication, Jan 2006 - Aug 2007
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- Analyzed security issues with text-based user passwords.
- Researched user authentication system using images that replaces text-based passwords.
- Developed a pilot system for user authentication.
- Deployed and managed the authentication system for selected graduate courses at CISE.
- Co-authored several conference papers and developed presentations.
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Covert Channels through Time-Mix Firewalls, Aug 2004 - Jan 2006
This project was funded by Navy Research Labs, Washington D.C.
- Researched and developed the covert logic including copy code structure, moving window auto-correlation strategy necessary for decoding.
- Helped in code integration in Mix-Firewalled network environment.
- Took part in weekly meeting with other team members.
- Prepared monthly progress reports and white papers for the sponsors.
- Handled technical queries from the sponsors regarding our design.
Other Experience
System Administrator - CONS Lab, Aug 2006 - Dec 2010
University of Florida, Gainesville
Responsibilities included:
- Setup and management of DNS Server, Apache HTTP Server and Email Service using Dovecot and Squirrelmail.
- Management of network infrastructure including domain address allotment.
- Managed scheduled maintenance and critical updates of hosts running ubuntu, fedora and various flavors of MS Windows OS.