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My Resume:
| Education
| Ph.D. Computer Engineering (expected) - August 2009.
GPA: 3.81 / 4.00 CISE, University of Florida, Gainesville FL USA
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| M.S. Computer Engineering - May 2008.
GPA: 3.81 / 4.00 CISE, University of Florida, Gainesville FL USA
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| B. Tech. Computer Science and Technology - May 2003.
GPA: 8.56 / 10.00 Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee India
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| Objective
| To obtain Full-Time / Intern Computer Network / Security Research position with a reputed computer n/w
core company or research lab starting anytime beginning August 2009.
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| Ph.D Dissertation Topic
| Multicast Sessions Address Allocation and Directory Architecture.
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| Work Experience
| Covert Channels through Timed Mixes - Aug 04 to Aug 05
Navy Research Lab and University of Florida, Gainesville FL
- Designed the covert channel module
- Implemented real-time covert channel in Java
- Setup and demonstration of the working system on a network of Linux systems
- Coordinated the implementation and integration of various modules within a team of 4 students
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| Image Based User Authentication - Aug 05 to Aug 07
University of Florida, Gainesville FL
- Co-Authored the concept paper which was accepted in IEEE Carnahan Conference on Security
Technologies, Las Palmas Spain October 2005
- Implemented the working system using PHP, CSS, HTML and JavaScript.
- Incorporated University of Florida guidelines on secure online dissemination of student grades
- Designed the automated log preprocessor and aggregator using Java and PHP
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| CONS System Administrator - Aug 05 to present
CISE, University of Florida, Gainesville FL
- Manage a network of around 10 systems consisting of Win XP, Win 2K, Suse and Fedora
- Managing proper network and file access restrictions using Sudo and IPTables.
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| Relevant Course Projects
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- Design and Implementation of a preferential-service capable router including implementation of
line classifiers and leaky-bucket based host management systems (simulation) + analysis
of service rates for different QoS class data packets - CEN6505 Advance Computer Network
- P2P Client and Server Application - CEN5501C Computer Network
- Java based implementation of man in the middle attack vulnerability assessment for 3DES in CBC,
ECB and OFB modes and Diffie-Hellman key exchange using J2CE packages. - CEN5540 Computer and network Security
- Java based distributed election algorithm implementation for leader selection based on Sollins minimum
spanning tree algorithm - COP5615 Distributed System
- and many more in Java/C++ ....
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| Publications
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- Piyush Harsh and Richard Newman - "Efficient Distributed Search for Multicast Session Keywords",
accepted at ICOMP'09, July 13-16, 2009.
- Piyush Harsh and Richard Newman - "Using Geo-Spatial session tagging for smart multicast session discovery",
accepted at ACM SAC'09, March 08-12,
2009.
- Piyush Harsh and Richard Newman - "mDNS - A Proposal for Hierarchical Multicast Session Directory Architecture",
accepted at ICOMP'08, July 14-17, 2008.
- Piyush Harsh and Richard Newman - "An overlay solution to IP-Multicast address collision prevention",
proceeding of
IASTED EuroIMSA 2008, March 2008.
- Piyush Harsh and Richard Newman - "Usability and Acceptance of UF-IBA, an Image-Based Authentication System",
proceedings of
IEEE ICCST 2007, October 2007.
- Richard E. Newman, Piyush Harsh and Prashant Jayaraman - "Security Analysis of and Proposal for Image-based
authentication", proceedings of IEEE ICCST 2005, p. 141, October 2005.
- Piyush Harsh - "Design and analysis of covert channels through timed mix firewalls" - CONS Internal Report, July 2005.
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| Awards / Scholarships
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| University of Florida Teaching Assistantship
| Aug 03 - Present
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| University of Florida Research Assistantship
| Summer 05, 06, 07, Spring 08.
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| University of Florida Full Tuition Waiver
| Aug 03 - Present
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| Indian Institute of Technology Merit Scholarship
| Aug 99 - Dec 02
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| Delhi Public School, Dhanbad - Merit Scholar
| 97 - 99
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| References
| Available on Request
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