Who am I?

       I am a graduate student in the Computer Sciences Department.

Experience

  • NEC Laboratories America Inc., Princeton, NJ    
    • Research Intern                                  June 2006 – Aug 2006
    Project Title: Location-dependent data dissemination in Vehicular Networks
     
  • Yahoo Software Development India Pvt. Ltd., India
    Co-op                                               Jan 2005 – June 2005
    Project Title: Development and Setup of WAP server for  Yahoo! Mobile                                

  • University of Wisconsin –Madison, WI, USA
    Teaching Assistant                          
    Introduction to Computer Networks   Sep 2006 – present
    Introduction to programming             Sep 2005 – May 2006

Projects

  • Query Compression for Efficient Data Filtering in Sensor Networks                                                   The communication burden on sensor networks monitoring certain conditions of the environment is reduced by matching the conditions (queries) with the data generated by performing in-network joins. Given that sensor motes have limited memory, it is not always possible to store all the queries on the motes. This project proposes and evaluates a solution by compressing queries. It defines the cost associated with compression in terms of redundant data generated and proposes mechanisms to reduce the number of queries keeping the cost low.

  • Automated Access to Parking lots using Passive RFID Tags                                                          This project aimed at designing and implementing an RFID based system that provided automated access and billing to vehicles having passive tags to parking lots. It involved experiments to understand the interference, range and power properties of RFID readers, designing schemes that would singulate multiple vehicles and implementing a pilot system consisting of a reader, photo-eye and gate using the APIs provided by the reader.
  • The Case of Large Issue Buffers in Superscalar Processors                                                                                                                                         Undue importance is given to the idea of increasing issue buffer size for achieving performance improvements in superscalar processors. This project
    debunks the architecture motivated by the above misconception proposed in “A large, Fast instruction Window for Tolerating Cache Misses”. It shows that speedups similar to that using large issue buffers can also be achieved by just increasing the size of the reorder buffer. It also demonstrates that comparable performance enhancements achieved using WIB can also be achieved by having issue buffer of slightly larger sizes.

  • Design of a Pointing Device for Multimedia Projector                                                                                                                                               The project involved the design of a pointing device for a multimedia projector which would give full control to the user over the motion of the mouse pointer and perform all the basic functions of a mouse. For selecting an area on the projected screen the user has to point a laser light at it which is captured using a camera arrangement. Clicks are performed using Infrared sensors.

  • The Litec Mouse – A Surface-free Cordless Mouse                                                                                                                                                    The project aims at developing a handheld, cordless mouse that would neither be constrained by a surface like the ball and optical mice nor would need the physical contact of the user like a touch pad. An Analog to Digital Converter (ADC) was used along with Light Sensitive Resistors (LDR) and Infra Red sensors for implementation.
     

Publications

  • Load Balancing in Large-Scale RFID Systems
    Accepted in IEEE INFOCOM 2007 (Minisymposium), Anchorage, Alaska
    Full version currently under submission to Ad Hoc Networks (Elsevier)

  • Towards Robust Localization Using ‘Wireless Congruity’
    Eighth IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications
    HOTMOBILE 2007, Tucson, Arizona

  • Packet Classifiers in Ternary CAMs Can Be Smaller
    International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems
    ACM SIGMETRICS-2006, Saint-Malo, France.

  • Error Analysis in Reconstruction of a Parabola in 3-D from two arbitrary perspective views
    Proceedings of Vision Geometry XIII IS&T/SPIE International Symposium, Electronic Imaging 2005
    San Jose, California
     

Course Work

  • Advanced Computer Architecture (A)
  • Advanced Computer Networks (A)
  • Topics in Database Management (A)
  • Mobile and Wireless Networking (A)
  • Advanced Operating Systems (A)
  • Computer System Modeling Fundamentals (A)
  • Advanced Natural Language Processing
  • Introduction to Information Security

Fun Courses

  • Ice Skating I (S)
  • Ballroom Dancing I (S)
  • Technology Entrepreneurship (S)
  • Tennis I (S)
  • Tennis II

Teaching

  • CS/ECE 354 - Machine Organization and Programming                     Jan 2007 - present
  • CS 640 - Introduction to Computer Networks                                  Sep 2006 – Dec 2006
  • CS 302 - Introduction to programming                                            Sep 2005 – May 2006

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