Bio

I'm a graduate student at the Dept. of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. I completed my MS at UMass Amherst in Feb, 2009. My resume can be found by clicking the link on the left.

Prior to this, I completed my undergraduate studies for a BTech and MTech in the Computer Science and Engineering lab at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India.

Research Interests

Wireless Networks and Flash based Databases.

Publications

• Lazy-Adaptive Tree: An Optimized Index Structure for Flash Devices
  Devesh Agrawal, Deepak Ganesan, Ramesh Sitaraman, Yanlei Diao, Shashi Singh
  in the Proceedings of the Very Large Databases (VLDB) 2009 (Longer Version With Proof, slides photo)


• Block-Switched Networks: A New Paradigm for Wireless Transport
  Ming Li, Devesh Agrawal , Deepak Ganesan, Arun Venkataramani
  in the Proceedings of the Usenix Network Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI) 2009 (slides)


• Exploiting the Interplay between Memory and Flash Storage for Sensor Data Management
  Devesh Agrawal, Boduo Li, Zhao Cao, Deepak Ganesan, Yanlei Diao, Prashant Shenoy
  in submission to the ACM Transactions on Embedded Computer Systems (TECS)

At IITM, I worked with Prof. C. Siva Ram Murthy in the HPCN Lab. These are my publications at IITM:

• Design and Analysis of Meghadoot - A Hybrid Wireless Network Architecture
  B. Venkata Ramana, Devesh Agrawal , and C. Siva Ram Murthy
  in the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Networks (ICON) 2006 (nominated for the best paper award)


• "Robust Demand Driven Video Multicast over Ad hoc Wireless Networks"
  D. Agrawal, T. Bheemarjun Reddy, C. S. R. Murthy
  in the IEEE Broadband Networks conference (Broadnets) 2006


• "Video Multicasting in Ad hoc Wireless Networks"
  Devesh Agrawal
  Mtech thesis, Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Madras. May 2006.

Source Code

During the course of my studies, I have been fortunate to release the following codebases: (rants and raves welcome)

• LA-Tree Preliminary code release. This lead to the VLDB'09 paper.


• Hop Wireless Transport Protocol. This was developed jointly with Ming Li and lead to the NSDI'09 paper.


• Meghadoot: A Hybrid Wireless Network for Adhoc Wireless Networks. This project lead to the ICON'06 paper.


• Protected Mode Debugger This was my project for the Computer System Design course at IIT Madras.

Teaching

• CS377 (Spring'07): Undergraduate OS course where I graded programming assignments and written exams.

At IITM I was a TA for two courses:

• CS313: Undergraduate OS course, where I lead the introduction of GeekOS based 'bare-metal' programming assignments.
• CS260: Undergraduate Computer Organization course, where I lead discussions on i386 related concepts like memory-management, protection etc.

Contact

• Email: dagrawal removeme at cs dot umass dot edu
• Post: CS Building, Room 214, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA - 01003
• Phone: Request me by email

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