Ramesh Kumar Sitaraman  Department of Computer Science  University of Massachusetts  Amherst, MA 01003-4610, USA  Phone:  (413) 545 3279  FAX: (413) 545 1249 Email: ramesh at cs dot umass dot edu Assistant: Karren Sacco Office: CS Building, Room 300 Phone: (413) 577 0292 Email: ksacco dot cs dot umass dot edu

Education

• BTech (Electrical Engineering), Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India.
• Ph.D (Computer Science), Princeton University.

Awards

• NSF CAREER Award, 1997.
• Lilly Fellowship, 1996.
• NSF Research Initiation Award (RIA), 1994.
• Nomination, Distinguished Teaching Award,  AY  95-96, AY 96-97, AY 98-99.

Professional Service

• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems 2000 - 2004.
• Guest Editor, Theory of Computing Systems, SPAA '99 Special issue.
• Guest Editor, ACM-Baltzer Journal on Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET), Special Issue on Mobility Management.

Research Interests

Over the years, Prof. Sitaraman's research has centered on fundamental theoretical issues in the design and use of parallel and distributed systems, and communication networks. His current research is motivated by the grand goal of enabling the Internet to evolve into a mission-critical medium for human communication. Specifically, he is interested in algorithms and architectures of very-large-scale distributed systems for delivering reliable, scalable, secure, high-performance, and low-cost services on the Internet.

• Internet Services. Web and Streaming content delivery. Overlay network design. Global traffic management. Cost-Performance optimizations and tradeoffs. Large-scale empirical evaluation of the structure and performance of the Internet.
• Communication. Interprocessor communication in parallel systems. Routing messages with timing constraints. Wireless networks. Circuit-switching and wormhole routing algorithms. Performance analysis of communication protocols.
• Fault Tolerance. Algorithms to reconfigure faulty networks. Fault-tolerant communication. Fundamental limitations on network fault tolerance.

Research Lab

• TAPADS - Prof. Micah Adler, Prof. Arnold L. Rosenberg and I co-direct the Theoretical Aspects of Parallel and Distributed Systems  Lab.
• THEORY- I am also a member of the theory group.

Publications

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Miscellaneous

• AID - Association for India's Development. A charitable organization that I am involved with.