I am an Associate Professor of Computer Science  at UMass Amherst. My research interests lie in operating and distributed systems, sensor networks, Internet systems, and multimedia. I head the Laboratory for Advanced Systems Software here at UMass where we build systems and understand them through analysis and experimentation.

Honors and Awards

Education

Ph.D. (1998), M.S. (1994), Computer Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin

B.Tech (1993), Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.

Research

My current research projects focus on server and desktop virtualization, RFID networks, sensor data management, and pervasive multimedia systems.

Publications and Recent Talks

Laboratory for Advanced Systems Software

I maintain the UMass Trace Repository and the UMass CS Weather Station and am part of the UMass Center for Advanced RFID Research.

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Teaching

I am teaching  Distributed Operating Systems this Spring.

Past Courses Archive

I also maintain a page for the OS kernel Lab.

Professional activities

Over the next few months, I will serve on the Program Committees of the following conferences and workshops

1. • ACM Sigmetrics 2008 (PC Co-Chair)
   

2. •Performance 2007 (PC Co-Chair)
   

3. • ACM Nossdav 2008
   

Past activities

My personal page is here.

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