:: About
I work for the Applications and Software Research Center at Motorola Labs. My research includes designing enablers for next generation mobile systems, distributed middleware, ad-hoc computing and cross-layer techniques for power optimization in portable systems. I am also interested in Game Theory, Incentive Models and Security for mobile environments. More recently, I have been working on set-top boxes where I plan to research some interesting analytics problems.
:: Education / Experience
2005-current: Senior Staff Researcher, Applications Research Center, Motorola Labs
1999 - 2005: PhD thesis on Cross-Layer Energy Optimization on Mobile Devices at University of California, Irvine.
before 1999: Senior Software Engineer at Wipro Technology Solutions , B.E.(Hons) Computer Science, BITS, Pilani (India)
:: Update
- Our paper titled "Where-Fi: A Dynamic Energy-Efficient Multimedia Distribution Framework for MANETs", has been accepted for publication at ACM Multimedia Computing and Networking Conference (MMCN'08).
- Journal paper on cross-layer optimizations for streaming multimedia delivery to mobile handheld systems published in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communication, May 2007.
- Journal paper titled "Quality Based Backlight Optimization for Video Playback on Handheld Devices" published in the Journal on Advances in Multimedia, special issue on Cross-layer Optimized Wireless Multimedia Communications - June 2007.
- Our paper titled "A Backlight Optimization Scheme for Video Playback on Mobile Devices", wins the Best Paper Award at the IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference held in Las Vegas in January 2006.
:: Professional Activities
- Demo Chair - IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM) 2008 .
- Technical Program Committee Member - IEEE Workshop on Wireless Mesh and Ad Hoc Networks (WiMAN 2008).
- Technical Program Committee Member - ACM Multimedia Conference 2007 (Applications Track).
- Publicity chair for the 8th International Middleware Conference 2007 (ACM Middleware '07)
- Technical Program Committee Member - ACM Multimedia Conference 2006 (short papers and posters).
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Publicity chair for the Twelfth Annual ACM Multimedia
Computing and Networking Conference (ACM MMCN '05)
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Reviewer:
- Journals: Transactions on Computers, Transactions on Mobile Computing, ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, Transactions on Computer Aided Design, IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems, ACM Multimedia Systems, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Journal of Parallel Programming, Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers
- Conferences: ICDCS, ACM Middleware, MMCN, IPDPS, HiPC, ACM Multimedia, Cluster Computing, ISLPED, DATE, DAC, CODES-ISSS, FMOODS, RTSS, RTAS
:: Travel (Recent/Upcoming)
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Jun 22-26, 2008 : IEEE WoWMoM, Newport Beach
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April 29-30, 2008 : University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN
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April 14, 2008 : Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
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April 02-04, 2008 : CERCS, Georgia Tech, Atlanta
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Jan 30-31, 2008 : ACM MMCN, San Jose
:: Miscellaneous
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