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August 2010- July 2015 PhD in Information Systems
School of Information Systems
Singapore Management University
Committee: Assoc. Prof. Rajesh Krishna Balan
Assoc. Prof. Archan Misra
Asst. Prof. Youngki Lee
Thesis: “Enabling Real-Time In-Situ Context-Based Experimentation to Observe User Behaviour”
· Allowing insitu real-time experimentation of mobile applications and services using context-specific triggers with real participants on their actual smart phones.
· Handling event processing under context uncertainty.
· Mapping content to context for effective participant targeting.
Major Accomplishments
· Winner of SMU Innovation Award 2011 & 2012
August 2013-May 2014 Visiting Scholar
School of Information Systems and Management
Carnegie Mellon University
Supervisor: Prof. Srinivasan Seshan
May 2011-July 2011 Research Intern
Infosys Labs
Infosys Technologies Ltd.
· Studied the relationship between configurational characteristics of project management roles and the performance of geographically distributed software development projects.
· Collected data through semi-structured interviews of 11 project managers.
Work Experience
August 2007- August 2009 Communication and Internet Research Lab
Department of Computer Science
National University of Singapore
· Extensive research work on Wireless Mesh Networks.
· Deployed a 20-node unplanned Multi-radio 802.11x mesh.
· Designed an Interference aware routing protocol for multi-radio, multi-channel network.
January 2004- July 2007 Senior Technical Specialist
Software Engineering and Technology Labs
Infosys Technologies Ltd.
· Conceptualizing a research initiative in the pervasive computing domain and developing prototype solutions.
· Engaging with different vertical specific business units, providing technology consulting and enabling solution developments
· Thought Leadership (Training, publishing etc.)
Major Projects and Accomplishments
· Creation and evangelization of Nimbus, a context aware computing platform.
· Creation of IP in the mobile , WLAN as well as context aware computing space and successful development of research outputs into commercial solutions.
· Inclusion of the paper on Wireless Sensor Networks as part of university classroom material.
· Infosys Excellence Award for Intellectual Property Creation, 2006.
· Invited talks on Windows Mobile Application Development.
2000-2002 Guest Researcher
Centre for Electronics Design and Technology
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
2001-2002
· Extensive research work on TCP/IP and 3G wireless networks.
· Adaptation of TCP to wireless packet networks.
· Reengineered Link Layer ARQ Mechanisms.
· Setup of a simulation environment using Network Simulator; modifying existing code.
· Investigated Fair-sharing support in UMTS networks.
2000-2001
· Developed a new architecture for HTTP Proxies using workstation caches.
· Explored the possibility for integrating Workstation Browser Caches within a LAN, with a centralized proxy server.
· Designed an Internet Cache Protocol (ICP) enabled Application Level Gateway using Java Servlets.
Professional Memberships and Awards
Professional Member IEEE
IEEE Computer Society
SMU PhD Scholarship (Full)
NUS President's Graduate Fellowship (S$8400)