Work Experience

2005 -

Professor, Georgia State University, Computer Science Department. Supervising six Ph.D. and four M.S. students at the DiMoS lab.

2007 -

Honorary Adjunct Professor, University of New Brunswick, Faculty of Computer Science, Frederickton. Collaborating in parallel and distributed computing research, and help supervising PhD dissertation research.

2008 Summer:

Visiting Professor, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), to collaborate on macroprogramming and efficiently querying heterogeneous streaming data sources/sensor networks.

1998 - 99:

Founding Graduate Program Director, Computer Science Dept. Georgia State University, Atlanta (GSU). Developed a 72-hour curriculum for the newly-installed Ph.D. program in Computer Science including its examinations, admission requirements, and over 20 new courses at 8000 and 9000 level. Instrumental in leading the department to implement a thesis-only M.S. program in computer science. Revamped the degree and admission requirements for M.S. in computer science.

2000: -

Director, GSU-GEDC Distributed and Mobile Systems (DiMoS) Laboratory : As P.I. of the Georgia Electronic Design Center (GEDC - formerly Yamacraw) Embedded Software Research Contracts (2000-04), led a GSU team of seven faculty and over dozen and a half Ph.D./M.S. students, with active collaboration of three Georgia Tech faculty and their students. It had resulted in about 6,000 Square Feet of research space in the Technology Square Research Building on Georgia Tech campus with a 800 SF of software/hardware laboratory space (housing Distributed and Mobile Systems Laboratory (DiMoS)), and offices for seven faculty members and their students, and numerous workstations, handheld devices, and other equipments. Five utility patent applications and over two dozen provisional patent filings have resulted, in addition to several publications and work on theses and dissertations. Average Annual Budget: $200K.

The lab is now located in the Georgia Tech campus at Room 438, 85 Spring Street, Atlanta, GA, and currently houses about a dozen Ph.D./M.S. students. Current research thrusts includes distributed workflows over web services, flexible security architecture in grids, ad-hoc sensor networks, distributed simulation data structures and algorithms, collaborative editing systems, and platform technologies for collaborative and distributed applications.

2006 Summer:

Visiting Professor, University of Melbourne, Dept. Of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Australia, and National Information and Communications Technology Australia (NICTA) - Australia’s Research Centre of Excellence (June-Aug). Invited to collaborate in distributed and grid computing research.

2005 Summer:

Visiting Professor, University of New Brunswick, Faculty of Computer Science, Frederickton (July-Aug). Invited to collaborate in parallel and distributed computing research.

1998 - 05:

Associate Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, Georgia State University. Directed and funded about two dozen students annually on parallel and distributed computing and middleware projects. Instrumental in establishing the Ph.D. program. Established the DiMoS program.

2000 - 01:

Software Architecture Consultant, Inst. for Customer Relationship Management, Atlanta. Led a team of computer science professors to design a smart advisor system based on fuzzy logic for high school students to gain admission into colleges.

1996 - 98:

Associate Professor, Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science, GSU. Instrumental in developing thesis-only M.S. program.

1990 - 96:

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science, GSU. Established parallel computing infrastructure and courses.

1987 - 90:

Graduate Research Assistant, Dept. of Computer Science, UCF, Orlando.

1985 - 86:

Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Computer Science, WSU, Pullman.

1985:

Assistant Software Engineer, Hindustan Computers Ltd., New Delhi.