Honors and Editorial Activities

Invited Research Visits:

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Tennessee (June-Aug 2008): A funded summer visit to ORNL to collaborate on macroprogramming and efficiently querying heterogeneous streaming data sources/sensor networks, and to give research seminars.

Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore (Dec 2007): A funded visit to IISc to collaborate in parallel and distributed computing and sensor network research, and to give a research seminar.

University of Melbourne and NICTA, Australia (June-Aug 2006): An all-expense paid invited visit to University of Melbourne and to National Information and Communications Technology Australia (NICTA) - Australia’s Research Centre of Excellence, to collaborate in distributed and grid computing research, and to give research seminars.

University of New Brunswick, Canada (July-Aug 2005): A funded visit to University of New Brunswick to collaborate in parallel and distributed computing research, and to give research seminars.

Elected Chair of IEEE TCPP (2007-09):

IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP). TCPP acts as an international forum to promote parallel processing research and education, and participates in setting up technical standards in this area. Issues related to the design, analysis and implementation of parallel, distributed and concurrent hardware and software systems and solutions are of interest. These include design and analysis of architectures and algorithms, and application development. The TCPP sponsors professional meetings, brings out publications, sets guidelines for educational programs, and coordinates academia, funding agency, and industry activities in the above areas.

Member, Conference Advisory Committee, Technology and Conferences Board

, (T&C Board) (2008-09): IEEE Computer Society - This is a source of advice for conference planners.

Vice Program Co-Chair:

Fifteenth International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS 2009), Mobile and Sensor Computing Track, 9-11 Dec. 2009, Shenzhen, China.

Program Co-Chair:

IEEE Cluster 2009 Posters, 2009 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (Cluster 2009) New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, August- September, 2009.

Program Co-Chair:

Third International Conference on Information Systems, Technology and Management (ICISTM-10), March , 2010, Bankok.

Organizer:

IPDPS 2009 TCPP PhD Forum, 23rd IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, May 25-29, 2009, Rome, Italy.

Program Co-Chair:

Third International Conference on Information Systems, Technology and Management (ICISTM-09), March 12-13, 2009, IMT - Ghaziabad http://www.imt.edu/icistm

Tutorials Co-Chair:

The 10th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking, ICDCN 2009, January 3-6, 2009 in Hyderabad, India.

Proceedings Chair:

Intl. Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC 2009), Cochin, India.

Proceedings Co-Chair:

2nd International Conference on Contemporary computing, Delhi, India, August 17-19, 2009. http://www.jiit.ac.in/jiit/ic3/

Program Committee Member:

6th High-Performance Grid Computing Workshop at Intl. Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2009), Rome.

Program Committee Member:

IPDPS 2009 TCPP PhD Forum, 23rd IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium,

Program Committee Member:

8th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid, May 19-22, 2008, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, Lyon, France.

Honorary Adjunct Professor (2007-)

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

Program Co-Chair:

The Ist IEEE International Workshop on Service Oriented Technologies for Biological Databases and Tools (SOBDAT 2007), In conjunction with ICWS/SCC 2007, 13 July 2007, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Tutorials Chair:

Intl. Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2008).

Proceedings Chair:

Intl. Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC 2008), Bangalore, India.

Program Committee Member:

Intl. Conf. on Parallel Processing (ICPP 2008), September 8-12, Portland, Oregon, USA.

Program Committee Member:

Seventh IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2008), May 19-22, 2008, Lyon, France.

Program Committee Member:

5th High-Performance Grid Computing Workshop at Intl. Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2008), Miami.

Advisory Committee Member:

IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP) (2007-).

External Reviewer for Tenure and Promotion.

Computer Science Assistant Professor, University of Melbourne, requested by Vice President, Summer 2007.

Program Committee Member:

Intl. Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2007), Long Beach, CA.

Program Committee Member:

4th High-Performance Grid Computing Workshop at Intl. Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2007), CA.

Program Committee Member:

Intl. Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2007), Long Beach, CA.

Proceedings Chair:

Intl. Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC 2007), Goa, India.

Tutorials Chair:

Intl. Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2007), Long Beach, CA.

Program Committee Member:

Seventh IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2007), Rio de Janeiro - Brasil.

Program Committee Member:

4th High-Performance Grid Computing Workshop at Intl. Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2007), CA.

External Reviewer for Tenure.

Computer Science Assistant Professor, Jordan University of Science and Technology, requested by President Wajih Owais, June 2006.

Program Committee Member:

Intl. Conf. on Distributed Computing and Networking, ICDCN 2006, Guwahati, 2006

Proceedings Chair:

Intl. Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC 2006), Bangalore, India.

Program Committee Member:

Intl. Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2006), Greece.

Scientific Committee Member:

20th International Symposium on High Performance Computing (HPCS 2006), Memorial University of Newfoundland May 14 - 17, Canada

Program Committee Member:

Third High-Performance Grid Computing Workshop at Intl. Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2006), Greece.

Program Committee Member:

Intl. Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2005), Denver, Colorado.

Proceedings Chair:

Intl. Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC 2005), Goa, India.

Program Committee Member:

5th Intl. Conf. on Algorithms and Arch. for Parallel Processing (ICA3PP 2005), China.

Commemorative Plaque.

Presented by HiPC Steering Committee Chair in recognition of ``His Contributions and Leadership at the 11th International Conference on High Performance Computing as Publication Chair.'' Meeting sponsored by IEEE Computer Society and ACM, Dec. 21, 2004.

Advisory Comm. Member:

IEEE Conf. on Dist. Comput & Netw, Kharagpur, India, June 2004.

Program Committee Member:

Intl. Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC 2004), Bangalore, India.

Proceedings Chair:

Intl. Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC 2004), Bangalore, India.

Program Committee Member:

Intl. Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT 2004), Wuhan, China.

Invitation for External Reviewer for Tenure.

Associate Professor, Department of Electronics and Computer Engineering, Arizona State University East, Mesa, AZ, by Associate Dean Timothy Lindquist, Sept. 2003.

Yamacraw Research Center Committee Member:

Advisory board to Yamacraw (now Georgia Electronics Design Center funded by Georgia Research Alliance) to help it define its mission and activities, and obtain funding from Governor, State of Georgia, beyond its initial mandate of five years. 2003.

Commemorative Plaque.

Presented by HiPC Steering Committee Chair, IEEE Computer Society and ACM, Dec. 18, 2003.

Proceedings Chair:

Intl. Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC 2003), Hyderabad, India.

NSF Panel.

National Science Foundation proposal review panel in Networking Research Program (April, 02).

Program Committee Member:

5th Intl. Conf. on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing (ICA3PP 2002), China.

Was interviewed

by Mike Dickerson from eHatchery on study on commercialization of the state university research and the directions that Yamacraw, a State of Georgia research agency, should take. 2002.

Featured Article in Research Magazine.

Yamacraw's Quaterly magazine ``Forward," vol. 4, no. 1, April 2002, published individual and group photos with caption ``Professor Sushil Prasad leads Georgia State University's Yamacraw 20-person research team in their efforts to design cell phone systems and e-business infrastructure,'' and cited two dozens research publications, posters and patent filings.

Publicity Chair:

Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Simulation (PAD' 2001), LA.

Program Committee Member:

Distributed Simulation and Real-Time Systems (DS-RT), 2001, Cincinnati.

Program Committee Member:

International Conf on High Performance Computing (HIPC), 2001, Hydrabad, India.

Program Committee Member:

The Second International Conf on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies (PDCAT' 2001), Taiwan.

Referee for Proposals

U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation, Cooperative Grants Program 2001

Invited luncheon with Governor Roy Barnes,

Yamacraw, GCATT, April 28, 2000.

Guest Editor.

Special Issue on Parallel and Distributed Data Structures for Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Vol 49, No. 1, Feb. 1998 (co-editors: S. Olariu, Old Dominion Univ. and S. K. Das, Univ. of N. Texas).

Program Committee Member:

IEEE Conference on Networking and Distributed Computing, Kharagpur, India, Dec 5-7, 1997.

Program Committee Member:

5th International Conference on Computing and Information, Sudbury, Ontario, May 1993.

Nominated for Outstanding Junior Faculty in Research Award.

1993. College of Arts and Sciences, GSU.

Jagadish Bose National Science Talent Search Scholarship

(1981-1985) during B.Tech. at IIT.

Keynote/Invited Talks at Conferences

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Keynote Talk:

Third International Conference on Information Systems, Technology and Management (ICISTM-09), March 12-13, 2009, IMT - Ghaziabad http://www.imt.edu/icistm

Keynote Talk:

The First International Workshop on Mobile and Ubiquitous Context Aware Systems and Applications (MUBICA 2007), August 6, 2007, Philadelphia, PA, USA, In conjunction with the 4th Annual Int. Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (Mobiquitous 2007).

Invited Talk:

The 9th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN 2008), Kolkata, India, January 5-8.

Invite Talk:

Distributed Simulation and Real-Time Systems (DSRT-2000), San Francisco, Aug, 2000. Parallel Discrete Event Simulation, (Organizers: Dr. A. Bourkerche, Professor of Computer Science, Unversity of Ottawa )

Invited Half Day Tutorial:

IEEE Conference on Distributed Processing & Networking, Kharagpur, India, Dec 5-7. 1997. Introduction to Parallel and Distributed Discrete Event Simulation. (Organizer: Dr. Pathak, Professor of Electrical Engg., Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur)

Invited Colloquium Talks

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ORNL, Data Systems Division

Summer 2008. Fully Funded. (Host: Dr. Mallikarjun Shakar)

Delhi College of Engineering

Dec 2008. (Host: Dr. Ravindra Sinha and Prof. P.B. Sharma )

Persistent Systems, Pune, India

Dec 2008. (Host: Dr. Anand Deshpande)

Tata Research, Development, and Design Center, Pune, India

Dec 2008. (Host: Dr. Harrick Vin)

Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Supercomputing Education and Research Center, Bangalore

Dec. 2007. Fully Funded. (Host: Prof. Govindrajan)

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, Computer Science and Engineering Department, Kharagpur

Dec. 2007. Funded. (Hosts: Prof. Indranil Dasgupta and Dean Partha P. Chakarabarty)

Rochester Institute of Technology, New York

Feb. 2007. Fully Funded. (Host: Prof. Jorge Hererra)

National Research Council, Fredericton, Canada

Oct. 2006. Fully Funded. (Host: Dr. Harold Boley)

Oak Ridge National Laboratory,

Sept. 2006. (Host: Dr. James Nutaro)

Universty of Melbourne and NICTA, Melbourne, Australia,

July 2006. (Host: Prof. Rajkumar Buyya)

College of Computing, Georgia Tech,

Fall 2005. (Host: Prof. Shamkant Navathe - class presentation to seniors and graduate students)

Kanwal Rekhi School of Information Technology, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay,

Dec 2004. (Host: Prof. Krithi Ramamritham, Chair)

Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, School of Technology and Computer Science, Bombay,

Dec 2004. (Host: R.K. Shyamasundar, Dean, TCSF)

Indian Institute of Technology, Madras,

Computer Science and Engineering Department, Dec 2004. (Host: Prof Timothy A. Gonsalves and Prof Hema A Murthy)

Intel Research Laboratory, Bangalore,

Dec 2004. (Host: Rajeev D. Muralidhar)

IBM India Research Lab, New Delhi,

(Host: Dr. Ponani Gopalakrishnan, Head, and Dr. Neeran Karnik)

Industry Advisory Board Conference, Georgia Electronic Design Center (GEDC),

State of Georgia, Distributed and Mobile Systems research (DiMoS), April 2004. (Organizers: Dr. V. Madisetti, Thrust Leader in Embedded Software, Professor of Electrical Engg., GIT, and J. Laskar, Director, GEDC, Professor of Electrical Engg., GIT)

Industry Advisory Board Conference, Yamacraw,

State of Georgia, April 2002. Networked Portable Platform Technology (NP2), (Organizers: Dr. V. Madisetti, Thrust Leader in Embedded Software, Professor of Electrical Engg., GIT, and H. Lehman, Director, Yamacraw)

Industry Advisory Board Conference, Yamacraw,

State of Georgia, Oct., 2002. System on Devices (SyD): Method and System for Developing and Deploying Collaborative Applications over heterogeneous Data-Stores, (Organizers: Dr. V. Madisetti, Thrust Leader in Embedded Software, Professor of Electrical Engg., GIT, and H. Lehman, Director, Yamacraw)

Industry Advisory Board Conference, Yamacraw,

State of Georgia, Oct., 2001. Embedded Software research, (Organizers: Dr. V. Madisetti, Thrust Leader in Embedded Software, Professor of Electrical Engg., GIT, and H. Lehman, Director, Yamacraw)

Contributed Conference Presentations (Recent)

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(Students Co-Authors Italicized)

• P2P Document Tree Management in a Real-Time Collaborative Editing System, IEE Intl High Performance Computing (HiPC), IEEE, Goa, Dec. 2007.

• Distributed Algorithms for Lifetime of Wireless Sensor Networks based on Dependency Structure among Cover Sets, IEEE Intl High Performance Computing (HiPC), Goa. Dec 2007.

• Development of NeuronBank: A Federation of Customizable Knowledge Bases of Neural Circuitry. The Ist IEEE International Workshop on Service Oriented Technologies for Biological Databases and Tools (SOBDAT 2007) - Intl. Conf. on Web Services (ICWS/SCC 07), July 13, 2007, Salt Lake City, Utah.

• iC2mpi: A Platform for Parallel Execution of Graph-Structured Iterative Computations, The 8th IEEE International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Scientific and Engineering Computing (PDSEC-07)) - IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops (IPDPS-07), March, 2007, Long Beach.

• Improving Secure Communication Policy Agreements by Building Coalitions, The 3rd International Workshop on Security in Systems and Networks (SSN2007) - IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops (IPDPS-07), March, 2007, Long Beach.

• Fundamental capabilities of Web Coordination Bonds: Modeling Petri Nets and Expressing Workflow and Communication Patterns over Web Services, Hawaii Intl. Conf. in Syst. Sc. (HICSS-38), Jan, 2005, Big Island, Hawaii.

• System on Mobile Devices (SyD): A Middleware Testbed for Collaborative Applications over Small Heterogeneous Devices and Data Stores, ACM/IFIP/USENIX 5th International Middleware Conference (MW-04), Toronto, Canada, Oct., 2004.

• Web Coordination Bonds: A Simple Enhancement to Web Services Infrastructure for Effective Collaboration, Hawaii Intl. Conf. in Syst. Sc. (HICSS-37), Jan. 5-8, 2004, Big Island, Hawaii.

• A Web-based Game-Oriented College Selection System Employing Fuzzy Rule Trees, Hawaii Intl. Conf. in Syst. Sc. (HICSS-37), IEEE Computer Society Press, University of Hawaii, Jan. 5-8, 2004, Big Island, Hawaii.

• Syncsim: A Synchronous Simple Optimistic Simulation Technique based on a Global Parallel Heap Event Queue, Proceedings of the 2003 Winter Simulation Conference, IEEE/ACM, Dec 5-8, 2003, New Orleans.

• System on Mobile Devices (SyD): Kernel Design and Implementation, MobiSys '03: First International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services, Poster and Demo Presentation, May 5-8, 2003, San Francisco.

• Implementation of a Calendar Application Based on SyD Coordination Links, Proceedings of The Third International Workshop on Internet Computing and E-Commerce in conjunction with the 17th Annual International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2003), IEEE, 22-26 April, Nice, France.