Teaching Experience

Graduate and undergraduate courses:

including Parallel and Distributed Computing, Parallel Algorithms, Distributed Systems and Web Service Architectures, Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Automata and Language Theory, Data Structures (in C++), and Programming Languages Pascal and ADA. Developed and updated several courses and offered independent studies.

Directed graduate students:

in parallel and distributed computing, middleware and mobile computing, collaborative computing, distributed security, and sensor networks projects, theses and dissertations in parallel and distributed computing area on state-of-the-art Silicon Graphics 24-CPU Origin-2000 high-performance CC-NUMA computer as well as on NCUBE-II, BBN Butterfly, Maspar's MP-1, SGI Power Challenge and a network of UNIX Workstations running PVM/MPI (C/C++/Java). Resulted in several joint research publications with students.

PH.D. Program Development:

The most exciting achievement for me personally has been the long sought Ph.D. program. I am involved with the program intensely, interacting with all Ph.D. students, encouraging the promising M.S. and B.S. students to consider carrying out Ph.D. work, preparing and grading qualifier examinations, and, currently, training and partially supporting about a dozen Ph.D. students. The Yamacraw/GEDC contract activity has lent a crucial support for our new Ph.D. program, attracting and retaining students through its quality research facility, vigorous research activity and a competitive assistantship amount, and has supported several full-time Ph.D. students (2000-2004).

Ph.D. Dissertations and M.S. Theses Supervision:

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Dissertation Research

1. Jon A Preston, ``Improving Concurrent Access in Collaborative Editing Systems," Committee: Sushil K. Prasad (Advisor), Dr. Rajshekhar Sunderraman, Dr. Xiaolin Hu, Dr. Melody Moore Jackson (external, Georgia Tech). Defended: May 2007. Now Associate Professor, Southern Polytechnic University (SPSU), Atlanta.

2. Caverlee, James ``Tamper-Resilient Methods for Web-based Open Systems ", PhD Dissertation, Georgia Institute of Technology, Defended: June 2007. (External Member; Advisor: Ling Liu, Georgia Tech), Joined U. Texas A&M., College Station.

3. Jeff W. Chastine, ``On Inter-referential Awareness in Collaborative Augmented Reality," Major Professor: Ying Zhu Committee: G. Scott Owen, Sushil K Prasad, Michael Weeks, Defended: May 2007. Now Associate Professor, Clayton State College and University, Atlanta.

4. Wang, Xue, ``Prediction of Protein Calcium-Binding Sites," Major Professor: Guantao Chen Committee: Dr. Sushil Prasad, Dr. Rajshekhar Sunderraman, Dr. Jenny Yang. Proposal Defense: Fall 2007.

5. Balasooriya, Janaka, ``Distributed Web Service Coordination for Collaborative Applications and Biological Workflows," Defended: Dec. 2006. Committee: Sushil K. Prasad (Advisor), Dr. Rajshekhar Sunderraman, Dr. Yi Pan, Dr. Sham Navathe (external co-advisor, Georgia Tech). Joined U. of Missouri, Rolla, and Arizona State U., Tempe.

6. Xie, Wanxia ``Supporting Distributed Transaction Processing over Mobile and Heterogeneous Platforms", PhD Dissertation, Georgia Institute of Technology, Dec 2005. (External Co-advisor; Advisor: Sham Navathe, Georgia Tech), Joined Akamai, NY.

7. Malladi, Srilaxmi, Flexible Security Architectures for Medical Informatics over Mobile Grid, Expected Defense 2009

8. Akshaye Dhawan, Energy Management in Ad-Hoc Networks. Expected Defense 2008.

9. Bhagavati, Subbarao, Distributed Application Serving and Load Balancing, Expected Defense 2010.

10. Rasanjalee Rasanjalee Dissanayaka, P2P Search in Unstrictured Networks. Expected Defense, 2011.

11. Chad Frederick, Message Passing Parallel Programming on General Purpose GPUs. Expected Defense, 2012.

12. John Daigle, Complex System Simulations, Expected Defense, 2012.

Theses Research

1. Joseph Gunawan, A Proxy Module for System on Mobile Devices, Nov. 2008. Major Professor: Sushil K. Prasad Committee: Raj Sunderraman and Saied Belkasim.

2. Dasari, Sunetri, Peer-to-Peer Distributed SyD Directory Synchronization in a Proximity-based Environment, Dec 2007. Major Professor: Sushil K. Prasad Committee: Yingshu Li and Raj Sunderraman.

3. Aung, Aung, Distributed Algorithms for Improving Wireless Sensor Network Lifetime with Adjustable Sensing Range, Spring 2007. Major Professor: Sushil K. Prasad Committee: Yingshu Li and Raheem A. Beyah.

4. Chinh Vu, ``An Energy-Efficient Distributed Algorithm for k-Coverage Problem in Wireless Sensor Networks," Advisor Yingshu Li, Member: S.K. Prasad, A. Bourgeois. April 2007.

5. Jayanthi, Praveena, Proxy Architecture for Mobile Devices, Fall 2006.

6. Botadra, Harnish, An MPI-based framework for parallelization of dynamic & unstructued applications, Spring 2006.

7. Kalgaonkar, Smruti, Time-warp and Parallel Heap for Parallel Simulation, Expected Spring 2006

8. Joshi, Jaimini, Distributed Workflow configuration and execution platform, Fall, 2005.

9. Padhye, Mohini, BondFlow: A System to Develop Workflow over Web Services, Fall, 2004.

10. Johnson, William G. , Web Services Transaction Engine. Spring, 2004.

11. Michael Broadbear. Parallel Simulation Platform Using Java. Fall 2002.

12. Zhiyong Cao. ``Parallel Algorithms for Discrete Event Simulation Using Parallel Heap," Spring 2002

13. Hui Wang. Message Passing Interface Parallelization of Fluid Dynamics Code. Summer 2002

14. Subbarao Bhagavati: ``Practical Load Balancing Algorithms for Distributed Web Server Systems." July 2001.

15. Lixin Yu. Parallel Static Chip Component Simulation. May 2002

16. Nikhil Junankar, ``High Performance VLSI Logic Simulator," 1999.

17. Pravin Chelli. Distributed Web-based Database for Medical Clinics. Summer 2000.

18. Fendy Tjahjadi. ATM LAN and Distributed Computing. April 2000

19. Robert Pfeiffer: "Automatic Parallelization of Sequential Simulators." Nov., 1998.