
Member of Technical Staff at Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent
Greater New York City Area

Member of Technical Staff at Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent
Greater New York City Area
My research interests span in the broad area of Networked Systems, in particular, Wireless Networking, Experimental Computer Systems, Pervasive and Mobile Computing with emphasis on system design, experimentation, measurement and performance evaluation.
My current research focuses on understanding the complex nature of wireless 3G/4G data network. I am part of the 9900 Wireless Network Guardian venture at Bell labs.
3G/4G wireless data networks, 802.11 based wireless networks, Dynamic Spectrum access networks, Reconfigurable Software Defined Radios, Mobile Computing, Experimental Computer Systems, Extensive knowledge in building novel wireless networking systems, Combinatorial Optimization focusing of Graph Problems.
(Public Company; LU; Telecommunications industry)
June 2009 — Present (6 months)
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
August 2004 — May 2009 (4 years 10 months)
(Research industry)
October 2008 — January 2009 (4 months)
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; T; Telecommunications industry)
June 2008 — August 2008 (3 months)
I designed and implemented a collaborative spectrum sensing scheme on a reconfigurable software defined radio platform for opportunistic use of spectrum white spaces.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; T; Telecommunications industry)
June 2007 — August 2007 (3 months)
I designed two efficient approximation algorithms for dynamic spectrum allocation and pricing in coordinated dynamic spectrum access based cellular networks.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; T; Telecommunications industry)
June 2006 — August 2006 (3 months)
I developed and implemented a routing protocol (AODV-MR) as a loadable Linux kernel module for multi-radio wireless mesh networks that uses a novel routing metric (iAWARE) to find highly efficient channel diverse paths. This work is under a pending patent.
PhD , Computer Science , 2004 — 2009
M.S , Computer Science , 2004 — 2007
B.E. , Computer Science and Engineering , 2000 — 2004
- Best Paper Award at ACM MobiSys Conference 2007
- NSF Student Travel Award for ACM MobiHoc 2009, ACM MobiCom 2008, IEEE INFOCOM 2008, IEEE DySPAN 2007, IEEE ICNP 2005
- Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award for the academic year 2004 - 2005 at Stony Brook University
- University Fellowship for the academic year 2004 - 2005 at Stony Brook University