Jay A. Patel

Current

• Member of Technical Staff at Yahoo!

Past

• Research Assistant at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Research Intern at International Business Machines
• Intern at Intel

• Co-op at International Business Machines
• Software Test Engineer (STE) Intern at Microsoft

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Education

• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• The University of Texas-Pan American

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Websites

• Academic/Research Website

Jay A. Patel’s Summary

During my recently completed PhD studies, my primary focus was on designing, implementing, and validating novel protocols for distributed systems and networks, especially peer-to-peer systems and client-server systems. I also performed research involving 802.11 wireless networks and autonomic cluster management. The implementation of my various research projects was done using a combination of C++, Java, C, and along with perl, PHP, and SQL (both Mysql and sqlite) to manage data. I would like to note that many of my projects have had non-trivial implementations, for instance, I have written code that has been deployed across 400+ servers worldwide. In addition, due to my extended stay in academia, I have a strong foundation in algorithms and data structures.

Jay A. Patel’s Specialties:

Computer networks, Distributed systems (design of), Network protocols

Jay A. Patel’s Experience

• Member of Technical Staff

  Yahoo!

  (Public Company; YHOO; Internet industry)

  August 2009 — Present (4 months)

• Research Assistant

  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  August 2003 — May 2009 (5 years 10 months)

  • Major project #1 (Confluence): A system that exploits fluctuations in temporal and spatial bandwidth to minimize the time required to fetch large datasets from remote sites. Prototype implemented in C++ (with boost::asio).
  • Major project #2 (Rappel): A p2p-based RSS delivery system that leverages both user-interest overlap and network proximity to increase fairness and reduce network cost. Prototype (C++) was tested on the PlanetLab network testbed.
  • Major project #3 (Dominion): A cross-layered approach across both the network (routing) and MAC layers to increase capacity of wireless networks by utilizing multiple channels. Prototyped using the QualNet network simulator (C/C++).
  • Major project #4 (Overhaul): An HTTP extension that handles high surges in traffic by allowing visiting clients to share the content amongst themselves. Prototype written in Java (client) and C (server, Apache2 module).
  • For other projects, please see: http://kepler.cs.uiuc.edu/~jaypatel/

• Research Intern

  International Business Machines

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

  June 2005 — August 2005 (3 months)

  • As part of a two-intern team, designed a prototype of a semi-autonomic tool (“Blutopia”) which reduces the manpower required to manage tiered applications for small server farms
  • UI: LAMP + AJAX; Logic: UnionFS on NFS + versioned copy-on-write layers

• Intern

  Intel

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; INTC; Semiconductors industry)

  May 2004 — August 2004 (4 months)

• Co-op

  International Business Machines

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

  May 2003 — August 2003 (4 months)

• Software Test Engineer (STE) Intern

  Microsoft

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

  May 2002 — August 2002 (4 months)

Jay A. Patel’s Education

• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  PhD , Computer Science , 2003 — 2009

  During my PhD studies, my primary focus was on designing, implementing, and validating novel protocols for distributed systems and networks, especially peer-to-peer systems and client-server systems. I have also performed research involving 802.11 wireless networks and autonomic cluster management. The implementation of my various research projects was done using a combination of C++, Java, C, and along with perl and SQL (both Mysql and sqlite) to manage data. I would like to note that many of my projects have had non-trivial implementations, for instance, I have written code that has been deployed across 400+ servers worldwide. In addition, due to my extended stay in academia, I have a strong foundation in algorithms and data structures.

• The University of Texas-Pan American

  BSCS , Computer Science, Mathematics , 2000 — 2003

  Activities and Societies:

  Association for Computing Machinery
  UTPA Ambassadors Program

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Jay A. Patel’s Websites:

• Academic/Research Website

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