Siva Theja Maguluri

Address: *** * **** ** *** * Urbana IL 61801 Mobile: 217-***-****

Contact

Web: http://www.ifp.illinois.edu/~magulur1 e-mail: acedcj@r.postjobfree.com

Information

Cloud Computing, Resource Allocation and Scheduling Algorithms, Game Theory, Stochastic Pro-

Research

cesses.

Interests

University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

Education

Doctor of Philosophy in ECE present

• Advisor: Prof R. Srikant

• Thesis: Resource Allocation Algorithms for Cloud Computing

Master of Science in Applied Mathematics : Optimization and Algorithms May 2014

Master of Science in ECE May 2011

• Advisors: Prof R. Srikant, Prof Bruce Hajek

• Thesis: Optimal scheduling algorithms for ad hoc Wireless networks

Indian Institute of Technology Madras

Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering July 2008

• Minor in Physics

• CGPA of 9.43/10 - within top 4% of the class

• Senior year Thesis: Decoding LDPC codes in presence of cycles in Tanner graphs

• Advisor: Prof Andrew Thangaraj

University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

Professional

Experience Research Assistant at Coordinated Science Laboratory January 2011 – present

With Prof R. Srikant, working on finding optimal load balancing and scheduling algorithms for Cloud

computing clusters. I am also working on an SDN based traffic engineering system for data center

networks.

Teaching Assistant in Electrical and Computer Engineering

ECE 580 Optimization by Vector Space Methods. August 2013 – December 2013

ECE 534 Random Processes. January 2013 – May 2013

Qualcomm, Bridgewater, New Jersey

Engineering Intern September 2010 – January 2011

Worked on improving delay performance of FlashLinQ, an infrastructure-less peer-to-peer wireless

communication system.

University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

Research Assistant at Coordinated Science Laboratory August 2008 – August 2010

• With Prof R. Srikant and Prof Bruce Hajek, worked on finding optimal scheduling algorithms for

ad hoc wireless networks that have low complexity.

• With Prof Bruce Hajek, worked on finding better bounds on the capacity of deletion channel and

presented a poster at 2009 School of Information Theory.

Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado

Summer intern May 2007 – July 2007

As part of International Summer Fellowship Program, worked with Prof Chandrasekhar on clutter

mitigation techniques in Weather Radars where the clutter is much stronger than the signal.

Xinzhou Wu, Sundar Subramanian, Siva Theja Maguluri, “Method and apparatus for transmit pri-

Patents

ority determination within a link”, Filed.

Xinzhou Wu, Sundar Subramanian, Siva Theja Maguluri, “Methods and apparatus relating to con-

nection and/or session establishment decisions”, Filed.

Siva Theja Maguluri and R Srikant, “Scheduling Jobs with Unknown Duration in Clouds”, accepted

Publications

to be published in IEEE Transactions on Networking, available on IEEE Xplore.

Siva Theja Maguluri, R Srikant and Lei Ying, “Heavy Traffic Optimal Resource Allocation Algorithms

for Cloud Computing Clusters”, under review.

Siva Theja Maguluri, Bruce Hajek and R Srikant, “The Stability of Longest-Queue-First Scheduling

with Variable Packet Sizes”, accepted to be published in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control,

available on IEEE Xplore.

Siva Theja Maguluri and R Srikant, “Scheduling Jobs with Unknown Duration in Clouds”, IEEE

INFOCOM, 2013. (acceptance rate 17%)

Siva Theja Maguluri, R Srikant and Lei Ying, “Heavy Traffic Optimal Resource Allocation Algorithms

for Cloud Computing Clusters”, 24th International Teletraffic Congress, 2012. (acceptance rate 33%).

Siva Theja Maguluri, R Srikant and Lei Ying “Stochastic Models of Load Balancing and Scheduling

in Cloud Computing Clusters”, IEEE INFOCOM, 2012. (acceptance rate 18%).

Siva Theja Maguluri, Bruce Hajek and R Srikant, “The Stability of Longest-Queue-First Scheduling

with Variable Packet Sizes”, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2011.

Siva Theja Maguluri and Bruce Hajek, “Bounds on capacity of Deletion Channel”, poster presented

at the 2009 School of Information Theory.

Awarded Lieutenant General Thomas M. Rienzi Award for 2013 by the Department of ECE at UIUC

Honors and

Awards Part of the delegation of 25 students from India at the meeting of Nobel Laureates and students in

Lindau, Germany, Summer 2008.

Scored 99.99 percentile in CAT 2007, nationwide MBA entrance examination in India.

Exchange student at National University of Singapore during spring 2007.

Participant of Indo German winter academy at Digha, West Bengal, India in December 2006

Summer fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences in the years 2005 & 2006.

Secured All India Rank 5 in National Science Talent Search Exam conducted by Unified Council.

Won 3rd place in National Science Olympiad conducted by Science Olympiad Foundation.

Stood at state level position 5 out of 110,000 students in EAMCET 2004; Andhra Pradesh’s engi-

neering entrance examination.

Ranked 18 out of 730,000 students in AIEEE 2004, a National level engineering entrance examination.

Was among top ten in South India NITAT-2004 conducted by NIIT and was ranked 37 at national

level the following year.

All India Rank in IIT JEE 2004 was 437, which is among the top 0.25%.

Received State government’s prestigious Prathiba award twice in 2002 & 2004.

Received Merit Certificate from Ministry of Human Resources and Development (MHRD), Govt. of

India in 2002

Have been awarded TMC Merit scholar award twice in 2002 & 2004.

Cloud Computing Queuing Theory (Audit) Game Theory

Selected

Communication Network Analysis Wireless Communications Digital Comm

Course Work

Statistical Learning Graphical Models Information Theory

Control System Theory and Design Stochastic Control Graph Theory

Real Analysis I & II Probability Theory I & II Random Processes

Optimization by Vector space methods Coding Theory (Basic & Adv) Cryptography

Quantum Information & Computation Combinatorial Optimization

Reviewer for IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Com-

Professional

munications (JSAC), SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization (SICON), Operations Research

Service

INFORMS, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE Conference on Decision

and Control (CDC).

Mentored Undergraduate Research Project as part of PURE program at UIUC.

Served as Finance Chair for the 8th annual CSL Student Conference in January 2013.

President of Vedanta Study Circle, an RSO at UIUC

Extra

Curricular Volunteer at the Vivekananda Vedanta Society in Chicago. Among other activities, I was involved in

Activities

bringing out a documentary about the Society

Participated in UIUC Mobile Development Day

Participated in TEDxUIUC 2010 and 2011

Served as coordinator of Vivekananda Study Circle, a youth forum at IIT Madras aimed at personality

development and character building

Have been hostel coordinator for Guidance and Counseling Unit, IIT Madras

Served as a teaching volunteer of National Service Scheme

Available on request.

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