Computer Science Software

Sivakumar Kulasekaran

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Baton Rouge, LA 70802 ****@***.***

Objective:

Seeking full-time opportunities in Computer Science with special interests in Distributed systems, computer

networks, security, privacy and cloud computing.

Education

Mississippi State University Starkville, MS

• Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science obtained in December 2009

• GPA: 3.77

Mississippi State University Starkville, MS

• M.S. in Computer Science obtained in May 2007

• GPA: 3.77

Periyar University Salem, India

• B.E. in Computer Science obtained in July 2002

Computer Skills:

• Languages C, C++, C#, JavaScript, Python, Perl

• Operating Systems Unix, Linux, Windows

• Tools/Applications Condor, MATLAB, OPNET, NS2 Simulator, NMI, Octave, CVS, SVN

• Database MySQL, Oracle

Experiences:

Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA

Senior Information Analyst February 2010 – Present

• Implemented an application level data throughput prediction and optimization services for a data

aware scheduler using C/C++

• Designed and developed a remote logging functionalities which can retrieve user logs from remote

machines with Globus authentication mechanisms

• Maintenance of storage systems and databases in PetaShare – a distributed data archival system.

• Implemented automated fail over and asynchronous replication mechanisms for the centralized

metadata management in PetaShare.

• Added SRM transfer protocol functionalities to the Stork transfer modules

• Implementation, testing and portability of this Stork software to varius OS/ Architecture using NMI

test bed.

• User support, version release and maintenance of this software to various clients

Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS

Graduate Teaching Assistant August 2007 – December 2009

• Duties included teaching some of the classes, running lab sessions every week, holding office hours,

grading lab assignments and exams

• Some of the classes handled are Operating Systems, Introduction to Algorithms, Software

Engineering, Intermediate Programming Language (Advanced C++)

Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS

Graduate Research Assistant January 2004 - December 2007

• Developed a secure ad hoc routing protocol based on DSR and AODV protocol for Ad hoc networks.

• Design and development of APPALS, which is a first secure routing protocol that can obtain non

repudiable proof of active attacks from malicious nodes

• Development of a low cost broadcast encryption scheme which are more applicable to resource

constrained networks

Palpap Itchnichi Software International Limited, Chennai, India

Software Developer August 2002 – July 2003

• Job responsibilities included design, testing, programming and maintenance of Software applications

for various clients

Publications:

Book Chapter

• Sivakumar Kulasekaran and Mahalingam Ramkumar, “APPALS: A Secure Manet Routing

Protocol,” Theory and Applications of Ad Hoc Networks, ISBN: 978-953-307-416-0, January 2011

Journals

1. Dengpan Yin, Esma Yildirim, Sivakumar Kulasekaran, Brandon Ross and Tevfik Kosar, “ A Data

Throughput Prediction and Optimization Service for Widely Distributed Many-Task Computing ”

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems-Special Issue on Many-Task Computing

(TPDS-SI), 2011

2. Tevfik Kosar, M. Balman, Sivakumar Kulasekaran, and Brandon Ross, “Stork Data Scheduler:

Mitigating the Data Bottleneck in E-Science”, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society

entitled "e-Science: Novel Research, New Science, Enduring Impact”, 2011

Conference Publications:

1. K.A. Sivakumar, M. Ramkumar “On the effect of one-way links on route discovery in DSR”, IEEE

International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN'06), Oct. 2006,

Arlington, VA

2. K.A. Sivakumar, M. Ramkumar, “An Efficient Secure Route Discovery Protocol for DSR”, IEEE

GlobeCom 2007, Washington D.C., Nov 2007.

3. K.A. Sivakumar, M. Ramkumar, “Safeguarding Mutable Fields in the AODV Route Discovery

Process”, IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN'07),

Honolulu, HI, Aug 2007

4. K.A. Sivakumar, M.Ramkumar, “ Improving the Resiliency of Ariadne”, IEEE Workshop on

Security, Privacy and Authentication in Wireless Networks in conjunction with IEEE WOWMOM

2008, Newport Beach, CA, June 2008.

5. K.A. Sivakumar, M.Ramkumar, “On the Need for Private Logical Neighborhoods for Ad Hoc

Networks,” 5-th ACM International Symposium on QoS and Security for Wireless and Mobile

Networks (Q2SWinet 2009).

6. K. A. Sivakumar, T. Philip. “Capstone Experience to Undergraduate Software Engineering

Students”, In Proceedings of 25th International Conference on Computers and their Applications

(CATA 2010), Honolulu, Hawaii.

7. K. A. Sivakumar, M. Ramkumar, “Obtaining Non-repudiable Proof of Active Attacks in DSR”, 9th

International Information and Telecommunications Symposium, Brazil, 2010

Activities:

• Information Assurance Professional certificate from CNSS

• Vice president of Upsilon Pi Epsilon (UPE) Chapter at Mississippi State University

• Member IEEE and ACM

• Reviewer for many International conferences and Journals

• President of Student Association at KSR College of Technology, India (2001-2002)

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