Assistant Years Experience

Ananth V. Kini

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Tel: (267) 357- 4550

Philadelphia, PA 19107.

Email: *****@******.***

PROFILE

. Over 6 years experience in research, design and development of

algorithms for software systems and emerging computing technologies.

. Proficient in C, C++, Java, Perl

. Strong understanding of object oriented programming methodologies,

data structures, algorithm design, graph theory, queueing theory and

stochastic systems.

. Well versed with all phases of software development life cycle.

. Proficient in transport and network layer issues.

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Computer Engineering, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA

January, 2009

. GPA 3.8/4.0

. Thesis title - Broadcasting and transmission coordination for ad hoc

and sensor networks.

M.S. Telecommunications, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

May, 2002

. GPA 3.6/4.0

Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics Engineering, University of Bombay,

India June, 1998

SKILLS

. Programming Languages: C, C++, Java, Perl, UNIX shells, Assembly

language programming.

. Software Tools: CVS

. Scientific Areas: Familiar with Information retrieval systems, search

engines, machine learning.

. Protocols: TCP/IP, OSPF, RIP, BGP, MPLS TE, ARP, RARP, ATM, SONET/SDH,

Ethernet, HDLC.

. Operating Systems: Mac OS X, Linux (Red Hat, Debian), UNIX 5X, 6X, 7X,

Solaris 2X, 3X, Microsoft Windows (NT/2000/98/95)

. Packages: LATEX, Matlab, Mathematica, GNUplot, MS Office.

. Tools and Systems: Kerberos, NFS, AFP, OpenLDAP, OpenSSL.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Data Network Modeling Laboratory, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA.

Researcher and Developer July

2004 - Present

. Team Lead -- development and maintenance of a simulator (40K lines) -

simulator code written in Java -- managed deadlines -- wrote Shell

and Perl scripts to implement unit, regression, load and scalability

testing -- code shared by 3 developers and maintained in a repository

using CVS -- simulator data stored in a database (MySQL) and retrieved

using SQL queries -- utilized Unix based tools (Sed, grep, AWK) for

post processing of data.

. Developed broadcast based mechanisms for routing/forwarding packets --

this resulted in efficient utilization of network bandwidth,

increasing capacity and improving network performance -- contributions

recognized in numerous scientific publications -- coded 15K lines --

active in code development and testing.

. Extensive work on the transmission coordination optimization problem

for wireless ad hoc networks -- identified particular instances

where the problem may be solved efficiently and evaluated performance

of several alternative solutions -- findings yielded significant and

novel contributions, providing tremendous insight from a network

design standpoint.

. Extensive work on modeling state dynamics for networks using numerical

analysis, parameter estimation and curve fitting techniques -- focus

on developing a model that can be generalized to be topology

independent.

System Administrator

July 2005 - Dec 2008

. Configured OpenLDAP on Mac OS X server to manage 20 Linux and Windows

workstations.

. Implemented Kerberos authentication to ensure secure connections

between server and workstations.

. Developed tools and scripts to improve reliability and functionality

of the network.

Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA.

Teaching Assistant

Sep 2003 - Dec 2008

. Taught graduate level course Principles of Computer Networking as well

as several undergraduate courses.

. Involved in teaching, grading, and supervision of labs -- counseled

students on their academic progress.

University of Pittsburgh, Dept. of Information Sciences, Pittsburgh, PA.

Graduate Teaching Assistant Aug

2001 - May 2002

. Implemented a Link State Routing Protocol (LSRP). Implementation was

written in C++.

. Implemented a demultiplexer to extract a DS0 stream from a DS3 stream.

Implementation was written in C.

. Taught the graduate level courses Introduction to Telecommunications

and Digital Transmission.

Lab Development Jan

2001 - May 2001

. Developed graduate level ATM configuration and connectivity labs --

configured CISCO Light Stream switches using the ADTECH AX/4000

tester.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

. "Broadcast capacity of a WSN under communication and information

coordination", Ananth V. Kini, Nikhil Singhal, Steven Weber. Accepted

in November, 2009 to appear in Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks.

. "Achievable throughput and service delay for imperfect cooperative

retransmission MAC protocols", Steven Weber, Ananth V. Kini, Athina

Petropulu in proceedings of the 3rd ACM Workshop on Performance

Monitoring and Measurement of Heterogeneous Wireless and Wired

Networks (PM2HW2N), Vancouver, BC, October 2008.

. "Performance of a WSN in the presence of channel variations and

interference", Ananth V. Kini, Nikhil Singhal, Steven Weber in

proceedings of the Wireless Communication and Networking Conference

(WCNC 2008), Las Vegas, NV, April 2008.

. "SmartGossip : an improved randomized broadcast protocol for sensor

networks", Ananth V. Kini, Vilas Veeraraghavan, Nikhil Singhal, Steven

Weber in proceedings of the International Conference on Information

Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN 06), Nashville, TN, April 2006.

ACTIVITIES AND AWARDS

. Served as session chair at the 50th IEEE Global Telecommunications

Conference (WCNC 2008), Las Vegas, NV, April 2008.

. Served as a student volunteer for ACM SIGCOMM 2005 held in

Philadelphia.

. Awarded outstanding Teaching Assistant award for the year 2003-2004.

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