Krishna Kant Chintalapudi
abpnoa@r.postjobfree.com
Residence: Office:
*** ******** ***, #*** #***, Vivian Hall of Engineering,
Los Angeles, California, University of Southern California,
CA - 90017 Los Angeles, CA-90007
Tel: 213-***-**** Tel: 213-***-****
References
Prof. Ramesh Govindan (USC, Computer Science Dept.) - abpnoa@r.postjobfree.com,
Prof. Gaurav Sukhatme (USC, Computer Science Dept.) - abpnoa@r.postjobfree.com,
Prof. Eric Johnson (USC, Civil Engg. Dept.) abpnoa@r.postjobfree.com
Research Interests
Programmable Wireless Sensor Networks,
Sensor Networks for Structural Health Monitoring,
Signal Processing Applications for Wireless Sensor Networks,
Ad-Hoc Localization,
Mesh Networking,
Education
PhD, Computer Science Department, (Aug 99-Sept 05)
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Thesis : Design and Implementation of a Wireless Sensor Network Based Structural Health Monitoring System
MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Networks, (Aug'99-Dec'01)
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
MS in Electrical Engineering, Signals and Systems, (Aug'97-Aug'99)
Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104.
B.Tech in Electrical Engineering, ( Jul'93-Apr'97)
IIT-Varanasi (IT-BHU), Varanasi, UP, India.
Graduate Courses in Electrical Engineering (Signals and Systems)
Wireless Communication, Digital Signal Processing, Spectral Estimation Techniques, Stochastic Processes,
Linear Control Systems, Estimation Theory, Pattern Recognition, Image Processing, Ordinary Differential Equations
Electrical Engineering Computer Networks:
Ethernet, 802.11, 802.15.4, IP Layer Routing Protocols, TCP, UDP, Queuing theory
Computer Science
Optimization : Simulated Annealing, Genetic Algorithms, Gradient Decent, Linear Programming
Networking Algorithms : Routing, Flow, Capacity, Fairness, Ad-Hoc Routing
Data Structures and Algorithms, NP Completeness and Approximation Algorithms
AI : Bayesian Networks, Artificial Neural Networks, Fuzzy Systems, Clustering
Computer Skills
Languages NesC, C, C++, Matlab, Java, XML, Pearl.
Operating Systems TinyOS, Linux, Unix, Solaris, Windows.
Simulators NS2, TosSIM
Work Experience
Summer Intern, Intel Research, Santa Clara, CA (May 04 Aug 04)
Wrote a File system and implemented signal processing algorithms for structural health
monitoring on Intel s Imote sensor network platform
Research Assistant, Computer Science Department. (Sept 02' - till date)
University Of Southern California, LA, CA
Embedded Networks Laboratory.
Research Assistant, Information Sciences Institute, (Sept'00-August 02)
University of Southern California, LA, CA.
COSSACK - Coordinated Suppression of Simultaneous attacks
SCADDS - Scalable Coordinated Architectures for Deeply Distributed Systems.
Summer Intern, Ericsson IP Infrastructure, Maryland. (May'00-Sept'00)
Worked on ISIS Protocol for the AXI-550 Router Software.
Research Assistant, Data Fusion Laboratory, (Aug'97-Apr'99)
Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept., Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104
Outlier Resistant Clustering and Classification for Writer Identification.
Teaching Assistant, ECE Dept., Drexel University (Aug'97-Apr'99)
Wireless Communication, Probability and Random Processes, Dynamic Systems and Stability.
Research Assistant, Machine Intelligence Unit, (May'95-July'95)
Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, India.
Feature Selection for Multi-Layer Perceptron Based Classifiers
Publications
Sensor Network Publications
K. Chintalapudi,T. Fu, E. Johnson, R. Govindan," Distributed Structural Damage Detection and Localization Using
Wireless Sensor Networks", Proc. of the 5th International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring, September 2005.
K. Chintalapudi, J. Paek, R. Govindan, E. Johnson, "Embedded Sensing of Structures: A Reality Check", Proc. of the 11th
IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications, August 2005
J. Paek, K. Chintalapudi, J. Caffrey, R. Govindan, S. Masri," A Wireless Sensor Network for Structural Health
Monitoring: Performance and Experience," Proc. of the Second IEEE Workshop on Embedded Networked Sensors, May
2005
K. Chintalapudi, E. A. Johnson and R. Govindan," Structural Damage Detection using Wireless Sensor-Actuator
Networks," 13th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, Cyprus, 27-29, June 2005.
Ning Xu, Sumit Rangalwala, Krishna Chintalapudi, Deepak Ganeshan, Alan Broad, Ramesh Govindan and Deborah
Estrin, "A Wireless Sensor Network for Structural Monitoring," Proc. Sensys 2004.
John Caffrey, Ramesh Govindan, Eric Johnson, Bhaskar Krishnamachari, Sami Masri, Gaurav Sukhatme, Krishna
Chintalapudi, Karthik Dantu, Sumit Rangwala, Avinash Sridharan, Ning Xu, Marco Zuniga, "Networked Sensing for
Structural Health Monitoring," International Workshop on Structural Control, Columbia University, New York, June,
2004.
D.H. Whang, Ning Xu, Sumit Rangawala, K. Chintalapudi, R. Govindan, J. W. Wallace, Development of an Embedded
Networked Sensing System for Structural Health Monitoring, submitted to the International Workshop on Smart
Materials and Structures Technology, Hawai,2004.
K. Chintalapudi, A. Dhariwal, R. Govindan, G. Sukhatme, "Localization Using Ranging and Sectoring", accepted for
publication in INFOCOM 2004.
K. Chintalapudi, R. Govindan, "Localized Edge Detection In Sensor Fields", Ad-hoc Networks Journal, 2003, pp.(273-
291).
K. Chintalapudi and R Govindan, "Localized Edge Detection in Sensor Fields", Proc. IEEE SNPA, 2003.
Pattern Recognition Publications
K.K.Chintalapudi and Moshe Kam, "Fuzzy Clustering of Star Shaped Objects," Proc. CISS'99, pp. (1280-1286).
Krishna Kant Chintalapudi and Moshe Kam, "The Credibilistic Fuzzy C Means Algorithm", Proc. IEEE SMC'98,
pp.(2034-2040).
K.K.Chintalapudi and N.R.Pal, "A Novel Scheme to Reduce and Determine the Architecture of a Multilayer Perceptron
Network," Proc. of the IEEE Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, pp. 2034-2040, 1998
K.K.Chintalapudi and Moshe Kam "A Noise Resistant Fuzzy c Means", Proc. of the IEEE Conference on Fuzzy Systems,
WCCI 98',1998.
N.R. Pal and K.K. Chintalapudi, "A Simple Procedure to Reduce the Size of a Multilayer Perceptron Network,"
International Journal of Knowledge Based Engineering Systems, Vol.2, No.3, pp.(145-163), 1998.
N.R Pal and K.K Chintalapudi, "Feature selection in a connectionist framework", International journal of Neural, Parallel
and Scientific Computation. Vol.5, pp. (359-382), 1997.
Miscellaneous Publications
Shahram Ghandeharizadeh, Christos Papadopoulos, Min Cai, Krishna K. Chintalapudi, "Performance of Networked XML-
Driven Cooperative Applications," Concurrent Engineering: Research and Applications Journal.
Shahram Ghandeharizadeh, Christos Papadopoulos, Min Cai, Krishna K. Chintalapudi, "Performance of Networked XML-
Driven Cooperative Applications", Proc. CIC 2002.