Data Computer Science
Resume:
George Kola
****@**.****.*** **** High Ridge Trl,
http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~kola Fitchburg, WI 53713
CAREER OBJECTIVE
A position in industry or research lab that involves systems design, performance analysis and systems
development.
EDUCATION
PhD, Computer Science Expected Dec 2007
University of Wisconsin Madison
M.S, Computer Science (GPA: 3.93/4) May 2003
University of Wisconsin Madison
B.E, Computer Science and Engineering (Top 5 of class) May 2001
College of Engineering, Guindy, Anna University, India
SKILLS
Programming Languages: C, C++, Java, bash scripting, awk
Knowledge of Linux kernel internals, network protocols implementation
Experience with profiling servers/applications using CPU performance counters
Graduate Courses
Advanced Operating System, Distributed Systems, Advanced Computer Networks
Topics in Database Management Systems
Advanced Computer Architecture I & II
Construction of compilers
PUBLICATIONS
Book Chapters
Tevfik Kosar, Se chang Son, George Kola, Miron Livny, Data Placement in Widely Distributed
Environments, Grid Computing: The New Frontier of High Performance Computing, Editor:
L.Grandinetti, Elsevier Press, November 2005
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Journal Publications
Tevfik Kosar, George Kola, Miron Livny, Building reliable and efficient data transfer and processing
pipelines, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience 18(6): 609 620 (2006)
Refereed Publications
George Kola and Mary K. Vernon, Target Bandwidth Sharing Using Endhost Measures, In Proceeding
of Performance 2007, Cologne, October 2007.
George Kola and Mary K. Vernon, QuickProbe: Available Bandwidth Estimation in Two Roundtrips, In
Proceedings of ACM SIGMETRICS 2006/Performance 2006 Joint Int'l. Conf. on Measurement and
Modeling of Computer Systems, St. Malo, June 2006, pp. 359 360.
George Kola, Tevfik Kosar and Miron Livny, Faults in Large Distributed Systems and What We Can Do
About Them, In Proceedings of 11th European Conference on Parallel Processing (Euro Par 2005),
Lisbon, Portugal, August 2005.
George Kola, Tevfik Kosar, Jaime Frey, Miron Livny, Robert J. Brunner and Michael Remijan, DISC: A
System for Distributed Data Intensive Scientific Computing, In Proceedings of the First Workshop on
Real, Large Distributed Systems (WORLDS'04), San Francisco, CA (December 2004), in conjunction with
OSDI'04, December 2004.
George Kola, Tevfik Kosar and Miron Livny, Phoenix: Making Data intensive Grid Applications Fault
tolerant, In Grid 2004, Pittsburgh, PA, November 2004.
Tevfik Kosar, George Kola, Robert J. Brunner, Miron Livny, and Michael Remijan, Reliable, Automatic
Transfer and Processing of Large Scale Astronomy Datasets, In Proceedings of the 14th Astronomical
Data Analysis Software & Systems Conference (ADASS 2004), Pasadena, CA, October 2004.
Tevfik Kosar, George Kola and Miron Livny, Data Pipelines: Enabling Large Scale Multi Protocol Data
Transfers, In the 2nd International Workshop on Middleware for Grid Computing, Toronto, Ontario
Canada, October 2004.
George Kola, Tevfik Kosar and Miron Livny, Client centric Grid Knowledgebase, In Cluster 2004, San
Diego, CA, September 2004.
George Kola, Tevfik Kosar and Miron Livny, Profiling Grid Data Transfer Protocols and Servers, In
Euro Par 2004, Pisa, Italy, August 2004.
George Kola, Tevfik Kosar and Miron Livny, A Fully Automated Fault tolerant System for Distributed
Video Processing and Off site Replication, In the 14th ACM International Workshop on Network and
Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV 2004), June 2004.
George Kola, Tevfik Kosar and Miron Livny, Run time Adaptation of Grid Data placement Jobs, In
Parallel and Distributed Computing Practices, 2004.
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Tevfik Kosar, George Kola and Miron Livny, A Framework for Self optimizing, Fault tolerant, High
Performance Bulk Data Transfers in a Heterogeneous Grid Environment, Proceedings of 2nd Int.
Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (ISPDC2003), Ljubljana, Slovenia, October 2003.
George Kola, Tevfik Kosar and Miron Livny, Run time Adaptation of Grid Data placement Jobs,
Proceedings of Int. Workshop on Adaptive Grid Middleware (AGridM2003), New Orleans, LA, September
2003.
Technical Reports
George Kola and Miron Livny, Diskrouter: A Flexible Infrastructure for High Performance Large
Scale Data Transfers, Technical Report CS TR 2004 1518, University of Wisconsin Madison
Computer Sciences, December 2003.
Tevfik Kosar, George Kola and Miron Livny, Building Data Pipelines for High Performance Bulk
Data Transfers in a Heterogeneous Grid Environment, Technical Report CS TR 2003 1487,
University of Wisconsin Madison Computer Sciences, August 2003.
DISSERTATION RESEARCH
Title: Design, Implementation, Evaluation and Performance Engineering of High Performance Network
Transport Protocols
My thesis research involves three parts
1. Design and development and performance engineering of TCP Madison, high performance
transport protocol which uses only end host measures and achieves the following
a. High Bandwidth Utilization (>90%)
b. Low average backlog (
c. Negligible loss (
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