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Pravin Shankar
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Areas of Interest Mobile systems, wireless networks, vehicular networks, pervasive computing, social net-
works, systems security, location privacy and distributed systems.
PhD Candidate in Computer Science Fall 2004 - Present
Education
Rutgers University, NJ Advisor: Dr. Liviu Iftode Current GPA: 3.9
M.Sc. in Software Engg. (5 year Integrated Masters) Aug 1998 - May 2003
PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, India GPA: 3.67
Academic Honors University and Louis Bevier Dissertation Fellowship 2010-2011. One of 12 awardees
across all programs in the graduate school.
Teaching/Research Asst at CS Dept., Rutgers University. Fall 2004 to Present
DIMACS Graduate Student Award. Winter 2007-08
IBM T J Watson Research Center Research Intern
Work Experience
Hawthorne, NY Summer 2010
Querying Mobile Phones for Real-time Location-based State
Designed and developed a system, SocialTelescope, for sharing and real-time query-
ing of personal state using mobile phones, across a social network.
Siemens Corporate Research Research Intern
Princeton, NJ Summer 2007
Context-Aware Opportunistic Scheduling for Vehicular Networks (VANETs)
Developed an algorithm for opportunistic packet scheduling in VANETs which uses
context information (speed and distance from neighboring cars) to determine the
optimal transmission schedule while avoiding the need for channel probing.
Telcordia Research Lab Research Intern
Piscataway, NJ Summer 2005
Designed an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) based platform for application services cre-
ation and execution
Developed a service creation platform for creating, testing and deploying IMS ser-
vices and built a working prototype of Call Noti cation service using this platform.
Novell Inc. Senior Software Engineer
Bangalore, India May 2003 - July 2004
Developer - Novell Zenworks Desktop and Server Remote Management solution
Involved in the development of Linux and Solaris hardware scanner modules of
Novell ZenWorks. Promoted to Senior Software Engineer within one year of joining.
Novell Inc. Intern
Bangalore, India Nov 2002 - May 2003
Design and implementation of an ef cient multicast routing algorithm
Designed and implementated Protocol Independent Multicast - Dense Mode (PIM-
DM) routing protocol on the TCP/IP Protocol Stack of Novell NetWare 6
Novell Inc. Intern
Bangalore, India Apr 2001 - Nov 2001
Remote network con guration and monitoring tool for Novell NetWare 6.
Designed and implementated a tool for remote con guration and monitoring of the
TCP/IP stack. The tool was subsequently integrated into Novell NetWare 6.
Publications Crowds replace Experts: Building Better Location-based Services using Mobile So-
cial Network Interactions
Pravin Shankar, Woody Huang, Paul Castro, Badri Nath, Liviu Iftode. Under sub-
mission.
Emergence of hierarchy in directed online social networks
Mangesh Gupte, Pravin Shankar, Jing Li, Muthu Muthukrishnan, Liviu Iftode. In
Proceedings of the 20th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2011),
March, 2011.
SBone: Personal Device Sharing Using Social Networks
Pravin Shankar, Badri Nath, Liviu Iftode, Vancheswaran Ananthanarayanan, Lu
Han. Rutgers University Technical Report DCS-TR-666.
Ad-hoc Voice-based Group Communication
Lu Han, Stephen Smaldone, Pravin Shankar, Liviu Iftode. In Proceedings of the
8th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications
(PERCOM 2010), March-April, 2010.
News Posting by Strategic Users in a Social Network
Mangesh Gupte, MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi, Lu Han, Liviu Iftode, Pravin Shankar
and Raluca Ursu. In Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Internet and
Network Economics (WINE 2009), December 2009.
Privately Querying Location-based Services with SybilQuery
Pravin Shankar, Vinod Ganapathy, Liviu Iftode. In Proceedings of the 11th Interna-
tional Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp 2009), September 2009.
CARS: Context Aware Rate Selection for Vehicular Networks
Pravin Shankar, Tamer Nadeem, Justinian Rosca, Liviu Iftode. In Proceedings of
the 16th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP 2008), October
2008.
RoadSpeak: Enabling Voice Chat on Roadways using Vehicular Social Networks
Stephen Smaldone, Lu Han, Pravin Shankar and Liviu Iftode. In Proceedings of the
1st International Workshop on Social Network Systems (SocialNets 08, in conjunc-
tion with EuroSys), April 2008.
The Impact of DSRC Channel Switching on TCP Performance
Pravin Shankar, Liviu Iftode. Rutgers Technical Technical Report, July 2008.
Effect of Antenna Placement and Diversity on Vehicular Network Communications
Sanjit Kaul, Kishore Ramachandran, Pravin Shankar, Sangho Oh, Marco Gruteser,
Ivan Seskar, Tamer Nadeem. In Proceedings of the 4th IEEE Conference on Sen-
sor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON 2007), June 2007.
A Comparative Study of Data Dissemination Models for VANETs
Tamer Nadeem, Pravin Shankar and Liviu Iftode. 3rd International Conference on
Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networks and Services (MOBIQUITOUS 2006),
July 2006.
Indoor Localization Using Camera Phones
Nishkam Ravi, Pravin Shankar, Andrew Frankel, Ahmed Elgammal and Liviu Iftode.
In the Proceedings of the 7th IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and
Applications (WMCSA 2006), April 2006.
Talks Improving Privacy and Cost in Location-based Services, Invited talk at Palo Alto
Research Center (PARC), October 2010.
Privately Querying Location-based Services with SybilQuery, IBM Student Work-
shop for Frontiers of Cloud Computing, September 2010.
Querying Mobile Phones using SocialTelescope, Department TechTalk, Enterprise
Collaboration Department, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY, Au-
gust 2010.
Privately Querying Location-based Services with SybilQuery, the 11th International
Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp 2009), Orlando, FL, September
2009.
CARS: Context Aware Rate Selection for Vehicular Networks, the 16th IEEE In-
ternational Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP 2008), Orlando, FL, October
2008.
A Content Delivery Protocol for Vehicles using Hybrid Wi /3G Networks, The 3rd
Helsinki-Rutgers PhD Student Workshop on Spontaneous Networking, Rutgers Uni-
versity, NJ, May 2008.
Context Aware Rate Adaptation for Vehicular Adhoc Networks, The 2nd Helsinki-
Rutgers PhD Student Workshop on Spontaneous Networking, Helsinki, Finland,
May 28 - June 1, 2007.
Designing an Inter-vehicular network stack for Car-to-Car communication, Phenix
Workshop, IRISA, Rennes, France, December 2005.
Service Creation and Execution Platform for IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), Strate-
gic Project Demo, Telcordia Applied Research, August 2005.
Patents System and Method for Personal Device Sharing using Online Social Networks.
Pravin Shankar, Badri Nath, Liviu Iftode, led as provisional Patent Application
2010P117465-011100US.
Information Posting by Strategic Users in a Social Network.
Mangesh Gupte, MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi, Lu Han, Liviu Iftode, Pravin Shankar
and Raluca Ursu, led as provisional Patent Application 2009P1209-1065US.
Context Aware Rate Selection for Vehicular Networks.
Pravin Shankar, Liviu Iftode, Tamer Nadeem, Justinian Rosca, led as provisional
Patent Application 2007P11191US.
Traf cView
Other Projects September 2005 - Apr 2007
Traf cView is a system that uses car-to-car wireless communication to exchange both
immediate and distant traf c-related information for real-time safety warnings and route
planning. Implemented a prototype of the Traf cView system and performed an outdoor
demonstration of the system with 5 cars.
Demo link: http://discolab.rutgers.edu/traffic/tvdemo.html
Skills Systems Programming: Linux wireless networking stack, Sockets programming
(TCP/IP), libpcap, driver-level programming experience (Madwi, Intel IPW2200),
Click modular router, OpenMoko (ARM).
Languages: C, C++, Python, Perl, Java, HTML/Javascript, Shell Scripting (sed/awk).
Service ACM and IEEE student member.
Invited as an external reviewer for major conferences and journals including Usenix
ATC, ICDCS, Pervasive, Mobiquitous, ACM MASS, IEEE WCNC, WIVEC, IEEE
Transactions on Mobile Computing, Transactions on Vehicular Technology and IEEE
Pervasive Computing.
References Dr. Liviu Iftode, Professor, Dept. of CS, Rutgers University. abqjmu@r.postjobfree.com
Dr. Vinod Ganapathy, Asst Professor, Dept. of CS, Rutgers University. abqjmu@r.postjobfree.com
Dr. Badri Nath, Professor, Dept. of CS, Rutgers University. abqjmu@r.postjobfree.com
Dr. Woody Huang, Researcher, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY.
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Dr. Paul Castro, Researcher, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY.
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