Engineer Computer Science

Mariya Zhivkova Zheleva

Computer Science, University of California, Santa Barbara,CA 93106-5110

******@**.****.***, http://cs.ucsb.edu/~mariya/

Education

Ph.D., Department of Computer Science

2014(expected) University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara,CA

Research concentration: Computer Networks

M. Eng., Department of Telecommunications

2008 Technical University-Sofia Sofia, Bulgaria

B. Eng., Department of Telecommunications

2006 Technical University-Sofia Sofia, Bulgaria

Work Experience

June 2011 - September 2011 Research Intern at Broadcom Corporation. www.broadcom.com

Project:

Efficient TDMA-based Scheduling Algorithms for 60 GHz High-Throughput Wireless Networks

Technologies used: MATLAB

June 2010 - September 2010 Software Engineer Intern at RightScale. www.rightscale.com

Project:

Enhancement of RightScale's monitoring system, by adding functionality to RRDtool.

Technologies used: C, socket programing in C, asynchronous programing in C.

August 2008 - August 2009 Data Network Support Engineer at Globul Ltd. www.globul.bg

Maintained the GPRS complex, one of the company's Data Core Networks and a system for management and

control of advanced services. Completed a course in Ericsson GSN (GPRS Support Nodes).

Projects:

Hardware deployment and initial configuration of the Data Core Network.

On-site installation of the network equipment (Cisco routers - 76xx and 120xxx series and switches - 37xx

series). Performed initial configuration of the devices.

Improvement of the monitoring system to serve both the GPRS complex and the Data Core Network.

Revised the abilities of Ericsson GSN to report current state.

Technologies used: bash scripting, SNMP and ICMP based tools to acquire information for the network.

Tool for statistics gathering.

Revised the abilities of CACTI to provide raw data for statistical analysis.

Technologies used: bash and perl scripting, MySQL Database, Round Robin Database, Web Services

October 2006 August 2008 Network Operation Center Engineer at Neterra Ltd. www.neterra.net

Performed first level support for corporate customers.

Projects:

System to perform real time notifications in case of network failures.

March 2003 - September 2006 Engineer at SG-Lab Ltd www.sg-lab.com

Building and testing of communication apparatuses (such as CTV amplifiers and LAN devices).

Skills and Interests

Programming: Bash, Python, Awk, C/C++, MATLAB

Languages: English (fluent); German (beginner); Bulgarian (native speaker)

Academic and Research Experience

Courses:

UCSB, Fall2009 - CS276: Advanced Topics in Networking

UCSB, Fall2009 - CS225: Information Theory

UCSB, Winter2010 - CS290N: All about wireless: Past, Present and Future Paradigms

UCSB, Spring2010 - CS271: Distributed Systems

UCSB, Fall2010 - CS279: Advanced topics in computer security

UCSB, Winter2011 - CS284: Mobile Computing

UCSB, Winter2011 - CS235: Computational Geometry

UCSB, Spring2011 - CS290D: Advanced Data Mining

UCSB, Spring2011 - CS596: Academic Writing

Research assistant:

MOMENT Lab at UCSB.

Teaching assistant:

UCSB, Fall2009 - Introduction to Computer Science (in Python).

UCSB, Fall2010 and Fall2011 - Introduction to Computer Communication Networks.

UCSB, Winter2011 - Problem solving with computers II - C++ and Data Structures

UCSB, Spring2011 - Problem solving with computers in C

Research projects:

Broadcom Corporation

"Efficient TDMA scheduling for 60 GHz networks"

Advisors: Aimin Sang, Ph.D., HyungJune Lee, Ph.D.

University of California, Santa Barbara

"CellLab: A distributed cellphone measurement framework"

Advisors: Prof. Elizabeth Belding

"MWave: An open source research platform for millimeter-wave networking"

Advisors: Prof. Elizabeth Belding and Prof. Upamanyu Madhow

"AirLab: Distributed infrastructure for wireless measurements"

Advisor: Prof. Heather Zheng

"Facebook Interaction Analysis"

Advisor: Prof. Ben Zhao

2008, Technical University-Sofia Sofia, Bulgaria

Masters Thesis : Probability theory applied to the SCP-RPSC (Spatial Correlation Processing -

Random Phase-Spread Coding) technology"

Advisor: Assoc. Prof. Veselin Demirev

Publications

Journals:

Vinod Kone, Mariya Zheleva, Mike Wittie, Ben Y. Zhao, Elizabeth M. Belding, Haitao Zheng, and Kevin C.

Almeroth, AirLab: Consistency, Fidelity and Privacy in Wireless Measurements, in SIGCOMM Computer

Communication Review (CCR), January 2011

Posters:

Mariya Zheleva, Bing Wei, Elizabeth Belding "APMap - Towards mapping the WiFi weather" (poster), in

Student Research Competition, Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC), November 2011

Mariya Zheleva, Ashish Sharma, Sumit Singh, Elizabeth Belding, Upamanyu Madhow "Towards efficient

medium access for 60GHz networks" (poster), in Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC), September 2010

Vinod Kone, Mariya Zheleva, Mike Wittie, Zengbin Zhang, Xiaohan Zhao, Ben Y. Zhao, Elizabeth M.

Belding, Haitao Zheng, Kevin C. Almeroth "AirLab: Distributed Infrastructure for Wireless Measurements"

(poster), in Network Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), April 2010

Awards

President's Work-Study Award for 2009-2010, 2010-2011 and 2011-2012, UCSB

NSDI'10 Travel Grant

MobiSys'10 Travel Grant

GHC'11 Student Research Competition Travel Grant

Affiliations

Graduate Student Association representative for Dept. of Computer Science, UCSB, 2009/2010 and

2010/2011

Graduate Admissions Committee 2011/2012

References

Prof. Elizabeth M. Belding (Advisor) Prof. Heather Zheng Thorsten von Eicken

Dept. of Computer Science Dept. of Computer Science RightScale

UCSB, CA 93106-5110 UCSB, CA 931**-****-** West Canon Perdido,

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