791 Dreese Labs
2015 Neil Avenue
Deptartment of Computer Science and Engineering
Ohio State University
Columbus, OH 43210-1277
phone: 614-292-1531,
email: prasun@cse.ohio-state.edu A more recent "me"
Lumley Research Award, College of Engineering, Awarded: May 2009
I am the TPC chair for QShine 2009 .
Link to Publication About me
I graduated from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with my PhD in Computer Science in 2001.
I got my MS degree in Computer Science from Michigan State University (1997) and my BTech degree
in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Delhi, India (1995).
Before joining OSU in 2003, I was a researcher at Bell Labs, New Jersey from 2001 to 2003.
During my graduate studies I did internships at Almaden Research Center, IBM, San Jose, and HRL Labs, Malibu.
I received the Lumley Research Award from the College of Engineering at OSU in 2009, and the NSF CAREER award in 2006.
During graduate studies I received the Mavis Memorial Scholarship (2000),
Ray Ozzie Fellowship (1999), and the Distinguished Academic Achievement Award (1997).
Research
My research focuses on the design of wireless network architectures and protocols,
with emphasis on mesh networks, wireless LANs, and sensor networks.
I am particularly interested in algorithmic solutions to foundational
issues in the design of network solutions,
followed by rigorous experimentation on deployed networks and large scale testbeds.
In 2004, for the
DARPA/NEST sponsored ExScal
demonstration held at Avon Park, Florida,
my responsibilities included designing network layer solutions
for a network of 1000 Mica2/XSM based sensors (world's largest to date)
that was supported by a backbone wireless mesh network of 200 Linux based
Stargate nodes (also world's largest).
My recent contributions are in the following areas:
Lumley Research Award, College of Engineering, Ohio State University, May 2009
Best Paper Finalist, IEEE SECON, Jun 2007
NSF CAREER Award, 2006
Nominated for ACM PhD Dissertation Award,
Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2002
Ray Ozzie Fellowship, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, April 2000
(Established for outstanding graduate students)
Mavis Memorial Scholarship, College of Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, April 1999
(Awarded for excellence in research and teaching)
Project CEDAR (PhD Thesis) was selected among the top 4 projects
out of approx. 60 projects nationwide, by DARPA in its Quorum Integration
Project, 1999
Distinguished Academic Achievement Award, Michigan State University, 1997
(Awarded for being selected as the Outstanding Teaching Assistant by the
Department of Computer Science)
Secured All India Rank of 8th in GATE (Entrance Examination for Graduate
Studies in Computer Science in India), 1995
Vivekvir Puraskar (for academic excellence), State of Madhya Pradesh, India, 1992
Professional Activities
TPC chair, QShine 2009
Associate Editor, Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2008 - present
Publicity Chair, Mobiquitous 2006
Session Chair, ICCCN 2005
Registration Chair, MobiHoc 2005
Publicity Co-Chair, ICDCS 2005
Panels Chair, QShine 2004
Co-Organizer, Special Session on Actor based Sensor Networks, SANPA 2004
Reviewer for various conferences/journals including INFOCOM, IWQoS, SIGCOMM,
MOBICOM, ICON, Computer Networks Journal, IEEE Personal Communication Magazine, MONET, Transactions on Mobile Computing, Transactions on Sensor Networks, Transaction on Parallel and Distributed Computing
Research Group and Collaborations
I lead the Ohio Wireless Infrastructure and Networking (OWIN) research lab.
The current students and alumni are as follows:
Shengbo Chen (PhD), jointly supervised with Ness Shroff
Yousi Zheng (PhD), jointly supervised with Ness Shroff
Tarali Bora (MS), jointly supervised with Ness Shroff
Daeyoung Choi (MS)
Alumni
Dongwook Lee, Postdoc (2004-2007), Samsung, Korea
Kai-Wei Fan, PhD (Sp '08), MS (Au '07), Cisco, San Jose, CA
Sha Liu, PhD (Sp '08), MS (Sp '08), Epic Systems, Madison, WI
Other Graduate Students (OSU students I have co-authored in the past)
Ai Chen
Gayathri Chandrasekaran
Hongwei Zhang
Vinayak Naik
Thang Nam Le
Recent Collaborators
Ness Shroff
Xiaojun Lin
Can Emre Koksal
Yigal Bejerano
Lisa Zhang
Anish Arora
Dong Xuan
Note for Prospective Students: I am looking for one or two highly motivated students to join
my group immediately with background and/or interest in mathematical techniques
and experimental skills.
Mathematical topics of particular relevance to my research include approximation
algorithms, combinatorics, graph theory, probability, optimization etc. Experimental
knowledge in the areas of TinyOS, 802.11, Linux kernel programming, and mesh networks
is preferred.
Teaching
Past and current courses are listed below:
CSE 677: Introduction to Computer Networking (Au '03, Au '04, Au '05, Wi '06, Au '06, Au '07, Au '08)
CSE 678: Intenetworking (Wi '08, Wi '09)
CSE 777: Telecommunication Networks (Sp '04, Sp '05, Wi '06, Wi '07)
CSE 788: Next Generation Wireless Networks (Sp '04, Sp '05, Au '07)
CSE 888: Protocol Design for Wireless Networks (Most quarters)
Consulting
I am open to exploring options for consulting broadly on issues related to embedded systems and networking.
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