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Shivkumar Kalyanaraman


Senior Manager, Next Generation Systems and Smarter Planet Solutions, IBM Research - India , Bangalore, India. Official IBM Page
Formerly, Full Professor, Dept. of ECSE , Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)
Email: shivkuma AT gmail DOT com
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Research: (recent work to be updated) Papers@RPI | Recent Talks (w/ AUDIO) | Software (Code) | Dissertation | Papers@OSU | Colleagues | Cong. Papers
Teaching: AUDIO and VIDEO Lectures on Networking (Backed up by Prof. Koushik Kar)
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Brief Bio: Shivkumar Kalyanaraman is a Senior Manager of the Next Gen Systems & Smarter Planet Solutions Department, and Senior Researcher at IBM India Research Labs Bangalore. He was a Manager of the Next Generation Telecom Research group and a Research Staff Member since 2008. Previously he was a Professor at the Department of Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute inTroy, NY. He received a B.Tech degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India in July 1993 followed by M.S. and Ph.D. degrees at the Ohio State University in 1994 and 1997 respectively. He also holds an Executive M.B.A. (EMBA) degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (2005). His current research in IBM is at the intersection of emerging wireless technologies and IBM middleware and systems technologies with applications to large-scale smarter planet problems (grids, traffic, finance etc). He was selected by MIT's Technology Review Magazine in 1999 as one of the top 100 young innovators for the new millenium. He served as the TPC Co-chair of IEEE INFOCOM 2008, and as the General co-chair of ACM SIGCOMM 2010 in New Delhi. He is on the editorial board of IEEE/ACM Transactions of Networking. He is a Fellow of IEEE and an ACM Distinguished Scientist.
At RPI, Shiv's work was primarily in the area of computer networking, concentrated around the theme of traffic management and high performance wireless networking. With his collaborators and students, he has made contributions to topics such as congestion control, reliability, connectionless traffic engineering, quality of service (QoS), last-mile community wireless networks, low-cost free-space-optical networks, automated network management using online simulation, multicast, multimedia networking (including peer-to-peer multimedia systems), and performance analysis. His special interest was in developing interdisciplinary connections between network architecture and fields like control theory, economics, scalable simulation technologies, video compression and optoelectronics.

At RPI he was affiliated with the Networking Laboratory, Center for Pervasive Computing and Networking (CPCN), and the Center for Image Processing Research (CIPR) at ECSE. His former student colleagues (list dated). The team's external sponsors at RPI included DARPA-ITO , NSF , ARO, AT&T Labs Research , Intel Corp. (Research Council and IXA Program), MIT Lincoln Labs (AFOSR subcontract) , and WIMAX Forum . We have been funded in the past by IBM Corp. (IBM SUR Program) , Qwest Communications Inc. , Packeteer Inc. , Nortel Networks (University Research Program) , Reuters Inc. , and Pulsecom Inc . We also work closely with standards bodies like WIMAX Forum , IETF , the ATM Forum and several industrial friends including Cisco, Lucent, Nokia, Sprint, Starburst, Tellabs and Torrent (Ericsson).