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Dr. Shikharesh Majumdar: Biography
DEGREES
- B.Eng., Electronics and
Telecommunications, Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India, 1974
- Postgraduate Diploma, Computer Science :
Hardware, Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India, 1975
- Masters Engineering, Electrotechniques :
Communication, Politecnico Di Torino, Turin, Italy, 1976
- M.Sc., Computational Science, University
of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, 1984
- Ph.D., Computational Science, University
of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada, 1988
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Member Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario (P.Eng)
Member, ACM (including SIGOPS and SIGMETRICS).
Senior Member, IEEE (including
Computer Society).
INDUSTRIAL
EXPERIENCE
2010-2011
Sabbatical
Position
(Cistech,
Ottawa)
2003-2004
Sabbatical
Position
(Nortel
Technologies, Ottawa)
1996 - 1997
Sabbatical
Position
(Nortel
Technologies, Ottawa)
1977 - 1982
Executive Engineer
(Research and Development)
Indian Telephone Industries Ltd.
Bangalore, India
HONORS AND AWARDS
- Distinguished Visitor for the IEEE
Computer Society (1998-2001).
- IEEE Senior Member
- “Best Paper
Award” at the IEEE International
Conf. on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud) for the paper
entitled "A Run Time Technique for Handling Error in User-estimated
Execution Times on Systems Processing MapReduce Jobs with Deadlines",
(authors: N. Lim, S. Majumdar and P. Ashwood-Smith),
Prague, Czech Republic, August 2017.
- "Best Paper (Computer Systems
Performance) Award" at the IEEE International Conference on
Performance, Computing, and Communications, Scottsdale (Arizona), for the
paper entitled "The Effect of Object Agent Interactions on he
performance of CORBA Systems", Proc. IEEE Performance Computer and
Communications (authors: I. Abdul-Fatah, S. Majumdar), Phoenix, USA,
February 1998.
- A "Best Presentation Award" at
the IEEE International Phoenix Conference on Computers and Communications,
for the paper entitled "The Performance of Local and Global
Scheduling Policies in Multiprogrammed Parallel Systems" (author: S.
Majumdar), Phoenix, USA, April 1992.
SERVICES TO THE PROFESSION
- National Examiner (Operating Systems) for
Association of Professional Engineers.
- Workshop Co-Chair, ACM International Conference on Distributed
Computing and Networking (ICDCN), Workshop, Coimbatore, India, 2014.
- Workshop Co-Organizer, International Workshop on Cloud for
Business, Industries & Enterprises- (C4BIE) [held in conjunction with
IEEE/ACM CCGrid Conference], 3 editions: 2013, 2014, 2015.
- General Chair: IEEE/ACM International Conference on Cluster, Cloud and Grid
Computing (CCGrid 2012), Ottawa, Canada, May 2012.
- General Chair: ACM International
Workshop on Software and Performance (WOSP 2007), Buenos Aires,
Argentina, January 2007.
- Member Steering Committee: CCGrid, WOSP,
ICPE
- Program Committee Co-Chair,
"International Conference on Modeling & Simulation of Computer
& Telecommunications Systems (MASCOTS'02)", FortWorth October
2002
- Chair- Local Arrangements for the ACM
SIGMETRICS Conference (May 1995).
- Workshop Co-Chair for IEEE's
"International Conference on Modeling & Simulation of Computer
& Telecommunications Systems (MASCOTS'98)", Montreal July 1998.
- Member Steering Committee for IWDS 2001
- Member of Program Committee for a number
of international conferences (average 4/year)
- Reviewer for Grant Applications: NSERC,
FCAR, MICRO
RECENT INTERACTIONS WITH
INDUSTRY
- DLS Technology Corporation, Virtual Machine Management.
- Huawei, Ottawa, Resource Management
on Clouds.
- TELUS, Ottawa – Power Aware
Resource Provisioning on Clouds; Streaming Data Service.
- Cistech Inc., Ottawa –Performance Optimization
Techniques for Secure Sockets Layer Based Distributed Systems (Sabbatical Research).
- Cistel Technology, Ottawa – Collaborators:
Marzia Zaman and Pradeep Srivastava, Middleware for Sensor-Based Bridge
Management.
- Alcatel-Lucent, Ottawa –Web Services-based Extranet System.
- Nortel,
Ottawa – Resource Management on
Grids.
UNIVERSITY TEACHING &
RESEARCH
Current Research Interests
- BigData Platforms:
- Resource management on MapReduce/Hadoop,
Spark
- Resource management on Stream Processing
Platforms: Storm, Flink
- Clouds and Grids
- Resource management techniques
- Middleware
- Web Services-Based systems
- Mobile web services
- Web service partitioning techniques
- Wireless Sensor Networks
- Resource management techniques for shared
wireless sensor networks hosting multiple applications
- Parallel and Distributed Systems
- Filtering and forwarding techniques for
XML-based publish/subscribe systems
- Techniques for the management of energy
performance tradeoffs
- Performance optimization techniques for
SSL-based systems.
- Performance Engineering:
- Analytic Performance Modeling.
- Performance Analysis of Distributed
Software and Systems.
- Performance optimization techniques
Undergraduate Courses Taught:
At Carleton University:
- Operating Systems
- Performance Engineering
Graduate Courses Taught:
At Carleton University:
- Distributed Systems Engineering
- Elements of Computer Systems and Data
Structures
- High Performance Software Design
At Nortel
Networks, Ottawa:
- Distributed Processing Systems (ConGESE
program)
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