Umakishore Ramachandran
Professor
Teaching this semester:
Personal trivia...
I am married to
Vasanthi
, and we have two children
Hemant
(born on
9/18/86) and
Shalini
(born on 1/23/89).
I am an avid squash player, and can be arm-twisted to hold a tennis
racket every once in a while!
Check out my daughter's assessment (at age 9) of how I look by clicking
here
.
Check out what I did in the summer of 2004 by clicking
here
.
Professionally Speaking...
I received my Ph. D.
in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1986
under the direction of
Marvin Solomon.
Since then I have been with Georgia Tech (home of the yellow jackets),
where currently I am the Director of
STAR Center
&
Korean Programs
and a Professor in the College of Computing.
For two years (July 2003 to August 2005) I served as the Chair of the
Core Computing Division within the College of Computing.
My research interests are in the area of
architectural design, programming, and
analysis of parallel and distributed systems.
At Georgia Tech,
I have been involved in the design and evaluation of
several large experimental systems including Clouds,
Beehive,
and
Stampede
(joint with Compaq
Cambridge Research Lab),
and studying their scalability from an applications perspective.
Currently,
in the
ubiquitous presence
project, I am investigating software
and hardware mechanisms for
ubiquitous distributed computing for an environment
comprised of distributed sensors, embedded data concentrators, and backend
clusters.
I received a Presidential Young Investigator (PYI) Award from the
National Science Foundation (NSF) in 1990, the Georgia Tech Doctoral
Thesis Advisor Award in 1993, the College of Computing Outstanding Senior
Research Faculty Award in 1996, the College of Computing Dean's Award in 2003,
and the
William A. "Gus" Baird Faculty Teaching Award
from the College of
Computing in 2004.
My PhD Lineage
(Click here
for Jeff Ullman's progeny)
Known PhD siblings
M. V. S. Ramanath,
Will E. Leland,
Nancy Jarrell,
Mary D. P. Leland,
Jonathan Kepecs,
Prasun Dewan(UNC-Chapel Hill),
William Kalsow.
Anthony Rich,
Igor Steinberg,
Paul Adams,
Odysseas Tsatalos.
Tracking my PhD Progeny
- Dr. Yousef Khalidi (1989) - Distinguished Engineer, Microsoft Corp.
(formerly Distinguished Engineer, Sun Microsystems)
- Dr. Joonwon Lee (1991) - Professor, Department of EECS, Kaist University, Korea
- Dr. Walter B. Ligon III (1992) - Associate Professor, Department of ECE, Clemson University, South Carolina
- Dr. Martin Davis (1992) - (e-mail: martin (at) martinhdavisjr.com)
- Dr. Ajay Mohindra (1993) - IBM T.J.Watson Research Center
- Dr. Anand Sivasubramaniam (1995) - Professor, Department of CSE, Pennsylvania State University
- Dr. Vibby Gottemukkala (1995) - CAMPSYS Corp.
- Dr. Sreenivas Gukal (1995) - Microsoft Corp.
- Dr. Gautam Shah (1995) - IBM Kingston (SP2 group)
- Dr. Aman Singla (1997) - Atheros Communications, Inc., (e-mail: aman (at) atheros.com)
- Dr. Zachary Alan Kurmas
(2004) - Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science &
Information Systems, Grand Valley State University
- Dr. Sameer Adhikari (2004) - Intel Corp.
- Dr. Arnab Paul (2005) - Intel Corp.
- Dr. Josh Fryman (2005) - Intel Corp.
- Dr. Matt Wolenetz (2005) - Microsoft Corp.
- Dr. Rajnish Kumar (2006) - Research Scientist II, Georgia Tech
- Dr. Nissim Harel (2006) - Entrepreneur
Recent Alumni of my Research Group
- Toby Reyelts, BS 2000, Air2Web
- Anand Lakshminarayanan, MS 2000, Microsoft
- Russ Keldorph, MS 2000, Microsoft
- Kirill Mechitov, BS 2001, Grad Student UIUC
- Durga Devi Mannaru, MS 2001, IBM Research Triangle Park, NC.
- Ansley Post, BS 2002, Grad Student Rice U.
- Rajat Sharma, MS 2003, Verizon Wireless
- Zaib Talat, BS 2003
- Ilya Bagrak, BS 2004, Grad Student UC-Berkeley
- Martin Modahl, MS 2004
- Sam Young, BS 2007, Amazon
- Steven French, BS 2007, Microsoft
- Vladimir Urazov, MS December 2007, Citadel Investment Group
Current Students
- Namgeun Jeong
- Bikash Agarwalla
- Hasnain Mandviwala
- Yavor Angelov
- Junsuk Shin
- Xiang Song
- Dave Lillethun
- David Hilley
- Nova Ahmed
- Dushmanta Mohapatra
- Mungyung Ryu
- Lateef Yusuf
Current Research
Visit the following places for a description related to
my research activities.
- White paper on
Ubiquitous Presence
.
- The Stampede System
- The Beehive Cluster System
- TASS: A Top-down Approach to Scalability Study
Contact Information
- Dr. Umakishore Ramachandran
Professor
College of Computing, Georgia Tech,
Atlanta, GA 30332.
Phone: (404)894-5136
- E-mail: rama at cc dot gatech dot edu
Current CV
As a reward for visiting my homepage here is a recipe for
masala noodle
invented by my wife Vasanthi!