Pradnya Karbhari

Education:

• Ph.D. in Computer Science (GPA: 3.96/4.0), Fall 2005 (expected), Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
  
• Graduate Studies in Computer Science (GPA: 3.83/4.0), Aug 1998 to July 1999, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA.
  
• B.S. in Computer Engineering (GPA: 3.8/4.0), July 1998, V.J. Technological Institute, University of Bombay, Maharashtra, India
  

Experience:

• Graduate Research Assistant, Networking and Telecommunications Group, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, January 2000 to date: Overlay and Content Distribution Networks.
  
• Summer Manager, AT&T Labs- Research, Florham Park, May 2001 to Aug 2001: Content Delivery Networks for Applications.
  
• Summer Manager, AT&T Labs- Research, Florham Park, May 2000 to Aug 2000: Web caching and replication.
  
• Graduate Teaching Assistant, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, August 1999 to December 1999 for CS 3251: Computer Networks
  
• Graduate Research Assistant, Cognition & Instructional Technologies Laboratory, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, September 1998 to July 1999: Developed Web-based Instructional Tools using Cold Fusion and Crystal Reports.
  

Publications:

• Pradnya Karbhari, Mostafa Ammar, Ellen Zegura, "Optimizing End-to-End Throughput for Data Transfers on an Overlay-TCP Path", to appear in Proceedings of IFIP Networking 2005, published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series, Waterloo, Canada, May 2005.
• Pradnya Karbhari, Mostafa Ammar, Amogh Dhamdhere, Himanshu Raj, George Riley and Ellen Zegura, "Bootstrapping in Gnutella: A Measurement Study", in Proceedings of the Passive and Active Measurement Workshop 2004, published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series, Antibes Juan-les-Pins, France, April 2004.
• Pradnya Karbhari, Ellen Zegura and Mostafa Ammar, "Multipoint-to-Point Session Fairness in the Internet", in Proceedings of IEEE Infocom 2003, San Francisco, April 2003.
• Pradnya Karbhari, Michael Rabinovich, Zhen Xiao, and Fred Douglis, "ACDN: A Content Delivery Network for Applications", in Proceedings of ACM SIGMOD (Project demo), June 2002.

Relevant Courses:

• Networking:
  
  • CPSC 619: Networks and Distributed Systems
    
  • CS 7260: Internetworking Architectures and Protocols
    
  • CS 7270: Networked Applications and Services
    
  • CS 6280: Performance Evaluation of Communication Networks
    
  • CS 8803-NTM: Special Topics- Network Measurements
    
  • CS 8803-EPA: Special Topics- Experimental Performance Evaluation (audit)
    
  • CS 8803-MWN: Special Topics- Mobile and Wireless Networks and Services (audit)
    
  • CPSC 665: Advanced Network Security
    
• Systems:
  
  • CS 6210: Advanced Operating Systems
    
  • CPSC 662: Distributed Processing Systems
    
  • CPSC 670: Information Storage and Retrieval
    
• Theory:
  
  • CS 6550: Design and Analysis of Algorithms
    
  • ISYE 6650: Probabilistic Models
    
  • ISYE 6401: Statistical Models and Design of Experiments
    
  • ISYE 6669: Deterministic Optimization
    

Computer Skills:

• Languages: C, C++, Perl, Tcl
  
• Operating Systems: Solaris, Linux, Windows
  
• Simulators: ns-2 network simulator
  
• Techniques: Procedural, Multi-threaded Programming, TCP/IP Sockets Programming, Object Oriented Design
  

Scholastic Awards and Achievements:

• Recipient of Nortel Fellowship Award, 2003.
  
• Recipient of the Georgia Tech Women's Forum Scholarship, 2000.
  
• Recipient of Student Travel Grants for: Sigcomm 2002, Infocom 2003, PAM 2004, Grace Hopper 2002.
  
• Ranked 24th (top 1%) in the University of Bombay for B.S. (Computer Science), 1998.
  
• 17th in Regional Mathematics Olympiad (top 1%) at Maharashtra State Level; selected for Indian National Mathematics Olympiad.
  
• Awarded National Merit Scholarship, 1992.
  

Professional Activites:

• Reviewer for IWQoS 2003, Infocom 2004, Networking 2004, NetGames 2004, ACM Multimedia 2004, ICC 2005, ISCC 2005, ACM CCR.
  
• Organizational Volunteer for International Conference on Network Protocols, 2003.
  
• Student member of ACM.
  
• Student member of IEEE.
  

References:

• Available on request.