Resume

Research Interests

My research interests broadly lie in the field of large-scale distributed systems. More specifically I am interested in the areas of automated system management, enterprise systems, performance modeling techniques and information dissemination middlewares.

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science

May 2008 (Expected)

Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA.
Advisor: Prof. Karsten Schwan

B.Tech. in Computer Science & Engineering

May 2002

Institute of Technology, BHU, India.
Degree Grade Point Average 3.8/4.0

Research / Professional Experience

College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology

(Jan 2004 onwards)

Research Assistant
Working for Self-Managing Enterprise Middleware project at CERCS, Georgia Tech.

IBM T J Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, New York

(May 2005 - Aug 2005)

Summer Intern
Worked for Advanced Messaging Group on Fault-Tolerance in the SMILE stateful pub-sub middleware.

IBM T J Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, New York

(May 2004 - Aug 2004)

Summer Intern
Worked for Autonomic Computing Group on Availability-Aware Self-Configuration in Autonomic Systems.

Oracle Corporation, IDC-Hyderabad, India

(Jul 2002 - Jul 2003)

Applications Engineer
Member of the Oracle Exchange development team, responsible for Negotiations module of this B2B product.

Max-Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrucken, Germany

(May 2001 - Jul 2001)

Summer Intern
Involved in design and coding of CGAL library module for range reporting and nearest neighbor queries.

Indian Institute of Technology - Bombay, India

(May 2000 - Jul 2000)

Summer Intern
Worked for design & implementation of a Java based XML-RDBMS interface.

Publications

Book Chapters

Karsten Schwan, Brian F. Cooper, Greg Eisenhauer, Ada Gavrilovska, Matt Wolf, Hasan Abbasi, Sandip Agarwala, Zhongtang Cai, Vibhore Kumar, Jay Lofstead, Mohamed Mansour, Balasubramanian Seshasayee, and Patrick Widener. AutoFlow: Autonomic Information Flows for Critical Information Systems. Autonomic Computing: Concepts, Infrastructure, and Applications, ed. Manish Parashar and Salim Hariri, CRC Press, 2006.

Journals

Vibhore Kumar, Brian F. Cooper, Zhongtang Cai, Greg Eisenhauer, Karsten Schwan. Middleware for Enterprise Scale Data Stream Management using Utility-Driven Self-Adaptive Information Flows. In Cluster Computing Journal, Volume 10, Number 4 / December, 2007.
Zhongtang Cai, Vibhore Kumar, Karsten Schwan. IQ-Paths: Predictably High Performance Data Streams across Dynamic Network Overlays. In Journal of Grid Computing, Volume 5, Number 2/ June 2007.
Zhongtang Cai, Greg Eisenhauer, Qi He, Vibhore Kumar, Karsten Schwan, Matthew Wolf. IQ-Services: Network-Aware Middleware for Interactive Large-Data Applications. Special issue of Concurrency & Computation. Practice and Experience Journal, (CPE), 2004.

Conferences

Vibhore Kumar, Karsten Schwan, Subu Iyer, Yuan Chen, Akhil Sahai. The State-Space Approach to SLA-based Management. IEEE/IFIP Network Operations & Management Symposium (NOMS), Brazil, 2008. Best paper award
Sangeetha Seshadri, Bhuvan Bamba, Brian Cooper, Vibhore Kumar, Gong Zhang, Ling Liu, Karsten Schwan. Grouping Distributed Stream Query Services by Operator Similarity and Network Locality. IEEE Int. Conference on Service Computing (SCC), Hawaii, 2008.
Vibhore Kumar, Brian F. Cooper, Greg Eisenhauer, Karsten Schwan. iManage: Policy-Driven Self-Management for Enterprise-Scale Systems. ACM/IFIP/USENIX 8th International Middleware Conference, California, USA, 2007.
Sangeetha Seshadri, Vibhore Kumar, Brian F. Cooper, Ling Liu. Optimizing Multiple Queries in Distributed Stream Systems Using Hierarchical Network Partitions. IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS) 2007.
Zhongtang Cai, Yuan Chen, Vibhore Kumar, Dejan Milojicic, Karsten Schwan. Automated Availability Management Driven by Business Policies. 10th IFIP/IEEE Symposium on Integrated Management (IM) 2007.
Zhongtang Cai, Vibhore Kumar, Brian F. Cooper, Greg Eisenhauer, Karsten Schwan, Robert E. Strom. Utility-Driven Management of Availability in Enterprise-Scale Information Flows. ACM/IFIP/USENIX 7th International Middleware Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 2006.
Vibhore Kumar, Zhongtang Cai, Brian F. Cooper, Greg Eisenhauer, Karsten Schwan, Mohamed Mansour, Balasubramanian Seshasayee, Patrick Widener. Implementing Diverse Messaging Models with Self-Managing Properties using iFLOW. 3rd IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2006), Dublin, Ireland.
Zhongtang Cai, Vibhore Kumar, Karsten Schwan. Self-Regulating Data Streams for Predictable High Performance across Dynamic Network Overlay. 15th IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC 2006), Paris, France. Best paper award.
Vibhore Kumar, Brian F. Cooper, Zhongtang Cai, Greg Eisenhauer, Karsten Schwan. Resource-Aware Distributed Stream Management using Dynamic Overlays. 25th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS-2005), Columbus, Ohio, USA.
Vibhore Kumar, Brian F. Cooper, Karsten Schwan. Distributed Stream Management using Utility-Driven Self-Adaptive Middleware. 2nd IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2005), Seattle, Washington, USA. Best student paper award.
David M Chess, Vibhore Kumar, Alla Segal, Ian Whalley. Availability-Aware Self-Configuration in Autonomic Systems. 15th IFIP/IEEE Distributed Systems: Operations and Management (DSOM 2004), Davis, California, USA.

Workshops

Vibhore Kumar, Brian F. Cooper, Greg Eisenhauer, Karsten Schwan. Enabling Policy-Driven Self-Management for Enterprise-Scale Systems. First International Workshop on Policy-Based Autonomic Computing, in conjunction with ICAC 2007. Best paper award.
Sangeetha Seshadri, Vibhore Kumar, Brian F. Cooper. Optimizing Multiple Queries in Distributed Data Stream Systems. 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Networking Meets Database (NetDB), in conjunction with ICDE 2006.
Vibhore Kumar, Brian F. Cooper, Shamkant B Navathe. Predictive Filtering: A Learning-Based Approach to Data Stream Filtering. International Workshop on Data Management for Sensor Networks in conjunction with VLDB-2004. Toronto, Canada. pdf
Zhongtang Cai, Greg Eisenhauer, Qi He, Vibhore Kumar, Karsten Schwan, Matthew Wolf. IQ-Services: Network-Aware Middleware for Interactive Large-Data Applications. 2nd International Workshop on Middleware & Grid Computing, MGC-2004. Toronto, Canada.

Demonstrations

Vibhore Kumar, Brian F. Cooper, Greg Eisenhauer, Srihari Govindharaj, Chaitanya Karlekar, Mohamed Mansour, Karsten Schwan, Sangeetha Seshadri, Balasubramanian Seshasayee. Policy-Driven Autonomic Management in Enterprise-Scale Information Flows. 4th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing ICAC-2007.

Talks

Enabling Policy-Driven Self-Management for Enterprise-Scale Systems
- presented at PBAC 2007, in conjunction with ICAC 2007, Jacksonville, Florida, June, 2006.

Policy-Driven Self-Management for Enterprise-Scale Systems
- Ph.D Proposal, May, 2006.

Self-Managing Middleware for Enteprise Information Flows
- presented at Delta Technology Workshop 2006, Atlanta, Georgia, Nov, 2006.

Self-Regulating Data Streams for Predictable High Performance across Dynamic Network Overlay
- presented at HPDC 2006, Paris, France, June, 2006.

Implementing Diverse Messaging Models with Self-Managing Properties using iFLOW
- presented at ICAC 2006, Dublin, Ireland, June 2006.

Distributed Stream Management using Utility-Driven Self-Adaptive Middleware
- presented at ICAC 2005, Seattle, Washington, USA, June 2005.

Predictive Filtering: A Learning-Based Approach to Data Stream Filtering
- presented at DMSN 2004, in conjunction with VLDB 2004, Toronto, Canada, August, 2004.

Reviewing Activities

   - High Performance Distributed Computing, HPDC 2005, 2006, 2007
   - International Conference on Autonomic Computing, ICAC 2005, 2006, 2007
   - Eurosys 2006, 2007
   - Very Large Data Bases, VLDB 2006
   - International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE 2006
   - International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, ICDCS 2006, 2007

Awards & Achievements

Recieved Best Paper Award at Workshop on Policy Based Autonomic Computing, in conjunction with ICAC'07.

Recieved Best Paper Award at 15th IEEE Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing, HPDC-15.

Recieved Best Student Paper Award at 2nd IEEE International Conference on Autonmic Computing, ICAC'05.

Conference Travel Awards - ICAC 2005, 2006, 2007; HPDC 2006.

Amongst top 1.0% out of the 150,000 students that appeared for the IIT-JEE 1998.

Awarded National Talent Scholarship. (1996-1998).

Awarded National Science Talent Scholarship. (1995-1996).

Miscellaneous

- Visa Status: F-1

References

- Available upon request.

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