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Ramakrishna Gummadi

Networked and Mobile Systems
MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Email: ramki at csail dot mit dot edu


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I'm a postdoc with Prof. Hari Balakrishnan, working on problems in Systems and Networking. I'm also associated with Intel Research Berkeley. I recently defended my Ph.D. thesis in May 2007 under the supervision of Prof. Ramesh Govindan.

Earlier, I received my MS from UC Berkeley in 2002. My MS thesis on Adaptive RED is available (PS).

New Stuff

I'm co-lecturing 6.829 (Graduate Computer Networks) with Prof. Hari Balakrishnan and Dr. Bruce Davie.

Our SIGCOMM 2007 talk slides (PPT) are available.

I won the 3rd prize in the ACM Student Research Competition (SRC) held at PLDI.

Our PLDI 2007 talk slides (PPT) are available.

Our MobiCom 2007 paper is accepted. The camera-ready is available.

Our SIGCOMM 2007 paper is accepted. The camera-ready is available.

Our PLDI 2007 paper is available.


Research


I am broadly interested in systems and networks research, with a specific interest in wireless networks.  For my Ph.D. thesis, I worked on a cool programming system for sensor networks, called Kairos. It's a simple dialect of C with support for naming, concurrency and distribution, and is designed to be easily programmable, message and energy efficient, and reliable. The system involves building a compiler and a runtime.

In the recent past, I worked on other areas that overlap systems and networks, such as robustness and privacy issues in 802.11 networks (HotOS 2007), congestion control in sensor networks (SIGCOMM 2006), and database support for query processing in sensor networks (ICDE 2005).

At Berkeley and slightly later, I worked on topics such as analysis of P2P systems (SIGCOMM 2003), addressing and routing in the Internet (HotNets 2004, SIGCOMM 2001), and techniques for constructing highly-available data services (ASPLOS 2000), and scalable and composable Internet services (SIGOPS European Workshop 2000, Journal of Computer Networks 2001).


Recent Publications/Talks

For a complete list of my publications and talks, look at my group's pubs and talks pages.

Some of my recent and representative publications:


Awards/Honors


Software


We plan to release the Kairos software (compiler and runtime) soon. If you want a copy before that, please send me email. Code and data sets for other papers I've written are also generally available upon request.

Collaborators

I work or have recently worked closely with Prof. Hari Balakrishnan (MIT), Prof. Ramesh Govindan (USC) and Prof. Todd Millstein (UCLA). I also collaborate with Prof. Robert Morris (MIT), Prof. David Wetherall (UW), and Prof. Srini Seshan (CMU). In the recent past, I had the privilege to work with many other wonderful researchers and grad students, and they can be found on the pubs page.



Contact Information


Ramakrishna Gummadi
Room 32-G982
32 Vassar St
Cambridge, MA 02139
Tel: 213-519-7240
Fax: 617-253-8460

Email: ramki at csail dot mit dot edu. My PGP public key and its fingerprint