About me

I am a PhD candidate in CS @ Illinois, being advised by Prof. Gul Agha in Open systems laboratory I also work very closely with Prof. Myeongjae Jeon at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), South Korea. My research interest is broadly in distributed systems, with my current focus being on stream processing systems in the Internet-of-things (IoT) domain. Resource management for such systems is becoming increasingly challenging due to (i) large amounts of streaming data being generated, (ii) complexity of the applications processing such data, and (iii) complexity of hardware on which they run. My current work investigates scalable techniques to optimize performance and power characteristics for stream processing applications in IoT systems.

Previously, I was working with cloud monitoring and diagnostics group at Microsoft Azure, Redmond. I got to work on a wide variety of problems ranging from data modeling for cloud service analytics, logging/reporting infrastructure to stream processors and diagnostics log management services. Prior to that, I graduated with my Masters from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where my research was focused on context aware computing for structural health monitoring applications like highway bridge inspections. I went to BITS, Pilani, Goa campus, for my undergraduate studies in Electrical and Electronics engineering. A list of projects I undertook and links to detailed reports, can be found in the Research and Projects sections.