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Surendar Chandra (surendar@acm.org)
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Research
My research focus is in experimental systems: operating system topics in multimedia, storage, security, networks and sensor systems. I manage the Experiemental Systems lab. I am actively involved in:
- Mobile collaboration systems
- Resource management in peer computing systems
- Secure and Ubiquitous Storage
- Unstructured peer-to-peer systems
- Energy Aware Streaming Multimedia
- Content adaptation: Quality Aware Transcoding
Recent publications
- An empirical analysis of serendipitous media sharing among campus-wide wireless users, Surendar Chandra and Xuwen Yu. In ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (ACM TOMCCAP), Volume 7(2), May 2011
- Designing an Asynchronous Group Communication Middleware for Wireless Users, Xuwen Yu and Surendar Chandra. In ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWIM 09)}, October 26-30, 2009, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain
- flockfs, a moderated group authoring system for wireless workgroups, Surendar Chandra and Nathan Regola. In Sixth Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (Mobiquitous 09), July 13-16, 2009, Toronto, Canada (Software: flockfs)
- Moderated group authoring among weakly connected workgroups (poster), Surendar Chandra and Nathan Regola. In ICST/IEEE Mobiquitous '09, July 13-16, 2009, Toronto, Canada
- Moderated collaboration to modify shared files among wireless users, Surendar Chandra and Nathan Regola. In Work-In-Progress and Poster sessions of the 7th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '09), February 24-27, 2009, San Francisco, CA
- Parameterized Access Control: From Design To Prototype, Ashish Gehani and Surendar Chandra. In Fourth International Conference on Security and Privacy for Communication Networks (SECURECOMM '08), September 22-25, 2008, Istanbul, Turkey
- Google services are not necessarily the answer for group communication among mobile users (refereed work-in-progress), Xuwen Yu and Surendar Chandra. In ACM Mobisys 2008, June 19, 2008, Breckenridge, CO
- On the need for query-centric unstructured peer-to-peer overlays, William Acosta and Surendar Chandra. In IEEE Fifth International Workshop on Hot Topics in Peer-to-Peer Systems (HotP2P '08), April 18, 2008, Miami, FL
- Delay tolerant collaborations among campus-wide wireless users, Xuwen Yu and Surendar Chandra. In IEEE INFOCOM Mini-Symposium (INFOCOM '08), April 14, 2008, Phoenix, AZ
- Exploiting the Properties of Query Workload and File Name Distributions to Improve P2P Synopsis-based Searches, William Acosta and Surendar Chandra. In IEEE INFOCOM Mini-Symposium (INFOCOM '08), April 14, 2008, Phoenix, AZ
- Understanding the Practical Limits of the Gnutella P2P System: An Analysis of Query Terms and Object Name Distributions, William Acosta and Surendar Chandra. In ACM/SPIE Multimedia Computing and Networking (MMCN '08), January 30-31, 2008, San Jose, CA
- Campus-wide asynchronous lecture distribution using wireless laptops, Xuwen Yu and Surendar Chandra. In ACM/SPIE Multimedia Computing and Networking (MMCN '08), January 30-31, 2008, San Jose, CA
People:
- Dr. William Acosta (graduated July 2008)
- Nathan Regola (graduated January '09)
- Dr. Xuwen Yu (graduated June '09)
Support:
- National Science Foundation (NSF): CAREER: Scalable Self Managing Multimedia Storage
- Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA): Hydra: A robust and self managing video sensing system for retrospective surveillance
Teaching
Course materials:
- Operating Systems: Fall 2008 (CSE 60641), Spr 2008 (CSE 30341), Spr 2007 (CSE 30341), Spr 2006 (CSE 30341), Fall 2004 (CSE 542), Fall 2003 (CSE 542), Fall 2002 (CSE 542)
- Computer Networks: Spr 2005 (CSE 364), Spr 2004 (CSE498N/598N), Spr 2003 (CSE 498N/598N), Spr 2002 (CSCI 6760)
- Multimedia Systems: Spr 2009 (CSE 40373/60373), Fall 2006 (CSE 40373/60373)
- Networked Sensor Systems: Fall 2007 (CSE 40484/60484)
- Distributed Storage: Fall 2005 (CSE 70481)
- Ubiquitous Computing: Spr 2002 (CSCI 4770/6770), Spr 2001 (CSCI 4770/6770)
Resources:
- Educational Experimental Systems Lab (six Intel desktops and two Itanium2 servers (with $120K grant from HP))
- Lectures since Spr 2006 available in Google Video, YouTube and Apple iTunes
Publications:
- Lecture video capture for the masses, Surendar Chandra.
In ACM 12th Annual conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer
Science Education (iTiCSE 2007), June 25 - 27, 2007, Dundee, Scotland
(PDF,
) - Beacond: A Peer-to-Peer System to Teach Ubiquitous Computing,
Surendar Chandra. ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education
(SIGCSE), February, 2003 PDF )
- Netcp - A Project Environment for an
Undergraduate Computer Networks Course.,
David Finkel and Surendar Chandra. In ACM Technical
Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) , March 10-11,
1994. [Software available here ] PS,
Service
- Area editor, ICST Transactions on Ubiquitous Environments (2009 --
- ACM Multimedia Systems (2010)
- ACM Multimedia (2003, 2006 -- 2009)
- ACM/SPIE Multimedia Computing and Networking (MMCN 2003 -- 2009. TPC co-chair: 2005, 2006)
- ACM NOSSDAV (2005, 2007 -- 2010)
- IEEE Infocom (2008, 2009)
- IEEE ICDCS (2008, 2009)
- PAM 2008, ACM Netgames 2008
- IEEE SECON (WSNA (2002, 2003), 2004, 2005, 2006)
- USENIX University Liason (2000 - )
- Planetlab PI (2003 - 2009)
- iTunesU Advisory Panel (2008 - 2009)
Causes
Causes for which I wish I could do more for:
- Save A Female through Education (SAFE) - an organization to help educate girl children in India. Since 1994, we have collected ~$35,000 for this cause.
- Donate blood, apheresis, bone marrow
- Big brother program, Net day volunteer
About me
I was born in Madurai; lived in Coimbatore, Sivakasi, Thoothukudi (my home town), Thisayanvilai, Nagarcoil, Keezhvelur, Palayamkottai, Dindigul and Chennai (all in Tamilnadu, India), Emeryville: CA, Tempe:AZ, Worcester:MA, Durham:NC, New York:NY, Athens:GA and Granger:IN (all in the US). I speak Tamil and English. My mother and siblings live in Bangalore, India. My son, Kumar S. Chandra is becoming a young man!! Though I am a software guy, I also play the role of a hardware guy on TV!!