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Surendar Chandra (surendar@acm.org)
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• Curriculum Vitae
• Research Statement
• Teaching Statement

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

• 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
  • 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 (short paper), Xuwen Yu and Surendar Chandra. In ACM/SPIE Multimedia Computing and Networking (MMCN '08), January 30-31, 2008, San Jose, CA

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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 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

....complete list....

• 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 -- 2009)
• 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!!