Research

My research interests lie in the areas of Networks and Distributed Systems. While in grad school, I focused on addressing the challenges in building a distributed search infrastructure over P2P systems. These challenges include identify, extracting, and storing the meta-data that is useful in answering search queries. This information has to be stored in a manner that facilitates quick retrieval of results while providing certain performance, reliability and consistency guarantees. As part of my dissertation, I worked on storing the meta-data in a reliable manner, on ways of organizing this data to reduce the cost of query evaluation, on protocols to handle hotspots and balance query load, and on techniques to rank search results in a truly distributed manner. While all of the techniques I developed were targeted towards the TerraDir system, they are equally applicable to other P2P system designs.

Publications

Conference and Workshop Papers

Technical Reports

Teaching

I was a Teaching assistant in the department for 4 sessions between 2000 and 2001. I have taught discussion sections for classes including Operating Systems (CMSC 412), Introductory and Advanced C++ programming (CMSC 114/214), and Introduction to Programming with C (CMSC 106).

Courses