Gurdip Singh Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Programs College of Engineering and Computer Science

http://ecs.syr.edu/faculty/singh/

Syracuse University Syracuse, NY 13244

Educational Record • Ph.D., Computer Science, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1991• M.S., Computer Science, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1989• B. Tech., Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, 1986

Professional Experience • Syracuse University, College of Engineering and Computer Science

o August 2016 – present, Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Programso August 2016 – present, Professor of Computer Science

• National Science Foundation, Computer and Network Systems Divisiono May 2019 – present, Experto August 2016 – February 2017, Experto July 2014 – August 2016, Program Directoro March 2014 – July 2014, Expert

• Kansas State Universityo 2009 – 2014, Department Head, Computing and Information Sciences

2003 – 2009, Backup Department Heado 2006 – 2009, Graduate Program Director, Computing and Information Scienceso 2005 – 2009, Director, Center for Sensors and Sensor Systemso 2002 – 2016, Professor, Computing and Information Sciences

1997 – 2002, Associate Professor, Computing and Information Sciences1991 – 1997, Assistant Professor, Computing and Information Sciences

• State University of New York at Stony Brooko 1987 – 1991, Graduate Research Assistanto 1986 – 1987, Graduate Teaching Assistant

• Softek Inc, New Delhi, Indiao September 1984 – December 1984, Software Engineer

• Co-Founder, National Computer Systems, India, 1986

Experience as Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Programs Syracuse University is a comprehensive university with enrollment of over 22000 students and Carnegie R1 ranking. My duties in the College of Engineering and Computer Science include: (a) Advancing the College’s goal of elevating the prominence and reach of research activities, (b) Administration of the College’s graduate programs that enroll over 1050 on-campus students in

11 MS and 6 PhD programs, (c) Career Services for both undergraduate and graduate students, and (d) Student Success Advising for undergraduate students. I supervise 10 staff members with 5 direct reports. Some of my accomplishments include: • Organizing/Building the ECS Research and Graduate Programs Office, which now has staff

positions and student workers (there were no positions associated with this office earlier). Developed a 5-year Strategic Plan for the office, defined metrics for success and organized activities to align with this plan, some of which are described below.

• Established mechanisms to support research and proposal development, that include: o Weekly newsletter announcing new funding opportunities and faculty/student awards. Also,

simultaneously reached out to specific groups and educate them about the opportunities. o Established the Tenure Track Faculty Group to mentor early career faculty on research

program development and proposal writing. Also mentored a separate group of faculty who submitted CAREER/YIP proposals in 2017 and 2018 (four have received funding).

o Established policies to smoothen proposal submission workflow and cost sharing requests. o Established proposal editing services, and provided feedback on proposals.

• Coordinated the development of multidisciplinary clusters as part of the Invest Syracuse initiative to hire 200 faculty members in the next five years. As part of this effort, 26 positions have been approved for our college for FY19, FY20 and FY21.

• Promoted Research Experience for Undergraduates grant writing; started the practice of including $10,000 for undergraduate research in startup funds for all new hires.

• Supported collaborations between Syracuse Biomaterials Institute and SUNY Upstate Medical School, and development of a new institute for Bio-enabled Science and Technology (BeST).

• Promoted Multidisciplinary Research by establishing teams in the areas of Unmanned Aerial Systems, IoT, Smart and Connected Communities and Infrastructure Resilience. These teams included researchers from Engineering, Computer Science, Public Policy, Law, Management, Arts & Sciences, iSchool and Architecture. Many of these were multi-university proposals.

• Research Expenditures per FTE have increased by 20% from FY16 to FY18.

• Signed a Partnership Agreement with Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Newport, RI in March 2019 to establish research and educational collaborations.

• Elected to Board of Directors of ASEE Engineering Research Council in June 2018

• Currently leading a university-wide initiative in Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS). A grant of $400K was acquired from Gryphon Sensors to administer a Seed Fund competition in Fall 2016 that funded multidisciplinary projects involving faculty from 6 colleges; 2 UAS companies were started by faculty funded under this competition. Worked with the New York State Regional Economic Development Corporation to include SU as a key player in the regional UAS ecosystem. Interacted with UAS companies at NY State Tech Garden (incubator) in Syracuse by providing access to facilities and organized Academic-Industry Days in September 2016 and May 2017; this has resulted in collaborative projects (SBIR grants) with industrial partners. I

represented SU in a proposal with industrial partners to the State of New York in February 2018 that has been funded at approximately $7.5M. Coordinated the submission of a large multi-institution proposal ($6M) to the NSF Cyber-Physical Systems Program with Syracuse University as the lead (this proposal has been invited for a reserve site visit).

• Organized seed funding competitions in the area of Auditory Sciences involving faculty in neuroscience, biomedical engineering, communication and speed disorders and music.

• Worked with Syracuse City Innovation Office and Downtown Committee of Syracuse on two projects - one on water infrastructure in Smart Cities and another on studying interdependencies between Transportation, Housing and Economic/Social infrastructures as it relates to the Interstate-81 replacement project in Syracuse, NY.

• Organized the Annual College Research Day in 2017, 2018 and 2019.

• Developed a comprehensive graduate recruitment strategy to increase enrollment. Our college relies significantly on tuition revenues which had declined in Fall 2016. Established strategies that included conducting webinars, information sessions email campaigns, international recruitment fairs, and improved communication/engagement with potential students. As a result, revenue for FY19 is up 10% (~$1.7M) as compared to a shortfall of $1M in FY17.

• Worked with the Chairs and Program Directors of the College’s Graduate Programs to establish long-term enrollment targets for the graduate programs with respect to multiple objectives: financial sustainability, faculty size and balance between teaching and research. Worked with the offices of Admissions and Institutional Research to get data for managing admissions on an ongoing basis.

• Instituted an exit survey for graduate students. Based on feedback from MS students and the survey (which indicated lack of career services support), developed a Professional Development course focused on career services for MS students which was offered in Fall 2017 and Fall 2018. Currently, I am working with Graduate School to develop TA training with diversity and inclusion focus, and a Future Professoriate Program focused on Engineering and Computer Science students.

• Completed National Inclusive Excellence Leadership Academy training program in July 2018. • Coordinated nomination of college faculty for extramural fellowship proposal submissions.

• Development trips to Santa Clara, CA, San Jose, CA and New Hampshire to develop relationships with alums.

Experience as Program Director at NSF My program management duties at NSF included the following programs: Cyber-Physical Systems, Computer Systems Research, Critical Resilient Interdependent Infrastructure Systems and Processes, Partnership for Innovation: Broadening Innovation Capacity and Research Coordination Networks. These programs have a combined budget of approximately $105M.

• Program Management Duties o Cyber-Physical Systems is a multidisciplinary program that aims to advance development of

systems that deeply integrate computation, communication, and control into physical systems in various application domains such as transportation, healthcare, energy, robotics and avionics. This program has a multi-agency solicitation with DoT, NIH, DHS, USDA, and NASA.

o The Partnership for Innovation: Broadening Innovation Capacity program supports partnerships which are led by an interdisciplinary academic research team with at least one industry partner to design human-centered smart service systems.

o The Computer Systems Research program supports transformative scientific and engineering research on computer systems such as wearable and mobile systems, cloud computing, and Internet of Things to improve performance, energy consumption, security and resilience.

o The Critical Resilient Interdependent Infrastructure Systems and Processes program supports interdisciplinary teams (computer science, engineering and social sciences) to understand and design resilient interdependent critical infrastructure systems.

o The goal of the Research Coordination Networks program, led by the Directorate of Biological Sciences, is to advance a field or create new directions by supporting groups of investigators across disciplinary, organizational, geographic and international boundaries.

o The NSF-VMWare Partnership on Software Defined Infrastructure program was developed in FY2017 to support research to improve the foundations of end-to-end computing security.

• Research administration experience o Gained experience in improving proposal competitiveness, managing/negotiating budgets,

ensuring policy compliance, coordinating with other Divisions within NSF (such as Engineering, Biological Sciences and Social and Behavioral Sciences) to identify emerging areas and revising solicitations.

o Gained insight into identifying funding opportunities, evaluating large-scale research projects, developing multidisciplinary teams and proposals, and teams with multiple stakeholders from academia, industry and municipal/city governments.

o Gained insight into developing/evaluating large-scale research projects. This included managing CPS Frontier scale proposals (with budgets up to $7M), leading Reverse Site Visits to select final proposals for funding and conducting site visits for annual review of projects.

o Worked on developing new multidisciplinary research programs. This included: § Developing the NSF CRISP program on Resilience with Directorates of Engineering, and

Social and Behavioral Sciences with budget over $20M. This program required each proposing team to include PIs from Computer Science, Engineering and Social Sciences and present an integrated research approach.

§ Increasing participation of CISE in the Engineering focused NSF Partnership for Innovation program.

§ Developing the Smart and Connected Communities program. This program started with two calls for proposals in FY15 and FY16 to fund Smart Cities research in conjunction with the NIST sponsored Global Cities Technical Challenge initiative – a network of teams involving researchers from academia, industry partners, and city/state managers working on applications within a smart city/smart community environment. In FY17, this become a full program with funding of $16.5M.

o Gained experience in developing joint NSF-industry programs. This included working on the Intel-NSF CPS Security solicitation in FY15 to select awardees and conducting site visits, and development/management of a new NSF-VMWare Cloud Security solicitation in FY17.

o Worked on interagency working groups such as the NITRD High Confidence Software Systems and CPS Senior Steering Group, and developed working relationships with personnel

from federal agencies and industrial organizations. Worked with NIH Program Directors on the CPS program and funded two projects related to Biomedical CPS research.

o Led the portfolio analysis of the NSF CSR program to identify gaps and emerging areas.

o Organized PI Meetings, advised prospective PIs (especially early career faculty) and made presentations regarding NSF programs and proposal preparation at conferences and universities.

Key Accomplishments as a Department Head This is a summary of key accomplishments of the Computer Science (CS) department under my tenure from August 2009 to July 2014 as a Department Head.

• Department recognitions o The CS department was ranked highest among the eight engineering departments at K-

State in the Dean’s annual evaluations for years 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 (no ranking was done for 2013).

o The CS department has 9 NSF CAREER Award winners (department faculty size is 16) including two in the period 2009-2104.

o CS faculty members received 6 annual College of Engineering Research Excellence awards (out of 19 awarded from 1996-2014) including two in the period 2009-2014.

• Research and Graduate programs o Total amount of grants with a CS department faculty as PI or co-PI from 2009 to July 2014

was approximately $21M. o PhD enrollment grew by 90% since Fall 2006 when I became the Graduate Program

Director. o Research expenditure more than doubled from $2.06M/year in FY2009 to approximately

$4.4M/year in FY2014. Research expenditure increased from $128K/FTE to $277K/FTE. o Led efforts to mentor junior faculty members and promote research program development.

Provided training and feedback on both teaching and research with an emphasis on initiating research projects and collaborations.

o Increased focus on multidisciplinary and infrastructure research and grant efforts. Some of the major efforts were the following: § Center of Information and System Assurance was established in 2009 and NSA/DHS

National Center of Academic Excellence for Research designation received in 2010 and renewed in 2014. This involved participation of faculty from Engineering, Security Studies, Political Science and History. I was part of a team that subsequently secured two grants totally $2.7M from NSF. The area of Security then became a strategic area of research strength for the College.

§ Established medical device systems as a research area aligned with the increased focus on this topic by federal agencies such as NIH and NSF. Between 2009-2014, new funding over $2.8M from NSF, NIH, FDA and Cerner Corporation received for this effort.

§ INSIGHT program focused on sensor technologies was established. This was supported by grants totaling $3.05 million from NSF.

§ Significant resources obtained for the BeoCat Computing Cluster hosted in my department at K-State for computational research by researchers in Arts & Sciences, Engineering, Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine. Subsequently, two NSF MRI grants and two NSF CC-NIE grants for campus cyber-infrastructure improvement were funded.

o Actively supported industrial collaborations and technology transfer activities. Collaborative efforts (resulting in a joint publication or a proposal) by department faculty during 2009-2014 include those with NetApp, Hewlett Packard Labs, IQ Gateway, Honeywell, Adacore, Rockwell Collins, Praxis, Cerner Corporation, National Technical Systems, CABEM Technologies, General Dynamics, Underwriters Laboratories, Cerner, RedJack, and IAI Inc.

o Consortium of Cyber-Security Excellence established in 2011, a partnership between K-State, industry (National Technical Systems and CABEM Technologies) and City of Manhattan (Knowledge Based Economic Development, LLC) to promote commercialization of cyber-security technologies.

o A PhD Fellowship program was started in 2009, which was successful in attracting high quality applicants by providing supplemental stipend funding.

o Grants from NSF GK-12 program (2010) and NSF SFS program (2012) in CS department provided up to 13 graduate fellowships ($30K stipend + tuition) per year.

• Undergraduate programs o Undergraduate enrollment grew by more than 96% from Fall 2009 to Fall 2014, and

freshmen enrollment grew by 122% from 2009 to 2014. o Promotion of undergraduate student involvement in teaching and research; Department

was hiring 25+ undergraduate students for research/teaching related duties each semester. o Significant increase in K-12 Outreach and recruitment efforts that engaged with students

and teachers from twelve school districts in Kansas. o Computer Science degree program was re-accredited by ABET/CSAB in 2012 with no

concerns or deficiencies. o A Two-week workshop for K-12 teachers conducted during summer 2010 to 2014. In 2013

and 2014, CS department conducted a daily session in a 4-week STEM Institute funded by a DoD Education Activity Educational grant awarded to the USD 383 school district.

o Hispanic Outreach funds obtained from ConocoPhillips to promote computer science discipline among Hispanic students which included visits to (and from) school districts with predominantly Hispanic students.

o Increased support for student club activities: § ACM Student Chapter – budget increased from $2.5K in 2009 to over $9K in 2013. § Cyber Defense club – established in 2011 with a new lab. § Makerspace Club – established in Fall 2013 with $15K startup budget allocated. § Games programming club – established in Fall 2013. § Increased participation of CS students in Unmanned Aerial Design Club to 12

students in 2013. o South Korea Summer Institute established in 2013 (funded by a multi-year grant from

South Korean government) which brings 30 computer science students each year from Hanyang University for summer courses at K-State.

o Information Systems curriculum revised significantly in 2011 and 2012 to address declining enrollment which has reversed the trend. Engaged with local industry to include a required semester-long Cooperative Internship program.

o Significant efforts devoted to improve retention in computer science which included introducing a new 3-credit hour freshmen seminar course, providing smaller, interactive lab classes in CS1 and CS2 courses, and increasing number of student advisors.

• Facilities o New building as part of a Kansas Engineering Initiative was built to house the computer

science department. o Improved teaching space in the computer science building to provide more collaborative

and engaging experience to students. A new undergraduate student lounge and teaching assistant/tutoring room established in 2010.

• Development o Worked with the College of Engineering Foundation Staff to support development activities

which included visits to potential donors and hosting alums. o Participated in several advancement workshops and training sessions on philanthropy and

fund raising hosted by Kansas State University and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.

o Visited and obtained funds from industrial partners to promote research, technology transfer, student scholarships and student club activities.

o Engaged with Industry Advisory Board for the department which provides feedback/guidance on curriculum, infrastructure and research directions.

o Communicated with University Congressional Liaison in preparing white papers for congressional appropriations.

Key Initiatives as Director of Graduate Studies o Increased stipends for PhD students by more than 30% to nationally competitive levels. o Comprehensive restructuring of the PhD Preliminary exam in 2006 replacing the existing

system that had been in effect for more than twenty years. o Restructured the Advising System to maintain record and require graduate students to meet

with their advisors each semester to select courses and discuss academic progress. o Changes to the PhD program resulted a 90% increase in the number of students since 2006.

Activities as Director of Center for Sensors and Sensor Systems o Founded the center with faculty from several colleges including Engineering, Arts &

Sciences, Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine with an internal $1.62M competitive grant. o Center provided matching grants to faculty to seek extramural funding. Total new grants by

faculty involved in the center greater than $7M from 2005-2009 from agencies such as NSF, DTRA, DoE, AFOSR, FDA and DoD.

o Several multidisciplinary projects initiated and pursued in areas such as monitoring of nuclear radiation, medical devices, security veterinary telemedicine and precision agriculture.

Activities as Chair of Strategic Planning for Engineering o Task force assembled in 2012 to align the College’s Strategic plan to meet the objectives of

the K-State Vision 2025 plan to become a Top 50 Public Research University by year 2025. o Identified 5-year, 10-year and 15-year objectives/metrics for research, teaching and service

for the College that aligned with the university metrics. Provided guidance to departments to align departmental objectives/metrics to those of the college. Evaluation framework developed in which faculty annual evaluations fed into department-level metrics, which in turn were aggregated into college-level metrics.

Scholarly Activities • Honors and Awards

o Best Paper Award, IEEE/ACM International Conference on Cyber, Physical and Social Computing, 2010.

o College of Engineering Frankenhoff Outstanding Research Excellence Award, 2007 o Best Paper Award, IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed

Computing and Systems, 2003 o Best NSF Showcase Award, ASEE Annual Conference, 2002 o Department Award for Best Graduate Teacher, 1997 o NSF CAREER Award, 1995 o NSF Research Initiation Award, 1992 o Best Dissertation Award, SUNY at Stony Brook, 1991 o Raman Subramanian Scholarship, 1982-1984 o All India Rank 3, IIT Joint Entrance Exam, India, 1982

• Research Interests My main research focus has been to develop techniques for designing correct and efficient distributed systems. My research interests include Distributed and Embedded Systems, Synchronization Synthesis, Network Protocols, Compositional Design and Analysis techniques, and Configurable Middleware systems. My research has been consistently funded by highly-competitive, single-investigator awards from the National Science Foundation. In addition, I have been involved in a number of large-scale, multidisciplinary projects, and have engaged in team-building efforts, both within the department and across departments and colleges.

• Teaching Interests My teaching interests are in the areas of Distributed Systems, Computer Networks, Protocol Engineering, Real-time Embedded Systems, Operating Systems, Data Structures and Algorithm Analysis.

• Curriculum and Program Development I have been actively involved in integrating research results in education and developing new curricula. Under a grant from the NSF Combined Research and Curriculum Development program, I co-developed a graduate certificate program and an undergraduate minor in Embedded Systems with special focus on Precision Agriculture applications. These efforts subsequently led to a large grant from the NSF GK-12 program and an NSF grant from the CI-TEAM program for K-12 educational efforts. I was also involved in developing a cyber-security curriculum for mid-career army officers at the Command and General Staff College at Ft Leavenworth and for students at the Manhattan Area Technical College.

• Grants Obtained over $15 million in grant funding. My research was continuously supported by NSF since 1992 (with the exception of one year). Other funding sources include DARPA, AFOSR, ARO, Lockheed Martin, Cerner Corporation and National Technical Systems.

• EAGER: Deployment of Mission-Critical IoT Applications, National Science Foundation, $285,654, 3/15/2017 - 3/14/2019.

• Establishing a Community for Autonomous Systems, Cybersecurity, and Policy, Gryphon Sensors, $50,000, 10/24/2016 - 6/1/2017.

• Developing a UAV Testing Lab and Collaborative Research Projects, Gryphon Sensors, $250,000, 10/24/2016 - 6/1/2017.

• Building a Shared UAS Facility to Evaluate Platforms and Technologies, Gryphon Sensors, $100,000, 10/24/2016 - 6/1/2017.

• Building the National Cyber Workforce: New SFS Program at Kansas State University, National Science Foundation, $2,370,436, 1/1/2013 - 12/31/2018 (co-PI with S. Ou, S. DeLoach, J. Hatcliff, and E. Vasserman).

• CI-TEAM: TRENDS: Training the next generation workforce in Real-time Data and Simulation Technologies, National Science Foundation, $249,999, 8/1/2011 - 7/31/2014 (PI with M. Neilsen, N. Bean, N. Zhang and J. Spears).

• An Innovative Cyber-security Curriculum for Civilian and Military Workforce, National Science Foundation, $299,652, 9/15/2011 - 8/31/2014 (co-PI with S. Ou and E. Vasserman).

• INSIGHT (Infusing System Design and Sensor Technology in Education, National Science Foundation, $2,800,000, 4/1/2010 - 3/31/2016 (co-PI with M. Neilsen, N. Bean, N. Zhang, J. Spears and V. Wallentine).

• CPS: Holonic Multiagent Control of Intelligent Power Distribution Systems, National Science Foundation, $1,100,000, 9/1/2011 - 8/31/2016 (Senior Personnel with A. Pahwa, S. DeLoach, B. Natarajan, S. Ou, S. Das, N. Schulz, and D. Andresen).

• Falls Predictor Device, Cerner Corporation, $93,992, 5/1/2011 - 8/31/2012 (PI with V. Wallentine, S. Warren, J. Hatcliff and B. Natarajan)

• An Integrated Development and Certification Environment for a Medical Device Coordination Framework, National Science Foundation and FDA, $80,000, 1/1/2011 - 12/31/2012 (co-PI with J. Hatcliff, Robby and V. Wallentine)

• Service SOW - Consortium for Cyber-Security Excellence: A K-State, KBED, NTS and CABEM Cyber-security Partnership National Technical Systems, Inc, $98,100, 1/31/2011 - 1/31/2012 (co-PI with D. Gustafson, S. Ou and E. Vasserman).

• CRI: An Experimentation Platform for Developing Customized, Large-Scale Sensor Systems, National Science Foundation, $200,000, 03/15/2006 - 03/14/2008 (PI with co-PIs D. Andresen, S. DeLoach, S. Warren and B. Natarajan).

• Center for Sensors and Sensor Systems, Kansas State University, $1,632,000, 8/15/05 - 6/30/09, (PI with co-PIs J. Edgar and D. McGregor).

• CSR-PDOS: Methodologies for Customization of Distributed Algorithms and Middleware, $305,000, National Science Foundation, 7/1/2006 – 6/30/2012 (PI).

• Research Experience for Undergraduates, $12,000, National Science Foundation, 7/1/2008 – 6/30/2009 (PI).

• Experimentation Test-bed for Large-scale Intelligent Mobile Sensor Systems, Air Force Office of Scientific Research (DURIP program), 4/1/2007 - 3/31/2008, $219,000 (co-PI with S. Deloach, D. Gustafson and J. Hatcliff)

• Coordination Services for Distributed Applications, National Science Foundation, $149,873, 7/1/2001 - 6/31/2005 (PI).

• Technologies, Development Tools and Patterns for Automatic Generation and Customization of Adaptable DRE Middleware, DARPA Program Composition for Embedded Systems-II program, $1,245,000, 4/3/2003 - 8/1/2005 (co-PI with J. Hatcliff, M. Dwyer and M. Mizuno).

• RET: Collaborative Learning through Real-time Embedded Systems Design, National Science Foundation, $450,000, 10/1/02 - 9/30/2006 (co-PI with M. Neilsen, M. Mizuno, J. Staver and N. Zhang).

• Model-driven Development of distributed Real-time Embedded Systems, Lockheed Martin Corporation, $365,000, 4/1/2003 - 12/31/2004 (co-PI with J. Hatcliff and M. Dwyer).

• DHARMA: Domain-Specific Metaware for Hydrologic Applications, National Science Foundation, $498,614, 9/1/2000 - 2/28/2004, (co-PI with D. Andresen, M. Neilsen from KSU and P. Kalita and M. Hircshi from University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign).

• CRCD: Real-time Embedded Systems Research and Curriculum Development, National Science Foundation, $419,096, 9/15/1999 - 9/14/2003 (co-PI with M. Neilsen, M. Mizuno, D. Lenhert, N. Zhang).

• Automatic Derivation, Integration, and Verification of Synchronization Aspects in Object-oriented Design Methods, DARPA, Program Composition of Embedded Systems program, $1,097,093, 7/1/2000 - 6/30/2004 (co-PI with M. Dwyer, M. Mizuno, M. Neilsen and J. Hatcliff).

• Tools for Design and Analysis of Concurrent Software, National Science Foundation, $60,946 (includes $35,946 KSU match), 2/1/1997 - 1/31/1998 (PI with M. Dwyer, M. Neilsen, V. Wallentine, M. Mizuno).

• CAREER: Modular Design of Protocols, National Science Foundation, $101,432, 5/1/1995 - 4/30/1999 (PI).

• Modular and Flexible QoS Control for Multimedia Applications, Army Research Office, $77,295, 8/1/1995 - 7/31/1998 (PI).

• Theory and Implementations of Strongly Consistent Distributed Shared Memory Systems, National Science Foundation, $20,500, 8/1/1994 - 7/31/1997, (co-PI with M. Mizuno and M. Neilsen).

• Software Control Laboratory, National Science Foundation, $30,202, 6/1/1993 – 11/30/1995, (co-PI with D. Gustafson, M. Calhoun, R. Howell, K. Ravindran, M. Mizuno, and V. Wallentine).

• Research Opportunity Award, National Science Foundation, $15,640, 8/1/1994 - 7/31/1995 (PI).

• Distributed Composite Protocols, National Science Foundation, $100,964, 9/15/1992 - 2/29/1996 (PI).

Recent Invited Presentations • Workshop on CAD for Safe and Secure Electronic System Design, co-located with Design

Automation Conference (DAC), Las Vegas, June 2019. • Panelists and Session Co-Chair, NSF CSR PI meeting, Seattle, WA, October 2018. • Invited Speaker, International Conference on Big Data Analytic and Data Mining, Chicago, IL,

September 2018. • Panel Co-Organizer, Smart Cities: From Rhetoric to Reality, International Conference on

Distributed Computing and Networking, Varanasi, India, January 2018.

• Lunch Keynote Speaker, NSF Computer Systems Research PI Meeting, Orlando, FL, May 2017.

• Panelist, IEEE/ACM Edge Computing Conference, Washington, DC, October 2016. • Invited Speaker, NSF-India Smart Cities Workshop, New Delhi, June 2016 • Panelist, OpenFog Consortium Meeting, Princeton, NJ, May 2016. • Panelist, IEEE Smart Computing Conference, St Louis, May 2016 • Invited Participant, National Institute for Informatics Shonan Meeting on Big Data: Challenges

and Opportunities for Disaster Recovery, Japan, March 2016. • Invited Panelist, NSF Visioning Workshop on Smart and Connected Communities Research

and Education, Seattle, January 2016. • Keynote Address, 17th IEEE International Symposium on High Assurance Systems

Engineering (HASE 2016), Orlando, FL, January 2016. • Invited Speaker, Sensor Network Middleware for Cyber-Physical Systems: Opportunities and

Challenges American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall meeting, San Francisco, Invited Speaker in Dec 2015.

• Panelist, Panel on Internet and Web of Things, 3rd IEEE Workshop on Hot Topics in Web Systems and Technologies, Washington DC, Invited for panel in November 2015.

• Invited Speaker, Workshop on Tools and Testbeds for Smart Grid Systems, IEEE SmartGridComm, Miami, Invited Speaker in November 2015.

• Invited Speaker, Grants Workshop, IEEE CSCloud 2015, New York, Invited Speaker in November 2015.

• Distinguished Speaker, Missouri University of Science and Technology, October 2015. • Invited Speaker, University of Missouri, Columbia, October 2015. • NSF Proposal Workhsop, hosted by Think Big Partners, Kansas City, October 2015. • Invited Speaker, Perspectives on Smart Cities Technologies, Smart Cities Week, Washington

DC, September 2015. • Invited Speaker, CyberPhysical Systems and IoT Research Challenges, NSA CyberLinx

Workshop on CPS/IoT, Fort Meade, June 2015. • CISE Program Opportunities, USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and

Implementation, Oakland, May 2015. • Keynote address, Towards Resilient Infrastructures for Smart Cities, IEEE Workshop on

Interdependent Systems at the IEEE INFOCOM Conference, Hong Kong, April 2015. • Keynote Address, Middleware for Pervasive and Cyber-Physical Systems: Opportunities and

Challenges, International Workshop on Information Quality and Quality of Service for Pervasive Computing, IEEE PerCom Conference, St. Louis, March 2015

• PFI: BIC Program Presentation, CPS PI meeting, Arlington, VA, Nov 2014 • Invited Presentation, Customizing Middleware for Embedded and Pervasive Systems,

University of Oregon, Jan 2014.

Book Chapters • G. Trombetti, A. Gokhale, D. Schmidt, J. Greenwald, J. Hatcliff, G. Jung and G. Singh, An

Integrated Model-driven Development Environment for Composing and Validating Distributed

Real-time and Embedded Systems, in Model-Driven Software Development, S Beydeda, M. Book and V. Gruhn (Eds), Springer-Verlag, 2005

• G. Singh, S. Das, S. Gosavi and S. Pujar, Ant-Colony Algorithms for Steiner Trees: An application to Routing in Sensor Networks, in Recent Development in Biologically Inspired Computing, L. De Castro and F. Von Zuben (Eds), Idea Group Publishing, 2005

Tutorials • Aspect Oriented Approach to Synchronization in Concurrent and Embedded Systems,

International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems, MIT, Cambridge, Nov 4-5, 2002.

• Automatic Derivation and Verification of Synchronization Aspects in Object Oriented Systems, European Conference on Object Oriented Programming, Darmstadt, July 21-25, 2003.

Curriculum development and Education publications � N. Bean, M. Neilsen, G. Singh, J. Spears and N. Zhang, Infusing System Design and Sensors in

Education, 2013 Frontiers in Education Conference, October 2013. � M. L. Neilsen, N. Bean, G. Singh, J. Spears, V. Wallentine, and N. Zhang, INSIGHT: Infusing

System Design and Sensor Technology in K-12 Education, International Conference on Frontiers in Education: Computer Science and Computer Engineering (FECS'12), July, 2012.

� N. Bean, M. Neilsen, G. Singh, J. Spears and N. Zhang, INSIGHT Project Poster, Regional NSF GK-12 Conference, Colorado, October 2010, and National NSF Cyber-Physical Systems Program Meeting, August 2010.

� G. Singh, M. Neilsen, M. Mizuno, D. Lenhert, N. Zhang, and A. Gross, A Multidisciplinary Embedded Systems Curriculum, IEEE Distributed Systems Online, May 2002.

� G. Singh, M. Mizuno, M. Neilsen, D. Lenhert, N. Zhang, and A. Gross, Evaluating the Impact of Real-time Systems Theory Course on a Multidisciplinary Embedded Systems Curriculum, ASEE Annual Conference, June 2002.

� M. Neilsen, D. Lenhert, M. Mizuno, G. Singh, N. Zhang, and A. Gross, An Interdisciplinary Curriculum on Real-Time Embedded Systems, ASEE Annual Conference, June 2002 (also selected as the Best NSF Showcase).

� J. Wei, N. Zhang, N. Wang, D. Oard, Q. Stoll, D. Lenhert, M. Neilsen, M. Mizuno and G. Singh, Design of an EmbeddedWeed-Control System Using Controller Area Network, ASAE Annual International Meeting, July 2001.

Research publications � Gurdip Singh, Deployment of Mission Critical IoT Applications, International Conference on

Computer Science and Cloud Computing, Rome, 2019. � Gurdip Singh, Sumeet Gujrati, and Huang Zhu, Designing Cyber-Physical Systems

Middleware for Smart Cities Applications, Workshop on Smart and Connected Communities: Technological Foundations, Challenges and Opportunities, Varanasi, India, 2018.

� Sumeet Gujrati, Huang Zhu and Gurdip Singh, Composable Algorithms for Interdependent Infrastructure Systems, International Symposium on Resilient Communication Systems, August 2015.

� Anil Pahwa, Scott DeLoach, Sanjoy Das, Bala Natarajan, Xinming Ou, Dan Andresen, Noel Schulz and Gurdip Singh, Holonic Multi-Agent Control of Intelligent Power Distribution Systems, IEEE PES General Meeting CPS Panel, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2013

� Anil Pahwa, Scott DeLoach, Sanjoy Das, Bala Natarajan, Xinming Ou, Dan Andresen, Noel Schulz and Gurdip Singh, Holonic Multi-Agent Control of Power Distribution Systems of the Future. CIGRE Grid of the Future Symposium. Kansas City, MO, 2012

� Vishal Bhatia and Gurdip Singh, Reprogramming Heterogeneous Sensor Networks, International Conference on Advances in Computing, Control and Communications, June 2012.

� D. Johnson and Gurdip Singh, Data Gathering Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks, International Conference on Computer, Communication and Information Sciences, and Engineering, June 2012.

� Sumeet Gujrati and Gurdip Singh, Mutual Exclusion Protocols for Cyber-Physical Systems, International Conference on Sensor Networks, Italy, Feb 2012.

� Huang Zhu and Gurdip Singh, Communication Protocol for a Vehicle Collision Warning System, IEEE/ACM International Conference on Cyber, Physical and Social Computing, December 2010. Won the Best Paper Award.

� Walamitien Oyenan, Scott DeLoach, and Gurdip Singh, An Organizational Design for Adaptive Sensor Networks, Proceedings of the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology, Toronto Canada, September 2010

� Habel Kurian, Abhishek Rakshit, and Gurdip Singh, Detecting Termination in Pervasive Sensor Networks, 9th IEEE International Symposium on Asynchronous Decentralized Systems, March 2009

� Laksman Kaveti, Sandeep Pulluri, G. Singh, Event Ordering in Pervasive Sensor Networks, 5th IEEE International Workshop on Sensor Networks and Systems for Pervasive Computing, March 2009

� Walamitien Oyenan, Scott DeLoach, & Gurdip Singh, A Service-Oriented Approach for Integrating Multiagent System Designs, Proceedings of the Proceedings of 8th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS) 2009.

� Herve Oyenan, Scott DeLoach, and Gurdip Singh, Exploiting Reusable Organizations to Reduce Complexity in Multiagent System Design,. Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Agent Oriented Software Engineering, Budapest Hungary, May 2009.

� Val Kolesnikov and Gurdip Singh, Utilizing model checking for automated optimization information discovery in InDiGO, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Lisbon, July 2009. A revised version of this paper was selected and published in a special issue of the journal Parallel Computing.

� Val Kolesnikov and Gurdip Singh, InDiGO: An Infrastructure for Optimization of Distributed Algorithms, International Sympoisum on Parallel and Distributed Computing, July 2008

� Gurdip Singh, Val Kolesnikov and Sanghamtira Das Methodologies for Optimization of Distributed Algorithms and Middleware, NSF Next Generation Software Workshop, April 2008.

� Gurdip Singh and Sandeep Pujar A Model-driven approach for data collection in sensor networks, International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networks, Feb 2008.

� Ye Su and Gurdip Singh, Efficient Synchronization in Message Passing Systems, International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications, March 2008.

� John Hatcliff, Gurdip Singh, Dan Andresen, and Steve Warren, Observations and directions for high-confidence sensor networks in real world, Composable and Systems Technology for High Confidence Cyber-Physical Systems Workshop, July 2007.

� Gurdip Singh, Specifying Synchronization in Distributed Shared Memory Programs, Journal of Information, 9(2), 2006.

� Gurdip Singh and Sanghamitra Das, Customizing Event Ordering Middleware for Component-based Systems, IEEE International Symposium on Object Oriented Real-time Distributed Computing, May 2005

� Prashant Shanti Kumar, Qiang Zeng and Gurdip Singh, Constraining Event Flow for Regulation in Pervasive Systems, IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, March 2005

� Gurdip Singh, Prashant Shanti Kumar, and Qiang Zeng, Model-Driven, Aspect Oriented Synchronization in Component Based Systems, OMG Model Integrated Computing Workshop on Aspect Oriented Modeling, Feb 2005.

� Qiang Zeng, Prashant Shanti Kumar and Gurdip Singh, Adaptive Event Communication in Component-based Systems, 3rd Workshop on Reflective and Adaptive Middleware, Oct 2004.

� Ye Su and Gurdip Singh, Synchronization in CAN-based Embedded Systems, Embedded Systems and Application Conference, June 2004.

� Adams Child, Jesse Greenewald, Venkatesh Ranganath, Xianghua Deng, Matthew Dwyer, John Hatcliff, Georg Jung, Prashant Shanti, and Gurdip Singh, Cadena: An Integrated Development Environment for Analysis, Synthesis, and Verification of Component-based Systems, Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering (FASE) held as part of ETAPS 2004.

� Gurdip Singh, Sandeep Pujar and Sanjoy Das, Rate-based Data Propagation in Sensor Networks, IEEE Wireless Communication and Networking Conference, March 2004.

� Gurdip Singh, Prashant Kumar, and Qiang Zeng, Configurable Event Communication in Cadena, IEEE Real-time and Application Symposium, May 2004.

� Luibo Chen, Masaaki Mizuno, and Gurdip Singh, A Priority Inheritance-based Inversion Control Methodology for General Resource Access Problems, IEEE Real-time and Application Symposium, May 2004

� Gurdip Singh, John Hatcliff, Matt Dwyer, Venkatesh. Ranganath, William. Deng, Prashant. Kumar, and Qiang Zeng, Model-driven Design and Implementation of Distributed Real-time Embedded Systems in Cadena, OMG Workshop on Distributed Object Computing for Realtime and Embedded Systems, July 2003.

� S. V. Gosavi, Sanjoy Das, S. A. Vaze, Gurdip Singh, Obtaining Subtrees from Graphs: An Ant Colony Approach, E. Buehler, Proceedings, Swarm Intelligence Symposium, Indianapolis, Indiana, 2003.

� Venkatesh Prasad Ranganath, Adam Childs, Jesse Greenewald, Matthew B. Dwyer, John Hatcliff, and Gurdip Singh, CADENA: Enabling CCM-based Application Development in Eclipse, Eclipse Technology eXchange workshop held as part of OOPSLA 2003.

� Dan Andresen, Mitch Neilsen, Gurdip Singh and Prashanta Kalita, Domain-specific Metaware for Hydrologic Applications, Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel and

Distributed Computing Systems (PDCS 2002), Cambridge, MA, November 4-6, 2002. Invited for publication to the International Journal on Parallel an Distributed Systems and Networks, 5(4), 2002.

� Lu Chen and Gurdip Singh, Enhancing Multicast Communication to Support Protocol Design, 11th IEEE International Conference International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, Miami, October 2002.

� Gurdip Singh and Ye Su, Region Synchronization in Message Passing Systems, 31st International Conference on Parallel Processing, Vancouver, August 2002.

� Gurdip Singh, Specifying Synchronization in Distributed Shared Memory Programs, 4th Workshop on High Performance Scientific and Engineering Computing with Applications, Vancouver, August 2002.

� William Deng, Matthew B. Dwyer, John Hatcliff, Georg Jung, Robby, Gurdip Singh, Model-checking Middleware-based Event-driven Real-time Embedded Software, First International Symposium on Formal Methods for Components and Objects (FMCO 2002).

� Gurdip Singh, Bob Maddula and Qiang Zeng, Enhancing Real-Time CORBA Event Service for Synchronization in Object Oriented Embedded Systems, IEEE International Conference on Object Oriented Real-Time Systems, April 2002.

� Gurdip Singh, Invariant Consistency: A Mechanism for Inter-Process Ordering in Distributed Shared Memory System, IEEE Int’l Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, July 2002.

� Dan Andresen, Mitch Neilsen, Gurdip Singh, Prashanta Kalita and Michael Hirschi, The Dharma Software Architecture, 11th International World Wide Web Conference, Practice and Experience track, May 2002.

� Ye Su, Gurdip Singh, Masaaki Mizuno and Mitch Neilsen, Synthesizing Dependable Synchronization code for CAN-based Applications, Workshop on Reliability in Embedded Systems, IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems, October 2001.

� Gurdip Singh, and Shakeel Badarpura, Application Ordering in Group Communication, Int’l Workshop on Applied Group Communication, IEEE Int’l Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, April 2001.

� Ionut Buricea and Gurdip Singh, Compositional Design of Real-time Protocols, International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems, November 2000.

� Masaaki Mizuno, Gurdip Singh and Mitch Neilsen, A Structured Approach for Designing Concurrent Programs, International Conference on the Unified Modeling Language, October 2000.

� Gurdip Singh and James Wu, Modular Object Oriented Design of Distributed Systems, International Conference on Technology for Object-Oriented Languages and Systems, Santa Barbara, August 2000.

� Gurdip Singh and Arvind Gopalan, A Coordination Service for Distributed Applications, IEEE International Workshop on Enabling Technologies, Stanford, June 1999.

� Gurdip Singh, Constraint based Structuring of Network Protocols, Distributed Computing, 12(1), 1999.

� Gurdip Singh, and Kusuma Vellanki, A Distributed Protocol for Constructing Multicast Trees, Int’l Conference on Principles of Distributed Computing, December 1998.

� Gurdip Singh, Ionut Buricea and Zenyu Mao Composition of Service Specifications, IEEE Int’l Conference on Network Protocols, October 1998.

� Gurdip Singh and Y. Gu, An Object Oriented System for Developing Distributed Applications, IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, December 1997

� Gurdip Singh and C. Chou, Adaptive Protocols for Breadth-First Search in Networks, International Conference on Advanced Computing, December 1997

� Gurdip Singh and Hong Liu, Validating Protocol Composition for Progress via Parallel Step Reachability Analysis, IFIP International Joint Symposium on Formal Description Techniques and Protocol Specification, Testing and Verification, November 1997.

� Gurdip Singh, A Technique for Partial Broadcasting in Networks (abstract), ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing, August 1997.

� Gurdip Singh and Mahesh Narasimhan, Flexible Protocol Design for Distributed Applications, International Symposium on High Performance Computing and Applications, July 1997

� Gurdip Singh, Leader Election in Complete Networks, SIAM Journal of Computing, 26(3), June 1997.

� Gurdip Singh, Leader Election Using Sense of Direction, Distributed Computing, 10(3), March 1997.

� Yi Pan and Gurdip Singh, A Fault-Tolerant Protocol for Election in Chordal-ring Networks with Fail-stop processors, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 46(1), March 1997.

� Yi Pan, Gurdip Singh and Mounir Hamdi, Selection on k-dimensional Meshes with Multiple Broadcasting, Computer Journal, 39(2), 1996

� K. Ravindran, Gurdip Singh and C.M. Woodside, Architectural Concepts in Implementation of End-systems for High Performance Communications, IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols, October 1996

� Gurdip Singh and Zenyu Mao, Structured Design of Communication Protocols, IEEE Int’l Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, May 1996.

� Gurdip Singh, Leader Election in the presence of link failures, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Computing, 7 (3), March 1996

� Gurdip Singh and Arthur Bernstein, A Highly Asynchronous Minimum Spanning Tree Protocol, Distributed Computing, 8(3), 1995.

� Gurdip Singh and K. Srinivasan, Multipath Routing in High-Performance Networks, International Conference on High Performance Computing, December 1995.

� Gurdip Singh, Constraint-based Structuring of Distributed Protocols (abstract), ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing, August 1995.

� Gurdip Singh, Real-time Leader Election, Information Processing Letters, No 49, pp 57-61, 1994.

� Gurdip Singh and Madhavi Sammeta, On the Construction of Multiphase Communication Protocols, IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols, October 1994.

� Gurdip Singh, Leader Election in the Presence of Link Failures (abstract), ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing, August 1994.

� Gurdip Singh, A Methodology for Construction of Communication Protocols, ACM SIGCOMM’94 Conference, August 1994.

� Gurdip Singh and Mahesh Bommareddy, Replica placement in a Dynamic Network, IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, June 1994.

� James Zhou, Masaaki Mizuno and Gurdip Singh, An MWRW based Strict Two Phase Lock Scheduler, International Conference on Computer and Communications, May 1994.

� Masaaki Mizuno, Gurdip Singh, Michel Raynal and James Zhou, An Efficient Implementation of Sequential Consistent Distributed Shared Memories, International Conference on Applications in Parallel and Distributed Computing, April 1994.

� Gurdip Singh, Adaptive Breadth-First Search Protocols, IEEE Phoenix Conference on Computers and Communications, April 1994.

� Gurdip Singh, Tolerating Link Failures Using Sense of Direction, International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems, October 1993.

� Gurdip Singh, A Compositional Approach for Designing Protocols, IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols, October 1993

� K. Ravindran, Gurdip Singh and Puneet Gupta, Reconfiguration of Spanning Trees in Networks in the Presence of Node Failures, IEEE Int’l Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, May 1993

� Masaaki Mizuno, Gurdip Singh, Mitch Neilson and Michel Raynal, Communication Efficient Distributed Shared Memories, IEEE Int’l Conference on Computers and Communications, May 1993

� Gurdip Singh, Leader Election in Complete Networks, ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing, August 1992

� Gurdip Singh and Arthur Bernstein, A Framework for Parallel Composition of Protocols, Parallel Architecture and Languages Europe, June 1992

� Gurdip Singh and Arthur Bernstein, On the Relative Execution time of Distributed Protocols, International Journal of Parallel Programming 20(3), 1991. An earlier version appeared in the IEEE Int’l Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, June 1990.

� Gurdip Singh and Arthur Bernstein, Efficient Distributed Algorithms for Leader Election in Complete Networks, IEEE Int’l Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, May 1991.

� Gurdip Singh, Scott Smolka and I.V. Ramakrishnan, Distributed Algorithms for Tree Pattern Matching, International Workshop on Distributed Algorithms, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 312, July 1987.

Courses Taught

• CIS 300: Data and Program Structures • CIS 500: Algorithms • CIS 621: Real-time Programming Fundamentals • CIS 622: Real-time Operating Systems • CIS 690: Implementation Project • CIS 720: Advanced Operating Systems • CIS 725: Advanced Computer Networks • CIS 798: Sensor Network Implementation • CIS 825: Distributed Systems • CIS 826: Protocol Engineering • CIS 890: Topics in Distributed Systems

Supervision of PhD Students

• Huang Zhu (2014) • Sumeet Gujrati (2013) • Sanghamitra Das (2012) • Herve Oyenan (2010, co-advisor, main advisor: Scott DeLoach) • Val Kolesnikov (2007) • Qiang Zeng (2005) • Ye Su (2004) • Ionut Buricea (2003)

Supervision of Masters Students I have supervised 106 MS students with most of them pursuing a thesis or a project option. These have resulted in 23 refereed publications.

• 2011: Abhilash Thamandi, Sayali Shah, Karthick Kumar Raghavan, Srikanth Gaddam • 2010: Sudhir Reddy, Nigusse Duguma, Pavani Ayangari, Mallikarjuna Rao, Vijay Kolli,

Krishna Nagarjuna Samanthula • 2009: Dinesh Challa, Surya Kallumadi, Samuel Benny Kummary, Kranthi Nuthi • 2008: Sandeep Pulluri, Lakshman Kaveti, Vishal Bhatia, Piyush Mandowara, Sumeet Gujrati • 2007: Sandhya Madhan, Nikhil Shah, Dhinu Johnson, Jordan Hind • 2006: Shashidhar Kamat, Preeti Venkateswaran, Nitu Narula, Niveditha Kuntigurla • 2004: Sandeep Pujar, M.K. Rao, Nagini Indugula, Gautham Kalwala • 2003: Prashant Shanti Kumar, Vishal Shah, Sanghamitra Das, Nitesh Pai • 2002: Kiran Ramenani, Bob Maddula, Elizathen Garay, Kalyan Shakamuri, Lu Chen, R. Yakkanti • 2001: Vishwanath Jayaram, Eugene Robbins, Chen Tao, Kiran Vokkarne, Feng Chen, Ashok Reddy, Amit Gupta • 2000: Shakeel Badarpuram, Paul Puneeth Thirumalai, Bryan Johnson, Alan Schoones,

Naijian Sun, Mustafa Behrainwala, Zhong Wu, Jaiming Tao, Ming Xiao, Gottimukkala Sivaram

• 1999: Srividya Annapantula, Suryasuma Uppuluri, Arvind Gopalan, Jun Wu, Steve Owens, Wenfang Gu, Sajid Saleem, Lunguang Qu, Xinhua Yu, Cindy Weber

• 1998: Shayan Nandyal, Satish Suryanarayan, Laxmi Madhavaran, Dinesh Lankala, Chandra S. Karnati, Weibin Fei, Jefei Song, Mark Gerber

• 1997: Heather Dudash, Bhramaramba Tattukulla, Jayant Desouza, Mahesh Narasimhan, Yiwen Gu, Sharmila Sekeran

• 1996: R. Paramasivan, Gek Hong Seah, Chandramouli Ravipatti, Kusuma Vellanki, Jin Zhong,

Ashish Lal, Vipul Deokar, Kenneth Gould, Liping Zong, Zenyu Mao • 1995: Abdul Nizar, Raghuram Pillamari, Chin-Hua Chou, Jihao Zhong, Rajesh Paramasivan,

Navin Nagiah, Abdullah Udaipurwala • 1994: Ayesha Sultana, Madhavi Sametta, Kumar Srinivasan

• 1993: Mahesh Bommareddy, Meena Cheenapragada, Sandhya Krishnaswamy

Professional Service Activities • co-Organizer, IEEE Workshop on Smart Service Systems (SmartSys), 2018, 2019 • Program co-Chair, Communication Symposium in Resilience Week for 2017, 2018 and 2019 • Program Committee member, IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and

Secure Computing, 26-28 October 2015. • Participant, Computing Research Organization Congressional Fly In, Washington DC,

September 2013 • Editorial Board member, GSTF Journal on Operating Systems and Programming Languages,

2013 - present • Advisory Board Member, Department of Computer Science, Mississippi State University,

2010-2013. • Program committee member, 4th International Conference: Confluence, 2013. • Editorial Board member, LPU Journal of Computing, Advanced Computing Research Society,

2012 – present. • Program Chair, IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing

Systems, 2012 • Graduate Program Reviewer, Texas Tech University, 2011 • Publications Chair, IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing

and Systems, November, 2010 • Panelist, NSF Panel, April 2010 • Panelist, NSF Panel, February, 2010 • Panelist, NSF Panel, May 2009 • Panelist, NSF Panel, April 2009 • Program committee member, IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing

and Communications, 2008. • Program committee member, IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications

and Networks, 2008 • Program committee member, International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing

and Systems, Las Vegas, 2008 • Panelist, NSF Panel, December 2008 • Program committee member, IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications

and Networks, 2007 • Program committee member, International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems,

2007 • Program committee member, International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing

and Systems, 2007.

• Panelist, NSF Panel, 2007 • Panelist, NSF Panel, April 2007 • Program committee member, International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing

and Systems, 2006. • Program committee member, International Conference on Testbeds and Research

Infrastructures for the Development of Networks, 2006 • Program committee member, IASTED Networks and Communication Systems Conference

2006. • Program committee member, International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing

and Systems, 2005. • Program committee member, IEEE Real-time Embedded and Applications Symposium, 2005 • Program committee member, IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications

and Networks, 2005 • Program committee member, Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences Mini-track

on Distributed Object and Component-based Software, 2005 • Program committee member, International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing

and Systems, 2005. • Program committee member, International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems,

2004 • Program committee member, International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing

and Applications, 2004 • Program committee member, Workshop on Model-Driven Embedded Systems, 2004 • Program committee member, Symposium on Embedded System Applications,2004 • Program committee member, IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications

and Networks, 2004 • Program committee member, International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing

and Systems, Las Vegas, 2003. • Program committee member, IEEE International Conference on Computer, Communication

and Networks, 2003 • Program committee member, RTAS Workshop on Model-driven Embedded Systems, 2003. • Panelist, NSF Panel, February 2002 • Program committee member, International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing

and Systems, Las Vegas, 2002. • Program committee member, UAI-AAAI-KDD2002 Joint Workshop on Real-Time Decision

Support and Diagnosis Systems, 2002 • Program committee member, International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing

and Systems, Las Vegas, 2001 • Program committee member, IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols, 1999 • Program committee member, International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing

and Systems, Las Vegas, 1999. • Program committee member, IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols, 1998 • Program committee member, International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing

and Systems, Las Vegas, 1998.

• Program committee member, International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems, Washington DC, 1997

• Panelist, NIH Panel, 1993

Reviewing activity for Journals • Journal of Supercomputing (2013) • Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (2002, 2010) • Computer Journal (1998, 1999, 2007) • IEEE Transactions on computers (2001, 2006) • Journal of Parallel Computing (2006) • Journal of Computer and System Sciences (2005) • Transactions on Internet Technology (2005) • Distributed computing (1993, 1994, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004) • Information Sciences (2003, 2004) • IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Computing (1995, 1996, 2003) • IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (1992, 2002) • IEEE Transactions on Network Protocols (2000, 2001) • IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (1991, 1992, 1998, 2000) • Distributed and Parallel Databases (1998) • Siam Journal of Computing (1996) • Information Processing letters (1993, 1994, 1995) • IEEE Transactions on Computers (1992, 1993) • Information and Computation (1993) • Computer networks and ISDN networks (1991)

Committees • Co-Chair, Syracuse University Equipment Task Force, 2018 • Member, University Lecture Committee, Syracuse University, 2016, 2017 and 2018 • Member, Syracuse University Conflict of Interest Committee, 2016-17 • Chair, Search Committee for Chair of EECS Department, Syracuse University, 2017 • Chair, Search Committee for Head of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering, 2013 • Search Committee Member, Director of Affirmative Action, 2013 • Search Committee Member, Dean of Engineering, 2013 • College of Engineering Executive Committee, 2009 – present • Chair of College of Engineering Task Force to develop the College Plan, 2012 • Member of University Dual Career Accommodation Task Force, 2012 • Department Head Backup, 2003 – 2009 • Graduate Program Director, CIS Department, 2006 – 2009 • College of Engineering Research Excellence Award Committee, 2008 – 2009 • College of Engineering Tenure and Promotion Committee, 2005 – 2008

• College of Engineering Strategic Planning Committee, 2007• CIS Department Strategic Planning Committee, 2008• Chair, CIS Department PhD Preliminary Exam Task Force, 2006 – 2007• College of Engineering Dean Search Committee, 2006 – 2007• College of Engineering Interim Dean Search Committee, 2006• CIS Department Faculty Recruiting Committee, 1992 – present• CIS Department Seminar committee 1991 – 2006• CIS Department Library Liaison 1996 – 2008• College of Engineering Computing Needs Committee, 1998• College of Engineering Committee on Planning, 1998 – 2000• College of Engineering Honors and Awards Committee, 1998 – 1999• College of Engineering Fiedler Library Committee, 1999• CIS Department Master of Software Engineering committee, 1993 – 1995