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Surendar Chandra (ச.சுரேந்தர்)(surendar@nd.edu:pgp)
Assistant Professor
381 Fitzpatrick (my new office has no window to the corridor. Use the webcam to see if I am in the office )
Notre Dame, IN 46556

(574) 631-8975 | vcard | calendar | pictures
Yahoo: AIM: surendar Skype:c.surendar

Curriculum Vitae, Research Statement, Teaching Statement (Lectures @Google Video).

Tenure package (August 2007)

Potential students

• Information for potential students: I am looking for excellent graduate students to colloborate on Experiemental Systems Research. Feel free to drop me a note to discuss research possibilities.

Teaching

• Operating Systems: Spr 2008 (CSE 30341), Spr 2007 (CSE 30341), Spr 2006 (CSE 30341)(Lecture videos @ND @Google, Message from class of Spr '06) , Fall 2004 (CSE 542), Fall 2003 (CSE 542), Fall 2002 (CSE 542)
• Networked Sensor Systems: Fall 2007 (CSE 40484/60484)
• Multimedia Systems: Fall 2006 (CSE 40373/40373)
• Distributed Storage: Fall 2005 (CSE 70481)
• Computer Networks: Spr 2005 (CSE 364), Spr 2004 (CSE498N/598N), Spr 2003 (CSE 498N/598N), Spr 2002 (CSCI 6760)
• Ubiquitous Computing: Spr 2002 (CSCI 4770/6770), Spr 2001 (CSCI 4770/6770)

Support:

• HP grants Itanium2 servers for Educational Experimental Systems Laboratory (Mar, 2004)

Research

My research focus is in experimental systems: operating system topics in multimedia, storage, security, networks and sensor systems. Some of the research areas that I am actively involved with include:

• Mobile Stow-away storage
• Resource management in peer computing systems
• Secure Ubiquitous Storage
• Implications of commodity wireless multimedia services
• Unstructured peer-to-peer overlays
• Scalable storage using temporal lifetime abstractions
• Power Aware Computing Environment (PACE)
• Content adaptation: Quality Aware Transcoding

A good way to get involved with our research is to attend the weekly systems seminar.

Support:

• National Science Foundation (NSF) funds CAREER: Scalable Self Managing Multimedia Storage (Feb 2005)
• Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) funds Hydra: A robust and self managing video sensing system for retrospective surveillance (Mar 2005)

Students

• William Acosta (current)
• Nathan Regola (starting Fall '07)
• Xuwen Yu (current)

• Allen J. Rochelle Jr. (McNair scholar - Summer 2005)
• Roberto C. Dovalina (McNair scholar - Summer 2004)
• Camille Leggett (SURP scholar - Summer 2002)
• Raghunath Gannamaraju (M.S. - graduated fall 2001. Last known: NXP semiconductors, Bangalore, India)

Recent Publications

• 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
• Contemporary Operating Systems are not ready for Peer Computing: Peer systems should be treated as second class citizens, Surendar Chandra. Refereed poster in ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP '07), October 14-17, 2007, Stevenson, WA
• Do Nintendo handhelds play nice? An analysis of its wireless behavior, Adam Lusch, Adele Fleury and Surendar Chandra. In 6th ACM Annual Workshop on Network and Systems Support for Games (Netgames '07), September 19-20, Melbourne, Australia
• Parameterizing Access Control for Heterogeneous Peer-to-Peer Applications, Ashish Gehani and Surendar Chandra. In 3rd IEEE International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SECURECOMM '07), September 17-21, 2007, Nice, France
• Improving Search Using a Fault-Tolerant Overlay in Unstructured P2P Systems, William Acosta and Surendar Chandra. In IEEE International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP'07), Sep 10-14, 2007, XiAn, China
• Automated Storage Reclamation Using Temporal Importance Annotations, Surendar Chandra, Ashish Gehani and Xuwen Yu. In the 27th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2007), June 25-29, 2007, Toronto, Canada
• 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
• Mosaicing videos to stream over multiple independent channels, Chris Boehnen, Allison Regier, Deborah Thomas, Surendar Chandra and Patrick Flynn. In the 17th ACM workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio & Video (NOSSDAV '07), June 4-5, 2007, Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA
  
• Trace Driven Analysis of the Long Term Evolution of Gnutella Peer-to-Peer Traffic, William Acosta and Surendar Chandra. In the eighth Passive and Active Measurement conference (PAM 2007), April 5 - 6, 2007, Louvain-la-neuve, Belgium
• Diamonds are forever, files are not, Surendar Chandra, Ashish Gehani and Xuwen Yu. Refereed Work-In-Progress in USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technolgoies (FAST '07), February 14 - February 16, 2007, San Jose, CA
• Share with Thy Neighbors, Surendar Chandra and Xuwen Yu. In SPIE/ACM Multimedia Computing and Networking Conference (MMCN'07), January 28 - February 1, 2007, San Jose, CA
• PAST: Probabilistic Authentication of Sensor Timestamps, Ashish Gehani and Surendar Chandra. Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), IEEE Computer Society, December 11-15, 2006, Miami, FL

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Upcoming Service

....complete list....

• ACM/SPIE Multimedia Computing and Networking (MMCN 2008), San Jose, CA - January 30-31, 2008
• IEEE Infocom 2008, Phoenix, Arizona, April 13 - 19, 2008
• PAM 2008, Cleveland, OH, Apr 2008
• IEEE ICC 2008, Beijing, China, May 19 - 23, 2008
• ACM NOSSDAV 2008, Braunschweig, Germany, May 28 - 30, 2008
• IEEE ICDCS 2008, Beijing, China, June 17 - 20, 2008
• 9th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks 2008 (WoWMoM '08), Newport Beach, CA, June 23-26, 2008
• 17TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKS (ICCCN '08), St. Thomas U.S. Virgin Islands, August 4 - 7, 2008
• 7th Workshop on Network and Systems Support for Games 2008 (Netgames '08), Worcester, MA, October 21-22, 2008
• ACM Multimedia 2008 (Systems Track), Vancouver, Canada, October 27-November 1, 2008
• IEEE INFOCOM 2009, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 19-25, 2009

• USENIX University Liason (2000 - )

Education

• Ph.D. Computer Science, Duke University, Durham, NC, 2000.
  Dissertation: "Quality Aware Transcoding: An Application Level Technique to Dynamically Adapt Multimedia Content" Advisor Carla Schlatter Ellis.

• M.S. Computer Science, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, 1993.
  Dissertation: "Adaptive Resource Management" supervised by Craig E. Wills.

• B.E. Computer Science and Engineering, Anna University, Madras, India, 1988.

Personal

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 wife, Norma E. Brown, works at South Bend Regional Airport as THE IT supervisor. Our son, Kumar S. Chandra is becoming a young man!! We live in .

Misc. Activities

• Save A Female through Education (SAFE) - A non profit organization to help educate girl children in India
• I also play the role of a hardware guy on TV!!
• Donate blood, apheresis, bone marrow
• Big brother program, Net day volunteer
• Photography, Aquarium, Music, Travel, Karate (inactive - i am so out of shape, it is hard to believe this), Badminton (would like to get back - hand't played in over 6 years now!!)