Archive from Cornell University (2003)

(Note on 3/26/09: This is an archived and possibly outdated version of my old Professional Page from www.cs.cornell.edu . It has been preserved in an almost-pristine form. So, please expect broken links and bad formatting!)

Professional Information

I am: Currently (August 2003), on the faculty of Computer Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. The cs.cornell.edu email address remains active (but may or may not work).

I was: A PhD student at the Department of Computer Science, Cornell University. I defended successfully and completed my PhD August 2003.

CV (old)

Research Involvements:

• PhD Thesis [PDF] on Probabilistic Group Communication Protocols.
• Spinglass Project.
• SWIM Project.

Past educational experience:

          PhD,  Department of Computer Science, Cornell University, 2003/2004.

Master of Science from Department of Computer Science, Cornell University, May 2001.

Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, July 1998.

Work experience

•  August 1998-present.  Research Assistant in the Spinglass Project.
• June-August, 2001. Summer intern at Microsoft Research Labs, Cambridge, UK.  With the Cambridge Distributed Systems group.
• June-August, 2000.  Summer intern at IBM Research, T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY.  With the Oceano Project. 

Co-authored publications in refereed conferences / journals / books:

• Indranil Gupta, Robbert van Renesse, Kenneth P. Birman, "A Probabilistically Correct Leader Election Protocol for Large Groups", Proc. 14th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2000) - LNCS 1914, pp. 89-103, Toledo, Spain, October, 2000.   PS  PDF  TR-PS TR-PDF
• Indranil Gupta, Robbert van Renesse, Kenneth P. Birman, "Scalable Fault-tolerant Aggregation in Large Process Groups", In The International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 01), Goteborg, Sweden,  July, 2001. PS PDF PPT
• Indranil Gupta, Tushar D. Chandra, German Goldszmidt, "On Scalable and Efficient Distributed Failure Detectors", In 20th Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC 2001), Newport, RI, August, 2001.  PS  PDF  PPT
• Sameh A. Fakhouri, German Goldszmidt, Indranil Gupta, Michael Kalantar, John Pershing, "GulfStream - a System for Dynamic Topology Management in Multi-Domain Server Farms ", To appear in  IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (Cluster 2001), October, 2001.  PS PDF
• Indranil Gupta, Kenneth P. Birman, Robbert van Renesse, "Fighting fire with fire: using randomized gossip to combat stochastic scalability limits",  Sp. Issue Journal Quality and Reliability Engineering International:  Secure, Reliable Computer and Network Systems (ed. Nong Ye),  vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 165-184, May/June, 2002. JOURNAL PDF
• Abhinandan Das, Indranil Gupta, Ashish Motivala, "SWIM: Scalable Weakly-consistent Infection-style Process Group Membership Protocol", Proc. of The International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 02), Washington DC,  pp. 303-312, June, 2002. PS PDF PPT
• Indranil Gupta, Kenneth P. Birman, "Holistic operations in large-scale sensor network systems: a probabilistic peer-to-peer approach", Proc. International Workshop on Future Directions in Distributed Computing (FuDiCo), pp. 1-4, June, 2002. Revised  PS PDF PPT
• Indranil Gupta, Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Ayalvadi J. Ganesh, "Efficient Epidemic-style protocols for Reliable and Scalable Multicast", In 21st Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2002), pp. 180-189, October, 2002. PS PDF PPT
• Indranil Gupta, Ken Birman, Prakash Linga, Al Demers, Robbert van Renesse, "Kelips: building an efficient and stable P2P DHT through increased memory and background overhead", To appear in 2nd International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS '03), February, 2002, Berkeley, CA. PS  PDF PPT of IPTPS 03 talk PPT of OSDI 02 WIPS talk

• Indranil Gupta, G. Manimaran, C. Siva Ram Murthy, "Fault-Tolerant Dynamic Scheduling of Object-Based Tasks in Multiprocessor Real-Time Systems," In Annual IEEE Workshop on Fault-Tolerant Parallel and Distributed Systems, pp.83-107, Puerto Rico, April 16, 1999.   PS PDF
• Indranil Gupta, G. Manimaran, C. Siva Ram Murthy, "A new strategy for improving the effectiveness of resource reclaiming algorithms in multiprocessor real-time systems", Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, vol. 60, no. 1, pp. 113-133, January, 2000. PS  JOURNAL PDF
• Indranil Gupta, G. Manimaran, and C. Siva Ram Murthy, "Primary-Backup based fault-tolerant dynamic scheduling of object-based tasks in multiprocessor real-time systems,'' Chapter 20 in Dependable Network Computing, D.R. Avresky (editor), Kluwer Academic Publishers, MA, USA.

• Indranil Gupta, "Minimal CDMA Recoding Strategies in Power-controlled Ad-hoc Wireless Networks",  Proc. 1st International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Computing Issues in Wireless Networks and Mobile Computing, San Francisco, April, 2001. PS  PDF TR-PS PPT

(email if you want paper or slide copies not available here.)

Etc: Previous semester involvements

(C) IG. 2003