Krishnakumar Balasubramanian

The MathWorks Inc.,

3 Apple Hill Drive,

Natick, MA 01760

Voice:(508) 647-4287

e-mail: Firstname.Lastname at mathworks dot com

Research Interests

· Design and implementation of Domain-Specific Languages (DSL)

· Design and implementation of meta-modeling infrastructure to support DSLs

· Development of infrastructure middleware which provides end-to-end Quality of Service (QoS) guarantees for distributed, real-time, embedded (DRE) systems

· Model-driven optimization of applications, including optimizations at both global (system of systems) and local (an individual system) levels

Education

· Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN.

Ph.D. in Computer Science, December 2007.

· Washington University in St.Louis, St.Louis, MO.

M.S. in Computer Science, December 2002.

Master's project: Composable Distributed Real-time and Embedded Systems.

· Regional Engineering College, Tiruchirappalli, India.

B.E. in Computer Science and Engineering, May 1998.

Academic Research Experience

1. Model-Driven Development, January 2003 – September 2007.

Advisor: Dr. Douglas C. Schmidt

· Design and implement tools that allow model-driven development of applications built using component middleware technologies

· Design and implement optimizations in middleware using application specific information available in the models.

2. Component Middleware, August 2000 - December 2002.

Advisor: Dr. Christopher D. Gill

· Investigate new approaches in composition and deployment of CORBA Component Model (CCM) components using XML annotations.

Book Chapters

1. Douglas C. Schmidt, Krishnakumar Balasubramanian, Arvind S. Krishna, Emre Turkay, and Aniruddha Gokhale, “Model-driven Development of Component-based Distributed Real-time and Embedded Systems”, Model Driven Development for Distributed Real-time and Embedded Systems, edited by Sebastien Gerard, Joel Champea, and Jean-Philippe Babau, Hermes, 2005

2. Krishnakumar Balasubramanian, Douglas C. Schmidt, Zoltan Molnar, and Akos Ledeczi, "System Integration via Model Composition, Designing Software-Intensive Systems: Methods and Principles", Edited by Dr. Pierre F. Tiako, Langston University, OK (Submitted for publication)

Refereed Journal Publications

1. Aniruddha Gokhale, Krishnakumar Balasubramanian, Jaiganesh Balasubramanian, Arvind Krishna, and George T. Edwards, Gan Deng, Emre Turkay, Jeff Parsons, and Douglas C. Schmidt, "Model Driven Middleware: A New Paradigm for Deploying and Provisioning Distributed Real-time and Embedded Applications", Elsevier Journal of Science of Computer Programming: Special Issue on Model Driven Architecture, Edited by Mehmet Aksit, 2007

2. Krishnakumar Balasubramanian, Jaiganesh Balasubramanian, Jeff Parsons, Aniruddha Gokhale, and Douglas C. Schmidt, "A Platform-Independent Component Modeling Language for Distributed Real-time and Embedded Systems", Elsevier Journal of Computer and System Sciences, Volume 73, Number 2, March 2007, pages 171 - 185.

3. Krishnakumar Balasubramanian, Aniruddha Gokhale, Gabor Karsai, Janos Sztipanovits, Sandeep Neema, "Developing Applications Using Model-Driven Design Environments", IEEE Computer, vol. 39, no. 2, pp. 33-40, Feb., 2006

4. Krishnakumar Balasubramanian, Aniruddha Gokhale, Yuehua Lin, Jing Zhang, and Jeff Gray, "Weaving Deployment Aspects into Domain-Specific Models", International Journal on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, vol. 16., no. 3, pp. 403-424, June 2006

5. Krishnakumar Balasubramanian, Arvind S. Krishna, Emre Turkay, Jaiganesh Balasubramanian, Jeff Parsons, Aniruddha Gokhale, and Douglas C. Schmidt, "Applying Model-Driven Development to Distributed Real-time and Embedded Avionics Systems", International Journal of Embedded Systems, Special issue on Design and Verification of Real-Time Embedded Software, April 2005

Refereed Conference Publications

1. Krishnakumar Balasubramanian and Douglas C. Schmidt, Physical Assembly Mapper: A Model-driven Optimization Tool for QoS-enabled Component Middleware, Proceedings of 14^th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium, St. Louis, MO, United States, April 22 - April 24, 2008.

2. Amogh Kavimandan, Krishnakumar Balasubramanian, Nishanth Shankaran, Aniruddha Gokhale, and Douglas C. Schmidt, "QUICKER: A Model-driven QoS Mapping Tool", Proceedings of the 10^th  IEEE International Symposium on Object/Component/Service-oriented Real-time Distributed Computing, May 7-9, 2007, Santorini Island, Greece.

3. Krishnakumar Balasubramanian, Douglas C. Schmidt, Zoltan Molnar, and Akos Ledeczi, "Component-based System Integration via (Meta)Model Composition", Proceedings of the 14^th  Annual IEEE International Conference and Workshop on the Engineering of Computer Based Systems (ECBS), March 26th-29th, 2007, Tucson, Arizona

4. Krishnakumar Balasubramanian, Jaiganesh Balasubramanian, Jeff Parsons, Aniruddha Gokhale, and Douglas C. Schmidt, "A Platform-Independent Component Modeling Language for Distributed Real-time and Embedded Systems", Proceedings of the 11^th  IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium, San Francisco, CA, March 2005

Refereed Workshop Publications

1. Krishnakumar Balasubramanian, Douglas C. Schmidt, "Ultra-Large Scale System Integration via Model Composition", Companion to the 21st ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming systems, languages, and applications, Portland, OR USA October 2006

2. Krishnakumar Balasubramanian, Douglas C. Schmidt, Nanbor Wang, Christopher D. Gill, "Towards Composable Distributed Real-time and Embedded Software", Proceedings of the 8^th IEEE Work- shop on Object-oriented Real-time Dependable Systems (WORDS), Guadalajara, Mexico, January 2003

Refereed Poster Sessions

1. Aniruddha Gokhale, Krishnakumar Balasubramanian, Tao Lu, "CoSMIC: Addressing crosscutting deployment and configuration concerns of distributed, real-time and embedded systems", Companion to the 19^th Annual ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming systems, languages, and applications (OOPSLA), Vancouver B.C, Canada October 2004

Trade Conference Publications

1. Krishnakumar Balasubramanian, Douglas C. Schmidt, "Model-Driven Optimizations of Component Systems", OMG Workshop On Real-Time & Embedded Systems, Washington D.C., Object Management Group, July 2006

2. Krishnakumar Balasubramanian, Jaiganesh Balasubramanian, Jeff Parsons, Aniruddha Gokhale, Douglas C. Schmidt, "Applying Domain-Specific Modeling Languages to Develop DRE Systems", OMG Workshop on Model-Integrated Computing, Washington D.C., Object Management Group, October 2004

3. Krishnakumar Balasubramanian, Boris Kolpackov, Tao Lu, Aniruddha Gokhale & Douglas C. Schmidt, "Model-driven Deployment & Configuration of Component-based Systems", OMG Workshop On Real-Time & Embedded Systems, Washington D.C., Object Management Group, July 2004

4. Krishnakumar Balasubramanian, Aniruddha Gokhale, Balachandran Natarajan, Jeff Parsons, K. Balasubramanian, Tao Lu, Boris Kolpackov, "CoSMIC: An MDA Tool Suite for Distributed Real-time and Embedded Systems", OMG Workshop On Real-Time & Embedded Systems, Washington D.C., Object Management Group, July 2003

5. Nanbor Wang, Krishnakumar Balasubramanian, and Chris Gill, "Towards a Real-time CORBA Component Model", OMG Workshop On Real-Time & Embedded Systems, Washington D.C., Object Management Group, July 2002

Invited Talks

1. “Model-Driven Engineering of Component Middleware-based Systems”, Department of Computer Science-WithIT Seminar, Vanderbilt University, April 2007

2. “Component-based System Integration via (Meta)Model Composition”, 14^th  Annual IEEE International Conference and Workshop on the Engineering of Computer Based Systems (ECBS), March 26th-29th, 2007, Tucson, Arizona

3. “Model-Driven Engineering of Component Systems”, Lockheed Martin STI Demonstration, August 2006.

4. "Model-Driven Optimizations of Component Systems", OMG Workshop On Real-Time & Embedded Systems, Washington D.C., Object Management Group, July 2006

5. “A Platform-Independent Component Modeling Language for DRE Systems”, 11^th  IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium, San Francisco, CA, March 2005

6. "Applying Domain-Specific Modeling Languages to Develop DRE Systems", OMG Workshop on Model-Integrated Computing, Washington D.C., Object Management Group, October 2004

7. "Model-driven Deployment & Configuration of Component-based Systems", OMG Workshop On Real-Time & Embedded Systems, Washington D.C., Object Management Group, July 2004

Professional Activities

• Student Member, IEEE & ACM

System Development Experience

1. Software Engineer, The MathWorks Inc., 3 Apple Hill Drive, Natick, MA 01702 (September 2007 – present)

• Working on developing tools to allow development of software using Model-Based Design.

2. Research Assistant, Vanderbilt University, 2015 Terrace Pl, Nashville, TN 37203 (January 2003 – September 2007)

• Designed and implemented PICML, a platform-independent component modeling language as art of CoSMIC, a tool-chain for developing component-based distributed systems using the Model-Driven Development paradigm.

• Designed and implemented cross-thread pool/lane proxy support for Real-time CORBA (RTCORBA).

• Designed and implemented model-driven optimizations for components built using the CORBA Component model (CCM).

3. Program Manager Intern, Microsoft Corporation, 1 Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052 (June 2005 - August 2005)

• Designed a prototype deployment tool that generates Windows Installer XML (WiX) files for applications built using the Distributed System Designers in the Microsoft Visual Studio for Team Architects (VSTA) 2005 Edition.

• Analyzed the issues with deployment using the Distributed System Designers in VSTA 2005; this work identified gaps in the current version and provided a road-map of issues for the next version. Results were also published as a MSDN whitepaper to serve as guidance to users of VSTA 2005.

4. Research Intern, BBN Technologies, 10 Moulton St, Cambridge, MA, 02138 (June 2004 - August 2004)

• Part of the team involved in the design and implementation of QoS-enabled component middleware for an Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV) system scenario. This work resulted in a successful flight demonstration.

• Implemented modeling tool support for the UAV application using the CoSMIC tool-chain.

5. Research Assistant, Washington University in St.Louis, One Brookings Drive, Box 1045, St. Louis, Missouri 63130 (August 2000 - December 2002)

• Designed and implemented ACEXML, a XML 1.0 parser.

• Involved in research and development of ACE, a middleware framework for distributed, concurrent d networked applications, TAO, a high performance CORBA Object Request Broker, and CIAO, a CORBA Component Model implementation based on TAO.

• Ported ACE and TAO to Linux on Intel's IA-64 architecture.