| Nishanth Shankaran's Biographical Information
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Nishanth Shankaran received his Ph.D. in computer science,
specializing in the field of resource management for distributed systems,
from Vanderbilt University,
Nashville, Tennessee, under the guidance of Prof. Douglas C. Schmidt in
2008. Before that, he received his masters and bachelors, both in computer
science, from the University of California,
Irvine and the University of Madras, India, in 2004 and 2002,
respectively.
His research interests include large scale distributed systems, cloud
computing, adaptive resource and quality-of-service management using
control theoretic techniques, middleware for distributed, real-time, and
embedded (DRE) systems, and adaptive resource management algorithms,
architectures, and frameworks for DRE systems. He has authored and
co-authored nearly 20 refereed publications that cover a range of research
topics, including resource management algorithms and frameworks, integrated
planning and resource management techniques, resource monitoring and
optimization techniques, and the use of control theoretic techniques for
adaptive resource management.
Dr. Shankaran has over six years of experience leading the development of
resource management architectures and frameworks for DRE systems. Also, he
has contributed to open source middlewares such as ADAPTIVE Communication
Environment (ACE), which is a freely-available object-oriented
framework that contains a rich set of components that implement patterns
for high-performance DRE systems, The ACE ORB (TAO),
which is a real-time
ORB end-system that supports end-to-end quality-of-service guarantees
over high-speed networks, and Component-Integrated ACE
ORB (CIAO), which is an implementation of the real-time CORBA Component
Model. ACE, TAO, and CIAO are widely used, open-source DRE middleware and
frameworks that provide the operating platform to build large-scale
high-performance DRE systems.
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