Scalable Computing and Web Technologies Lab

Xerox Research Center Webster

 

 

Nathan Gnanasambandam

Member of Research Staff

 

Ph.D., Industrial Engineering (2007)

concentration Operations Research

Pennsylvania State University, University Park

 

M.S., Industrial Engineering (2001), Computer Science (2006)

State University of New York Binghamton

 

M.Sc. (Honors), Physics (1999)

Birla Institute of Science & Technology, Pilani, India

 

B.E. Electronics and Instrumentation (1999)

Birla Institute of Science & Technology, Pilani, India

 

 

Interests

Distributed Algorithms, Performance Optimization, Mathematical Modeling, Statistics,

Distributed Systems

 

Past Affiliations

Laboratory of Intelligent Systems and Quality, Pennsylvania State University.

 

 

Current Activities

 

I am currently involved in research on cloud computing and its applications to document services. I am focusing of research problems centered on performance optimization and quality of service.

 

Industry Advisory Board at the NSF Center of Autonomic Computing. (center activities)

 

Program Committee, AAMAS 09.

 

Program Committee, ICAC 09.

 

Reviewer, CASE 09, Grid 09, IEEE Transactions of Knowledge and Data Engineering.

 

 

Recent Publications and Presentations

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Kailasam, S., Gnanasambandam, N., Janakiram, D., and Sharma, N., Optimizing Service Level Agreements for Autonomic Cloud Bursting Schedulers. [under review]

 

Quiroz, A., Parashar, M., Gnanasambandam, N., and Sharma, N., Adaptive Usage Control Policy Management using Online Clustering-based Profiling. [under review]

 

Rood, B., Gnanasambandam, N., Lewis, M., and Sharma, N., Burstiness Aware Scheduling Strategies on a Cloud with Intermittent Preemptive Job Arrivals. [under review]

 

Gnanasambandam, N., and Staddon, J., Personalized Privacy Policies: Challenges for Data Loss Prevention, Intelligent Privacy Management Symposium, Stanford University, March 2010. [pdf]

 

Quiroz, A., Gnanasambandam, N., Parashar, M., Kim, H., and Sharma, N., Towards Autonomic Workload Provisioning for Enterprise Grids and Clouds, IEEE Grid 2009, Banff, Canada, October 2009. [pdf]

 

Gnanasambandam, N., Parashar, M., Quiroz, A., Kim, H., and Sharma, N., Towards Autonomic Workload Provisioning for Enterprise Data Centers and Clouds, Hot Topics in Autonomic Computing Workshop at ICAC 09, Barcelona, June 2009.

 

Quiroz, A., Gnanasambandam, N., Parashar, M., and Sharma, N., Robust Clustering for the Management of Self-monitoring Distributed Systems, Springer Journal on Cluster Computing, September 2008. [pdf] [Release]

 

Quiroz, A., Parashar, M., Gnanasambandam, N. and Sharma, N., Decentralized Clustering Analysis for Online Anomaly Detection in Self-Monitoring Device Networks, International Conference of Autonomic Computing (ICAC), Chicago, June 2008. [pdf][Release]

 

Quiroz, A., Parashar, M., Sharma, N., and Gnanasambandam, N., Decentralized Clustering Analysis for Online Anomaly Detection and Trust Management in Self-Monitoring P2P Systems, Poster/Demo, NSF Center for Autonomic Computing Workshop, September 2007, April 2008.

 

Gnanasambandam, N., Sharma, N., Kumara, S.R.T., and Liu, H., Collaborative Self-Organization by Devices Providing Document Services - A Multi-Agent Perspective, IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC), Dublin, Ireland, June 2006. [pdf][Release]

 

 

Contact

 

Nathan Gnanasambandam

Scalable Computing and Web Technologies Lab

Xerox Innovation Group

Xerox Corporation

800 Phillips Road

Webster NY 14580

Email: nath...@xerox.com