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Biography:
Dr. Ravi Prakash received the B.Tech. degree in Computer Science and
Engineering from
the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in 1990, and the M.S. and
Ph.D. degrees in Computer and Information Science from The Ohio
State
University in 1991 and 1996, respectively. He joined the Computer
Science
program at U.T.Dallas in July 1997. During 1996-97 he was a Visiting
Assistant
Professor in the Computer Science department at the University of
Rochester.
He was awarded the Presidential Fellowship by The Ohio State
University for
the year 1996. He was also a recipient of the best paper awards at
the
International Symposium on Parallel Architecture, Algorithms, and
Networks
(ISPAN), Kanazawa, December 1994, and the International
Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Amsterdam, May
1998.
In 1999 two of his research papers presented at the DIALM and the
MDDS-DEXA workshops were short-listed among the best five and best
three
papers, respectively. These papers are now being considered for
publication in
ACM/Baltzer Science journals.
Dr. Prakash served as the Technical Program Co-Chair of the IEEE
Dallas chapter of the Communications and Vehicular Technology Society
during
1998-2000.
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Research Profile:
Dr. Prakash's research efforts are in the areas of mobile computing,
distributed systems, computer networks, operating systems, cellular
telephony, and satellite networks. His research has been funded by the
National Science Foundation and Nortel Networks. His contributions in
the
areas of channel allocation in cellular and virtual cellular networks,
location management in cellular networks, routing in mobile ad hoc
networks
with some unidirectional links, transport layer solutions for mobile ad
hoc
networks, and information dissemination in such networks during network
partitioning have been published in reputed journals and conference
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Teaching Profile:
Dr. Prakash has taught a variety of graduate and undergraduate level
courses since 1996 including Computer Networks, Distributed Systems,
Mobile Computing, Data Structures, and Formal Systems. While teaching
the graduate level Mobile Computing course he also prepared a
manuscript
which is being developed into a possible text book. Dr. Prakash has
consistently received excellent reviews from students. He is the
recipient of the Excellence in Teaching award for the year 1999-2000
in the Department of Computer Science. He was also one of the nominees
for the university's 1999-2000 ``Chancellor's Council Outstanding
Teacher''
award.
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Role in the Embedded Software Center: Dr. Prakash is a member of the Applications Group of the Embedded Software Center. He participates in the selection, specification and implementation of applications that can exercise the software engineering techniques developed by the center. These applications have to be consistent with the center's charter, i.e., embedded computing. They should be developed from COTS and third-party hardware and software components, using the composition methods develped by fellow researchers in the center. For this purpose, creation of a hardware and software repository is vital. |