Krishna Kant I work for Intel Research, but currently on leave of absence on a visiting position with the National Science Foundation. I am currently program director in the CSR cluster of CISE/CNS division within NSF.I can be reach via phone at (703) 292-4776 and by email at Krishna.Kant at intel.com or kkant at nsf.gov. I have been with Intel corporation since 1997 where I work on future server architectures and technologies and a variety of other issues. My recent research interests include the following:

1. Mechanisms for power and thermal control of platform components.
2. Data center issues including high speed networking, power/thermal control, asset location, etc.
3. Robustness of Internet infrastructure.

Other areas with significant expertise and prior/ongoing work include (a) Traffic characterization of internet and e-commerce servers, (b) Detailed platform level performance modeling, (c) Network acceleration at transport and higher layers, (d) compression technologies, and (e) peer to peer computing. Prior to joining Intel, I was with Bellcore (now Telcordia) from 1992 to 1997 where I worked on a both Operations support and Switching sides of Telecom. In particular, I worked on a variety of aspects related to Signaling System no 7 (SS7) including SS7 congestion control, link error monitoring, capacity planning and personal communications technologies. Prior to Bellcore, I was an associate professor of computer science at Penn State University(1985-1991) primarily working in areas of performance modeling and distributed systems. From 1981-1985, I was an assistant professor in the EECS department, working mainly in the areas of fault-tolerance and performance modeling. In 1992, I published a graduate level textbook on performance modeling, titled “Introduction to Computer Systems Performance Modeling”, McGraw Hill.

For more detailed information, please click the following links.

• Detailed Professional Vita
• Publication list
• Some recent papers available for download
• New! Tutorial on Data Center Challenges, Computer Networks Journal, Vol 52, #17, Dec 2009.

Recent Workshops

• NSF CSR workshop (March 2010)
• NSF-EU workshop on Pervasive Computing and Social Networking (March 2010)
• US-India workshop on Infrastructure Security (Jan 2010)
• Science of Power Management Workshop (April 2009)
• Report of US-India workshop on CS Research/Education (Jan 2009)

Recent Presentations

• New! Infocom presentation on NSF Sustainability Programs (March 2010)
• Challenges in distributed energy adaptive computing, Keynote at hotmetrics 2009, Seattle, WA (Aug 2009)
• Invited talk at ICCCN 2009, San Francisco, CA (Aug 2009)

Tutorials

• Tutorial on Surviving Large Scale Internet Failures (DSN 2007, ICDCN 2009)
• Tutorial on Peer to Peer Networking (Globecom 2003)

Misc stuff

• Geist Web Traffic generator
• DCLUE (Database cluster emulator)
• Including Excel charts in Latex documents