Krishna Kant
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I have
been a program director in the Computer and Networks Systems (CNS) division
cluster of CISE/CNS division within National Science Foundation since 2008. I
have also been involved with driving NSF’s Science, Engineering and Education
for Sustainability (SEES) program from CISE’s perspective since its
inception in 2010. I
am also a research professor at the Center of Secure Information Systems
(CSIS) at George Mason University, Fairfax, VA where I work on cloud
computing security. Prior to this, I worked for Intel Corporation on future
server architectures and technologies. My recent research interests include
the following:
I can be reached via phone
at (703) 292-4776 and
by email at kkant at gmu.edu or kkant
at nsf.gov. |
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My 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, 1992.
For more detailed information, please click the following links.
- Detailed
Professional Vita
- Publication
list
- Some
recent papers available for download
- Handbook
on Securing Cyberphysical Systems (Feb 2012)
- Tutorial on Data Center Challenges , Computer Networks Journal, Vol
52, #17, Dec 2009 .
- Oct
11 & 14 NSF Webinars on SEES Initiative
Workshops
·
US-India Pervasive Computing workshop
(June 2012)
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NSF Workshop on Communications
for sustainability (WICS, June 2011)
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Workshop
on Pervasive Computing at Scale (PeCS, Jan 2011)
- NSF/CCC workshop on role of
computer science & engineering in sustainability (RISES, Feb 2011)
- US-India workshop on pervasive
computing and communications (PC3, March 2011)
- 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
- NSF sustainability presentation at INFOCOM 2011
- Invited talk at ICCCN 2011 on Sustainability considerations in network design
- Invited talk at ICCCN 2010 on Energy Adaptive Computing
- Sustainability of
Pervasive Computing (Oct 2010)
- Challenges in distributed energy adaptive computing, Keynote at hotmetrics 2009, Seattle, WA (Aug 2009)
Tutorials
- Tutorial on design and operation of sustainable data centers (ISC 2011)
- Tutorial on Surviving Large Scale
Internet Failures (DSN 2007, ICDCN 2009)
- Tutorial on Peer to Peer
Networking (Globecom 2003)
Misc stuff