Arun Subbiah's Personal Profile

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Resume
	Email: arun.s AT lycos.com	Availability Date: May 2007

	Objective	A full-time research or development position in distributed systems / computer security.

	Research Interests	Design and implementation of practical fault-tolerant, reliable, and secure distributed / networked systems. Distributed / networked systems are employed within many application contexts, with each context having unique requirements that introduce new research and design issues. Application contexts I have worked on are: secure and fault-tolerant distributed storage, distributed authentication systems, and identity management (Identity 2.0). My graduate work is in the areas of distributed algorithms, distributed protocols, cryptography, and prototype implementation and performance evaluation.

	Education
	Jan. 2002 - May 2007	*Georgia Institute of Technology*, Atlanta, Georgia
		Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
		Research Area: Secure and reliable distributed data storage Thesis Advisor: Prof. Douglas M. Blough GPA: 4.0/4.0

	Aug. 2000 - Dec. 2001	*Georgia Institute of Technology*, Atlanta, Georgia
		M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
		Thesis Area: Node failure detection in arbitrary-topology networks GPA: 4.0/4.0

	Aug. 1996 - June 2000	*Indian Institute of Technology Madras*, India
		Bachelor of Technology (B. Tech.) in Electrical Engineering
		Thesis: Design of Linux-based diskless access terminals

	Publications:
	A. Subbiah, "A New Approach for Fault Tolerant and Secure Distributed Storage," Student Forum, 7th International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, June 2006. A. Subbiah and D. M. Blough, "An Approach for Fault Tolerant and Secure Data Storage in Collaborative Work Environments," ACM Workshop on Storage Security and Survivability (held in conjunction with ACM CCS), November 2005. L. Kong, D. J. Manohar, A. Subbiah, M. Sun, M. Ahamad, and D. M. Blough, "Agile Store: Experience with Quorum-Based Data Replication Techniques for Adaptive Byzantine Fault Tolerance," 24th International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS), 2005. L. Kong, A. Subbiah, M. Ahamad, and D. M. Blough, "A Reconfigurable Byzantine Quorum Approach for the Agile Store," 22nd International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS), 2003. A. Subbiah and D. M. Blough, "Distributed Diagnosis in Dynamic Fault Environments," IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 15, No. 5, May 2004.

	Experience:
	Aug. 2006 - present	Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
		Graduate Research Assistant
		I am involved in the organization of a seminar series on Information Security and Systems for Healthcare Applications, and a reading group on Identity Management (Identity 2.0). http://users.ece.gatech.edu/~arun

	May 2006 - Aug. 2006	Verisign, Mountain View, CA
		Intern, Advanced Products and Research Group
		Analysis and design of a distributed authentication network. I gathered system requirements and used them to develop the distributed authentication protocols. I also investigated algorithms for generating One-Time Passwords (OTPs).

	Aug. 2000 - May 2006	Georgia Institute of Technology
		Graduate Research Assistant, and PhD research
		Design, implementation, and testing of a secure distributed data storage service. My work considers the long-term security and fault tolerance of the data store as well as the key distribution center. For details, see the publications list.

	May 1997 - June 2000	Indian Institute of Technology Madras
		System Administrator
		Administration of the central computing facility of the Electrical Engineering department. The facility had over 300 users. I set up the mail, file, and print services, and assisted in the daily system administration tasks.

	May 1999 - July 1999	National Institute of Ocean Technology, Chennai, India
		System Administrator
		I set up the mail and print services, besides handling regular system administration tasks.

	Aug. 1998 - Dec. 1998	Indian Institute of Technology Madras
		Teaching Assistant
		Assisted in teaching the course "Engineering Design"

	Projects:
	Designed a new algorithm for secure data storage in collaborative work environments. Performed timing measurements of the developed algorithm and other well known cryptography algorithms. Designed a new algorithm and protocol for efficient distributed data refresh and repair. Responsible for the design and implementation of the reconfiguration aspect of the secure data storage service in the Agile Store project. Implemented an adaptive quorum systems protocol and a fault diagnosis protocol for quorum systems in C++ using discrete event simulation techniques, Nov. 2002. Implemented a distributed fault diagnosis algorithm for random networks in C++ using discrete event simulation techniques as part of my M.S. thesis, Sept. - Dec. 2001. Designed a protocol for secure transactions over the Internet (Jan. - Apr. 2001). Designed a superscalar protocol and parallel algorithms as part of a project for the course "Advanced Computer Architecture" (Aug. - Dec. 2000). Designed and set up low cost, diskless access terminals over low bandwidth networks as part of my undergraduate thesis (Jan. - May 2000).

	Computer Skills
	Languages	C, C++, 8086 Assembly Language, HTML, CSS
	Platforms	Windows, UNIX (Linux, FreeBSD)
	Packages	Miracl and OpenSSL crypto libraries, TCP/IP network programming, multi-threaded programming

	Achievements
	Student travel grant, 7th International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), June 2006 State 1st in Class XII Indian School Certificate Examination (ISC), 1996 All-India 8th at National level Mathematics Olympiad, 1995 All-India 3rd at the International Computer Problem Solving Contest, 1994, conducted by the University of Wisconsin

	Activities
	Member of the http://www.iitmadras.org website administration team. Moderator for my undergraduate electrical engineering graduating class Yahoo! group. Supervised five students as part of my teaching assistant duties during my undergrad studies.

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