Nirav Jasapara

The good times

• University of Southern California : Aug'03 - Aug'05
  • Mastered the science I am most passionate about. Computer Science!
  • The good ol' college football days! Go Trojans!!
• Ixia Communications : May'05 - April'06
  • Had a great time working with the Routing Protocols Group.
  • Worked as an intern/FTE on a whole bunch of things including adding detailed statistics to layer 3 protocols that we support (bgp, ldp, ospf, etc).
• Information Sciences Institute, USC: May'04 - May'05
  • Met some of the smartest, craziest and technically religious researchers here! Ted tops the list
  • Worked on the XCP (eXplicit congestion Control Protocol) project as a research assistant under Ted Faber and Aaron Falk (chairman, Internet Research Task Force).
    
  • Worked on the DETER (Cyber Defense Technology Experimental Research project) project under Dr. Clifford Neuman and Dr. Dongho Kim
• Bhabha Atomic Research Center (Dept. of Remote handling and Robotics) : Jan'03 - June'03
  • BARC is the research heaven for Indian Scientists. Highly recommended!
  • Yes, the rumors are true; you can get a sumptuous six course meal for under Rs.10 (25 cents)!
  • Worked as a research intern under Dr. Debanik Roy on projects for Transport Protocols and framework for Robotic communications.
  • Earned bragging rights for hacking the linux kernel by implementing an alternative to TCP.
    

Technical Stuff

• The a,b,c's for my breed; Learning C, C++
• Some C# and .NET (2.0) framework notes
• A very short windbg cheat sheet
• Everyday applications, blogs and websites

Advocacy

• Compete against the best topcoder's or just take some practice rooms here
• Fight spam! Web bots are welcome here

Paperwork

• Aaron Falk, Nirav Jasapara, "Can a Satellite be an Internet Router?", IEEE Globecom 2005, Workshop on Advances in Satellite Communications, St. Louis, MO, Nov. 2005. [link]
• Roy Debanik, Abhishek Chaterjee., Nirav Jasapara and Nitin Jadhav, “Variable Reliability Dataflow Protocol”. [link]
• 18th annual international technical conference of IEEE, [TENCON], 2003. 
• International journal of computers and applications, 2006, issue#3
  
• Nirav Jasapara, "Group Key Agreement Protocol for Dynamic Peer Groups", submitted paper, University of Southern California. [link]
• Nirav Jasapara, "Time Synchronization in Sensor Networks", presentation, University of Southern California. [link]
• Two pending patents realted to managing scalable and distributed cloud infrastructure.
  

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