Kiran Kumar Gollu

Graduate Student Computer Systems Lab Department of Computer Science University of Toronto Research Advisor: Prof. Stefan Saroiu

Sanford Fleming Building 10 King's College Road Toronto ON M5S 3G4 Canada email:

I am a graduate student in Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto. I am interested in systems and networks in general, and have been working with Stefan Saroiu and Alec Wolman on projects in the Internet systems and security domain. Specifically, I am interested in designing and building computer systems that make novel use of social information.

My undergraduate education was at Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS-Pilani) and I graduated in July 2003. Prior to joining graduate school, I worked at Intel Corporation (Bangalore, India) for three years.

Research Projects

• Access Control Schemes for Sharing Personal Content Online
  Sharing personal content is surprisingly hard despite the phenomenal growth of personal content. In this project, we are designing Lockr - an access control scheme based on social relationships that makes sharing personal content easy. Lockr separates social networking information from the content sharing mechanisms, thereby eliminating the need for users to maintain many site-specific copies of their social networks. I have designed and implemented a new Azureus BitTorrent client that makes use of our new access control scheme.


• Exploiting Social Interactions in Mobile Systems
  In this project, we investigated the benefits of exploiting social interactions in mobile systems based on a detailed analysis of real mobile traces. Using trace-driven simulations, we demonstrated that that exploiting social interactions leads to enhanced systems performance and query hit rate in three diverse mobile systems: delay tolerant routing, firewalls preventing mobile worm infection, and peer-to-peer file-sharing system.

Publications

• Amin Tootoonchian, Kiran K. Gollu, Stefan Saroiu, Yashar Ganjali and Alec Wolman.
  Lockr: Social Access Control for Web 2.0
  In Proceedings of the First ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Online Social Networks (WOSN), Seattle, WA, August 2008.


• Kiran K. Gollu, Stefan Saroiu, and Alec Wolman.
  A Social Networking-Based Access Control Scheme for Personal Content
  Proc. 21st ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP '07), Stevenson, Washington, October 2007. (WIP)


• Andrew G. Miklas, Kiran K. Gollu, Stefan Saroiu, Krishna P. Gummadi, and Eyal de Lara.
  Exploiting Social Interactions in Mobile Systems
  Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp), Innsbruck, Austria, September 2007.

• Kiran Gollu, Rakesh Kumbhashi, Krishna Swetha.
  Automated/Integrated Solutions for Process Control products to minimize downtime,
  Intel Manufacturing Excellence Conference (IMEC), June 2006, San Diego, California. (News Story)


• Kiran Gollu, Prakash Gadepalli, Krishna Swetha.
  Automated SPC Solutions to battle with 1264/66 Assembly/Test Challenges,
  Intel Advanced Process Control(APC) Summit, October 2005, Octillo, Arizona.

Industry Experience

• Intel Corporation (Bangalore India)
  Software Engineer, Aug 2003 - Aug 2006
  My three year stint at Intel was with the Process Control Systems group. I was a key developer for the two year long project on migrating process control application (SPC++) from UNIX to Windows (used C++ and Oracle9i). SPC++ is a next generation process control application that monitors health of the processing equipments at Intel facilities worldwide. I have represented as a SPC++ product champion for Assembly/Test facilities.


• Veritas Software (Pune India)
  Engineering Intern, Jan 2003 - June 2003
  I did my internship with Veritas Security Subsystem group (VxSS). I developed and performed functional testing for credential management interface of the authentication subsystem. This helped in delivering a security system that allows uniform fine-grained access control policies across all veritas products (used C++ and Perl).

Education and Awards

• Masters of Science in Computer Science
  University of Toronto
  Toronto, ON, Canada.
  Sep 2006 - Present


• M.Sc.(Tech.) Information Systems
  Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS-Pilani)
  Pilani, Rajasthan, India.
  Aug 1999 - Jun 2003

• Wolfond Fellowship for Wireless Information Technology, University of Toronto (Sep 2006 - Aug 2007).
• Merit Scholarship for all semesters of my undergraduate education at BITS-Pilani.

Courses and Seminars

• CSC2209: Computer Networks
• ECE1776: Computer Security, Cryptography and Privacy
• CSC2227S: Topics in Operating Systems Design and Implementation
• CSC2508: Advanced Database Management Systems
• CSC2411S: Linear Programming and Combinatorial Optimization

• Internet Systems Group Seminar (Summer 2007, Spring 2007)
  
• Toronto Networking Seminar Series (Fall 2007)
  

Miscellaneous

When I get some time, I enjoy playing lawn Tennis. I am also interested in squash, swimming, and cricket.

Contact Information

The best way to reach me is by email.

Last Updated By kkgollu Sep 5th, 2007