Shriram Sarvotham

Dept. of Elec. and Comp. Engg. MS 366    Phone: (713) 348-2600 
Rice University                          Fax: (713) 348-5686 
6100 Main Street                         E-mail: shri@rice.edu 
Houston, Texas 77251-1892                http://www.ece.rice.edu/~shri  
USA
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Education 
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* M.S., May 2001, Electrical and Computer Engineering,
  Rice University, Houston, TX.     GPA: 4.05/4.00
  Advisor: Professor Richard Baraniuk

* B.Tech., July 1997, Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of
  Technology (IIT), Madras, India.  GPA: 8.51/10.0

Research Interests 
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* Compressed Sensing, with an Information Theoretic perspective
* Non-asymptotic Information Theory
* Traffic modeling and study of Computer Network Traffic

Industrial Experience
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* Research intern (Spring 2004)
  Los Alamos National Labs - Advanced Network Technology group, Los Alamos, NM

* Research intern (Summer 2001)
  HP Labs - Storage Systems Program (SSP) group, Palo Alto, CA

* Software Engineer (July 1997 - July 1999)
  Verifone India Limited, Bangalore, India

Graduate Work Experience  
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* Research assistant, ECE department, Rice University (Dec 1999-present)
  Advisor: Prof. Richard Baraniuk 
    Research focusing on the new Signal Processing paradigm of
    Compressed Sensing, Information Theory,
    and Internet Traffic Modeling.

* Tutor for ELEC301: Signals and systems (Fall 2000 and Fall 1999),
  Rice University

* Course Grader at Rice University
      ELEC301: Signals and systems (Fall 2002)
      ELEC302: Linear state space systems (Spring 2002)
      ELEC533: Introduction to random processes (Fall 2001)
      ELEC241: Fundamentals of electrical engineering (Fall 2000)

* Lab Assistant, ELEC242: Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering II 
  (Spring 2000), Rice University

* Maintenance of Rice Wavelet Toolbox 
  http://www.dsp.rice.edu/software/rwt.shtml (Fall 2000), Rice University

Academic Achievements and Honors 
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* Runner-up prize for the best project in 
  wireless communication, awarded by Nokia (Dec 1999)

* Rice University Fellowship, 1999 - 2000 

* Member of Eta Kappa Nu honor society

* Rank 119 in the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) for admission to
  IITs, 1993, out of about 100,000 candidates

* Rank 6, All India mathematics talent search examination 1992 

Publications 
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S. Sarvotham, R. Riedi, R. Baraniuk,
"Multiscale connection-level analysis of network traffic"
Proc. 36th Asilomar conference on signals, systems and computers, 
Asilomar, CA, Nov 2002. 

X. Wang, S. Sarvotham, R. Riedi, R. Baraniuk,
"Network traffic modeling using connection-level information"
Proc. SPIE ITCom, Boston, MA, Aug. 2002.   

S. Sarvotham, X. Wang, R. Riedi, and R. Baraniuk,
"Additive and multiplicative mixture trees for network Traffic modeling",
Proceedings ICASSP Orlando, FL, May 2002. 

X. Wang, S. Sarvotham, R. Riedi, R. Baraniuk,
"Connection-level analysis and modeling of network traffic,"
Proc. DIMACS workshop, Feb. 2002.   

S. Sarvotham, R. Riedi and R. Baraniuk
"Connection-level analysis and modeling of network traffic"
SIGCOMM Internet measurements workshop,
November 1-2, 2001, San Francisco, CA.

V. Ribeiro, M. Coates, R. Riedi, S. Sarvotham, B. Hendricks and R. Baraniuk 
"Multifractal Cross-Traffic estimation", 
Proceedings of the ITC specialist seminar on IP traffic measurement,
modeling and management, 
September 18-20, 2000, Monterey, CA. 

Computer Skills
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C++, C, Program development under UNIX/FreeBSD. Well
versed in network simulation techniques and network
simulator(ns-2), network programming, MATLAB, Object
Oriented Analysis and Design, UML, Rational Rose,
Design Patterns and awk. Familiar with ORACLE, SQL and
Pro*C. 

Graduate Courses
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Advanced topics in Computer Networks; Mobile and Wireless
Networking; Design and Control of Broadband Networks;
Information theory and Coding; Introduction to Random
Processes and Applications; Wireless Communication;
Digital Signal Processing; Advanced Digital Signal
Processing; Introduction to Analysis-I; Multifractal
Processes; Approximations of dynamical systems;
Error control coding. 

Other activities
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* Yoga
  - Certified yoga instructor
  - Founder and president (since Fall 2001) of the Rice University yoga club

* Indian classical music 
  - Violinist

References 
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Available on request