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Lakshmish's Photo Lakshmish Ramaswamy

Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
The University of Georgia
 542 Boyd Graduate Studies Research Center
Athens, GA 30602
Email: laks[AT]cs[dot]uga[dot]edu
Phone: 706-542-2737
Fax: 706-542-2966



I am an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Georgia.. My current research interests are in the areas of large-scale distributed systems, event systems, World Wide Web, overlay networks & peer-to-peer systems, and security & privacy. I, along with my advisor and our collaborators from IBM Research have received the best paper award at WWW-2004 conference and the Pat Goldberg best paper award for our work on dynamic web content caching and delivery. More information about my research is available here

I obtained my Ph.D. from the College of Computing at Georgia Tech. I also have a Master's degree from Dept. of Computer Science and Automation at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, India.

Research Projects

Current Research Projects

    1. Event-Systems for the Real-World
    2. Denial of Information (Sponsored by NSF CyberTrust)
    3. Edge Cache Grid for Scalable Content Delivery

Past Research Projects

    1. Automatic Fragment Detection in Dynamic Web Pages
    2. Connectivity-based Distributed Node Clustering in P2P Networks
    3. Incentive Schemes for Countering Free Riding in P2P Systems

Teaching

I am currently teaching the Advanced Distributed Systems (CSCI 8780) course. A complete list of my courses can be found here.

Students

Osama Al-Haj Hassan (PhD, Ongoing)
Jianxia Chen (PhD, Ongoing)
Piyush Parate (MS, Ongoing)
Sriti Kumar (MS, Ongoing)
Kishor Mahajan (MS, Ongoing)
Sujeeth Thirumalai (Graduated in 2007, Currently at Akamai)