Education:

 January 1992 - December 1994

PhD (Engineering), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.
Thesis Title: Distributed Computation with Communication Delays: Design and Analysis of Load Distribution Strategies

 August 1987 - July 1991

Master of Engineering in Electrical Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.

 August 1984 - July 1987

Bachelor of Science in Physics, Madurai-Kamaraj University, Madurai, TamilNadu, India.

 Professional Experience:

  January 01, 2005 onwards

Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering Division, in the National University of Singapore, Singapore.

 April 1998 to December 2004

Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering Division, in the National University of Singapore, Singapore.

 November 1997 to March 1998

Employed with Voice and Data Communications, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, as a Member of the Technical Staff

 December 1996 to October 1997

Employed in CAE Electronics, Montreal, Quebec, Canada in Systems Architecture Group as a Member of the Technical Staff

 December 1994 to November 1996

Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Computer Science, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec ,Canada.

 August 1991 - December 1991

Senior Software Engineer, Future Software Pvt. Ltd., Madras, India.

 Faculty/Departmental Administrative Experience (NUS):

 January 2007 till date

Serving as a Deputy Group Head for Communications and Information Engineering (CIE) group with the Department of ECE, NUS, Singapore

 February 2005 till date

Serving as Teaching Assignment Coordinator, Department of ECE, NUS, Singapore

Serving as a Head of the IT Team, Department of ECE, NUS, Singapore

 April 1998 till December 2004

At the Faculty Level: Serving as a representative for our Computer Engineering Division, NUS, and Singapore;

At the Departmental Level: Served the Advertisement and Brochure Committee, NUS, Singapore(1998-1999); Served the Curriculum Review Committee (CRC), NUS, Singapore(April 1998-Dec 2002); Served the General Education Requirement task force committee(2001); Serving the curriculum task force (CTFII) committee;

Served the Department of ECE Accreditation (IEE and ABET) task force committees;

Co-founded and ran a Laboratory on Open Source Software from August 2000 till May 2005, in Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NUS, Singapore, for Undergraduate projects, Graduate projects and research.

 Professional Activities:

• Senior Member, IEEE, IEEE-Computer Society
  　
• Vice-Chairman IEEE Computer Chapter, Singapore (December 2006 till date)
  　
• Associate Editor position with IEEE Transactions on Computers, since September 2005
  　
• Associate Editor position with IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics – Part A, since April 2003
  　
• Associate Editor position with Cluster Computing - The Journal of Networks, Software Tools and Applications, USA , since August 2007. [Web: http://www.springerlink.com/content/101766/]
  　
• Associate Editor position with International Journal of Computers and Applications, ACTA Press, USA, since March 2001.
  　
• Associate Editor position with Journal of Ubiquitous Convergence Technology (JUCT), since March 2007.
  　
• Serving, upon invitation, the Editorial Board for Springer in its Book Series of Encyclopedia of Multimedia. ( http://www.cse.fau.edu/~borko/EncyclopediaMultimedia.html )
  　
• Currently serving as a faculty associate for Data Storage Institute (DSI), Singapore, December 2004. Responsibilities include, providing technical assistance to DSI R&D projects, providing R&D consultancy services for DSI projects, supervising postgraduate and undergraduate students of tertiary institutions working in ICR laboratories jointly with ICR staff, and assisting in the promotion of DSI activities and attract potential collaborative projects within industry/organizations/institutions.
  　
• Served as a faculty associate for Institute for Communications Research (ICR) [formerly known as Centre for Wireless Communications (CWC)] for the term 2002-2004. Responsibilities include, providing technical assistance to ICR R&D projects, providing R&D consultancy services for ICR projects, supervising postgraduate and undergraduate students of tertiary institutions working in ICR laboratories jointly with ICR staff, and assisting in the promotion of ICR activities and attract potential collaborative projects within industry/organizations/institutions.
  　
• Refereed in the following International Journals and Conferences:
  　

IEEE Transactions on Computers; IEEE TAES; IEEE TPDS; ACM/Springer-Verlag Multimedia Systems, Multimedia Tools and Applications, Kluwer academic; Image and Vision Computing, Elsevier; IEEE Transactions on SMC-C, International Journal of Computers and Applications.
　

Program/Organizing committee member:
　

2006/2005/2004/2003: Technical Program Co-Chair ICON 2006, Singapore; Member of the Steering Committee-IEEE International Workshop on Trusted and Autonomic Computing Systems (TACS), 2006; Member of the Program committee for the 2^nd workshop on Scheduling and Resource Management for Parallel and Distributed Systems (SRMPDS'06), held in Conjunction with ICPADS’06, Minnesota, USA; Member of the Organizing committee - Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Multimedia (PDM) In conjunction with International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP) 2006; Member of the Organizing Committee, Scheduling for Parallel Computing (SPC) Workshop held in conjunction with the Sixth International Conference on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics (PPAM) 2005, Poznań, Poland, September 11-14, 2005; IPC member High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPC&S) Conference 2004; IEEE International Conference on Networks (ICON) 2004, Singapore; 12^th International Heterogeneous Computing Workshop (HCW) 2003, Nice, France, High Performance & Large Scale Computing (HP&LSC) in conjunction with 17^th European Simulation Multi-conference (ESM 2003) in Nottingham, UK, 2003, 15^th International Conference on PDCS 2003; 10^th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS), 2003;

 Awards & Achievements:

• Co-authored a book/monograph in the area of Distributed Multimedia Systems, July 2005. Title: Distributed Multimedia Retrieval Strategies for large-Scale Networked Systems - Multimedia Systems and Applications Series, Springer CS Publishers, 2005.
  　
• Co-authored a book/monograph in the area of Distributed Databases, October 2003. Title: Object Management in Distributed Database Systems for Stationary and Mobile Computing Environments: A Competitive Approach -  Network Theory and Applications (NETA) Series, Vol. 12, Kluwer Academic publishers, Boston, USA. Web: http://www.wkap.nl/prod/b/1-4020-7600-2
  　
• Co-authored a LNCS Chapter: Ligang Dong and Bharadwaj Veeravalli, "Design and Analysis of a Variable Bit Rate Caching Algorithm for Continuous Media Data" Chapter in Edited Lecture Notes in Computer Science(LNCS) volume entitled Web Content Caching and Distribution, LNCS, Volume 3293/2004, page. 209, Springer-Verlag Heidelberg, Germany, 2004.  (Edited by: Chi-Hung Chi, Maarten van Steen, Craig Wills ISBN: 3-540-23516-7)
  　
• Co-authored a book/monograph in the area of Parallel and Distributed Systems. Major contributions are from PhD thesis. IEEE Computer Society Press, August 1996, has published this book/monograph.
  　

• Nominated for National University of Singapore Top 100 Researchers (NUS-TR-100) award for excellence in research, 2003.
  　
• Technical Consultant for the project "Research on Architecture and Development Methodology for Next-Generation Distributed Systems", National Natural Science Foundation (P.R.China), 2004;
  　
• Teaching Award: In October 2002, Certificate of Commendation for Teaching Performance, by the Faculty of Engineering, NUS Singapore, was awarded.
  　
• Invited to participate on a Grid Computing Project with Brookhaven National Laboratories (BNL) Upton NY, USA and SUNY Stony Brook, USA, April 2003. The project aims to design high-performance algorithms for Grid Architectures that is to be used for processing computationally intensive data from high-energy particle physics experimental studies. The time span for this project will be till May 2005.
  　
•  Software development: Best Project awarded for developing an "Intelligent Sign Language Interpreter for hearing impaired" software tool, under undergraduate research opportunities program, Singapore.
  　

• Awarded the S.Choudhury Gold Medal for an outstanding PhD thesis for the year 1994-1995 by the Faculty of Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.
  　
• Awarded Government of India Scholarship for a period of two years (1989-1991) for academic excellence in Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering.
  　
• Awarded Gold Medal for an outstanding performance in Bachelor's degree in the year 1987.