Associate Professor & Deputy Group Head, Communications and Information Engineering (CIE)Department of Electrical and ComputerEngineeringThe National University of Singapore,4 Engineering Drive 3, Singapore 117576  Contact Information:  Room #: E4 07-07Phone:+65-6874-5158Email:elebv@nus.edu.sgFax:+65-6779-1103 (Please use: "Attn: Dr. Bharadwaj Veeravalli")

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Mainstream Research Interests:

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Other Interests - Protein folding Problems, Motif Search;  Use of Cluster/Grid computing support; Harnessing network applications for cooperative execution; Genome rearrangement algorithms; gene duplication and shuffling; Large-scale MSA problems-parallel techniques; large-scale phylogenetic trees; Mutation sensitive sequence alignments; Cancer genetics + Immense interest in Algorithms oriented computational biology problems in other topics

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  • [MULTIMEDIA / MEDIA STORAGE & RETRIEVAL] Multimedia Scheduling and VoD/MoD systems - Long Duration Movie rendering on delay sensitive networks; JINI-agent based solution (technology component), Object Oriented Green Storage and retrieval for digital media applications; Caching and Storage on WWW/Internet; Media Grid - Service Provisioning with a QoS perspective;

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Active Secondary Research Interests or Problems attempted so far:

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List of Publications

  • [Invited Chapter] Bharadwaj Veeravalli, "Designing High-Performance Concurrent Strategies for Biological Sequence Alignment Problems on Networked Computing Platforms", In an edited Book by El-Ghazali Talbi and A. Zomaya on Grids for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Wiley & Sons, USA, 2008.  
     

  • [Invited Chapter] Benjamin Khoo B. T and Bharadwaj Veeravalli, "An Adaptive Co-ordinate based Scheduling Mechanism for Grid Resource Management with Resource Availabilities for Grid Computing Environments", To appear in an edited Book by Fatos Xhafa and Ajith Abraham on Meta-heuristics for Scheduling in Emergent Computational Systems, Series in Studies in Computational Intelligence, Springer-Verlag, USA, 2008.  
     

  • [Invited Chapter] SPT Krishnan, Bharadwaj Veeravalli, and Lawrence Wong, "WiMAX Architecture, Protocols, Security and Privacy", Book Chapter in Unlicensed Mobile Access Technology (UMAT): Protocols, Architectures, Security, Standards and Applications (Edited by Y. Zhang, Laurence T. Yang and J. Ma), pp.281-296, Auerbach Publications, Taylor&Francis Group, USA, 2008, First Edition, (ISBN: 1420055372), 2008.
     

  • [Invited Chapter] SPT Krishnan, Bharadwaj Veeravalli, and Lawrence Wong, "Wireless LAN Security and Privacy", To appear as a Chapter in Encyclopedia of Wireless and Mobile Communications, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, USA, 2007. (http://www.cse.fau.edu/~borko/Articles.html)
     

  • [Book Chapter] Lam KT, Bharadwaj V, Judice LY Koh, and Vladimir B, "Incremental Maintenance of Biological Databases Using Association Rule Mining", To appear as a Chapter in Edited Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics (LNIB) Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics, 2006.
     

  • [Book Chapter] Ruchir S., Bharadwaj V., and, Manoj M., "Estimation Based Load Balancing Algorithm for Data-Intensive Heterogeneous Grid Environments", To appear as a Chapter in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Springer-Verlag, 2006.
     

  • [Book Chapter] X. Li, B. Veeravalli, and L. Jiang, "Towards Optimal Performance in Distributed Memory Systems with Buffer Constraints Using Divisible Load Analysis", to appear in ''Advanced Parallel and DistributedComputing: Evaluations, Improvement and Practices," Edited by, Y.S. Dai, Y. Pan, and R. Raje, Nova Science Publishers, New York, USA, November 2005.
     

  • [Book/Monograph]Bharadwaj Veeravalli and Gerassimos Barlas, "Distributed Multimedia Retrieval Strategies for Large Scale Networked Systems", Multimedia Systems and Applications Series, Springer CS Publishers, 2005
     

  • [Book/Monograph]Wujuan Lin and Bharadwaj Veeravalli, "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, 2003.  
     
    [Invited Paper] Bharadwaj Veeravalli, "Distributed Multimedia Systems", Encyclopedia Multimedia, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2005. 
     

  • [Invited Paper] Bharadwaj Veeravalli, "Long Duration Continuous Media Retrieval on Large-Scale Networks", Encyclopedia Multimedia, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2005. 
     

  • [Book Chapter] Ligang Dong and Bharadwaj Veeravalli, "Design and Analysis of a Variable Bit Rate Caching Algorithm for Continuous Media Data" Chapter in Edited LNCS volume entitled Web Content Caching and Distribution, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Volume 3293/2004, page. 209-214, Springer-Verlag Heidelberg, Germany, 2004.  (Edited by: Chi-Hung Chi, Maarten van Steen, Craig Wills ISBN: 3-540-23516-7)
     

  • [Book/Monograph]Bharadwaj Veeravalli, Debasish Ghose, Venkataraman Mani, and Thomas G. Robertazzi, "Scheduling Divisible Loads in Parallel and Distributed Systems", IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Almitos, California, 1996.

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-- 2009 --

  • Sivakumar V, Bharadwaj V and Jingxi J, "Spanning Tree Routing Strategies for Divisible Load Scheduling on Arbitrary Graphs - a Comparative Performance Analysis' To appear in the Proceedings of the 16th Annual IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC), India, 2009.

-- 2008 --

  • Lingfang Z, Dan F, Bharadwaj V and Wei Q, "An Energy Efficient, Low Cost, Hybrid Storage System based on UtilityNetworks", To appear in the Proceedings of Japan-China Joint Workshop on Frontier of Computer Science and Technology (FCST) , Nagasaki, Japan, December 27-28, 2008.
     

  • Bharadwaj Veeravalli and Jingxi Jia, "Design, Analysis, and Performance Evaluation of an Efficient Resource Unaware Scheduling Strategy for Processing Divisible Loads on Distributed Linear Daisy ChainNetworks", To appear in the Proceedings of the 15th Annual IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing (HIPC 2008), Bangalore, India, 2008.
     

  • Goh Lee Kee and Bharadwaj V, "An Energy-Balanced Task Scheduling Heuristic for Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks", To appear in the Proceedings of the 15th Annual IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing (HIPC 2008), Bangalore, India, 2008. [Acceptance rate under 15%]
     

  • Chaithrika US, Bharadwaj V, Yanhong L, Sivakumar V, "On the Design of Static and Dynamic Energy-Aware Task Mapping Algorithms for Body Area Networks", Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks (BSN),in conjunction with The 5th International Summer School and Symposium on Medical Devices and Biosensors The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HKSAR, China, Pg 153- 156, Jun 1-3, 2008.
     

  • Zeng Zeng and Bharadwaj Veeravalli, "Hk/T: A Novel Server-Side Web Caching Strategy for Multimedia Applications",  International Conference on Communications (ICC), Beijing China, 2008.
     

  • Yu Heng, Bharadwaj Veeravalli, and Ha Yajun, "Dynamic Scheduling of Imprecise-Computation Tasks for Maximizing QoS under Energy Constraints for Embedded Systems", The 13th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC), 2008.
     

-- 2007 --

  • Xiaoli Li, Jun-Xiang Lee, Bharadwaj Veeravalli, See-Kiong Ng, "An HV-SVM Classifier to Infer TF-TF Interactions Using Protein Domains and GO Annotations", BIBE 2007, pp.1360-1364, 2007.
     

  • Yanhong Liu, Bharadwaj Veeravalli, Sivakumar Viswanathan, "Novel critical-path based low-energy scheduling algorithms for heterogeneous multiprocessor real-time embedded systems", ICPADS 2007, Hsinchu, Taiwan, 2007.
     

  • Liu Yanhong and Bharadwaj V, "Heuristic-Path and Observer based Low-Energy Scheduling Algorithms for Body Area Network Systems",  2007 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems (BIOCAS), Montreal, Canada, 2007.
     

  • Xiaoli Li, Lee Junxiang, Bharadwaj Veeravalli, and See Kiong Ng, "An HV-SVM Classifier to Infer TF-TF Interactions using Protein Domains and GO Annotations", accepted by the  IEEE 7th International Symposium on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BIBE 2007) Boston, USA, October 14-17, 2007.
     

  • Wei Qingsong, Wujuan Lin, and Bharadwaj Veeravalli, "QoS-aware Striping with Replciation for Object-based Multimedia Storage",  SNAPI (held in conjunction with MSST), 2007.
     

  • Wujuan Lin, Wei Qingsong, and Bharadwaj Veeravalli, "WPAR: A Weight-based Metadata Management Strategy for Petabyte-scale Object Storage Systems",  SNAPI (held in conjunction with MSST), 2007.
     

  • Yanhong Liu, Bharadwaj Veeravalli, Sivakumar Viswanathan, "Critical-Path based Low-Energy Scheduling Algorithms for Body Area Network Systems", IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA), Daegu, Korea, August 2007.
     

  • Goh Lee Kee, Bharadwaj Veeravalli, Sivakumar Viswanathan, "An Energy-aware Gradient-based Scheduling Heuristic for Heterogeneous Multiprocessor Embedded Systems", The proceedings of High Performance Computing (HIPC), Goa, India, 2007.
     

  • Nimesh Desai, KumKum Garg, Manoj Gupta and Bharadwaj Veeravalli, "Modeling Hierarchical Mobile Agent Security Protocol Using CP Nets", The proceedings of High Performance Computing (HIPC), Goa, India, 2007.
     

  • Qin Z, Bharadwaj V, and Tham Ck, "Fault-tolerant Scheduling for Differentiated Classes of Tasks with Low Replication Cost in Computational Grids",  The 16th international symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC), Monterey Bay California, USA, pp.239-240, June 2007.
     

  • Zeng Zeng, Bharadwaj Veeravalli, Teo Teck Meng Royston, and Jia Guaguang, "On the Design of Strategies for Resolving Bandwidth Constraints for Large-Scale Multimedia Video-on-Reservation Systems",  the 2nd IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Application (ICIEA 2007), Harbin, China, 23-25 May 2007.
     

  • Ruchir Shah, Bharadwaj Veeravalli, and Manoj Misra, "A Receiver-initiated Load Balancing Algorithm with Parameter Estimation for Heterogeneous Grid Environments", The Proceedings of the  Grid and Pervasive Computing (GPC), Paris, France, 2007.
     

-- 2006 --

  • Zeng Zeng and Bharadwaj Veeravalli, "A Replica-Conscious Static Load Balancing Strategy for Large-Scale Multimedia Storage Systems", The Proceedings of the  2006 IEEE GLOBECOM Conference, San Francisco, USA, 2006.
     

  • Ruchir S., Bharadwaj V., and, Manoj M., "Estimation Based Load Balancing Algorithm for Data-Intensive Heterogeneous Grid Environments", The Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC 2006), Bangalore, India, pp. 72-83, 2006.
     

  • Ruchir S., Bharadwaj V., and, Manoj M., "A Receiver-initiated Load Balancing Algorithm with Parameter Estimation for Heterogeneous Grid Environments", The Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Semantics, Knowledge and Grid (SKG-2006), IEEE CS Press, 2006.
     

  • Bharadwaj Veeravalli, Zeng Zeng, Neeraj Gupta, and Guoguang Jia, "Network-based Caching Algorithms for Reservation-based Multimedia Systems",  The 5th International Conference on Grid and Cooperative Computing(GCC 2006), Changsha, China, October, 2006.
     

  • Zeng Zeng and Bharadwaj V, "Design and Performance Evaluation of Fail-over and Recovery Strategies for Large-Scale Multimedia Storage Systems",  The 14th IEEE International Conference on Networks (ICON), Singapore, September 2006.
     

  • Jia Jingxi and Bharadwaj V, " Resource Unaware Computing - A Distributed Strategy for Divisible Load Processing on Linear Daisy Chain Networks",  The 14th IEEE International Conference on Networks (ICON), Singapore, September 2006.
     

  • Lam KT, Bharadwaj V, Judice LY Koh, and Vladimir B, " Incremental Maintenance of Biological Databases Using Association Rule Mining", In the proceedings of  Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics (PRIB`06) held in conjunction with the International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR`06), Hong-Kong, pp.140-150, July 2006.
     

  • Chun Yew Cheong, Kay Chen Tan and Bharadwaj Veeravalli, " Multi-objective Evolutionary Algorithm for Solving Exam Timetabling Problem", To appear in the proceedings of  International Conference on 2006 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), Vancouver, BC, Canada, July 2006.
     

  • Xiaorong Li, Terence Hung Gih Guang, and Bharadwaj Veeravalli, " Design and Implementation of a Multimedia Personalized Service over Large Scale Networks",In the Proceedings of the  IEEE ICME 2006, Toronto, Canada, July 2006.
     

  • Benjamin Khoo Boon Tat, Bharadwaj Veeravalli, Terence Hung, and Simon See Chong Wee, "A Co-ordinate Based Resource Allocation Strategy for Grid Environments", In the proceedings of  6th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and Grid (CCGRID) 2006, Singapore, 16-19 May, pp561-567, 2006. [26% acceptance rate]
     

-- 2005 --

  • Xiaorong Li and Bharadwaj Veeravalli, "Design and Implementation of Stream Partitioning Strategies in a Distributed Multimedia System", In the Proceedings of  IEEE Tencon 2005, Melbourne, Australia, November 2005.
     

  • Xiaorong Li and Bharadwaj Veeravalli, "A Novel Stream Partitioning Strategy for Real-time Video Delivery in Distributed Multimedia Systems", In the Proceedings of  IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, pp. 313 - 318, Jan 2005.
     

-- 2004 --

  • S. Viswanathan, B. Veeravalli, D. Yu, T.G. Robertazzi, "Design and Analysis of a Dynamic Scheduling Strategy with Resource Estimation for Large-Scale Grid Systems", In the Proceedings of the 5th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Grid Computing (held in Conjunction with SuperComputing 2004), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, pp. 163-171, November 2004.
     

  • Wujuan Lin and Bharadwaj Veeravalli, "A Window-based Object Allocation and Replication Algorithm for Real-Time Distributed Database Systems in Mobile Computing Environment",  IEEE Globecom, Workshop on Adaptive Wireless Network, pp. 491- 499 December, 2004.
     

  • Ligang Dong abd Veeravalli, B. "Design and analysis of variable bit rate caching strategies for continuous media data",  2004 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, Volume 1, Issue 27 - 30, Page 169 - 172, June 2004.
     

  • Xiaorong Li and Bharadwaj Veeravalli, "Performance Evaluation of a Destination-based Video Distribution Strategy for Reservation-based Multimedia Systems",  In the Proceedings of  IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), pp. 491 - 494, Vol.1, 2004.
     

  • Zeng Zeng and Bharadwaj Veeravalli, "Divisible Load Scheduling on Arbitrary Distributed Networks via Virtual Routing Approach", To appear in the Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS 04), Newport Beach, California, USA, 2004.

  • Zeng Zeng and Bharadwaj Veeravalli, "Rate-Based and Queue-Based Dynamic Load Balancing Algorithms in Distributed Systems," To appear in the Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS 04), Newport Beach, California, USA, 2004.

  • Xiaorong Li and Bharadwaj Veeravalli, "Design, Analysis and Performance Evaluation of Stream Scheduling Algorithms in Distributed Multimedia Systems", In the Proceedings of 1st workshop on Streaming Media Distribution over the Internet, pp. 19-26, May 2004.

-- 2003 --

  • Lin Wujuan and Bharadwaj Veeravalli, "An Adaptive Object Management Algorithm for Distributed Databases in Mobile Computing Environments", In the Proceedings of IEEE Joint Conference of the Fourth International Conference on Information, Communications & Signal Processing and Fourth Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia (ICICS-PCM 2003), Singapore, December 2003.

  • Wong Han Min, Bharadwaj Veeravalli, Danyong Yu, and T. G. Robertazzi, "Data Intensive Grid Scheduling: Multiple Sources with Capacity Constraints", In the Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems (PDCS), USA, 2003.

  • Zeng Zeng and Bharadwaj Veeravalli, "A Static Load Balancing Algorithm via Virtual Routing", In the Proceedings of 15th IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems, Maria del Rey, CA, USA, Nov. 2003.

  • Lin Wujuan and Bharadwaj Veeravalli, "An Adaptive Object Allocation and Replication Algorithm in Distributed Databases", In the Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops (ICDCSW'03), pp. 132-137, May 2003.

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