Vaidy Sunderam

Vaidy Sunderam is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Computer Science at Emory University.

He is also Chair of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Emory University.

Research Interests:

• Wireless Networks and Group Communications
• Heterogeneous Distributed Computing
• Collaborative Computing Frameworks

Teaching:

• Computer Networks and Distributed Systems
• Parallel Processing
• Software Systems, Software Engineering Practicum
• Introductory Computer Science
• Freshman Advising and Mentoring at Emory

Background:

Vaidy Sunderam has been a faculty member at Emory University since 1986 when he completed his formal education with a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Kent at Canterbury, England. Previously he practiced real life structured programming in Algol at Burroughs, subsequent to education received at IIT, Bombay, and BITS, Pilani.

Research Related Info

• Research summary
• Brief one-page vita in html
  
• Publications List (DBLP is far better at maintaining this than I could ever hope to be! Thanks Michael!)

Ongoing Projects

• Cooperative failure resilient resource sharing via lightweight middleware infrastructures is the primary focus of the Distributed Computing Laboratory and the H2O project.
• The Harness system is based on the concept of distributed virtual machines that are reconfigurable in terms of both resources and software infrastructures. Joint with Oak Ridge Labs, and the University of Tennessee.
• Janus is a recently initiated effort to study robustness issues in wireless networks, particularly in the context of group communications protocols.
• General purpose collaboration (as opposed to domain-specific collaboratories) is the focus of the CCF project that enables workspace sharing and multimodal communication.
• And as if you hadnt had your fill of acronyms, IceT investigates issues in cooperative, unobtrusive metacomputing.
• Other (past) efforts that are in steady state or still evoke interest include: PVM - Parallel Virtual Machine, thePIOUS parallel I/O system, and ACES, part of the PaCS effort.

Interests and Hobbies

To get in touch with him...

• use the poor man's zlocate for his current whereabouts
• or send email to vss@emory.edu
• or, to keep voice telephony alive, call at: (404)727-5926
• and if all else fails, send mail to

  Vaidy Sunderam

  Dept of Math. and Computer Science

  Emory University

  400 Dowman Dr, # E420

  Atlanta, GA 30322, USA