Vaidy Sunderam
Vita

July 28, 2004

Dept. of Math & Computer Science                 1064 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA 30307
Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322 		 Email: vss@mathcs.emory.edu
(404) 727-5926 (w); (404) 370-1211 (h)           WWW: http://www.mathcs.emory.edu/~vss/

Research Interests: High Performance Distributed Computing, Wireless Networks and Distributed Systems, Collaborative Computing Methodologies and Tools, Metacomputing and Data Management.

Education: Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Kent, England, 1986; M.S., Computer Science, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, 1980; B.S., Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani, 1978.

Position: Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Computer Science, Emory University, Atlanta.

Honors and Awards: 2002 Commencement Speaker at Emory College Graduation Honors Ceremony; 1998 Distributed Computing Research Achievement Award; 1994 Emory Williams Teaching Award; 1994 R & D 100 Research Innovation Award; 1992 IEEE Computer Society Gordon Bell Prize; 1990 IBM Supercomputing Competition First Prize; United Kingdom Commonwealth Scholar, 1983-1986.

Major Grants: NSF, DOE - Distributed Resource Sharing Methodologies (2002-2005); NSF, DOE - Metacomputing (1999-2003); NSF - Collaborative Computing (1995-98); DOE, NSF, NASA - PVM Research (1991-97); ONR, ARO - Concurrent Systems (1992 - 98); DOE - Computational Science (1996-98).

Publications: 44 papers in refereed journals; 88 papers in refereed conferences; 29 invited and other articles, book chapters, one book.
Major research software systems including PVM, Eclipse, CCF, Pious, IceT, Harness, RMIX and H2O.

Students: 11 Postdoctoral advisees; 15 Postgraduate advisees; 29 M.S. thesis advisees; 3 B.S. Honors thesis advisees; 9 directed study and summer internship students.

Teaching: Introductory Computing, Data Structures, Systems, Programming Languages, Networking, Parallel Processing, Software Engineering, Computer Science Practicum, Distributed Computing.

Service: Department, College, and University Committees including Curriculum, Curriculum Reform, Executive, Honor Council, Teaching, Teaching Fund, Computer Advisory, Faculty Hiring, College Seminar, Information Technology, Undergraduate Advising.
Reviewer for funding agencies, journals, conferences. Guest editorship and editorial boards. Panelist and site visitor for NSF and DoE research and infrastructure grants.

Narrative biosketch: Vaidy Sunderam is a professor of Computer Science at Emory University. His research interests are in parallel and distributed processing systems, and infrastructures for collaborative computing. His prior and current research efforts have focused on system architectures and implementations for heterogeneous metacomputing, including the PVM system and several other frameworks such as IceT, CCF, and Harness. Professor Sunderam teaches computer science at the beginning, advanced, and graduate levels, and advises graduate theses in the area of computer systems.