Amitava Biswas
amitavabiswas-at-ieee-dot-org
biswasamitava-at-yaho*-dot-com
PhD, Texas A&M University (expected 2010)
MS, Concordia University, Montreal, 2005
MBA, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 1997
B.Tech (Hons), Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, 1993
Research & Publications
I am mostly interested in the civilian applications of computer science and engineering. A key motivation behind my research is to develop and apply theories to make technologies more useful and effective. I do get excited by the intellectual component of a technology, but I also feel obligated to materialize its benefits and attempt to generate revenues from it.
At present I am working on a networking technology that will improve performance and efficiency of a distributed search engine system. As part of this work I am also developing technologies for fast semantic (meaning) similarity comparison. This work is at the intersection of networking, distributed systems, information retrieval and it uses theories from cognitive science and linguistics. In addition to these areas, my other interests are: Linux operating system kernel, device drivers, performance and software engineering, software architecture, real-time, energy aware, embedded systems and network processing. Some of my past geeky projects can be found here.
Distributed semantic search and retrieval, Networking
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Biswas, A., Mohan, S., Tripathy, A., Panigrahy, J., Mahapatra, R., "Semantic Key for Meaning Based Searching", to appear in The 3rd IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (IEEE ICSC), Berkeley, CA, USA, Sept 2009. author's copy pdf, will be available from IEEE Explore.
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Biswas, A., Mohan, S., Mahapatra, R., "Search Co-ordination by Semantic Routed Network", to appear in IEEE CommSoc's 18th International Conference on Computer Communication and Network (ICCCN), San Francisco, CA, Aug 2009. author's copy pdf, will be available fromIEEE Explore.
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Biswas, A., Mohan, S., Mahapatra, R., "Intelligent Technologies for Distributed Search P2P Networks", to appear in Handbook of Research on P2P and Grid Systems for Service-Oriented Computing: Models, Methodologies and Applications, IGI Publisher 2009. Editors: Antonopoulos, Exarchakos, Li and Liotta.
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Biswas, A., Mohan, S., Mahapatra, R., "Semantic Technologies for Searching in e-Science Grids", to appear in Semantic e-Science, Springer AoIS Book Series 2009. Editors: Chen, Wang and Cheung.
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Biswas, A., Mohan, S., Panigrahy, J., Tripathy, A., Mahapatra, R., "Representation and Comparison of Complex Concepts for Semantic Routed Network", 10th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN), Hyderabad, Jan 2009. pdf, will be available from Springer's LNCS.
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Biswas, A., Mohan, S., Mahapatra, R., "Optimization of Semantic Routing Table", IEEE CommSoc's 17th International Conference on Computer Communication and Network (ICCCN), US Virgin Islands, Aug 2008. pdf, from IEEE Explore.
High confidence (Fault tolerant) platform
- Mahapatra, R., Biswas, A., "Managing Confidence and Reliability in Complex Software Systems with an Adaptive System Monitor", NSF Workshop on High-Confidence Software Platforms for Cyber-Physical Systems (HCSP-CPS), Virginia , Nov 2006.
Real-time Systems, Network Management, Operating System, Linux
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Biswas, A., Sinha, P., "On improving performance of Network Intrusion Detection Systems by efficient packet capturing", 10th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS), Vancouver, 2006. pdf, from IEEE Explore
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Biswas, A., Sinha, P., "Efficient real-time PCI interfaces for Linux: A study on hardening a Network Intrusion Detection System against high bandwidth attacks", USENIX sponsored- 5th System Administration and Network Engineering Conference (SANE), Netherlands, 2006. pdf
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Biswas, A., Sinha, P., "A high performance packet capturing support for Alarm Management Systems", 17th International conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems (PDCS), Phoenix, 2005. pdf
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Biswas, A., Sinha, P., "A high performance platform for Network Intrusion Detection Sensors", 4th International Conference on Communications, Internet and Information Technology (CIIT), Cambridge, MA, US, 2005. pdf
Software Engineering
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Biswas, A., Singh, J., "Software engineering challenges in new media applications", 10th International conference on Software Engineering & Applications (SEA), Dallas, 2006. pdf
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Biswas, A., Donald, T., Singh J., Diamond, S., Gauthier, D., Longford, M, "Assessment of Mobile Experience Engine, a development toolkit for context aware mobile applications", ACM SIGCHI International conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment technology (ACE), Hollywood, 2006. pdf
Research Management, Education, Art-Technology collaboration
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Biswas, A., "Managing Art-Technology Research Collaborations", International Journal of Art and Technology, Inderscience, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp.66-89, 2008. pdf (author's post-peer review)
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Biswas, A.,Donald, T., Diamond, S., Sawchuk, K.,Longford, M, Barbara, C., Diamond, S., Gauthier, D., "Multi-Disciplinary Collaborations in New Media: Experiences in MDCN", Workshop paper, ACM International conference for human-computer interaction (CHI), Montreal, 2006.