Nirmalya Roy

    Graduate Student

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering
    The University of Texas at Arlington
    Arlington, TX 76019-0015
    Phone: (817) 272 7409

             RESEARCH PROJECTS            PUBLICATIONS            RESUME              PERSONAL

WHO AM I

I am a PhD student at Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington. I did my Bachelors from Jadavpur University, India

in Computer Science and Engineering.  I am a member of the CReWMaN Lab. from 2002 and my advisor is Professor Sajal K. Das.

RESEARCH INTERESTS:  

                                                Pervasive Computing; Middleware and Sensor Network; Mobile,

                      Distributed and Grid Computing; Human Computer Interaction

RESEARCH FOCUS:

                                         Pervasive Computing, Middleware and Sensor Network

#   Sensor Data stream processing for Pervasive Healthcare

#   Characterizing uncertainty/ambiguity/error in sensor-driven decision process

#   Context Modeling & Context-Aware Resource Management

#    Learning and Prediction Algorithms

                                         Mobile, Distributed and Grid Computing

#   Wireless Mobile Communication and Services

#    Mobility Management  and Location based Services

#    Application of Game Theory in Pervasive & Mobile Grid

                                         Human Computer Interaction

#    Ontological Representation of Human-Computer Interaction

#    Semantic Web Technology

WORK EXPERIENCE:                       

                                     Internship at Motorola Research Labs, USA, 2007

#        Developed a Semantic Web Engine to enhance the user experience for complementing DLNA

#        Investigated Motorola Faultline Tool, MAML, SVG, CSS, CVS, XML, OCAP, TV Guide, TiVo, SemanticWorks Toolkit, OWL/RDF, Jena

Internship at Sun Microsystem, USA, 2006

#        Worked at OEM Platform group as an Integration Engineering to develop IPP (Integrated Platform Product) using Solaris s10u2, SunCluster, Lockhart, Cacao, N1SM (Service Management) and N1SPS (Service Provisioning) software.

#       Investigated the open source middleware OpenClovis and SAForum Specification for High Availability Services. 

Internship at D & J Technologies Inc. USA, 2005

#        Designed and implemented an address book database. The platform used was Visual Studio.NET.

        Graduate Teaching Assistant at UT-Arlington (2002 - 2008)

#        Assisted the instructor in courses such as Computer Network, Operating System and in Lab assignment using Java and Visual Studio.NET.

HONORS and AWARDS:  

                                         #        IBM PhD Fellowship Finalist, 2008

#        Motorola Best Intern Apprentice Award, 2007

#       Outstanding GTA award 2007

#        Mark Weiser Best Paper Award at IEEE PerCom 2006

#       1^st  place at UTA Graduate Research Competition (IDEAZ 2005)

#       STEM Doctoral Fellowship, 2007

#        Dean's Fellowship, 2004-2007

#        TexTec Scholarship, 2004-2006

#        Nokia Scholarship, 2003

INVITED TALKS & PRESENTATIONS:

#        Motorola Labs (Lowell, MA), Aug 2007

#        Sun Microsystem (Santa Clara, CA), Dec 2007

#        PerCom 2006, Pisa, Italy

#        ICOST 2005, Quebec, Canada

#        Mobiquitous 2005, San Diego, CA

#       IPDPS 2005, Denver, CO

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

#        Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Transactions on Networking, Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks, Pervasive and Mobile Computing, JSAC, WiNET etc.

#        Reviewer for ACM Mobicom, IEEE VTC, ICDCS, ICON, ICPP, GlobeCom, HiPC, MSWiM, SECON, WoWMoM, PerCom

#        IEEE and ACM member

EXTERNAL PROJECT COLLABORATORS:

#        Dr. Archan Misra, IBM T J Watson Research Center, USA

#        Dr. Kevin Brooks, Motorola Labs, USA

#        Dr. Gu Tao, Institute of Infocomm Research (I²R), Singapore

#        Dr. Daqing Zhang, GET/INT, France