2003-2004 Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Faculty ListingsArunabha (Arun) SenAssociate Professor and Associate Chair forGraduate Programs and ResearchE-mail: arunabha.sen@asu.eduPhone: 480-965-3190Office: BY 554Ph.D. University of South Carolina, 1987Arunabha Sen joined ASU in 1987.Principal Areas of Teaching and Research:Sen’s teaching focuses on networks andalgorithms. His research interests are inresource optimization problems intelecommunication networks. He also workson physical design of VLSI circuits, hardwaresoftwareco-design and network security.Selected Publications:R. Anderson, F.-C. Graham, A. Sen and G.Xue, “On Disjoint Path Pairs with WavelengthContinuity Constraint in WDM Networks,”Proc. of IEEE Infocom 2004, Hong Kong, May2004.S. Ganguly, A. Sen, G. Xue, B. Hao and B.H.Shen, “Optimal Routing for Fast Transfer ofBulk Data Files in Time Varying Networks,” toappear in Proc. of IEEE Int’l CommunicationConf. (ICC ‘04).S. Murthy and A. Sen, “A Peer-to-PeerNetwork Based on Multi-Mesh Architecture,”Proc. IEEE Globecom (2003).A. Sen, B. Hao, B.H. Shen, H. Jayakumar andS. Bandhyopadhyay, "On Preemptive Multi-Class Routing Scheme with Protection Pathsfor WDM Networks," Proc. IEEE Int’lCommunication Conf. (ICC’03).A. Sen, B. Hao, B.H. Shen and G.H. Lin,"Survivable routing in WDM networks–logicalring in arbitrary physical topology,” Proc. IEEEInt’l Communication Conf. (ICC’02).A. Sen, S. Bandyopadhyay and B.P. Sinha, “Anew architecture and a new metric forlightwave networks,” IEEE/OSA Journal onLightwave Technology, vol. 19, no. 7, July2001, pp. 913-925.Hari SundaramAssistant ProfessorE-mail: hari.sundaram@asu.eduPhone: 480-965-3186Office: BY 398Ph.D. Columbia University, 2002Hari Sundaram joined ASU in 2002. He holdsa joint appointment with the department ofComputer Science and Engineering and theArts, Media and Engineering Program (AME).Principal Areas of Teaching and Research:Sundaram is interested in problems relating tomultimedia, including segmentation,databases, structure discovery andsummarization. His current work focuses onthe development of computational models forexperiential systems. He is also interested ininvestigating relationships between naturallanguage, vision, audition and comprehension,as well as representational and algorithmicapproximations for real-time multimediacontent analysis.Honors and Distinctions:■ Associate editor, ACM Transactions onMultimedia Computing, Communicationsand Applications (TOMCCAP)■ Best Student Paper Award for “A UtilityFramework for the Automatic Generation ofAudio-Visual Skims,” 10th SIG ACM Conf.On Multimedia, 2002■ Best paper award for “A Fully AutomatedContent Based Video Search EngineSupporting Spatio-Temporal Queries,” IEEETrans. on Circuits and Systems for VideoTechnology, 1998.■ Eliahu I. Jury Award for best Ph.D.dissertation, 2002Selected Publications:H. Sridharan, H. Sundaram and T. Rikakis,“Context, memory and Hyper-mediation inExperiential Systems,” 1st ACM Workshop onExperiential Telepresence, in conjunction withACM Multimedia 2003, ACM Press, pp. 31-44.H. Sundaram and S.-F. Chang, “Computablescenes and structures in films,” IEEETransactions on Multimedia, vol. 4, no. 4,2002, pp. 482-491.H. Sundaram, L. Xie, and S.F. Chang, “A UtilityFramework for the Automatic Generation ofAudio-Visual Skims,” Proc. 10th ACMConference On Multimedia (2002), ACMPress, pp. 189-198.Violet R. SyrotiukAssistant ProfessorE-mail: syrotiuk@asu.eduPhone: 480-965-7034Office: BY 434Ph.D. University of Waterloo (Canada) 1992Violet Syrotiuk joined ASU in the Fall of 2002.The MARS Lab, under her leadership, isconducting research on three NSF fundedprojects and a DARPA subcontract.Principal Areas of Teaching and Research:Syrotiuk’s research interests are in mobile adhoc networks including adaptive mediumaccess control protocols (NSF/ANIR), scalableprotocol assessment (NSF/ITR), characterizingprotocol interaction (NSF/ANIR), energyefficientcross-layer design (GeneralDynamics), and dynamic spectrummanagement (Raytheon).Honors and Distinctions:■ Editorial board, Computer NetworksSelected Publications:K. Vadde and V.R. Syrotiuk, “Factor Interactionon Service Delivery in Mobile Ad HocNetworks,” to appear in IEEE Journal onSelected Areas in Communications.V.R. Syrotiuk and A. Bikki, “Modeling CrossLayer Interaction using Inverse Optimization,”Chapter 15 in Ad Hoc Networking, S. Basagni,M. Conti, S. Giordano, and I. Stojmenovic,eds., John Wiley & Sons, in press.C.J. Colbourn, A.C.H. Ling, and V.R. Syrotiuk,“Cover-Free Families and Topology-Transparent Scheduling for MANETs,” toappear in Designs, Codes, and Cryptography.A. Faragó and V.R. Syrotiuk “MERIT: AScalable Approach for Protocol Assessment,”Mobile Networking and Applications, vol. 8, no.5, Oct. 2003, pp. 567-577.A.D. Myers, G. Záruba, and V.R. Syrotiuk, “AnAdaptive Generalized Transmission Protocolfor Mobile Ad Hoc Networks,” MobileNetworking and Applications, vol. 7, no. 6,Dec. 2002, pp. 493-502.S. Basagni, I. Chlamtac, and V.R. Syrotiuk,“Location Aware, Dependable Multicast forMobile Ad Hoc Networks,” Computer Networks,vol. 35, no. 6, May 2001, pp. 659-670.A. Faragó, A.D. Myers, V.R. Syrotiuk, and G.Záruba, “Meta-MAC Protocols: AutomaticCombination of MAC Protocols to OptimizePerformance for Unknown Conditions,” IEEEJournal on Selected Areas in Communications,vol. 18, no. 9, Sept. 2000, pp. 1670-1681.ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY 41