Manish Raj Sharma

Department of Computer Science
Boston University
Boston

Email: manishrs[AT]cs.bu.edu (replace AT with @)

Phone :  +91-934 256 6629
Advisor: John W. Byers

Bachelor of Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering - Birla Institute of Technology, India, 1998
M.A., Computer Science - Boston University, Boston, 2004

I am currently working at America Online, in Bangalore, India as a Senior Systems Programmer in the Internet Operations Infrastructure group.
I am the technical lead on developing tools to manage AOL's Transit Data Network ATDN.

Research Interests:

• Network Measurement, Monitoring and Analysis
• Network Performance
• Web Server Performance

Publications:

• Scalable Coordination Techniques for Distributed Network Monitoring
  Manish R. Sharma and John W. Byers
  To appear in the Proceedings of Passive and Active Measurements 2005, Boston, USA, March 2005

• How Well Does File Size Predict Wide-Area Transfer Time?
  Manish Sharma and John W. Byers
  In the Proceedings of Globecom 2002 (Global Internet Symposium '02), Taipei, Taiwan, November 2002

Projects:

Here is a list of some of the interesting ideas/projects which never made it to the press but I enjoyed working on in the past.
For details, please feel free to contact me

• Master's Thesis:
  Scalable Coordination Techniques for Distributed Network Monitoring

• On the Placement of Monitoring Devices in an IP Network
  Manish R. Sharma, Gianluca Iannaccone and Supratik Bhattacharyya
  

• Sketch-based Summarization of High Speed Network Traffic,
  Manish R. Sharma, John W. Byers and George Kollios

• Network Flow Accounting: A Comparative Evaluation
  Dhiman Barman and Manish R. Sharma
  

Experience:

• Senior Systems Programmer
  America Online, Internet Operations Infrastructure Group (September 2005 - Present)
  

• Senior Member Technical Staff
  Oracle India Pvt. Ltd. (May 2004 - Sept. 2005)
  Worked on Oracle RDBMS releases 10.1.0.3.0, 10.1.0.4.0, 10.1.0.5.0, 9.2.0.7, 10g release 2 on Linux AMD64, SPARC64, HPUX64, AIX5L.

• Intern
  Sprint Advanced Technology Labs , Burlingame, CA, USA. (March 2003 - August 2003)
  Worked on the development of a Continuous Monitoring box to monitor internet traffic in a scalable fashion and use the derived statistics to infer interesting properties about various network components and their effect on network traffic. I worked with the IP and Security group at Sprint and my mentor was Gianluca Iannaccone.

• Research Assitant
  Department of Computer Science, Boston University, Boston (August 2000 - April 2004)
  I was a research assistant in the MASS group at Boston University for several semesters during my 4 years as a graduate student. I was supported by an NSF grant. I was also a member of the Web and Internetworking group (WING) at Boston University.

• Teaching Fellow
  Department of Computer Science, Boston University, Boston
  CS555: Computer Networks (Fall 2003)
  CS111: Introduction to Computer Science Using C++ (F'00, SP'01, F'01)
  CS101: Introduction to Computer Science (Summer '01)
  

• Senior Systems Engineer
  Wipro Technologies, Bangalore, India (August 1998 - July 2000)
  Worked in the Wipro-Nortel telecom lab on DMS 100 telecom switch.

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Courses:

Courses taken at Boston University

Resume:
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Awards:

• Recipient of ACM SIGCOMM 2002 Student Travel Award