Brief Bio

I am currently an Associate Professor and the director of Scalable Computer Architecture & Emerging Technologies Laboratory (SCALE) in the Department of Computer Science, Kent State University (KSU), Kent, OH, USA. I was an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at KSU from Fall 2015 until Spring 2021. Prior to joining KSU, I was a postdoctoral researcher in the Computer Science and Engineering division (CSE) at Louisiana State University (LSU) in Baton Rouge, LA, USA where I also received Ph.D. in Computer Science under the supervision of Prof. Costas Busch (now at Augusta University, Georgia). I received my dual degree European Master of Science in Computer Science from Faculty of Computer Science at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (FUB), Italy and Institute of Computer Languages at the Vienna University of Technology, Austria, under the supervision of Prof. Enrico Franconi and Dr. Peter F. Patel-Schneider. I received my Bachelor’s in Engineering in Computer Engineering from Tribhuvan University, Nepal. I interned as a Summer Consultant at Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs in Summer 2008.  I received a US National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award in 2021.

Research Interests

Distributed computing theory, systems, algorithms, and data structures

Online Algorithms

Blockchain

Network, graph, sensor, and robotic algorithms

Research Projects and Grants

CNS-2045597 CAREER: Transactional Memory for Distributed Systems, $563,649, NSF

CCF-1936450 EAGER: Transactional Memory Foundations for Distributed Multiprocessor Systems, $199,977, NSF

Teaching

CS 4/5/73303 Internet of Things, Spring 2016/17/18/19/20/21/22/23/24/25

CS 6/73305 Multicore Computing, Fall 2015/16/17/18/19/20/21/22/24/25

CS 35101 Computer Architecture, Fall 2019

CS 4/69995 Blockchain and Cryptocurrency, Summer 2019

CS 4/5/73302 Algorithmic Robotics, Spring 2017/Fall 2024

Introduction to Computer Science with C++ I, Fall 2013, Spring 2014, Louisiana State University

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