Nalini Belaramani

Phd Candidate
Department of Computer Sciences
The University of Texas at Austin

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About Me:

I am a Phd Candidate at the Department of Computer Sciences in The University of Texas at Austin. I work in the Laboratory for Advanced Systems Research under the supervision Dr. Mike Dahlin. Before this, I was at the University of Hong Kong where I received my Bachelors of Engineering in Computer Engineering and Masters of Philosophy in Computer Science.

I grew up in Hong Kong so I can speak Cantonese as well as English, Hindi and Sindhi. I am currently trying to learn Spanish. I enjoy swimming, cooking, dancing and watching movies.

Research:

Main areas:
Distributed Systems, Mobile Systems, Data Replication,
Declarative Programming, Adaptive Systems.

The main theme underlying my research is to build highly adaptive and adaptable systems targeted for distributed and mobile environments. My goal is to create a software infrastructure so that users can carry out all their computing needs on their mobile devices. I am currently focusing on distributed data replication systems. Some of the projects I am working on include:

PADRE: A policy architecture that enables system designers to quickly build efficient data replication systems by simply specifying consistency constraints and topology. We have built at least 8 systems with PADRE.

R/Overlog: A typed declarative language that can be used to build Internet Overlays as well as replication systems.

PRACTI: An infrastructure that provides all the necessary mechanisms for building replication systems including object storage, consistency meta-data maintenance and conflict detection.

In the past, I have also worked on the Sparkle project that employs component-based development to enable functionality adaptation for mobile applications.

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Publications:

Data Replication

PADRE: A Policy Architecture for Data Replication Systems (Extended) [pdf]

The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Computer Sciences,May 2008, TR-08-25.

Making Replication Simple with URSA [pdf]

The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Computer Sciences,October 2007, TR-07-57.

PRACTI Replication [pdf]

Third Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI2006), pp. 59-72, San Jose, USA, 8-10 May 2006

Component-Based Systems & Mobile Computing

Code On Demand and Code Adaptation for Mobile Computing

The Handbook of Mobile Middleware, Auerbach Publications, pp.441-463, 20 October 2006.

Software Infrastructure for Context-aware Mobile Computing

Enabling Technologies for Wireless E-Business, Springer, 2006

Context-aware State Management for Ubiquitous Applications [pdf]

International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing, pp. 776-785, Aizu, Japan, 26-28 August 2004

A Component-based Software Architecture for Pervasive Computing

Intelligent Virtual World: Technologies and Applications in Distributed Virtual Environments, Chapter 10, pp 191-212, World Scientific Publishing Co. Release: 31 Jul 2004

Dynamic Component Composition for Functionality Adaptation in Pervasive Environments [pdf]

The 9th International Workshop on Future Trends of Distributed Computing Systems (FTDCS2003), pp. 226-232, San Juan, Puerto Rico, USA, May 28 to 30, 2003

A Component-based Software system with Functionality Adaptation for Mobile Computing [pdf]

Master's of Philosophy Thesis, The University of Hong Kong, August 2002

Posters and Talks:

Posters

Making Replication Simple with PADRE [pdf]

Nalini Belaramani, Mike Dahlin, Amol Nayate and Jiandan Zheng
21st ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP2007), Stevenson, USA, 14-17 October 2007.

Talks

PRACTI Replication: Towards a Universal Theory of Replication [ppt]

The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, August 2006
Tata Research Development and Design Center, Pune, India, August 2006

Last Updated: Aug 2008