Research Interests

I enjoy Computer Networks. I have dabbled in diverse areas like Wireless networks, Privacy in Mobile Networks, Recommendation systems in Social Networks, Botnets, to name a few.

Publications

Measuring and Fingerprinting ClickSpam in Online Ad Networks, (SIGCOMM 2012) | bibtex
Clustered Embedding of Massive Social Networks, (SIGMETRICS 2012)
Secure Friend Discovery in Mobile Social Networks,(INFOCOM 2011)
Scalable Proximity Estimation and Link Prediction in Online Social Networks, (IMC 2009)

Office Hours

Teaching

Introduction to Operating Systems

• Graduate Wireless Networks(CS 386W)
• Graduate Communication Networks (CS 386M)
• Advanced Computer Networks (CS 378)
• Intoduction to Computer Security (CS 361)
• Computer Networks (CS356)

Presentations

Wireless Networks Project (EE382V) Presentation: An NS2 study which shows that transmitting at the highest data rate in a linear chain 802.11 Network does not always result in the highest throughput.

NS2 Tutorial Presentation : An introductory presentation to NS2, with three example scripts, that I gave as the TA for the Advanced Computer Networks (CS378) class.

Other Stuff

Houston Crime Watch Houston police department crime data being mapped on to google maps, for two localities close to downtown. Geocoding uses the Google geocoding API to convert street addresses to Map points. The accuracy of the map relies on both of these services coming soon!color coded markers, for easy identification for high risk areas

Code Snippets and Utilities Some code snippets and utilities, that I have picked up, as part of work.

My Blog One out of millions out there - just some random CS stuff.