Vacha Dave
PhD student, Advisor: Dr. Yin Zhang
Department of Computer Sciences
University of Texas at Austin
Phone: +1-512-232-7884
Address: 1 University Station C0500 Austin, TX 78712-0233
Office: ACES 6SEi4E , Email: vacha at cs dot utexas dot edu

Teaching Duties

I have been the teaching assistant for following courses:

From Fall 2006-2007, I was supported by the MCD Fellowship.

Research Interests

My research interests lie in the area of networking.
I have worked a bit on novel authentication schemes for client and server authentication. Currently, I am working on Content-location.

I am also a microcontroller hobbyist. I mostly work with the 8051 based microcontrollers.

Publications

Scalable Proximity Estimation and Link Prediction in Online Social Networks, (ACM Internet Measurement Conference 2009).

Office Hours

Wireless Networks (CS 386W) : Tuesdays,Thursdays 11 a.m. - 12 noon in ENS 31NQ at desk #1

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

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.