About me:
I am a PhD student at The University of North Carolina at Charlotte. I am part
of Infrastructure Systems Research (ISR) Lab,where I am working with
Dr. Brent Hoon Kang. My research interest is in the areas
of Distributed Systems, specifically Optimistic Replication, and
Information Infrastructure Protection. I am also involved with the UNCC’s
Honeynet project. I completed my Masters in Information
Technology, from UNCC, in Dec'05, my undergraduate studies are in Computer
Science and Engineering, from JNN College of Engineering (JNNCE),
Karnataka,
India. In past, I
also worked as Development Engineer with the
Pramati Server team.
My Resume:
Here is my resume in PDF,
and Word Doc
formats. A Bio-Sketch can be found
here.
Research Projects:
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Summary Hash History (SHH)
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Towards a Distributed Peer Encyclopedia Model
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Summary Hash History for Optimistic Replication, a
copy
of the Usenix ATC'07 paper under review.
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Replicaplane - An Infrastructure Service for Data Replication
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Replica Based File System
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File System Compartmentalization
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Vsync: Unidirectional Synchronizer for WANs
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Data Flow Decision Framework
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Storgae Area Security
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Concord - A Framework for Securing File Access for a Partially Trusted Server
and Revocable Client
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Software Reliability and Trustworthy Computing
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Quantifying Reliability in IT Infrastructure Systems
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Honeynet Project
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IRC Command and Control channel detection
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Peer-to-Peer traffic analysis testbed
Publications/Demo/Tech Reports:
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RegColl:
A Centralized Registry Framework for Infrastructure System Management, Brent
Hoon Kang,Vikram Sharma, and Pratik Thanki, 19th Large
Installation System Administration Conference,
LISA '05
December 4–9, San Diego, CA
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Vsync:
Unidirectional Version Synchronization Protocol (Poster and Demo presentation
at the WORLDS'05), Brent Hoon Kang,Pratik Thanki,Vikram Sharma,and
Gautam Singaraju, 2nd Workshop on Real, Large Distributed Systems,
WORLDS'05
December 13, San Francisco, CA
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Poster presentation on 'Research on Infrastructure Systems Research' -
Detailing the research initiative of ISR lab on Information Infrastructure
Systems and Services, Gautam Singaraju,Vikram Sharma,and Pratik
Thanki (ISR Lab). The 2005 Annual Fall
Computer Security Symposium
, October 12, 2005
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Towards a Distributed Peer Encyclopedia Model, Vikram Sharma,
Carson Black, Brent Hoon Kang,
Technical Report TR-SIS-06-ISR-001,Dept. of Software and Information
Systems, Univ. of North Carolina at Charlotte, Nov. 2006
Talks/Presentations:
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Presented
RegColl: A Centralized Registry Framework for Infrastructure System Management
at LISA'05 in San Diego, December 4–9, 2005, San Diego, CA
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Concord: Securing File Access in Disconnected and Distributed Environment
(presented along with Vsync), Brent Hoon Kang, Gautam Singaraju, Pratik Thanki,
and Vikram Sharma
, WORLDS '05, December 13, 2005, San Francisco, CA
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Research in Infrastructure Systems Research Lab, 19 Aug 2005,
Graduate Seminar
series at College of Information Technology, UNC Charlotte
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Vikram Sharma and Gautam Singaraju, KerberAuth: Authorization module for
Kerberos, Spring 2004
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Vikram Sharma, Jing Jin, Wei Liu, and Gautam Singaraju, KerberAuth-v2: Ticket
Based Authentication Extension to Kerberos Authentication Protocol, Fall, 2004
Awards and Membership:
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Graduate Assistant Support Plan (GASP), Graduate School Scholarship for years:
2006, 2007
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Travel Grants
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Usenix stipend award for paper presentation at the 19th Large Installation
System Administration Conference (LISA '05) December 4–9, San Diego, CA
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Univeristy stipend award to attend 2nd Workshop on Real, Large Distributed
Systems (WORLDS '05) and 4th USENIX Conference on File and Storage
Technologies, FAST '05,
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UNC Charlotte Non-Resident Tuition Differential Grant for academic years: 2004,
2005, and 2006.
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Student member of ACM and Usenix
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Phi Beta Delta Honor Society for International Scholars
Last Modified: Jan 27, 2007
Disclaimer: The views expressed here are solely of the individual. I
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