ARUN SAHA 3404 Avocado St, Riverside CA 92507. Email: saha@cs.ucr.edu http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~saha Ph: +1-951-534-8670 (C) Qualifications: --------------- Doctoral candidate in Computer Science with solid industry experience in design, coding, and testing. Strong knowledge and background in network management systems. Pursuing research in Security and Localization issues in wired and wireless network. Education ---------- 2003 Ph. D. Candidate, Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of California, Riverside (Expected Graduation: July 2006) 1999 Bachelor of Computer Science and Engineering Jadavpur University, India. Work Experience --------------- 2002 – 05, 2006 - pres Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Computer Science and Engineering General research and design duties in the areas of wired and wireless network security, sensor networks. Routinely perform reviews of current professional research, including abstraction and presentation of finding in research meetings. Research about port-based network authentication; identifying weaknesses and proposing solutions. Proposed small inexpensive Ethernet switches to reduce cabling requirements in the areas of high LAN-port density and making layout of LAN-ports extremely flexible. Research about secure verification of location claims, secured Key Agreement. Building of small wireless sensor network test bed for laboratory research. Preparation of procedures and finding for IEEE publication. 2001 – 02, 2005 – 06 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Computer Science and Engg. Primary teaching assistant for Computer Networks (CS-164), Introduction to Embedded Systems (CS 120B), Simulation and Modeling (CS 177), Data Structures and Algorithms in C++ (CS-14), Introduction to Computers (CS-8). Lectured to a large group of students about topics not covered by faculty. Set up homework and assignments, evaluated answer scripts. Maintained office hours to address student queries in person and via email. Record-keeping for class, including attendance, students’ scores, and assignments. CS 120B is a hardware-intensive course requiring the issuing of hardware components to students. Responsible for inventory and recovery of components at the end of lab. Occasionally responsible for student discipline issues in lab. 1999 – 2001 Senior Software Engineer, Hughes Software Systems, India Involved in design, coding, testing and integration of two major projects. Actively took part in Network Management solution development for a family of DSL products. Project involved management of several element managers and heterogeneous equipment over a SNMP interface. Duties included fault sub-system design, coding, building test plans, and test automation. Responsible for the training and orientation for new project engineers. Worked in a research project for building Transport Network Management Prototype. Duties included key roles in research and understanding about the ITU-T standards; design of the CORBA server, and database design and coding of the server module. Also responsible for integration of Transport Management server (in Network Management layer of TMN model) with another Element Management server (in Element Management layer). Successfully solved numerous issues in interoperability among multivendor Object Request Brokers. Selected Graduate Course Projects ---------------------------------- “Mining Sequential Patterns: Removing Counter Sequences” in Data Mining to find sequential patterns such that any reverse sub-sequence of those patterns is not frequent. A C-based mini-MIPS pipeline architecture simulator in Advanced Computer Architecture performing stall handling and data forwarding. “Degree-based Classification of AS Relationships to Generate Partially Directed Graphs of the Internet” in Advance Networks proposing importance measure of a node to infer Autonomous System relationships. Publication ------------ Arun Saha and Mart Molle. Thinking Outside the Box: Extending 802.1x Authentication to Remote “Splitter” Ports by Combining Physical and Data Link Layer Techniques. In Proceedings of 28th Annual IEEE International Conference on Local Computer Networks. Konigswinter, Germany, October 20 - 24, 2003. (Also presented at conference.) Arun Saha and Mart Molle, Partial Responses to solve the Man-in-the-Middle Problem in Key Agreement (In submission to IEEE Conference on Network Computing & Applications) Arun Saha and Mart Molle, Cross-layer techniques to make Timed-Echo Distance Estimation practical (in preparation). Soft Skills ----------- Language: C, C++, Java, Assembly, Perl, Shell scripts, VHDL Operating Systems: Linux, Windows (2000/XP) Tools: Matlab, CORBA, SNMP, Clearcase, Subversion, HP-Openview, CSIM Graduate Courses ---------------- Data Mining Techniques, Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Ad-hoc networks, Theory of Computation, Advanced Modeling and Simulation, Advanced Computer Networks, Advanced Database management systems, Advanced Computer Architecture, Unix System Administration. Academic Achievements --------------------- 2001: Dean’s Fellowship for graduate studies at UC, Riverside 1995: Secured 109TH RANK among 90,000 (approximate) examinees in the state level engineering entrance examination. 1993: Qualified the REGIONAL MATHEMATICS OLYMPIAD and represented my state to compete in the nation wide test. 1993: 38th rank among 5,00,000 candidates in statewide school certificate examination. 1990: MERIT SCHOLARSHIP AWARD by GOVERNMENT OF INDIA for a period of five years during high school. This scholarship is awarded only to very few students (approximately 50) selected through multi-level nation wide tests. Government endorses all their expenses throughout the period.