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I'm an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science at the Polytechnic Institute of NYU. I am interested in scheduling and resource allocation, distributed systems, multimedia, algorithms, optimization, security and gaming. In addition to my academic life I spent much of 1999-2003 at Akamai Technologies as a Senior Research Scientist and Engineering Director. I still work there part-time as an Engineering Fellow.

Here is an academic CV.

Courses I am teaching :

• CS6243: Graduate Operating Systems II

• Virtualized Gaming as a Pathway to Enhanced Understanding of Complex Networked Systems
• FORNET: Distributed Forensics
• LP-Based Approximation Techniques for Resource-Constrained Scheduling Problems
• Some of the Projects I worked on at Akamai.

Recent Program Committees:

• MAPSP 2005
• MISTA 2005
• MISTA 2007
• IPDPS 2008: IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium.

Students I have advised or am advising:

• Chui-Tzi Wang, Ph. D. 1995. Currently at CITIBANK.
• R. N. Uma, PhD, 2000. Currently at North Carolina Central University.
• Eugene Gluzberg, MS, 1999. Currently at Google.
• Gary Lee, MS, 1/2005.
• Eugene Smolensky, MS, 1/2006. Currently at Motorola.
• Surinder Singh, 1/2008. Currently at Microsoft.
• Miroslav Ponec, PhD 6/2008. Currently at Akamai.
• Chi Zhang, PhD. (Current).
• Ernest Lee, PhD. (Current).

Education:

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Cambridge, Massachusetts Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, September 1991.
  Thesis: Algorithms for Scheduling and Network Problems.
  Advisor: David Shmoys.
• Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel Fulbright Fellow in Mathematics and Computer Science, July 1985 to July 1986.
• Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts A.B. in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, June 1985.