Lakshmish Ramaswamy's Picture

Prof. Lakshmish Ramaswamy

Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
The University of Georgia
542 Boyd Graduate Studies Research Center
Athens, GA 30602

Email: laks[AT]cs[dot]uga[dot]edu
Phone: (706) 542-2737
Fax: (706) 542-2966

What's New
Research
Publications
Patents
Teaching
Services

Brief Bio

Dr. Lakshmish Ramaswamy is an Associate Professor in the Dept. of Computer Science at the University of Georgia. He co-directs the Network Systems Security Lab. Dr. Ramaswamy's research interests include Large-Scale Distributed Systems, Event Processing Systems, Overlay Networks, World Wide Web, Opportunistic Networks and Information Security, Privacy and Trust. He received the best paper award at the CoopIS-2010 conference for his research on cooperative mashup execution. He also received the best paper award at the WWW-2004 conference and the Pat Goldberg best paper award for the work on dynamic web content caching and delivery. Dr. Ramaswamy obtained PhD from the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He also has a MS degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.

News and Announcements
  • I will be serving as the program committee co-chair for CollaborateCom-2012. Please consider submitting a paper.
  • I will serve on the editorial board of the WINET journal starting from January 2012.
  • My PhD student Jianxia Chen receives the Best PhD Dissertation Award from the Dept. of Computer Science, UGA.
  • My students Raga Sowmya Tummalapenta and Deepika Sethi win the best poster award (first place) at the poster presentation event held as a part of the 2011CS Dept. Research Day.
  • Our paper titled "CoMap: A Cooperative Overlay-based Mashup Platform" wins the best paper award at CoopIS-2010.
Research Projects

Current Projects
  • Distributed indexing and querying of large graphs
  • Distributed infrastructures for scalable sensing and monitoring
  • Enhancing Quality and Trust in Collaboartive Information Systems
  • Attacks and Defenses in Denial of Information (Sponsored by NSF Trustworthy Computing)
  • Scalability and Performance of Web 2.0 Applications
Past Projects
  • Lightweight Continuous Queries in P2P Overlays
  • Edge Cache Grid for Scalable Content Delivery
  • Automatic Fragment Detection in Dynamic Web Pages
  • Connectivity-based Distributed Node Clustering
  • Countering Free Riding in P2P Systems
Teaching

In Spring 2011, I am teaching the Distributed Computing Systems course. A complete list of the courses that I have taught at UGA is available here.

Services

I often serve on the program committees of conferences such as ICDCS, CoopIS, ICWS and CollaborateCom. More information on my professional services is available here.

Students

Phani Rohit Mullangi (PhD, Ongoing)
Deepika Sethi (MS, Ongoing)
Raga Sowmya Tummalapenta (MS Ongoing)
Venkata Sriram Akella (MS Ongoing)
Aniruddha Jagalpure (MS, Ongoing)
Chinmay Murugkar (MS, Ongoing)

Dr. Jianxia Chen (PhD, Summer 2011, Currently employed at VMWare)
Dr. Osama Al-Haj Hassan (PhD, Summer 2010, Currently Assistant Professor at Al-Isra University, Amman, Jordan)
Kishor Mahajan (MS, 2011)
Piyush Parate (MS, 2009, Currently at EITS, UGA)
Sujeeth Thirumalai (MS, 2007, Currently at Akamai)