Praveen Kumar Ramakrishnan Email & Phone Number

Menlo Park, California

Course: Internet Services (18845)Leading class discussions, critiquing students' critiques of research papers, grading projects, etc.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

Worked with Professor Garth Gibson (co-inventor of RAID) and Professor Greg Ganger (Director of Parallel Data Lab, CMU) on their Shingled Disks file system research

Greater Pittsburgh Area

Course: Introduction to Computer Systems (15213)Responsibilites include: Conducting recitations for a section of 35 students; Holding office hours for a class of 400 students; Assisting in forming exam questions and Grading

Palo Alto

• Developed a B-Tree based local file system that supports volume management, data striping, data replication and fault tolerance; Utilized SSDs for caching contents having cross VM temporal locality• Worked on the design to include extensions for copy-on-write, instant snapshots, logging and write-batching• Prototype showed an improvement of 4% in the IOs per second

Bangalore, India

Worked in the Research and Development section of Serving GPRS Support Node (SGSN) product. SGSN is a core network entity in the GSM/GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, and HSPA mobile multimedia networks, which is responsible for session management and mobility management.· Designed and implemented features and enhancements in GPRS Tunneling Protocol (GTP) handling· Developed the Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (MBMS) feature, a 3GPP compliant broadcasting service for the GSM and UMTS cellular networks· Implemented the support for providing IPv6 user address to mobile equipment for 3G/2G data calls· Optimized the statistics collection mechanism in the system and added SNMP traps and alarms to monitor the SGSN’s interfaces to the peer entities

Ms, Information Networking

B. Tech, Information Technology