Lavanya Ramakrishnan

Indiana University, Bloomington

Email : laramakr

I am a doctoral student in the Computer Science Department at Indiana University Bloomington under Dr. Dennis Gannon. Previously I have worked as a research staff member at Renaissance Computing Institute and MCNC in North Carolina. I have a Masters degree from Indiana University (2002) and a bachelor degree in computer engineering from VJTI, University of Mumbai. I am currently located in Sunnyvale, CA from where I work on my dissertation.

Curriculum Vitae: pdf

My primary area of interest is in distributed systems including grid computing, high performance computing and utility computing. I am interested in workflow tools, resource management, monitoring and adaptation for performance and fault tolerance. My thesis explores the multi-level adaptation techniques required in dynamic web service workflows at the application and resource management level to meet application constraints (e.g. deadline) in conjunction with resource variability - performance and availability. I am also interested in multi-disciplinary research that enable scientific and business problems to leverage distributed systems.

• Robert J. Fowler, Todd Gamblin, Gopi Kandaswamy, Anirban Mandal, Allan K. Porterfield, Lavanya Ramakrishnan, and Daniel A. Reed. High Performance Computing and Grids in Action, chapter chapter, Challenges of Scale: When All Computing Becomes Grid Computing. IOS Press, 2007.

• Dennis Gannon, Rachana Ananthakrishnan, Sriram Krishnan, Madhusudhan Govindaraju, Lavanya Ramakrishnan, and Aleksander Slominski. Grid Computing: Making the Global Infrastructure a Reality, chapter 9, Grid Web Services and Application Factories. Wiley, 2003.

• Lavanya Ramakrishnan and Daniel A. Reed. To appear in Grid Portals: Enabling Collaborative Problem Solving, chapter 6, Bioportal. Morgan Kaufmann, 2008.

• Kelvin K. Droegemeier, Dennis Gannon, Daniel Reed, Beth Plale, Jay Alameda, Tom Baltzer, Keith Brewster, Richard Clark, Ben Domenico, Sara Graves, Everette Joseph, Donald Murray, Rahul Ramachandran, Mohan Ramamurthy, Lavanya Ramakrishnan, John A. Rushing, Daniel Weber, Robert Wilhelmson, Anne Wilson, Ming Xue, and Sepideh Yalda. Service-Oriented Environments for Dynamically Interacting with Mesoscale Weather. Computing in Science and Engg., 7(6):12-29, 2005.

• Dennis Gannon, Randall Bramley, Geoffrey Fox, Shava Smallen, Al Rossi, Rachana Ananthakrishnan, Felipe Bertrand, Ken Chiu, Matt Farrellee, Madhu Govindaraju, Sriram Krishnan, Lavanya Ramakrishnan, Yogesh Simmhan, Alek Slominski, Yu Ma, Caroline Olariu, and Nicolas Rey-Cenvaz. Programming the Grid: Distributed Software components, P2P and Grid Web Services for Scientific Applications. Journal of Cluster Computing, 5(3):325-336, July 2002.

• Lavanya Ramakrishnan. Securing Next-Generation Grids. IT Professional., 6(2):34-39, 2004.

• Lavanya Ramakrishnan and Daniel A. Reed. Performability Modeling for Scheduling and Fault Tolerance Strategies for Grid workflows. In In ACM/IEEE International Symposium on High Performance and Distributed Computing (HPDC), 2008.

• Lavanya Ramakrishnan, Yogesh Simmhan, and Beth Plale. Realization of Dynamically Adaptive Weather Analysis and Forecasting in LEAD. In In Dynamic Data Driven Applications Systems Workshop (DDDAS) in conjunction with ICCS (Invited), 2007.

• Lavanya Ramakrishnan, Brian O. Blanton, Howard M. Lander, Richard A. Luettich, Jr, Daniel A. Reed, and Steven R. Thorpe. Real-time Storm Surge Ensemble Modeling in a Grid Environment. In Second International Workshop on Grid Computing Environments (GCE), Held in conjunction ACM/IEEE Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, November 2006.

• Lavanya Ramakrishnan, Laura Grit, Adriana Iamnitchi, David Irwin, Aydan Yumerefendi, and Jeff Chase. Toward a Doctrine of Containment: Grid Hosting with Adaptive Resource Control. In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE SC2006 Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, Tampa, Florida, November 2006.

• Lavanya Ramakrishnan, Mark S.C Reed, Jeffrey L. Tilson, and Daniel A. Reed. Grid Portals for Bioinformatics. In Second International Workshop on Grid Computing Environments (GCE), Held in conjunction with ACM/IEEE Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, November 2006.

• Lavanya Ramakrishnan, Helen Nell Rehn, Jay Alameda, Rachana Ananthakrishnan, Madhusudhan Govindaraju, Aleksander Slominski, Kay Connelly, Von Welch, Dennis Gannon, Randall Bramley, and Shawn Hampton. An Authorization Framework for a Grid Based Common Component Architecture. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Grid Computing, Baltimore, Maryland, pages 169-180. Springer Press, 2002.

• Timothy J. Smith and Lavanya Ramakrishnan. Joint Policy Management and Auditing in Virtual Organizations. In GRID, pages 117-124, 2003.

• Multi-level Adaptation for Performability for Dynamic Web Service Workflows. In Distributed Systems Department, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, February 2007.

• Leveraging the Grid: Application Perspective. In Grid Computing class on NCREN, UNC Charlotte, November 2005.

• Large Scale Coastal Modeling on the Grid. In SURA Cyberinfrastructure Workshop: Grid Application Programming, December 2005.

• Grid: Next Generation Distributed Computing. In Graduate-level Distributed Systems Class, Department of Computer Science, UNC Chapel Hill, November 2004.