Parallel and Distributed Systems

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Tushar Mohan

Interests	Parallel and Distributed Systems – dynamic binary translation, memory use optimization, performance measurement, analysis and modeling. Networking – mobility, multicast, software routers, overlay networks
Education	2000–2002 University of Utah Salt Lake City, Utah MS Computer Science (completed Dec. 2002) GRE 2400 (800 Analytical, 800 Quantitative, 800 Verbal) GPA 3.95/4.00 1993–1997 Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, India BS Manufacturing Science and Engineering, Computer Science Minor GPA 3.2/4.0 Operations Research, Production and Inventory Management, Materials, Robotics, CNC-Machine Tools. Core courses in Computer Science. Final year project: Designed and fabricated a 2-D coordinate moving CNC machine.
Research	01/01 – 12/02 Advisor: Prof. Sally A. McKee Thesis: Detecting and Exploiting Spatial Regularity in Memory References Project in collaboration with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), to improve the memory system performance of production scientific codes. Defining memory access regularity and developing related metrics Profiling and measuring regularity metrics for real codes in use at LLNL Performance monitoring (SpeedShop / PAPI) Binary instrumentation (Dyninst) Research assistant at Cornell University 09/02 – 12/02
Summer Position	05/01–08/01 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Memory access pattern characterization for scientific codes Static instrumentation and reference trace generation Performance measurement through hardware counters (PAPI) Parallel programming – OpenMP, Pthreads
Industry Experience	01/03 (to date) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Performance analysis and modeling of SciDAC applications as part of the PERC team. 1997–1999 (29 months) HCL Technologies New Delhi, India Software Engineer Business application development for Lexis-Nexis, Inc.
Skills	C/C++, Perl Solaris 2.x, Linux 2.x, AIX 5.1, IRIX 6.5 OpenMP, Pthreads, MPI PostgreSQL (Perl DBI) Purify, gdb, nmake, Sun Workshop tools, CVS, PAPI, SpeedShop, SvPablo, DynaProf
Courses	Operating Systems, Compilers, Advanced Computer Architecture, Networks, Theory of Computation, Programming Languages, Advanced Computer Networks
Projects	Optimizing compiler, including backend for OO language Added mobile-IP support to the Click software router Peer-to-peer file sharing overlay network , utella (akin to Gnutella)
Work Authorization	F-1, optional practical training (EAD)
Teaching Experience	Teaching Assistant: Operating Systems (08/00 – 12/00)
Technical Reports & Presentations	Partial Data Traces: Efficient Generation and Representation F. Mueller, T. Mohan, B.R. de Supinski, S.A. McKee, and A. Yoo Proc. PACT 2001 Workshop on Binary Translation, Barcelona, Spain, Sept. 2001 . Dynamic Detection of Streams in Memory References T. Mohan, B.R. de Supinski, S.A. McKee, F. Mueller, and A. Yoo Poster presentation at Los Alamos Computer Science Institute (LACSI) Symposium, Santa Fe, NM, Oct. 2001
References	Sally A. McKee (advisor) Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University 324 Rhodes Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 [e-mail], [phone] Bronis R. de Supinski Center for Applied Scientific Computing, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Box 808, L-560, Livermore, CA 94551 [e-mail], [phone] Wilson Hsieh Assistant Professor, School of Computing, University of Utah, 50 S Central Campus Drive, Rm. 3190, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-9205 [e-mail], [phone]