ॐ Anwitaman Datta

I obtained my Bachelor of Technology from IIT Kanpur before moving to EPF Lausanne where I did my PhD, interspersed with a summer visiting UC Berkeley. I joined NTU Singapore in 2006. I am interested in large-scale networked distributed information systems and social collaboration networks, self-organization and algorithmic issues of these systems and networks and their scalability, resilience and performance.   

Research Interests:
- Systems: Distributed and Peer-to-Peer Information Systems
- Algorithms: Distributed, Randomized, Epidemic
- Self-Organization
- Social and collaboration networks

My ResearchRadar indicates most of the conferences (and the corresponding research topics) that interest me. You can also check my ongoing projects for more detail.

New & News

• August 2008: Awarded HP Labs Innovation Research Program (IRP) funding for "Understanding and exploiting the dynamics of collaboration ecosystems" (August 2008 - July 2009)
• Prospective interns, please read this before (actually, not) emailing me.
• February 2008: A*STAR SERC grant awarded for research on A Creative Environment for Mobile Knowledge Workers (March 2008 - February 2011)

Recent Papers [download here]

• Classification in P2P Networks by Bagging Cascade RSVMs,
  DBISP2P 2008, 6th International Workshop on Databases, Information Systems and Peer-to-Peer Computing (with VLDB)
• Really Simple Security for P2P Dissemination of Really Simple Syndication,
  CoopIS 2008, 16th Cooperative Information Systems Conference (part of OnTheMove Federated Conferences)
• WikiNetViz: Visualizing Friends and Adversaries in Implicit Social Networks,
  ISI 2008, International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics
• Oscar: A data-oriented overlay for heterogeneous environments,
  ICDE 2007, IEEE 23rd International Conference on Data Engineering.
• LagOver: Latency Gradated Overlays, [best paper award]
  ICDCS 2007, IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems.
• Query-load balancing in structured overlays,
  CCGrid 2007, The 7th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid.
• Internet-scale storage systems under churn - A study of the steady state using Markov models,
  P2P 2006, The 6th IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing.
• The challenges of merging two similar structured overlays: A tale of two networks, [best paper award]
  IWSOS 2006, International Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems.

Recent TPCs

• The international conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P 2008)
• IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC 2009) P2P and content delivery track
• Collaborative Peer-to-Peer Systems (COPS) workshop at IEEE WETICE 2008.

Contact

SnailMail: School of Computer Engineering
                Blk N4, North Spine
                Nanyang Avenue
                Singapore 639798

E-mail: firstname @ ntu.edu.sg or gmail.com

Phone: +65.6790.4855

Fax: +65.6792.6559

Last updated: 11th November 2008