Tutorials

Structured overlays - Self-organization and Scalability issues (presented with Ali Ghodsi), 
SASO 2009, San Francisco, USA.

Peer-to-Peer Storage Systems: Crowdsourcing the storage cloud, 
ICDCN 2010, Kolkata, India.

Invited talks

Orchestrating self-organization: Large-scale distributed systems design and analysis,
NTU February 13, 2006, Singapore.
IBM Research Lab (IRL), New Delhi, India.

Dealing with dynamics in Very Large Decentralized Systems,
DoCoMo Labs Munich May 05, 2006, Germany.

Structured overlays scale ... or do they? Rethinking scalability in the age of internet-scale systems,
Panel discussion at P2P 2006 (Grand challenges for the P2P systems community) Sept 07, 2006, (Cambridge) UK.

Bootstrapping Decentralized Systems - A case study with structured overlays,
Tokyo Denki University, September 26, 2007, Japan.
Microsoft Research (MSR India), Bangalore, December 20, 2007, India.

Bootstrapping Overlay Networks,
Presented at "Collective Dynamics in Information Systems" organized at Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics China, March 26, 2008.

Rethinking structured overlay design: Beyond the (uniform) ring,
Seikei University (Tokyo), June 23, 2008, Japan.
IBM Research Lab. (IRL India), Delhi, 18th December 2008, India.
Indian Institute of Technology - Kanpur, 30th December 2008, India.

From peer-to-peer to people-to-people - Social Information Systems,
KTH/SICS (Stockholm), May 7, 2009, Sweden.
INRIA Saclay - Ile de France sud (Paris), June 15, 2009, France. In monthly seminar on peer-to-peer social network organized by the ASAP/GEMO teams.
INRIA Rennes, June 23, 2009, France.
Deutsche Telekom Labs/TU Berlin, July 2009, Germany. In T-Labs Networking Lecture Series.

Modeling P2P storage systems
IIT Madras, December 10, 2009, India.

P2P Storage Systems - Algorithms, Analysis and Applications
SMU, February 10, 2010, Singapore.

Demos

Implementation of the P-Grid system,
Demo for NCCR MICS Annual Workshop 2003, Thursday, February 13, 2003, Zurich, Switzerland.

PhD. defense

SoS: Self-organizing Substrates
EPFL 17th July 2006, Switzerland.

Last updated: 29th July 2008