GAYATHRI CHANDRASEKARAN
WINLAB | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey | Technology Centre of New Jersey
671 Route 1 South | North Brunswick | NJ 08902
Email: chandrga@cs.rutgers.edu

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RESEARCH INTERESTS Mobile Wireless Networks, Wireless Security, Ubiquitous Computing

EDUCATION WINLAB, Rutgers University, NJ
Ph.D., Computer Science 		GPA: 3.9/4.0
Expected: May 2011
  WINLAB, Rutgers University, NJ
M.S, Computer Science 		GPA: 3.9/4.0
Sep 2006-Oct 2008
  Ohio State University, OH
Graduate Student 		GPA: 3.7/4.0
Sep 2004-May 2006
  Birla Institute of Tech. & Science (B.I.T.S), Pilani, INDIA
M.Sc. (Tech) Information Systems 		GPA: 9.5/10
Aug 2000-Jun 2004

EXPERIENCE AT&T Research Labs, Florham Park, NJ
Research Intern 		May 2009 - Sep 2009
  1. Algorithms for Vehicular Speed Estimation using GSM Signal Strength
  2. Evaluated the performance of Algorithms using Real-Experimental traces
Nokia Research Centre(NRC), Palo Alto, CA
Research Intern 		Jun 2007 - Sep 2007
  1. Designed a Privacy Preserving Scalable Infrastructure for Mobile Advertising
  2. Implemented a Location Based Service called "Virtual Posting" and ported the application to Mobile Device for system evaluation.
  3. Proposed caching of location based data at the wireless routers for improving scalability and privacy.
WINLAB, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ
Graduate Research Assistant 		Sep 2006 - Aug 2009
  1. [2009-present] Design, implementation and evaluation of algorithms for speed estimation using GSM Signal Strength. Collaboration with AT&T Labs, NJ.
  2. [2010-present] Acoustic Localization of Mobile phones in Car for Driver Safety applications.
  3. [2008] Empirical Evaluation of the Limits on Localization Using Signal Strength in the high-density ORBIT Testbed.
  4. [2008] Evaluation of algorithms for spoofing detection using 802.11e wireless devices.
  5. [2007-2008] Design, implementation and evaluation of algorithms for Inferring Context Information about Human Co-Mobility.
  6. [2006-2007] Experimental evaluation of a mechanism for bootstrapping a location service using geo-coded postal addresses.
Department of CSE, Ohio State University, Columbus OH
Graduate Fellow 		Sep 2004 - Jun 2006
Dept. of CS, Indian Institute of Science(IISc.), Bangalore, India
JNCASR Summer Research Fellow 		May 2003 - July 2003

AWARDS & HONORS University Fellowship at The Ohio State University Sep 2004 - Aug 2005
JNCASR Summer Research Fellowship May 2003 - Aug 2003
Merit Scholarship, BITS Pilani for maintaining a GPA of 10/10 Aug 2000 - Jun 2001
Certificate of Merit for Topping chemistry in AISSCE May 2000

SKILLS Programming languages: C, C++, Perl, Python, Shell scripting, JAVA, J2EE, J2ME
Tools: MATLAB, Wireshark, network and OS tools on UNIX/LINUX

TEACHING EXPERIENCE Operating Systems Design
Instructor, design the course and assignments and conduct lectures every week 		Spring 2011
Computer Security.
Conducted recitations, Graded exams & homework problems, held office hours. 		Sep 2010 - Present
Computer Architecture.
Conducted recitations, Graded exams & homework problems, held office hours 		Jan 2010-May 2010
Software Methodology.
Graded exam & homework problems and held regular office hours. 		Sep 2009-Dec 2009
Computer Assisted Problem Solving for Business.
Conducted recitation and lab sessions, graded exam & homework problems 		Sep 2005 - Jun 2006
PUBLICATIONS

Tracking Vehicular Speed Variations by Warping Mobile Phone Signal Strengths, Gayathri Chandrasekaran, Tam Vu, Alexander Varshavsky, Marco Gruteser, Rich Martin, Jie Yang, Yingying Chen, Accepted for Publication, IEEE PERCOM , March 2011 [AR: 11%]

Vehicular Speed Estimation using GSM Signal Strength Gayathri Chandrasekaran, Tam Vu, Alexander Varshavsky, Marco Gruteser, Rich Martin, Jie Yang, Yingying Chen, Proceedings of ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, UBICOMP , Sep 2010 [AR: 19%]

DECODE : Exploiting Shadow Fading to Detect Co-Moving Wireless Devices Gayathri Chandrasekaran, Mesut Ergin, Marco Gruteser, Rich Martin, Jie Yang, Yingying Chen, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing(TMC), Dec 2009, vol. 8 no. 12 (Extended Version of Mass 2008 Paper

Detecting Identity Spoofs in 802.11e Wireless Networks, Gayathri Chandrasekaran, John-Austen Deymious, Vinod Ganapathy, Wade Trappe, Marco Gruteser, IEEE GLOBECOM, December 2009 [AR: 34%

Empirical Evaluation of the Limits on Localization Using Signal Strength: Beyond Cramér-Rao Bounds Gayathri Chandrasekaran, Mesut Ergin, Jie Yang, Song Liu, Yingying Chen, Marco Gruteser, Rich Martin. IEEE SECON, June 2009 [AR: 19%]

High Throughput MAC Layer Multicasting over Time-Varying Channels, Ai Chen Gayathri Chandrasekaran, Dongwook Lee, and Prasun Sinha, Elsevier Computer Communications (COMCOM) , Volume 32, Number 1, pp 94-104, Jan. 200

DECODE : Detecting Co-Moving Wireless Device, Gayathri Chandrasekaran, Mesut Ergin, Marco Gruteser, Rich Martin, Jie Yang, Yingying Chen, IEEE MASS , Sep 2008 (short paper) [AR: 20%]

GRAIL: A General Purpose Localization System, Yingying Chen, Gayathri Chandrasekaran, Eiman Elnahrawy, John-Austen Francisco, Konstantinos Kleisouris, Xiaoyan Li, Richard P. Martin, Robert S. Moore, Begumhan Turgut, Sensor Review, special edition, Localization Systems, Vol. 28, No. 2, pp.115-124, 2008.

Bootstrapping a Location Service Through Geocoded Postal Addresses, Gayathri Chandrasekaran, Mesut Ergin, Marco Gruteser, Rich Martin, 3rd Intl. Symposium on Location- and Context-Awareness (LoCA, held with UbiComp), Sep. 2007 [AR: 31%]

HIMAC: High Throughput MAC Layer Multicasting in Wireless Networks, Ai Chen Gayathri Chandrasekaran, Dongwook Lee, and Prasun Sinha, IEEE MASS, Oct. 2006.

Association Management for Data Dissemination over Wireless Mesh Networks, Dongwook Lee Gayathri Chandrasekaran, Mukundan Sridharan and Prasun Sinha, Elsevier Computer Networks, 2007

Optimizing Broadcast Load in Mesh Networks using Dual Association, Dongwook Lee Gayathri Chandrasekaran, and Prasun Sinha Invited Paper, In Proc. of WiMESH (IEEE Workshop on Wireless Mesh Networks), Sep. 2005

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Peer reviewer for Pervasive 2008, ACM Mobisys 2009, ACM HotMobile 2009, IEEE Transactions on Information and Systems Security, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Communication Letters

Joint Coordinator for APOGEE-2003 ( A technical festival), B.I.T.S Pilani, India

MISCELLANEOUS Citizenship: India
Visa Status in US: Permanent Resident/Green Card