Brief Bio
Deepak Nadig is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Technology (CIT) at Purdue University. He is also the Director of the Cloud-native, Cyberinfrastructure and Networks (CYAN) Lab at Purdue CIT. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) in 2021. Deepak was the Director of Technology and Research at SOLUTT Corporation, India, from 2009 to 2015. At SOLUTT, he was instrumental in leading the networking and wireless operations and responsible for the design, development, consulting and training services in 4G/LTE and multi-gigabit wireless technologies. He was an IEEE-certified Wireless Communications Professional (IEEE WCP®) from 2014 to 2019.
He has served on the technical program committees of several conferences and as a reviewer for leading journals such as IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (IEEE JSAC), Computer Networks, IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE Globecom, IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS), IEEE International Symposium on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks (LANMAN) and IEEE Sarnoff Symposium. He has published in several leading IEEE/ACM conferences and journals. He is a member of the IEEE, IEEE Communication Society and ACM.
Prof. Nadig was the recipient of the 2017 IEEE ANTS best paper award, the 2019 Milton E. Mohr Fellowship, and a fellow of the Preparing Future Faculty (PFF) program at UNL. His research interests are computer networks, cloud-native infrastructure, software- defined and programmable networks, network virtualization, AI/ML applications for networking and network security. National Science Foundation (NSF) and Purdue University has supported his research.
Appal is a Doctor of Technology (D.Tech) student at Purdue University. He is the Head of Data Products at Silicon Valley Bank, CA. He has an MBA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a graduate certificate in cloud computing from Austin University and a Bachelor’s in computer science from India. He has over 20 years of experience in various roles, including leadership positions in Information Technology and Data Science in different companies across the globe. He has extensive experience building and managing complex data warehouses, data governance and cloud platforms to support internal/external reporting and analytics needs for organizations. He also worked on process optimization for organizations using various analytical tools. His research interests are in data and cloud observability.
Ayush is a Master’s student in Computer and Information Technology at Purdue University. His research interests are in Cloud-native MLOps and Cloud Autoscaling.
Publications
| 1. | : Heuristic-based Resource Allocation for Cloud-native Machine Learning Workloads. In: 2022 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS), pp. 415-418, 2022, ISSN: 2153-1684. |
Isham Mahajan is a Master’s student in Computer and Information Technology at Purdue University. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology from the Manipal Institute of Technology, India. He was a Graduate Research Assistant at Purdue’s Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC), where he automated and optimized JupyterHub deployments on Kubernetes. Isham’s research interests lie in the economic aspect of cloud technology, specifically in reducing deployment costs by fine-tuning container resources within Kubernetes. He is also passionate about creating efficient, cost-effective solutions for cloud application developers.
Hasanth is a Master’s student in Computers and Information Technology at Purdue University. His research interests are cloud-native network service mesh (NSM) and NSM performance optimization. Hasanth was an intern at Samsung, where he worked on DevOps pipelines. Before joining Purdue, he worked as a Site Reliability Engineer at ADP, acquiring skills in system reliability, availability, and performance enhancement. His current expertise is DevOps, Kubernetes, cloud technologies (AWS), and Python automation. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Vellore Institute of Technology, India.
Shoaib is a Master’s student in Computer and Information Technology at Purdue University. His research interests are in Cloud Accelerators and network offloading.
Kevin is a Master’s student in Computer and Information Technology at Purdue University. His research interests are in cloud security and quantum networking. He has over 3 years of experience in the mobile security field, and is currently employed in a full-time position as a security researcher at Peraton Labs.
Rohit is a Master’s student in Computer and Information Technology at Purdue University. He holds a Bachelor’s degree from IIT Indore, India. Before joining Purdue, He worked as a Software Development Engineer at Razorpay, where he specialized in big data systems and acquired skills in Scala, Spark, Kafka, Golang, and Java, with experience in engineering large Scala data-intensive systems. His research interests are in AI/ML for Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and cloud-native MLOps.
Vivek is pursuing a Master’s degree in Computers and Information Technology at Purdue University. He serves as a Graduate Professional Assistant at Purdue’s Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC), where he is engaged in the development of Ticket Hub, an AI-driven full-stack application focused on the deep analysis of user support requests. Prior to joining Purdue, Vivek gained experience as a Software Consulting Engineer at Cisco Systems, India, working in the Software Automation and Orchestration Team. His current areas of expertise include Kubernetes, Cloud Technologies (AWS and Azure), MERN Stack and Python Automation. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Amrita School of Engineering, India. Vivek’s research interests revolve around Kubernetes Schedulers and Cloud Native Infrastructure.
Parv is a Master’s student in Computer and Information Technology at Purdue University. His research interests are in enhancing cloud security using eBPF and XDP. He has have previously worked at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in the highly scalable cloud service development team in Bangalore, India. He has a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the Birla Institute of Technology, Pilani, India. His other interests include soccer, music, reading and he is passionate about health and fitness.
