I write a blog called Distant Whispers where I muse and pontificate on things travel, technical, and tech policy. [ WWW ]

I have interests in creative writing, badminton, and Indian classical music.

A sampling of pictures down the ages is here.

A page with my current reads and music albums is here.

Here is the web page of somebody who keeps me sane and smiling.

For those of you wondering how to pronounce my name. And are too polite to ask. And willing to butcher it instead. [ MP3 ]

I act as a consultant on technical matters through a consulting company that several of us have called CSSCS. I am currently consulting on reliability, security, data analytics, and high performance computing.

I received the MS and PhD degrees from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in the Computer Science department, in 1998 and 2001, respectively. I worked with Prof. Ravishankar Iyer and Dr. Zbigniew Kalbarczyk there. My Ph.D. dissertation was on error detection protocols in distributed systems [ pdf ]. My undergraduate alma mater is the Indian Institute of Technology at Kharagpur where I did Computer Science and Engineering. I worked at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in Hawthorne, New York in the Distributed Messaging Systems group on a project called Gryphon in 2001.