ॐ Anwitaman Datta

I obtained my Bachelor of Technology from IIT Kanpur before moving to EPFL Lausanne where I did my PhD, interspersed with a summer interning in 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. I lead the Self-* and Algorithmic aspects of Networked Distributed Systems (SANDS) research group.

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

• Upcoming: Tutorial on P2P storage systems at ICDCN 2010
• September 2009: I join as a steering committee member for the IEEE P2P conferences.
• September 2009: Tutorial on "Structured Overlay Networks: Self-organization and scalability issues" at SASO 2009
• April 2009: Lecture notes on peer-to-peer systems from my course on Advanced Topics in Distributed Systems.
• January 2009: I will be a program committee co-chair of P2P 2009 (to be held in Seattle, Washington).
• August 2008: Awarded HP Labs Innovation Research Program (IRP) funding for "Understanding and exploiting the dynamics of collaboration ecosystems" (August 2008 - July 2009)
• February 2008: A*STAR SERC grant awarded for research on A Creative Environment for Mobile Knowledge Workers (March 2008 - February 2011)
• Prospective interns, please read this before (actually, not) emailing me.

Recent Papers [complete list]

• Structured Overlay For Heterogeneous Environments: Design and Evaluation of Oscar,
  ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (accepted)
• Fuzzynet: Zero-maintenance Ringless Overlay,
  Springer Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications Journal (accepted)
• CMV: File Consistency Maintenance Through Virtual Servers in Peer-to-Peer Systems,
  Elsevier Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (accepted)
• PeerSoN: P2P Social Networking - Early Experiences and Insights,
  SocialNets 2009, 2nd ACM Workshop on Social Network Systems at EuroSys 2009
• StereoTrust: A group based personalized trust model,
  CIKM 2009, The 18th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
• On Stability, Clarity, and Co-occurrence of Self-Tagging
  WSDM 2009, 2nd ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining
• Reliable P2P Feed Delivery,
  CCGrid 2009, 9th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid
• LagOver: Latency Gradated Overlays, [best paper award]
  ICDCS 2007, IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
• 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/etc.

• Publicity chair: The Fourth IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO 2010)
• The 30th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2010)
• IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC 2010) P2P and content delivery track
• IEEE International Worskshop on Security and Social Networking (SESOC 2010) with IEEE PerCom
• The Fourth International Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems (IWSOS 2009)
• ACM Sigcomm/USENIX Internet Measurement Conference (IMC 2009)
• Program Co-Chair: Ninth IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P 2009)

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: 29th October 2009