Education
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering
2017 – 2023
National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Odisha, India
GPA: 9.34 / 10
Doctoral Thesis:
Efficient Re-Embedding Strategies for Virtual Data Centers over Multi-Domain Substrate Networks
[Thesis Link]
Advisor:
Prof. Manmath Narayan Sahoo
M.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering
2015 – 2017
Birla Institute of Technology Mesra, Jharkhand, India
GPA: 9.24 / 10
Master’s Thesis:
Virtual Machine Placement in Cloud Data Centers
Advisor:
Prof. Gadadhar Sahoo
B.Tech. in Information Technology
2010 – 2014
International Institute of Information Technology Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
GPA: 7.91 / 10
Undergraduate Project:
Office Network Setup and Performance Analysis
Advisor:
Prof. Hemanta Kumar Pati
Research Experience
Postdoctoral Fellow
Aug 2023 – Present
Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T), Rolla, MO, USA
Supervisor: Prof. Sajal K. Das
- Postdoctoral researcher in the CReWMaN Lab, conducting research in cloud-edge systems, cyber-physical systems, and intelligent resource management.
- Co-PI on an NSF-EPCN proposal on EV charging and energy-aware resource coordination, contributing to technical design, preliminary analysis, evaluation plans, and broader impacts as part of NSF proposal development.
- Participated in the NSF I-Corps ecosystem (Local, Regional, and BOOST) as a Technical Lead, contributing to customer discovery, problem–solution fit analysis, and translation of research outcomes toward potential real-world and commercialization pathways.
- Lead contributor to the NSF-funded project “SOTERIA: Satisfaction- and Behavior-Aware Dynamic Resource Allocation in Public Safety Systems”, focusing on game-theoretic and learning-enabled coordination for emergency response networks.
- Conducted research on behavior-aware offloading and coordination in vehicular networks, targeting latency minimization, energy efficiency, and robustness under dynamic mobility.
- Developed dynamic route-planning and energy-aware optimization strategies for urban air mobility and solar-assisted aerial vehicles.
- Designed and evaluated deadline-aware scheduling mechanisms for serverless and microservice-based computing platforms.
Ph.D. Research Scholar
July 2017 – Feb 2023
National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Odisha, India
Supervisor: Prof. Manmath Narayan Sahoo
Doctoral research focused on resource management and optimization in virtualized cloud infrastructures, with emphasis on efficient complete and selective re-embedding strategies for dynamic virtual data center requests under demand fluctuations and multi-domain constraints.
Selected Publications from Ph.D. Research:
- ReMatch: An Efficient Virtual Data Center Re-Matching Strategy Based on Matching Theory
- CoMap: An Efficient Virtual Network Re-Mapping Strategy Based on Coalitional Matching Theory
- VMatch: A Matching Theory Based VDC Reconfiguration Strategy
Visiting Researcher
May 2016 – April 2017
National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Odisha, India
Supervisors:
Prof. Banshidhar Majhi,
Prof. Sourav Kanti Addya
Worked on the Virtual Machine Placement (VMP) problem in cloud data centers, proposing a meta-heuristic solution based on the crow search algorithm. Integrated live-migration strategies and conducted comparative evaluations under varying workloads and infrastructure configurations.
Resulting Publication:
Research Intern
Dec 2013 – May 2014
National Informatics Centre (NIC), Bhubaneswar, India
Supervisor: Mr. C. R. Kanungo
Worked on network design and performance evaluation using Cisco-certified simulation tools. Designed and configured enterprise-scale network topologies, analyzed routing protocols, and evaluated trade-offs between latency, throughput, and traffic patterns to recommend protocol selection under different deployment scenarios.