Teaching & Mentoring

Teaching & Mentoring

My teaching interests span core computer science, distributed and cloud systems, cyber-physical systems, and algorithmic decision-making. I emphasize conceptual clarity, hands-on systems work, and research-driven problem solving.

Areas

Teaching Interests

Core CS

Foundations & Systems

Operating Systems, Data Structures and Algorithms, Computer Networks, and Distributed Systems.

Systems

Cloud, Edge & IoT

Cloud and Edge Computing, Internet of Things, Serverless Computing, and Networked Systems.

Research Electives

Cyber-Physical & Intelligent Systems

Cyber-Physical Systems, Intelligent Transportation, Smart Infrastructure, and Optimization and Game Theory for Systems.

NIT Rourkela

Teaching Experience

CS3071 — Operating Systems Laboratory

Teaching Assistant · Undergraduate · National Institute of Technology, Rourkela

Fall 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021

Lab instruction, demonstration sessions, grading, and oral examinations (vivas).

CS6173 — Advanced Data Structure Laboratory

Teaching Assistant · Postgraduate · National Institute of Technology, Rourkela

Spring 2019, 2020, 2021

Lab instruction, grading, and oral examinations (vivas).

Course Development

Courses I Can Develop

Strategic Interaction in Cyber-Physical Systems

Game-theoretic reasoning, incentives, mechanism design, and strategic behavior in shared cyber-physical infrastructure.

Resource Coordination in Intelligent Transportation and Smart Infrastructure

Matching, optimization, scheduling, and resource-allocation methods for mobility and infrastructure systems.

Cloud-Edge-Serverless Systems for Latency-Sensitive Applications

Architectures, orchestration, scheduling, and performance trade-offs across cloud, edge, and serverless platforms.

Optimization and Learning for Networked Systems

Optimization, online decision-making, and learning methods for dynamic, distributed, and resource-constrained systems.

Research Supervision

Student Mentoring

Ph.D. Students

Sowjanya Tammali Ph.D. Candidate · Computer Science · Missouri University of Science and Technology
Debjyoti Sengupta Ph.D. Candidate · Computer Science · Missouri University of Science and Technology
Mahmuda Akter Ph.D. Candidate · Computer Science · Missouri University of Science and Technology

Master’s Students

Arpana Chakma M.Tech. · National Institute of Technology, Karnataka · 2020–2021 MatchCloud – Service Matching for Multi-Cloud Marketplace

Undergraduate Students

Shubham Kumar & Pradeep Kumar Mahato B.Tech. · Silicon Institute of Technology, Sambalpur · 2020–2021 VM Placement for Multi-Cloud Marketplace using Stable Matching
Lucky Behera B.Tech. · National Institute of Technology, Rourkela · 2019–2020 Virtual Machine Selection Policy using Deep Q-Learning
Lipsa Chhotray B.Tech. · National Institute of Technology, Rourkela · 2018–2019 Virtual Data Center Embedding in Cloud
Kasturi Panda B.Tech. · National Institute of Technology, Rourkela · 2018–2019 Virtual Machine Migration in Cloud