Rahul Ratan's resume

Education

[Expected: June 2008]Ph.D Candidate, Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park
[Dec 2002] M.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park
[May 2000] B.Tech. Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

Work Experience

[Aug 2000 - Present] Graduate Research Assistant
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park
[Aug 2005 - Jan 2006] Graduate Teaching Assistant
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park

Skills

Programming Languages and Operating Systems: C, 8085/8086 Assembly Language; UNIX (HP-UX11, Sun Solaris), Windows, Mac OS X
Tools: MATLAB; Mathematica

Projects

Simulation of a multistage, multicasting packet switch called Multinet Switch and its performance analysis
Implementation of a dynamic programming algorithm in C to solve technology mapping problem in logic synthesis. The problem is to choose gates for a circuit from a library of gates such that the cost (delay and area) of the circuit is minimized.

Publications

Rahul Ratan, Manish K. Shukla, A. Y. Oruç, Quantum switching networks with classical routing, Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems CISS'07 , Mar. 2007
Rahul Ratan, Manish K. Shukla, A. Y. Oruç, On random routing and its application to quantum interconnection networks, Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems CISS'06 , Mar. 2006
Manish K. Shukla, Rahul Ratan, A. Y. Oruç, Affine Image Warping on Programmable Graph Architecture using Grid Space Algebra, Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems CISS'06, Mar. 2006
Manish K. Shukla, Rahul Ratan, A. Y. Oruç, The quantum baseline network, Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems CISS'05, Mar. 2005
Manish K. Shukla, Rahul Ratan, A. Y. Oruç, A quantum self-routing packet switch, Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems CISS'04, Mar. 2004, pp. 484-489
Manish K. Shukla, Rahul Ratan, A. Y. Oruç, Quantum network switching, Tech 2004, University of Maryland, College Park, March 2004
Rahul Ratan, A. Y. Oruç, Routing on input queued buffered sparse-crossbar packet concentrators, Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems CISS'03, Mar. 2003
Rahul Ratan, A. Y. Oruç, Performance evaluation of input queued buffered packet concentrators, Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems CISS'03, Mar. 2003
Rahul Ratan, On Routing and Performance Evaluation of Buffered Sparse Crossbar Concentrators, Master's Thesis, University of Maryland, Dec. 2002
Rahul Ratan, A. Y. Oruç, Packet loss in bipartite concentrators, Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems CISS'01, Mar. 2001

Honors/Awards

[1997] Certificate of Merit for academic excellence for the year 1996-1997 at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
[1997] Invitation from government of India to witness the republic day parade from the Prime Minister's box for outstanding academic achievement in high school at the national level
[1996-2000] Merit Scholarship by NTPC (National Thermal Power Corporation) for academic excellence in undergraduate studies
[1994-2000] National Talent Scholarship by Govt. of India
[1996] National, state and school merit certificates for outstanding academic performance and for being among the top 0.1% 12th standard students in India in mathematics and physics
[1989-1996] Gold medal, merit blazer and tie for securing 80%+ aggregate marks for eight consecutive years in school
[1996] Merit certificate for being among top 1% candidates in the National Physics Olympiad
[1993] Science Talent Search Scholarship by Delhi state government

Activities

Reviewed papers for IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (IEEE-TPDS) and International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP)
[2000-present] Member of IEEE student branch, University of Maryland, College Park
[2005-present] Member of United States Tennis Association
[2001-present] Member of skydiving club, University of Maryland, College Park
[1997-2000] Member of quiz club, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IITK)