Raman Kannan

Center for Technology Development and Transfer

Software Engineering Department

Monmouth University, West Long Branch, NJ 07733

kannan@moncol.monmouth.edu

http://www.monmouth.edu/monmouth/academic/dna

Goals

• Stimulate and nurture excellence and creative thinking in learning and problem solving by
  • Effective Teaching; and
  • Organizing and Developing innovative Research Program.
    • (Distributed Network Agents (DNA) at Monmouth)

• Serve as a technical specialist for area industrial partners and government to:
  • transition advanced technologies and techniques in a timely manner and
  • forecast, manage and leverage these advanced technologies for competitive advantage.

Research Interest

• Primitives for Distributed Computing/Meta Distributed OS.
• Collaborative Environments for Software Engineering, Engineering Design.
• Support for Multimedia and Heterogeneous Digital Repositories. (UI and Navigation)

Teaching and Training Interest

• Introductory, Graduate level and Other advanced research Courses.
• 4 Courses a year.
• Software Engineering, Systems Design, Distributed Systems, Languages, Databases, User Interfaces, Multimedia and Internet Technologies

Research Experience

In Digital Archive Management (Support for Navigation) (Since 1995)

• Architectures for Automatic Detection of Semantic Dependencies
  • IEEE/WETICE-96, June 19-21 and W3C/OMG Workshop, June 24-26, 1996
• Computer Assisted Associative Browsing

In Database Programming and Data Management (Since 1994)

• Dynamic Manipulation
• Model based UI Generation and Programming

In Object Oriented Design (Patterns) (Since 1994)

• Patterns for Concurrent Distributed Applications (CPD Workshop, OOPSLA 95)
• Graphical User Interfaces

In Distributed Computing Environments and Collaborative Computing (since 1988)

• Network Computing Services for Collaborative Computing
• Network Computing (federated and portable) (IEEE TCOS Volume 6, No 1, 1992)
• Interprocess communication Models (Message Passing, RPC, Object Broker) (IPCCC 92)
• Portable and Light Weight Directory Services (Tools and Technology Workshop CSCW 92 )
• Security (Kerberos)
• Architecture for Scaleable Information Systems

In Distributed Artificial Intelligence - Programming Environments (87-88)

• Distributed Knowledge Bases (IEEE Expert December 1990)
• Interoperability, Exchange and Application

Teaching Experience

• Designed and delivered courses in advanced technologies
  • Distributed Systems (Fall 94, Spring 95, Fall 95, and Summer 96, Spring 97)
  • Introduction to Software Engineering (people, product, process) (Fall 96, Fall 97)
  • Software Process (Organizational/Team/Individual Levels) (Fall 97)
  • Systems Design (Fall 94 and Spring 96)
  • Language Evaluation (Spring 94 and Spring 95)
  • Internet and Multimedia Programming (Summer 95)
  • Database (Spring 96)
  • User Interface (Fall 95)
• Guest lectures on several occasions.

Funding Experience

• Proposed and Maintained the Network Computing Effort at CERC (88-92)
• Proposed Network Software System Modules for
  • Bell Atlantic Training Program ( 1995 - 1997 ) (Enrollment Based, in excess of 500K)
  • Bell Atlantic Management Training Program (1996) (150K)

Advisor and Leadership Experience

• DNA Laboratory, Monmouth University
  • Graduated several SE/CS/EE Students (since 1994)
  • In charge of DNA group efforts in IDAM, TIGER.

• Concurrent Engineering Research Center (WVU - 1988-92)
  • Directed the group efforts of 4 people including 2 full-time Research Associates.
  • Graduated 4 M. S. Students.

Presentations (Recent)

• Invited Lectures on Concurrent Engineering and Digital Archive Management.
• Technology Management ( Piscataway ACM 1996 Annual Dinner Meeting)

Industrial Experience

• Citibank, N.A. (1992-1994)
• Expert Consultant to major financial firms and New Jersey Superior Court. (1994-present)

Other

Ph. D in Physics (87), M. S. in CS (88) (West Virginia University).

Member of ACM, IEEE, IEEE Computer, SIGART, SIGOIS.