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Dr. Balaji Palanisamy,  Assistant Professor, School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, is  giving a lecture on “ Cost-effective Resource Management for MapReduce Clouds: Challenges, Architectures and Techniques” on 22^nd July 2013 (Monday)  at 10.30 am in the CSED Seminar Hall. He will also inaugurate the activities of CSEA  for the new  academic year.

Biodata of the speaker:

Balaji Palanisamy is an Assistant Professor in the School of Information Sciences in University of Pittsburgh. He completed his PhD in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology  and his research interests span the broad areas of Distributed Systems, Cloud Computing, and Big Data Processing.  His PhD dissertation research is primarily centered on performance optimization and data privacy issues in large-scale data-intensive systems and applications, such as MapReduce Cloud systems, Mobile Location-based Services and Privacy-preserving Cloud Computing. Balaji is a recipient of an IBM Research PhD Fellowship, a Best Paper Award in IEEE CLOUD 2012 and a Best Undergraduate Thesis award from Pondicherry University, India. 

All interested faculty members and students are invited to attend the talk

Dr. Balaji will be available in the CSE Department till 23^rd July Noon.  Students may meet him after taking prior appointments
 

( email:  bpalan@pitt.edu,  balajipec@gmail.com ).

The departmental farewell for the passing out batches of BTech, MTech and MCA was held on 10th April 2013 at Bhaskara Hall, NITC. The event was organized by Computer Science and Engineering Association, and was attended by the 2013 passouts and faculties of the department. The faculties addressed the students, and some students also shared a few glimpses of their college life memories.