Ramesh Sitaraman

Ramesh Sitaraman
Alma materIndian Institute of Technology, Madras[2]
Princeton University[2]
Known forContent delivery network
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
InstitutionsUniversity of Massachusetts, Amherst
Doctoral advisorRobert E. Tarjan[1]

Ramesh Sitaraman is an Indian American computer scientist known for his work on distributed algorithms, content delivery networks, streaming video delivery, and application delivery networks. He helped build the Akamai content delivery network,[3][4] one of the world's largest distributed computing platforms. He is currently in the computer science department at University of Massachusetts Amherst.[5]

Biography

Ramesh Sitaraman received a B.Tech in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and a Ph.D (1993) in computer science from Princeton University under Robert Tarjan.[2][6] He helped build Akamai's high-performance network for delivering web and media content[2] and is an Akamai Fellow.[7][8] Currently, he is a distinguished professor in the computer science department at University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Research

Sitaraman's early research centered on algorithms for building reliable parallel networks from unreliable components by emulating a virtual overlay network on top of an underlying unreliable parallel network.[9][3] Later, serving as a principal architect,[10] he helped build the Akamai network,[3] a large overlay network that currently delivers 15-30% of all web traffic using 190,000 servers in 110 countries in over 1,100 networks.[11] He is known for helping pioneer Iarge distributed networks for web content delivery, streaming media delivery, and application delivery on the Internet.[3][4] His current research is focused on energy efficiency of Internet-scale distributed networks.[8][12] He is also known for his early work in building large-scale video delivery networks,[10] measuring their performance,[13] and more recently studying the impact of streaming video performance on users.[14][15][16][17][18]

Recognition

Sitaraman was elected as an ACM Fellow in 2019 "for contributions to content delivery networks, distributed systems, and scalable Internet services".[19] He was elected as an IEEE Fellow in 2019 "for contributions to content delivery, internet performance and distributed systems".[20][21]

References

  1. ^ Ramesh Sitaraman at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ^ a b c d "Biography for Ramesh Sitaraman". Retrieved 2013-02-04.
  3. ^ a b c d Erik Nygren, Ramesh K. Sitaraman, and Jennifer Sun. "The Akamai Network: A Platform for High-Performance Internet Applications, ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review, Vol. 44, No.3, July 2010" (PDF).
  4. ^ a b J. Dilley, B. Maggs, J. Parikh, H. Prokop, R. Sitaraman, and B. Weihl. "Globally Distributed Content Delivery, IEEE Internet Computing, September/October 2002, pp. 50-58" (PDF).
  5. ^ "UMass CS Faculty Directory". Retrieved 2013-02-05.
  6. ^ "Graduate Alumni". People. Retrieved 4 September 2022.
  7. ^ "New Video Quality Study Examines Causes of Viewer Behavior". Retrieved 2013-02-04.
  8. ^ a b "How smart batteries create efficient data centers, Green Biz, Jan 2013". Retrieved 2013-02-04.
  9. ^ F.T. Leighton, B. Maggs, and R. Sitaraman. "On the Fault Tolerance of Some Popular Bounded-Degree Networks, Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS), October 1992, pp. 542-552". 1992. pp. 542–552. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.35.9254.
  10. ^ a b "Keynote talk: Streaming Content Delivery Networks, Packet Video Conference, 2002". Retrieved 2013-02-04.
  11. ^ "Akamai Facts & Figures". Retrieved 2013-02-05.
  12. ^ "Batteries should be part of the future Internet infrastructure, GigaOm, October 2012". Retrieved 2013-02-04.
  13. ^ Ramesh Sitaraman and Reid W. Barton. "Method and apparatus for measuring stream availability, quality and performance, US Patent, Feb 2002".
  14. ^ S. Shunmuga Krishnan and Ramesh Sitaraman. "Video Stream Quality Impacts Viewer Behavior: Inferring Causality using Quasi-Experimental Designs, Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), Boston, MA, Nov 2012" (PDF).
  15. ^ "NPR Morning Edition: In Video-Streaming Rat Race, Fast is Never Fast Enough, October 2012". NPR.org. Retrieved 2013-02-04.
  16. ^ "Boston Globe: Instant gratification is making us perpetually impatient, Feb 2013". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 2013-02-04.
  17. ^ "CNN: Online viewers ditch slow-loading video after 2 seconds, November 2012". CNN. 12 November 2012. Retrieved 2013-02-04.
  18. ^ "Science Daily: How Online Video Stream Quality Affect Viewer Behavior, November 2012". Retrieved 2013-02-04.
  19. ^ 2019 ACM Fellows Recognized for Far-Reaching Accomplishments that Define the Digital Age, Association for Computing Machinery, retrieved 2019-12-11
  20. ^ "Sitaraman Elevated to IEEE Fellow for Pioneering Contributions to Content Delivery". UMass News Office. December 5, 2018. Retrieved January 3, 2020.
  21. ^ "IEEE Computer Society Announces 2019 Fellows". IEEE Computer Society. December 12, 2018. Retrieved January 3, 2020.