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Updated on September 2, 2008

Welcome to Suman Srinivasan's home page.

I am a PhD candidate in the Electrical Engineering / Computer Science department of Columbia University . I work under Dr. Henning Schulzrinne in the Internet Real Time Laboratory .

I am currently working on 7DS, a platform that enables users and gadgets to communicate with each other in the absence of a larger network such as the Internet. While the first version we wrote was in C, we are currently rewriting the project in Java for a richer GUI, faster development, and true cross-platform development.

The technology that we are using for 7DS involves service discovery, particularly using mDNS, DNS-SD and Apple's Bonjour implementation. I am working on building a framework for mobile ad-hoc applications like 7DS using Apple's Bonjour, tentatively titled "BonAHA".

Among my other work at Columbia:

  • Student researcher with the WORKIT project, including building the website. (This may soon be my main project.)
  • Helping rebuild the IRT lab website
  • A/V crew: Helped videotape the invited special lectures and faculty candidate talks at the Computer Science department. January 2005 - December 2006.

Previous Work

I completed my MS degree in Electrical Engineering at the University of Florida under Dr. Haniph Latchman. At the University of Florida, I worked on ATSS - Airborne Traffic Surveillance System where I worked on the logistics, as well as the software design of a client-server application framework that would receive signals from the UAV and transmit them over the network. The "client" at the headquarters would receive the signals and switch the video view based on which signal was strongest.

My undergraduate degree at the University of Madras in India. I have been in the US since 2001.

My Spare Time

In my free time, I practice Falun Gong , the Chinese meditation that is persecuted in mainland China by the Chinese Communist regime . I also help with work for The Epoch Times , which helps raise awareness about the persecution and the human rights violations in mainland China ... and is a good paper too.

I am hoping that this website can serve as a good resource for finding out a little more about myself, as well as my other work.