D. Manivannan
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY 40506-0495.
Home page: www.cs.engr.uky.edu/~manivann

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Security and Privacy: Security in Cloud Computing Systems; Security and Privacy in Vehicular Networks; Security in Vehicular Clouds; Secure Routing in Vehicular and Mobile Networks; Intrusion detection in computer networks.
• Distributed Systems: Fault-tolerance and Synchronization in Distributed Systems and Cloud Computing Systems.
• Wireless Networks: Channel Allocation in Cellular Networks; Mobile, Sensor and Vehicular Networks.

EDUCATION

• Ph.D. Computer Science and Engineering, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, August 1997. Advisor: Professor Mukesh Singhal.
  
• M.S. Computer Science and Engineering, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, March, 1993.
  
• M.S. Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 1992. Advisor: Professor Dijen K. Ray-Chaudhuri.
  
• B.Sc. Mathematics (with special distinction), University of Madras, Madras, India.

EMPLOYMENT

• 2005 - present: Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky.
• 2008-2008 Visiting Faculty Member, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT, Kanpur, India
• 1998 - 2005: Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky.
• 1997 - 1998: Visiting Faculty Member, Department of Computer and Information Science, Temple University, Philadelphia.

AWARDS, HONORS and RECOGNITIONS

• First Faculty member from the Department to receive Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER Award) (2000-2004) from the National Science Foundation, USA.
• Served/Serving as Associate Editor/Editorial Board Member of Top Journals in the following areas: Parallel and Distributed Systems, Information Sciences, Wireless and Network Communications, Internet of Things and Cyber Physical Systems and Networks journal
• Visiting Faculty Member, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT, Kanpur, India (2008)
• Served as a reviewer for over fifty Journals published by IEEE, ACM, Elsevier, Springer, Wiley Interscience, Taylor and Francis and Oxford University press (See Journals List Below).
• Published in Several Top Journals published by IEEE, ACM, Elsevier, Springer, Taylor and Francis, Emerald and Oxford University press.
• Results from my research work have been presented in Two Graduate level text books written by Internationally renowned researchers in distributed systems: (i) Distributed Algorithms for Message-Passing Systems by Michel Raynal and (ii) Distributed Computing by Mukesh Singhal and Ajay Kshemkalyani.
• Served as Program Co-Chair of leading International Conferences in the areas of Reliable Distributed Systems and Wireless Networks.
• Served on several Proposal review panels of National science Foundation and as a reviewer for United States - Israel Binational Science Foundation and Singapore Ministry of Education Research and Development Program.
• Served as a Program Committee Member/Session Chair for more than 60 international conferences including IEEE ICDCS, IEEE ICPP, IEEE SRDS, IEEE Percom, IEEE CCNC, etc.
• Served as a Text Books Reviewer for Pearson Education, McGraw-Hill and Wiley in the following areas: Operating Systems, Parallel and Distributed Embedded Systems.
• “Wethington Award”, University of Kentucky. (In recognition of extramural funding)
• Served on the external tenure review committees of other Universities.
• Senior Member, Association for Computing Machinery.
• Senior Member, IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers).

RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS

• Here is a selected list of my journal publications along with the ranking of the journals.
• Here is the list of all my publications.

List of my current and graduated Ph.D. and M.S. students.

List of Ph.D and M.S committees that I served on.

COURSES TAUGHT

• Undergraduate Courses (Computer Science and Mathematics)
• Introduction to Computing Technology; Introduction to Data Structures and Algorithms; Introduction to Operating Systems; Introduction to Database Systems; Discrete Mathematics; Calculus I, II, and III; Abstract Algebra; Real Analysis; Topology; Complex Analysis.
• Graduate Courses (Computer Science)
• Modern Operating Systems (Distributed Operating Systems); Operating Systems Theory; Distributed Operating Systems Theory; Distributed Systems and Cloud Computing; Wireless Networks; Computer Security; Mobile Computing; Analysis of Algorithms.

JOURNAL EDITORSHIP (Selected list)

• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (2012--2014).
• Assocaite Editor, Information Sciences - Elsevier, since May 2008.
• Assocaite Editor, Internet of Things journal, since January 2021.
• Member, Editorial Board, Networks journal, since March 2021.
• Co-Guest Editor, International Journal of Distributed sensor Networks, special issue on ``Smart Sensing and Mobile Computing'', 2015.
• Technical Editor, IEEE Communications Magazine, (March 2012 - March 2015).
• Member, Editorial Board, Wireless Personal Communications, Springer, (June 2004 --2015).
• Associate Technical Editor, IEEE Communications Magazine, (January 2008 - March 2012).

PARTICIPATION IN CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION:

• Technical Program Committee Co-Chair, 33rd IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS-2014), October 6-9, 2014, Nara, Japan.
• Program Co-Chair, The 5th International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC-08), June 23-26, 2008, Oslo, Norway.
• Program Vice Chair, The 2005 International Conference on Pervasive Systems and Computing (PSC-05), June 27-30, 2005, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
• Served as a Program Committee Member/Session Chair for more than 60 international conferences including IEEE ICDCS, IEEE SRDS, IEEE Percom, IEEE ICPP.

MEMBERSHIPS IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

• Senior Member, Association for Computing Machinery.
• Senior Member, IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers).
• Member, IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Distributed Processing.
• Member, IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance.

REVIEW PANEL

• Served on numerous Proposal Review Panels of National Science Foundation.

EXTERNAL TENURE REVIEW

• Served on the external tenure review committees of other Universities

REFEREE FOR:

Served as an External Referee for:

• National Science Foundation.
• Singapore Ministry of Education Research and Development Program.
• United States - Israel Binational Science Foundation

Served as a reviewer for the following Journals (selected list from over 50 journals):

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems; IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications; IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing; IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing; IEEE Transactions on Services Computing; IEEE Transactions on Computers; IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering; IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics; IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology; IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems; IEEE Transactions on Network Science; IEEE Internet of Things Journal; IEEE Sensors Journal; IEEE Computer; IEEE Communications Magazine; IEEE Access; IEEE Network; ACM Computing Surveys; ACM Journal on Special Topics in Mobile Networking and Applications (MONET); ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC); Wireless Personal Communications, Springer Verlag; Distributed Computing, Springer Verlag; Information Sciences, Elsevier; Computer Networks, Elsevier; Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Elsevier; Information Processing Letters, Elsevier; Journal of Pervasive and Mobile Computing, Elsevier; Ad Hoc Networks, Elsevier; Computers & Security, Elsevier; Vehicular Communications, Elsevier; Internet of Things and Cyber Physical Systems, Elsevier; Computers and Communications, Elsevier; Parallel Processing Letters, World Scientific Publishing; Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (WCMC), Wiley Interscience International; Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Wiley Interscience International; Software-Practice and Experience, Wiley Interscience International; Journal of Information Science and Engineering, Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica; International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems, Taylor and Francis; The Computer Journal, Oxford University Press; Networks, MDPI publication.

Served as a Reviewer for the following Conferences (selected list, reviewed for multiple years):

IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom), Conference of the IEEE Communication Society (INFOCOM), IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS), IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), IEEE International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP), IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC), International Symposium on Fault-Tolerant Computing (FTCS), The International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC), International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing,

Served as Book Reviewer (in the area of Operating Systems) for the following Publishers:

• Pearson Education
• McGraw-Hill
• Wiley

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