Vitae

Ratan K Guha, Professor
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816
guha@cs.ucf.edu

Education:

Ph.D. Computer Science (1970), University of Texas at Austin
M.Sc. Applied Mathematics (1964), Calcutta University, India
B.Sc. Mathematics (1961), Calcutta University, India
Certificate A.D.P. and Computer Programming (1966), Indian Stat. Institute, India
Advanced Graduate Work in Comp. Science, Penn State Univ. (1967-69)

Academic and Industrial Positions:

	1995-present	Professor, School of EECS, University of Central Florida.
	1999	Visiting Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, Thammasat University, Thailand.
	1997	Visiting Professor, California Path Project, UC-Berkeley (Sabbatical leave).
	1996	Visiting Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, Purdue University, (Sabbatical leave).
	1987	Tokten Consultant, United Nation Development Programmer.
	1985	Visiting Professor, Computer Science Department, Beijing University, China and Consultant to WISE, Inc.
	1980-95	Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Central Florida.
	1979-80	Member of Technical Staff, Dept.of Computing and Networking Technology, Bell Lab.
	1979	Acting Chairman & Associate Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, Southern Illinois University.
	1976-79	Associate Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, Southern Illinois University.
	1973	Research Scientist Associate, Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Texas at Austin.
	1970-76	Assistant Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, Southern Illinois University.
	1966-67	Computer Technician, Indian Statistical Institute, India.
	1965-66	Scholar, Indian Statistical Institute, India.
	1961, 1965	Assistant Teacher, Narendra Nath Vidyamandir, Calcutta, India.

Research Interests: Critical Infrastructure Protection, Network Security, Distributed Simulation, Parallel and Distributed Computing, Performance Evaluation, Modeling and Simulation, Petri nets, Visualization and Computer Graphics.

Research Guidance: Dr. Guha guided four Ph. D. and over fifty M.S. students. At present he is guiding three Ph.D. and five M.S. students.

Research Grants: Over $4,500,000 in 10 yrs (A selected few grants are listed below).

US Army Research Office (May '01 - Apr '04, Option: May '04 - Apr '06) "Modeling and Simulation Environment for Critical Infrastructure Protegtion", [A multi-university research project: University members: University of Wisconsin (UW), Florida State University (FSU), George Washington University (GWU), and University of Central Florida (UCF); UCF funding: $,456,675 + Option $326,452 = $783,127; UCF: PI - R. Guha, Co- PI: M. Bassiouni.

National Science Foundation, (Sep '00 - Sep '04) "Introducing Fundamental Concepts and Evaluation Methods for Distributed Systems and Applications in the Computer Science Undergraduate Curriculum", (PI: Ratan Guha, CoPIs: M. Bassiouni, E. Gelenbe) [NSF: $530,000, and UCF $579,013, Total amount: $1,109,013]

US Army Research Office (Sept '95 - Jan '02) "Parallel and Distributed Evaluation, Visualization, and AI Reasoning to Advanced Distributed Interactive Simulation Technology", [A multi-university research project: Advanced Distributed Simulation Research Consortium with University members: Grambling State University (GSU), Florida A & M University (FAMU), University of Houston DownTown (UHD), and University of Central Florida; Total funding for all universities: $9,361,752; PI: M. Balaram (GSU), Subcontract PIs: P. Bobbie(FAMU), R. Alo (UHD), R. Guha (UCF, $1,656,415)].

National Science Foundation, (Jan '92 - June '96) "Parallel Computation in the Undergraguate Computer Science Curriculum", (PI and Project Director: Ratan Guha, CoPIs: N. Deo, T. Frederick, C.E. Hughes, A. Mukherjee; Others: N. Chandrasekharan, K. A. Hua, N. R. Vempaty, U. B. Vemulapati) [NSF: $589,960, and UCF cost share $789,654, Total amount: $1,379,614]

DOD/NAVY/STRICOM (Dec '92 - Dec '94) "Modeling and Evaluating Different Topologies for the Virtual Network of Distributed Interactive Architecture", (PI and Project Director: Ratan Guha, CoPI: M. Bassiouni) [ $159,720].

DOD/NTSC - PM TRADE (Feb '90- June '92) " Petri Net Models for Evaluating the Performance of Distributed Simulation Using Several Network Architectures", (PI and Project Director: Ratan Guha, CoPI: M. Bassiouni) [ $182,114].

A Selected Few Refereed Publications:

R. Guha and J. Wang, "Improving Web Access Efficiency Using P2P Proxies", Proceedings of 4th International Workshop on Distributed Computing", Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol 2571, Eds: S. Das, S. Bhattacharya, pp 24-34, 2002, Springer Verlag.

R. Guha, O. Kachirski, D. Schwartz, S. Stoecklin, and Y. Yilmaz, "Case-Based Agents for Packet-Level Intrusion Detection in Ad Hoc Networks", Proceedings of the 17th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences, pp 315 - 320, October 2002, CRC Press.

M. Bassiouni and R. Guha, "Modeling and Analysis of Temporal Failure and Degradation Behavior of Critical Infrastructure Systems", Proceeding of 35th Hawaii International Conference on System Science, January 2002, (in CD-ROM).

J. Wang and R. Guha, "A novel data caching scheme for multimedia servers", The International Journal of the Federation of EUROSIM: Simulation Practice and Theory, Vol. 9, Nos. 3-5, pp 193-213, 2002.

J. Wang and R. Guha, "Efficiently Allocating Video Data in Distributed Multimedia Applications", Journal of Applied System Studies: Methodologies and Applications for System Approaches, Special issue on Distributed Multimedia Systems with Applications, November 2001.

S. Rakshit, and R. Guha, "Managing QoS for Wireless Cells Supporting Critical Load" Proceedings of Globecom, November 2001, (in CD-ROM).

S. Rakshit, and R. Guha, "Analysis and Simulation of Wireless QoS with Critical Load", Proceedings of Summer Simulation Conference, July 2001, (in CD-ROM).

O. Kachirski, K. Hussain, R. Guha "Registration of 2D and 3D Objects Automatic Integration of Multiple Views" Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Technology for the New Millenium, Bangkok, Thailand, pp. 32-41, May 2001.

S. Rakshit and R. Guha "Modeling Multi-Class Service by a Single-server Vacation Queue with N-Policy" Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Technology for the New Millenium, Bangkok, Thailand, pp. 163-172, May 2001.

F. Hai, K. Hussain, E. Gelenbe and R. Guha, "Video compression with wavelets and random neural network approximations", Proceeding of SPIE-Applications of Artificial Neural Networks in Image Processing VI, Vol 4305, pp 57 - 64, 2001.

P. Sompagdee and R. Guha "Metamorphosis Of Graphical Objects Using Cartesian and Spherical Transformations", Proceedings of the 2001 International Conference on Information Technology for the New Millennium, pp 52- 61, May 2001.

J. Chu and R. Guha, "Triangular Level Quorums for Distributed Mutual Exclusion," International Journal of Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol. 15, No. 6, pp 373 -384, 2000.

J. Wang, and R. Guha, "Data Allocation Algorithms for Distributed Video Servers", Proceedings of the 8th ACM International Conference on Multimedia", pp 456 - 458, Marina del Rey, CA, 2000.

J. Wang, and R. Guha, "An Efficient Memory Buffer Management for Multimedia Servers", Proceedings of Conference on Simulation Methods and Applications 2000, pp 46 - 55, Orlando, FL, 2000.

V. Amico, A. Bruzzone, and R. Guha, "Critical Issues in Simulation", Proceedings of the 2000 Summer Computer Simulation Conference, Vancouver, Canada, pp 893 - 898, July 2000.

M. Bassiouni, R. Guha, M. Balaram and Y. Reddy "Finite State Automaton and Petri-net Models for Real-time Compliance Testing" Proc. of the 5th ISAS Conference: Communication Systems, Internet and Mobile/Wireless Computing, Vol. 4, pp. 126-133, 1999.

R. Guha, M. Bassiouni, P. Fishwick, George F. Stone III, Duane Sellers, Steffen Straßburger, J. Miro "Design and Modeling of Distributed Interactive Simulation and the High Level Architecture" Invited panel paper, Proceedings of the 13th European Simulation Multiconference, 1999.

L. Zhang and R. Guha, " Dynamic Push Set for Improving Web Access", Proceedings of Southeastern Simulation Conference, Huntsville, AL, pp. 34 - 39, 1999.

M. Bassiouni, R. Guha and M. Chiu, "ATM Backbones for Legacy LAN's Supporting Real-Time Applications", Proceedings of Southeastern Simulation Conference, Huntsville, AL, pp.83 - 87, 1999.

R. Guha, R. Madhuram and R Mohapatra, " Applying Wavelets for Terrain Data Compression", Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences, Turkey, pp 421 - 428, 1999.

R. Madhuram, R. Guha, and R. Mohapatra, "Wavelet Based Scale Filtering and Triangular Irregular Network for Terrain Data", Proceedings of Southeastern Simulation Conference, Huntsville, AL, pp. 136 - 142, 1999.

P. Sompagdee, and R. Guha "Reference Based Metamorphosis for Polyhedral Objects", Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences, Turkey, pp 441 - 450, 1999.

P.Sharma, O. Bignall, H. Williams, O. Sirisaengtaksin, and R. Guha, "Physics-Based Models of Fire Simulation: A Survey", Proceedings of 1998 Conference on Simulation Methods and Applications, Orlando, FL, pp 272 - 279, November, 1998.

C. Wallace and R. Guha, "An Extended Percolation Model For Fire Propagation Simulation", Proceedings of 1998 Conference on Simulation Methods and Applications, Orlando, FL, pp 151 - 154, November, 1998.

M. Bassiouni, R. Guha and Y. Reddy "Comformance Testing of Distributed Interactions in Simulation Networks", Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Applied Modeling and Simulation,, 1997.

M. Bassiouni, R. Guha, M Georgiopoulos, .and M. Chiu "Performance of Standard and Modified Network Protocols in Real-. time Simulation", Proceedings of IEEE International Performance, Computing and Communications Conference, pp 26-32, February, 1997.

R. Madhuram, S. Kim, R. Guha, G. Schiavone, and R. Mohapatra "Multiresolution Representation of Non-uniformly Sampled Terrain Databases Using Wavelets" Proceedings of the 30th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, pp 988 - 992, 1996.

J. Parsons and R. Guha, "A Technique for Modeling Flame Using Physically-Based Methods", Proceedings of 18th Interservice/Industry Training Systems Conference, 1996, in CD-ROM.

R. Guha, M. Bassiouni and G. Schow "A Framework for Modeling High Level Architecture (HLA) Using Petri Nets", 14th DIS Workshop on Standards for the Interoperability of Distributed Simulations, Position Papers, pp 515-521, 1996.

S. Datta and R. Guha, "Massively Parallel Surface Rendering", Proceedings of IS&T/SPIE's Symposium on Electronic Imaging: Science & Technology, 1995.

R. Pollack and R. Guha, "Parallel Image Compression Using Vector Quantization", Proceedings of Second Annual DCC Industry Applications Workshop, 1995.

R. Guha, M. Bassiouni, C. Wallace and G. Schow "Performance Evaluation of Hypercube and Completely Connected Wide-Area Networks for Distributed Simulation", Proceedings of the Southeastern Simulation Conference '95, pp 271-280, 1995.

R. Guha, M. Bassiouni, D. Roy and G. Schow "Scalable Modeling for Networked Simulators Using Petri Nets", Proceedings of the Southeastern Simulation Conference '95, pp 281-290, 1995.

R. Guha, J. Lindholm, M. Purnhagen, U. Vemulapati, D. Allen and R. Helmbold, "WPG System: A Secured Distributed System for Integrated Engineering Prototyping and Manufacturing", Proceedings of the Third International Conference on System Integration, IEEE Computer Society, 1994.

D. Roy and R. Guha "Modular Fault -tolerant Design and Reliability Allocation Algorithms for Mission-critical Multiprocessor Architectures, Proceedings of International Symposium on Parallel Architectures, Algorithms, and Networks, 1994.

S. Datta, R. Guha, B. Gupta, and P. K. Srimani "Revolving Hierarchy in a Hypercube Distributed System", Proceedings of 1993 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 1993.

SERVICE (Selected):

Computer Science Program Evaluator (1989-95), Team Chair (1996 - Present), Computer Science Accreditation Board, Connecticut: Normally review one program per year.

General Chair for Conference on Simulation Methods and Applications, 2000 and 1998.

Executive committee member and the Director of Operations for IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (1994).

Member of a review panel for National Science Foundation (1994).

Program co-chair for Software Engineering Research Forum 1993 in Florida.

Review panel member for a group of proposals for National Science Foundation (1992)

Reviewer of a special proposal for National Science Foundation (1992).

Reviewer of one research proposal for National Science Foundation (1991).

Special Judge for IEEE-CS to evaluate Computer Science and Engineering projects of the 42nd International Science and Engineering Fair an activity of Science Service (May 1991).

Panel Reviewer for National Science Foundation (November 1990). Evaluated 32 proposals. Evaluated one proposal for a special project.

Ratan K Guha, Professor School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816 guha@cs.ucf.edu

Education:

Academic and Industrial Positions:

A Selected Few Refereed Publications:

SERVICE (Selected):

Ratan K Guha, Professor
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816
guha@cs.ucf.edu