Dinesh Kumar
Project Maestro, INRIA, 2004 Route des Lucioles, 06902 Sophia Antipolis, France Ph:+(33)-(0)49238-7637
Email: dkumar@sophia.inria.fr

Current Position:

Second year Ph.D student specializing in wireless networks in the Maestro group at INRIA research laboratory, Sophia Antipolis, France (http://www-sop.inria.fr/maestro/).
Supervisor: Dr. Eitan Altman.

Education:

5-year Integrated Master of Technology (Bachelor + Master), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi, India. Graduated in May'01. Major: Mathematics and Computing.

Patents:

"An improved channel switching policy for common and dedicated downlink channels in UMTS taking care of TCP", Dinesh Kumar, Dhiman Barman, Eitan Altman, Jean-Marc Kelif. To be applied to European Patent Office by France Telecom R&D.

Conference Publications:

"Route Lifetime based Optimal Hop Selection in VANETs on Highway: An Analytical Viewpoint", Dinesh Kumar, Arzad A. Kherani, Eitan Altman. Under submission.

"Capacity Optimizing Hop Distance in a Mobile Ad Hoc Network with Power Control", Dinesh Kumar, Ramaiyan Venkatesh, Anurag Kumar, Eitan Altman. To appear in the proceedings of 4th Intl. Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt'06), Boston, USA, 2006.

"A Structural Property of Solutions to Path Optimization Problems in Random Access Networks", A. A. Kherani, D. Kumar, E. Altman. To appear in the proceedings of 4th Intl. Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt'06), Boston, USA, 2006.

"Cooperative and Non-Cooperative Control in IEEE 802.11 WLANs", Eitan Altman, Anurag Kumar, Dinesh Kumar, R. Venkatesh. Proceedings of 19th International Teletraffic Congress (ITC-19), Beijing, China, 2005.

"Recovering Camera Motion and Mobile Objects in Video Documents", Damien Paulin, Dinesh Kumar, Raghav Bhaskar, Georges Quenot. International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing, University of Brescia, Italy, September 19-21, 2001.

Book Chapters:

``Recovering in Video Documents'', Georges M. Quenot, Philippe Mulhem, Damien Paulin, Dinesh Kumar, Raghav Bhaskar and Arvind Bhusnurmath, ``Multimedia Mining: A Highway to Intelligent Multimedia Documents'' edited by Chabane Djeraba, chapter-5, pages 83-112. Kluwer, 2002.

Visits:

12/2005: Visited Jean-Marc Kelif at France Telecom R&D, Issy les Moulineaux (France) for collaborative research on association and load balancing in UMTS-WLAN hybrid networks.

08/2005: Visited Dr. Anurag Kumar at Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore (India) for collaborative research on optimal hop distance in dense mobile ad hoc networks.

08/2005: Visited Dr. A. A. Kherani at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi (India) for collaborative research on path optimization problems in wireless networks.

Professional Services:

External reviewer for PIMRC 2005, ICC Wireless Communications 2006, VTC Spring 2006, Networking 2006.

Professional Experience:

06/2001 - 10/2004: Software Development Engineer at Amadeus, Sophia Antipolis, France

Responsible for a system analysis project to study and propose a solution for integration of various back-end host simulators and tools.

Responsible for a proof of concept validation for a new architecture to be used as a common platform for all applications in Amadeus. The architecture involves a web-browser control based thin-client skeleton with XML technology for all cross-network communication and data sharing.

Defined $\&$ developed new version of Alcyon product used by Air France for flight/hotel/car reservation. (Object oriented programming in C++/VB)

Designed $\&$ developed SNCF rail seat-map component for Vista product. (UML, XML, XSL(T) coding)

05/2000 - 07/2000: Summer Internship at CLIPS-IMAG (Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science), Grenoble, France

Worked on 3D-shape $\&$ motion recovery from video sequences for Video Indexing purposes. (C, Mesa-OpenGL, Numerical Recipes coding)

05/1999 - 07/1999: Summer Internship at CITIL (Citicorp Information Technology Industries Limited), Bangalore, India

Worked on a data-mining project for developing rule based classifiers for financial applications.

Computer Languages and Software experience:

Programming Languages: C, C++, Java, VB, Perl

OS familiarity: Windows 2000/NT, Redhat Linux 8.0, Unix- SunOS 5.6, IRIX-6.5, AIX-4.3

Packages Used: Network Simulator (ns), Matlab, Maple, Numerical Recipes (nr)

Awards and Distinctions:

ORACLE India Scholarship for being among the top 6 students in the class at IIT-Delhi.

2 Gold Medals at National and State level each for the best science model exhibit at the National Science Fair, 1996.

Award for $2^{nd}$ best dissertation, Dept.of Maths, IIT-Delhi, 2001: Recovering 3-D Shape and Motion from Video Sequences.

Obtained 154$^{th}$ position in the National Level Mathematics and Science Talent Search Examination (total participants approx. 100,000)

Languages Known:

English (fluent), French (good), Spanish (very basic), German (very basic), Hindi (fluent).

References:

1)

Dr. Eitan Altman
Maestro, INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France.
email : Eitan.Altman@inria.fr

2)

Dr. Anurag Kumar
ECE Dept., Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.
email : anurag@ece.iisc.ernet.in

3)

Jean-Marc Kelif
France Telecom R&D, Issy les Moulineaux, France.
email : jeanmarc.kelif@francetelecom.com

Personal:

Age: 27, Date of birth: 14 January'79, Place of birth: New Delhi (India), Nationality: Indian.