SUMEET SOBTI

Dept. of Computer Science, Princeton University

35 Olden St., Princeton, NJ 08544

Phone: 609-258-0419

Email: sobti@cs.princeton.edu Web-page: http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~sobti

OBJECTIVE

Full-time position in distributed systems, data storage systems and networking,

starting January 2005

EDUCATION

Princeton University, Princeton, NJ (2000 – Present)

Pursuing Ph.D. in Computer Science

Advisor: Prof. Randy Wang

Upcoming thesis:

“Distributed Mobile Storage Systems for Non-Uniform Connectivity”

University of Washington, Seattle, WA (1997 – 2000)

M.S. in Computer Science, GPA: 3.84 / 4.0

Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, INDIA (1993 – 1997)

B. Tech. in Computer Science, GPA: 10.0 / 10.0

EXPERIENCE

Research Assistant, Princeton University

Played the leadership role in several research projects involving as many as six fellow

graduate students. See publications for research results and project details.

Teaching Assistant, Princeton University

Assisted in teaching “Operating Systems,” “Database Systems” and “Introduction to

Computing” courses.

Summer Intern, NEC Research Institute, Princeton, NJ

As part of the Intermemory project, I designed and implemented an industrial-strength

B+-tree based database, and a data-synchronization facility to efficiently propagate

updates among a set of distributed databases. (Summer 1998 & Summer 1999)

Research Assistant, University of Washington

Designed and implemented efficient algorithms for several geometric optimization

problems arising in typography. The implementation included sophisticated algorithms

for solving instances of linear-programming and network-flow problems.

Teaching Assistant, University of Washington

Served as the “Head Teaching-Assistant” for an “Introduction to Programming” course

with more than 300 students. My role included coordinating a group of 8 teaching

assistants, helping with design of homework and exam papers, and other

organizational work. I also assisted in teaching several theory courses including

“Algorithms,” “Theory of Computation,” and “Discrete Mathematics.”

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

1. S. Sobti, N. Garg, F. Zheng, J. Lai, Y. Shao, C. Zhang, E. Ziskind, A. Krishnamurthy and R. Wang, “Segank: A Distributed Mobile Storage System,” Proc. 3rd Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST), Mar 2004

2. S. Sobti, J. Lai, Y. Shao, N. Garg, C. Zhang, M. Zhang, F. Zheng, A. Krishnamurthy and R. Wang, “Network-Embedded Programmable Storage and Its Applications,” Proc. 3rd IFIP-TC6 Networking Conference (NETWORKING), May 2004

3. R. Wang, S. Sobti, N. Garg, E. Ziskind, J. Lai and A. Krishnamurthy, “Turning the Postal System into a Generic Digital Communication Mechanism,” Proc. ACM SIGCOMM Conference, August 2004.

4. S. Sobti and P. N. Yianilos, “Distributed Storage,” Book Chapter, Practical Handbook of Internet Computing, Edited by Munindar P. Singh, Chapman Hall & CRC Press, Sept. 2004

5. F. Zheng, N. Garg, S. Sobti, C. Zhang, R. Joseph, A. Krishnamurthy and R. Wang, “Considering the Energy Consumption of Mobile Storage Alternatives,” Proc. 11th International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS), Oct 2003

6. J. Zedlewski, S. Sobti, N. Garg, F. Zheng, A. Krishnamurthy and R. Wang, “Modeling Hard-Disk Power Consumption,” Proc. 2nd Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST), Mar 2003

7. S. Sobti, N. Garg, C. Zhang, X. Yu, A. Krishnamurthy and R. Wang, “PersonalRAID: Mobile Storage for Distributed and Disconnected Computers,” Proc. 1st Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST), Jan 2002

8. Y. Chen, J. Edler, A. Goldberg, A. Gottlieb, S. Sobti and P. Yianilos, “A Prototype Implementation of Archival Intermemory,” Proc. 4th ACM Conference on Digital Libraries (DL), Aug 1999