1. Why DVM is used instead of the conventional Java virtual machine (JVM)?
2. What is an API level you are using in Android programing?
3. Can you develop Android application without eclipse?
4. What is the XML file in Android development that determines which processes will host application components?
5. What is the purpose of application permissions in Android?
Dear Dr. Sullivan,
I am replying to your request for evaluation of Dr. Naik for promotion to full professor. I have reviewed the package you sent for the review. Based on my reading/review, it is a pleasure to write this recommendation letter and I fully support his promotion. I am aware of his research work for the last 10 years. I have been involved in reviewing the funding proposals (in addition to reviewing journal and conference publications) for federal agencies in USA. Before writing my recommendation, I would like to highlight my expertise in this area.
I am the Director of the Network Security Lab in the Computer Science department at the University of North Texas. In addition, I am also director center for information and computer security in UNT which as designation as center for academic excellence in research by the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). I have over 12 years of experience in the networking industry, where I worked for Cisco, Nortel, Alcatel, and Fujitsu. I was responsible for advanced technology products from concept to delivery. I am currently a Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering department at the University of North Texas. My research interests include spam detection, network security, privacy in social networks, security in mobile devices, design of next generation networks, and issues in mobile/pervasive computing. In addition to more than 125 research papers, I have coauthored several RFCs related to MPLS, SS7 over IP, and routing and inventor of around 30 patents. I also received more than 10 NSF awards during the last five years totaling more than $5M. During 2011, I served as a visiting professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
As an opening note, I really like Dr. Naik’s scientific approach in solving research problems. Based on the review material, one noteworthy observation is the ratio of his journal papers to the conference papers. In particular, Dr. Naik published good number IEEE transactions papers. This is a clear indication of comprehensive and high quality research work. His recent work on routing protocols using social grouping is novel idea and can contribute to a concept of small-world network. In particular, in combination with a scheduling framework in ad-hoc networks, this methodology can provide a cost-effective and high performance network. In another work, Dr. Naik provided traffic profile of smart phones for energy efficiency in WiFi networks. He concentrated on enhancing the capability and energy efficiency in mobile devices. Dr.Naik also worked on hand off algorithms for vehicular networks. This is currently an unsolved problem and Dr. Naik provided a solution to this problem. Dr. Naik concentrated in scheduling and optimization of routing protocols and his work has been well cited by the leading researchers. Overall Dr. Naik has very high impact on the testing, scheduling and optimization of communication protocols.
I am really impressed by his activities on securing federal research funding and advising of post-doctoral fellows. His has commendable record and success on securing NSERC strategic grants and collaborating with other member of faculty. In particular, I am pleasantly surprised with his success in data collection in sensored homes, mobility management, wireless applications and energy conservation in devices. He was able to receive funding in performance evaluation of smart phones and I believe this is a fertile area for societal impact. Recently he secured small grants on machine-to-machine communication and possibly these grants may contribute to future funding activities for this upcoming research topic.
On areas of improvement, I think Dr. Naik did not spend much time on working with the industry and explored the possibility of testing the algorithms in real-life networks. Considering the nature of his theoretical work, this may be little bit difficult and understandable. Nevertheless, Dr. Naik worked on wide range of topics and demonstrated success in funding and research publications in diverse topics while collaboration with other researchers. His theoretical skills and scientific/scholarly work are really commendable. Based on the Dr. Naiks work, background, and field of research, I rate him top 10% of the researchers working in communication protocols and networks. In my judgment, Dr. Naik will be awarded promotion in majority (almost all) of the state universities in USA.
In my opinion, Dr. Naik meets and exceeds all the requirements of Waterloo P&T guidelines. In fact I certainly think that Dr.Naik can meet requirements of any other university in Canada. I strongly recommend him for promotion to full professor without any hesitation.