GANESH GODAVARI

http://cs.uccs.edu/~gkgodava/

340 Shadow Ridge Grove, #535 Home: (719) 278-2646

Colorado Springs CO 80918 Office: (719) 262-3205

Research Interests
Computer and Network security with emphasis on distributed policy specification, grid and collaborative computing; resource allocation and management, fault tolerance in distributed systems.
EDUCATION
PhD, Computer Science (pursuing)(expected) May 2007
University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO
Master of Science, Computer ScienceMay 2002
University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO

Thesis: The Design and Implementation of Secure Content Switch

Post Graduation Diploma in MIS and Computer Applications May 1999
Osmania University, Hyderabad, India
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science April 1997
Osmania University, Hyderabad, India

PUBLICATIONS

  1. Ganesh Godavari, C. Edward Chow, “Secure Information Sharing Using Role Based Access Control”, to be published in International Conference on Security and Management, June, 2005
  1. C. Edward Chow, Ganesh Godavari, Yu Cai, “An Exercise In Creating A Lightweight Secure Instant Messaging System”, to be published in International Conference on Computing, Communications and Control Technologies, 2005
  1. C. Edward Chow, Yu Cai, David Wilkinson, and Ganesh Godavari, “Secure Collective Defense System”, proceedings of in the IEEE GlobeCom 2004.
  1. Xiaobo Zhou, Yu Cai , Ganesh Godavari and C. Edward Chow, “An Adaptive Process Allocation Strategy for Proportional Responsiveness Differentiation on Web Servers”, Proceedings of IEEE 2nd International Conference on Web Services, 2004
  1. C. Edward Chow, Paul Fong and Ganesh Godavari, “An Exercise in Constructing Secure Mobile Ad hoc Network (SMANET)”, 18th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications, 2004
  1. C. Edward Chow, Ganesh Godavari, and Yu Cai , “LSWS: a Linux-based Secure Web Switch”, International Association of Science and Technology for Development, Austria 2003
  1. C. Edward Chow, Ganesh Godavari, and Jianhua Xie, “Content Switch Rules and Their Conflict Detection”, Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies, Proceedings of 2nd PDCAT International Conference, Taipei 2001
ACADEMIA

Research Assistant

University of Colorado at Colorado springs. Apr 2002 – Till-Date

List of the projects I worked on are:

Title: Techniques and Tools for Supporting Secure Information Sharing and Collaborative Work

  • Developed tools and techniques for information sharing from various information systems using techniques of PKI, RBAC, and PMI among users belonging to multiple agencies.

Title: Admission control with adaptive resource management for defending degrading DDoS attacks

  • Implemented an Adaptive Process Allocation Strategy for Apache web server for achieving proportional responsiveness differentiation.

Title: SGFR: Enhancing the Security and Effectiveness of Collaborative Software for First Responders

  • Implemented secure and robust instant messaging based group communication tool using PKI, and group key management techniques.

Title: Secure Mobile Ad Hoc Network

  • A secure MANET system, called SMANET, was developed that accepts only those packets whose MAC addresses are in the Linux iptable firewall rules.

Title: Advanced content switch design

Sponsor: Computer & Communications Research Labs, Taiwan

  • Implemented a secure Layer-7 Application switch for routing requests to a cluster of servers based on content.
  • Implemented a Layer-7 based Application switch at the kernel using Kernel based TCP Virtual Service.
WORK EXPERIENCE
INDUSTRY

 Worked as Software Engineer, for a local startup company, AUTOUPTODATE SYSTEMS (Colorado Springs, CO) from Nov 2002 – Mar 2003

  • Implemented a secure mailing system that removes problems in current secure mail systems, like certificate management and trust issues.
  • System design and mail transfer is currently under patent proceedings (PUB. APP. NO. 20040148356).

 Worked as a Software Engineer for a local startup company, ZeeWaves Systems (Colorado Springs, CO) from May 2002 – Nov 2002

  • Developed propriety ZeeWaves Authentication for Wireless, which is under patent pending.
  • Implemented 802.1x’s supplicant PAE.

 Worked as Jr. Software Engineer for Wintech International (Hyderabad, India) from Mar 2000 – Aug 2000

  • Worked on client interface and reporting tools for a web based Employee and Visitor Movement Module (EVMM) using Java servlet, HTML, JavaScript, VBScript, HTML, Oracle 8.0.

 Worked as a Software Programmer for perfect software solutions (Hyderabad, India) from Aug 1999 – Mar 2000

  • Worked on client interfaces, and reporting tools for Inventory and Production Planning and Control Modules using Visual Basic, Oracle 7.1.

SKILLS

Languages: C, C++, Perl, and Java2.0
IDES: Visual Studio, JBUILDER, Kdeveloper
Front End: Developer-2000, Visual Basic-6.0, HTML, XML

Databases: Oracle-7.x/8.0, Sql Server, MySql.

Tools: Ethereal, SSLDUMP, Tornado, gdb, RCS.

Packages: PThreads, OPENSSL 0.9.6, LibPCAP 0.6, LIbNET-1.0, MS-Office.

Operating Systems: Linux, Solaris, and Windows NT/2000, VxWorks, RTLinux.

US Visa Status

Non-resident, F1

References available on request