Rajani Muraleedharan

Hello! My name is Rajani Muraleedharan am currently a Doctoral candidate in Electrical Engineering at Syracuse University. Please take your time and post me
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Summary
  ±  Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Wireless Communications and Networking Group, University of Rochester.
  ±  Research in Cloud computing for mobile devices utilizing Big Data.
  ±  Extensive research in Bio-Inspired algorithm using interdisciplinary approach on performance metrics and multi-objective optimization problems.
  ±  Extensive research in Routing and Security Strategies in Wireless Sensor Networks.
  ±  Rich teaching experience in graduate and undergraduate level courses on diverse subjects.
  ±  Published 2 Book Chapters, 4 Journal Articles and 26 peer reviewed articles (2 Best Paper Awards).
  ±  Awarded Outstanding Teaching Assistant at University Level (Top 4%) in 2009
  ±  Awarded Certificate in University Teaching (CUT) offered by Future Professoriate Program in 2009

MOCHA (MObile Cloud-based Hybrid Architecture)
  ±  Research mobile collaboration, dynamic task partitioning, load-balancing and parallel computing in cloud based “big data” applications such as face and object recognition.
  ±  Design and implement a cloud-based architecture to support private (University of Rochester) and public (AWS EC2) for commercial and military purpose.
  ±  Simulate real-time interactions between mobile devices, cloudlet (UofR) and public cloud resources (AWS EC2).

BRIDGE
  ±  Research on non-contact, sensing systems for validly capturing autonomic nervous system (ANS) activity underlying emotional reactivity during family interaction tasks at a physiological level of analysis
  ±  Design a prototype for emotion detection in real and synthesized speech using feature extraction techniques and machine learning methods.

Wireless Smart Meter Networks
  ±  Researched and developed a routing algorithm for wireless smart meter networks.
  ±  Analyzed and identified potential issues in Network and MAC layers in smart grid.
  ±  Reviewed current standards, identify improvement areas and support the preparation of patent applications.

Distributed Communication, Networking and Security
  ±  Designed and Simulated cross-layer communication by reducing power consumption, improving quality-of-service and security based on sensor’s mission using physical, MAC and Network layer performance metrics, nature inspired Ant Colony optimization algorithm and Partially Ordered Sets (POSets).
  ±  Analyzed security, communication and optimization strategies for Sensor Networks using evolutionary algorithms.
  ±  Analyzed denial-of-service attacks and other anomalies in Wireless Sensor Networks, and designed solutions using Bayesian Network and Swarm based fusion.
  ±  Applied Wireless and Ad-hoc routing and security protocols in applications such as sensor network, 4G, Intelligent transportation system, Underwater acoustic sensor network, and optical network.
  ±  Formulated an energy aware scheme using adaptive modulation and coding schemes for wireless sensor networks

Biometrics Recognition
  ±  Proposed a prototype for wireless biometric recognition and verification security system using swarm intelligence for public and private organizations.
  ±  Formulated performance based metrics that incorporates image recognition and sensor resources using multi-objective optimization algorithm
  ±  Data types include eigenface, wavelet co-efficient and raw data transmission for centralized, hierarchical and distributed networks.

Wind Turbine Diagnostic and Prognostic
  ±  Implemented data mining techniques using swarm optimization to identify and predict abnormal patterns in wind turbine data, to improve efficiency and maintenance cost for wind farm.
  ±  Developed measures to predict blade icing and failure by mining meteorologist, and system data.
  ±  Research in partnership with AWS Truewind, Albany NY.
  ±  Manage and publish projects for several governments sponsored and industry funded research programs.

Book Chapters:
Sleeping Techniques for Reducing Energy Dissipation
Rajani Muraleedharan, Ilker Demirkol, Ou Yang, He Ba, Surjya Ray, and Wendi Heinzelman, book titled, “The Art of Wireless Sensor Network ”, 1st ed., Habib M. Ammari (Editor), Springer - To be published in 2012

Cognitive Routing Protocol for Sensor Based Intelligent Transportation System
Rajani Muraleedharan and Lisa Ann Osadciw, book titled, “Wireless Technologies for Intelligent Transportation Systems”, Ming-Tuo Zhou, Y. Zhang and Laurence T. Yang (Editor), Nova Science Publishers, USA, 2008

Journal Articles:
ReCAPP: Real-time Cloud/grid based Application Platform using synergistic mobile/cloudlet coupling
Tolga Soyata, Rajani Muraleedharan, Scott Ames, Colin Funai, Zou Chao, Minseok Kwon and Wendi Heinzelman, Special Issue on Cloud-Based Mobile Media, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, publication date: 2013

Resource Optimization in Distributed Biometric Recognition Using Wireless Sensor Network
Rajani Muraleedharan, Lisa Ann Osadciw and Yanjun Yan, Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing Journal, 2009.

SmartCare: Health Monitoring Using Wireless Sensor Networks
Rajani Muraleedharan and Lisa Ann Osadciw, Special Issue: Pervasive Health Care Services and Technologies, International Journal of Telemedicine and Applications, 2008.

Constructing on Efficient Wireless Face Recognition System by Swarm Intelligence
Rajani Muraleedharan, Yanjun Yan and Lisa Ann Osadciw, SCI journal, 2007.


Peer Reviewed Conference Papers:
Cloud-Vision: Real-time Face Recognition Using a Mobile-Cloudlet-Cloud Acceleration Architecture
Tolga Soyata, Rajani Muraleedharan, Colin Funai, Minseok Kwon and Wendi Heinzelman, Seventeenth IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communication (ISCC), Turkey, July 2012.

COMBAT: mobile-Cloud-based cOmpute/communication infrastructure for BATtlefield applications
Tolga Soyata, Rajani Muraleedharan, Jonathan Langdon, Colin Funai, Minseok Kwon and Wendi Heinzelman, SPIE Defense and Security, Baltimore, Maryland, Apr 2010.

Bio-Inspired Secure Data Mules for Medical Sensor Network
Rajani Muraleedharan, and Lisa Ann Osadciw, SPIE Defense and Security, Orlando, FL, Mar 2010.

An Intrusion Detection Framework for Sensor Networks Using Ant Colony
Rajani Muraleedharan, and Lisa Ann Osadciw, ASILOMAR, Pacific Grove, CA, Nov 2009.

Secure Self-Adaptive Framework for Distributed Smart Home Sensor Network
Rajani Muraleedharan, and Lisa Ann Osadciw, ASILOMAR, Pacific Grove, CA, Nov 2009.

Cognitive Security Protocol for Sensor Based VANET Using Swarm Intelligence
Rajani Muraleedharan, and Lisa Ann Osadciw, ASILOMAR, Pacific Grove, CA, Nov 2009.

Secure Self-Adaptive Mission Critical Framework for Distributed Smart Home Sensor Network
Rajani Muraleedharan, and Lisa Ann Osadciw, MobiQuitious, Toronto, Canada, July 2009.

Secure Communication in Heterogeneous Sensor Networks
Rajani Muraleedharan, and Lisa Ann Osadciw, MobiQuitious, Work-in-Progress, Toronto, Canada, July 2009.

Swarm Optimized UWB-PPM and Protocol design for sensor network
Rajani Muraleedharan, Weihua Gao and Lisa Ann Osadciw, SPIE Defense and Security Symposium, Orlando, FL, April 2009.

Swarm Intelligence Managed UWB Waveform and Cognitive Sensor Network Protocol
Rajani Muraleedharan, Weihua Gao and Lisa Ann Osadciw, IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium, St. Louis, Missouri, March 2009

Meta-heuristic Cross-Layer Protocol for UWB Emergency Responder Sensor Network
Rajani Muraleedharan, Weihua Gao and Lisa Ann Osadciw, IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium, St. Louis, Missouri, September 2008

Secure Health Monitoring Network Against Denial-Of-Service Attacks Using Cognitive Intelligence * BEST PAPER AWARD
Rajani Muraleedharan and Lisa Ann Osadciw, Communication Networks and Service Research Conference, CNSR, Halifax, Canada, 2008

Predicting Sybil Attack in Wireless Sensor Network using Swarm-Based Reasoning Algorithm
Rajani Muraleedharan, Xiang Ye and Lisa Ann Osadciw, SPIE Defense and Security Symposium, Orlando, FL, March 2008

Ant System Based Flexible and Cost Effective Routing for Wireless Face Recognition
Rajani Muraleedharan, Yanjun Yan and Lisa Ann Osadciw, CCNC, Las Vegas, NV, 2008

Contourlet Based Image Compression for Wireless Communication in Face Recognition System
Yanjun Yan, Rajani Muraleedharan and Lisa Ann Osadciw, ICC, Beijing, China, May 2008

Detecting and Countermeasures Against Denial Of Service Attack in WSN Using Cross Layer Cognitive Protocol * INVITED
Rajani Muraleedharan and Lisa Ann Osadciw, Doctoral Symposium, ACM Compute 2008, Bangalore, India. January 2008.

Increasing QoS and Security in 4G Network using Cognitive Intelligence

Rajani Muraleedharan and Lisa Ann Osadciw, Workshop on Security and Privacy in 4G Networks, GLOBECOM 2007, Washington, D.C., USA, Nov 26-30 2007.


Detecting Sybil Attacks in Image Sensor Network Using Cognitive Intelligence
Rajani Muraleedharan, Yanjun Yan and Lisa Ann Osadciw, SANET, Mobicom Workshop, Montreal, Canada, September 2007. [download]

Cross Layer Security Protocol Using Swarm Intelligence in WSN Applications
Rajani Muraleedharan and Dr. Lisa Ann Osadciw, 2007 IEEE Long Island Systems, Applications, and Technology Conference (LISAT2007) Farmingdale, New York, May 2007 [download]

Constructing an Efficient Wireless Face Recognitions System by Swarm intelligence
Rajani Muraleedharan, Yanjun Yan and Lisa Ann Osadciw, Academic Graduate Excellence Symposium Program (AGEP 2007), Syracuse University, New York, June 2007 [download]

Adaptive Security Framework for Ad-Hoc Mobile Wireless Network
Rajani Muraleedharan and Lisa Ann Osadciw, Nunan, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY. [download]

Cross Layer Protocols in Wireless Sensor Networks (Poster)
Rajani Muraleedharan and Dr. Lisa Ann Osadciw, IEEE Infocomm Student Workshop, April 2006. [download]

Jamming Attack Detection and Countermeasures In WSN using Swarm Intelligence
Rajani Muraleedharan and Dr. Lisa Ann Osadciw, Defense and Security Symposium, April 2006. [download]

Cross Layer Denial of Service Attacks in Wireless Sensor Network Using Swarm Intelligence
Rajani Muraleedharan and Dr. Lisa Ann Osadciw, 40th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, March 2006 [download]

Robust Face Recognition System Constructed by Wireless Sensor Networks
Rajani Muraleedharan, Yanjun Yan and Dr. Lisa Ann Osadciw, 9th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, July 2005. 'Best Paper Award' for applications in electrical engineering. [download]

Robustness of Predictive Sensor Network Routing in Fading Channels
Rajani Muraleedharan and Dr. Lisa Ann Osadciw, Defense and Security Symposium, March 2005. [download]

A Predictive Sensor Network Using Ant System
Rajani Muraleedharan and Dr. Lisa Ann Osadciw, Defense and Security Symposium, April 2004. [download]

Decision Making In a Building Access System Using Swarm Intelligence & POSets
Rajani Muraleedharan and Dr. Lisa Ann Osadciw, 38th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, March 2004. [download]

Sensor Communication Network Using Swarm Intelligence
Rajani Muraleedharan and Dr. Lisa Ann Osadciw, 2nd IEEE Upstate New York Workshop, Oct 2003. [download]

Balancing The Performance of a Sensor Network Using an Ant System
Rajani Muraleedharan and Dr. Lisa Ann Osadciw, 37th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, March 2003 [download]

 ±  Teaching Associate, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA
     » Spring 2010 : ELE651 "Digital Communication"
     » Spring 2009 : BEN/ELE312 "Control Systems for Electrical and Bio-engineering"
     » Fall 2008 : ELE 351 "Signals & Systems"
     » Spring 2008 : BEN/ELE312 "Control Systems for Electrical and Bio-engineering"

 ±  Instructor, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA
     » Fall 2007 : ELE 551 "Communication Systems"

 ±  Teaching Assistant, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA
     » Conduct recitation classes and help sessions for undergraduate.
     » Spring 2007 : BEN/ELE312 "Control Systems for Electrical and Bio-engineering"
     » Fall 2006 : ELE551 "Communication Systems"
     » Fall 2006 : ELE751 "Wireless Communications"
     » Spring 2006 : CIS321 "Introduction to Probability and Statistics"
     » Fall 2005 : ELE551 "Communication Systems"
     » Spring 2002 : ECS102 "Introduction to C Programming"

 ± Teaching Assistant, Anna University, Chennai, TN, India
     » Summer 2001 : Assisted with "Internet Programming using Java" under Dr. Anbu Rathinavel

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  ±  Best Paper Award – Research work in Wireless Sensor Network Security – 2005 & 2008
  ±  Awarded Women In Science & Engineering (WISE) fellow for excellence in engineering in 2008 & 2009.
  ±  NSF Travel fund, Illinois Summer School, UIUC, Summer 09.
  ±  Travel Grant Recipient, IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium 2008
  ±  Outstanding Teaching Associate Award (OTA), Syracuse University, L.C. Smith College of Engineering, University-Wide recognition, 2009.
  ±  Certificate in University Teaching, Teaching Associate, Future Professoriate Program, (3 of 45 EECS teaching Assistants) 2007-present
  ±  Graduate Research Associate – Fall 09, Fall 02-May 05.
  ±  Graduate Teaching Assistant – Spring 2006
  ±  Chosen by Who’s who in Marquis.

277 Link Hall,
L.C. Smith College Of Engineering,
Syracuse University,
Syracuse,
New York 13244.
Phone: (315) 443-3366.
Email: 'rmuralee' at 'ecs' -dot- 'syr' -dot- 'edu'