Professional Activities, Awards and Honors
Awards and Honors
- Speaker, Distinguished Lecture Series, Department of Computer Science, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, November 14, 2008.
- Keynote Speaker, 34th Euromicro SEAA Conference, Parma, Italy, Sept 3-5, 2008.
- Distinguished Engineer, Association for Computing Machinery, 2007.
- Keynote Speaker, Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems, Dresden, Germany, July 5-7, 2006.
Best Paper Awards
- A. Rowe, R. Mangharam and R. Rajkumar, “RT-Link: A Time-Synchronized Link Protocol for Energy Constrained Multi-hop Wireless Networks”, Third IEEE International Conference on Sensors, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (IEEE SECON), Reston, VA, September 2006, Best Paper Award.
- Sourav Ghosh, Ragunathan Rajkumar, Jeffery Hansen and John Lehoczky, “Integrated Resource Management and Scheduling with Multi-Resource Constraints”, In Proceedings of the 25th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), December 2004. Best Paper Award.
- Jeff Hansen, Sourav Ghosh, Ragunathan Rajkumar and John Lehoczky, “Resource Management of Highly Configurable Tasks”, Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Real-Time Systems (WPDRTS), 2004. Best Paper Award.
- L. Sha, R. Rajkumar, and M. Gagliardi, "A Software Architecture for Dependable and Renewable Industrial Computing Systems", Proceedings of the International Process Control Conference, 1995. Best Paper Award.
Professional Activities
I am currently the Vice-Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Real-Time Systems. I will be serving as the Chair of this Committee starting January 2009 for two years.
Cyber-Physical Systems
- Track Chair, Cyber-Physical Systems Track, IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS 2009), April 2009, San Francisco, USA.
- Event Organizer, CPS Information Day, December 15, 2008, Arlington, Virginia, USA.
- Workshop Co-Chair, National Workshop For Research On High-Confidence Transportation Cyber-Physical Systems: Automotive, Aviation & Rail, November 18-20, 2008, Vienna, VA, USA.
- Co-Vice Chair, IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2008), Distributed Cyber-Physical Systems Track, June 2008, Beijing, China.
- Steering Committee Member, International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems, in conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2008), June 2008, Beijing, China.
- Steering Committee Member, CPS Summit, St. Louis, MI, April 24-25, 2008.
- Program Co-Chair, National Workshop on High-Confidence Automotive Cyber-Physical Systems, Troy, Michigan, April 3-4, 2008.
- Program Chair, Planning Meeting for National Workshop on Automotive Cyber-Physical Systems, Tucson, Arizona, December 3, 2007.
- Organizer, Session on Cyber-Physical Systems, NSF Symposium on Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation, Troy, NY, Sept 5-6, 2007.
- Co-Chair, Workshop on Composable and System Technologies for High-Confidence Cyber-Physical Systems (CST-HCCPS), Arlington, VA, July 9-10, 2007.
- Co-Chair, High-Confidence Software Platforms for Cyber-Physical Systems (HCSP-CPS) Workshop, Alexandria, VA, November 30 – December 1, 2006.
- Program Chair, NSF Industry Roundtable on Cyber-Physical Systems, Arlington, VA, May 17, 2007.
- Co-Chair, NSF Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems, Austin, Texas, Oct 15-16, 2006.
- Co-Chair, NSF Planning Meeting on Cyber-Physical Systems, Arlington, VA, June 2006.
Real-Time and Multimedia Systems
- General Chair, the (Silver Jubilee) 25th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS 2004), Lisbon, Portugal.
- General Chair, the 2004 SPIE/ACM Symposium on Multimedia Computing and Networking (MMCN 2004), Santa Clara, California, USA.
- Program Chair, 24th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS 2003), Cancun, Mexico.
- Program Chair, the 2003 SPIE/ACM Conference on Multimedia Computing and Networking (MMCN ’03), Santa Clara, California, USA.
- Vice-Chair, IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2001), Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
- General Chair, the Fourth IEEE Real-time Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS '98), Denver, Colorado, USA.
- Program Chair, Third IEEE Real-time Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS '97), Montreal, Canada.
- Guest Editor, Special Issue of the Real-Time Systems Journal on "Operating Systems and Services".
Sensor Networks
- General Co-Chair, IEEE International Conference on Networked Sensing Systems (INSS 2009), Pittsburgh, June 17-19, 2009.
- Program Co-Chair, HotEmnets Workshop, Charlottesville, June 2008.
Vehicular Networks
- Program Co-Chair, First International Symposium on Vehicular Computing Systems (ISVCS), Dublin, July 22-24, 2008.
Embedded Systems
- Member, Editorial Board, Real-Time Systems Journal
- (Former) Member, Editorial Board, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
Consulting and Other Services
- I consult for several companies, primarily in the areas of real-time systems, embedded systems, distributed computing, wired and wireless networking with Quality of Service (QoS) requirements, and sensor networks.
- I serve or have served on the Board of Directors and Scientific Advisory Board for various companies, institutions and research centers.
- I have served as an Expert Witness in patent litigation matters providing both depositions and court testimony.