Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Faculty

Tirthapura, Srikanta -- Associate Professor
3212 Coover Hall
Ames IA 50011		 Phone: 515-294-3546

 snt@iastate.edu
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Education

PhD, Computer Science, Brown University (2002)
ScM, Computer Science, Brown University (1998)
BTech, Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (1996)

Research Interests

Distributed data processing, distributed coordination in wired and wireless networks, data stream computation

Core Research Area: Software systems

Strategic Research Area: Distributed sensing and decision making

Selected Publications

Xu, B., S. Tirthapura, and C. Busch. “Sketching Asynchronous Streams Over Sliding Windows.” Distributed Computing, 2008.

Pavan, A. and S. Tirthapura. “Range Efficient Counting of Distinct Elements in a Massive Data Stream.” SIAM Journal on Computing 37, no. 2, (2007): 359–379.

Shen, Z. and S. Tirthapura. “Approximate Covering Detection Among Content-based Subscriptions Using Space Filling Curves.” In Proc. IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, Santa Fe, NM, June 18-20, 2007.

Busch, C., R. LaFortune, and S. Tirthapura. “Improved Sparse Covers for Graphs Excluding a Fixed Minor.” In Proc. ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing, Portland, OR, August 12-15, 2007, 61–70.

Cormode, G., S. Tirthapura, and B. Xu. “Time-Decaying Sketches for Sensor Data Aggregation.” In Proc. ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing, Portland, OR, August 12-15, 2007, 215–224.
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