Y. NARAHARI

DOCTORAL GRADUATES AND STUDENTS

• Laaeq Mohammad Khan.   Performance Analysis of Scheduling Policies in Stochastic Re-Entrant Lines,  February 1995.
Seshagiri Kaikini Medal for Best Thesis with Industrial Application, IISc, 1995.
Currently Software Architecture Consultant, NJ, USA


• N. Hemachandra.   Analysis and Optimization of Queueing Systems with Markov Modulated Poisson Input,  March 1997.
Currently, Professor, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, IIT Bombay, Mumbai.


• K. Ravikumar.   Dynamic and Stochastic Scheduling of Multi-Product Queues with Setups: A Diffusion Approach,  March 1997.

Co-Recipient of the Charles L. McCuen Outstanding Innovation Award (2006) in General Motors R D for developing an e-procurement tool for strategic sourcing at General Motors Research, Warren, MI, USA.
Currently Lab Group Manager, General Motors India Science Lab, Bangalore


• Venkata Lakshmi Pathi Raju.   Learning Dynamic Prices in Electronic Markets.   February 2004
Currently with the London School of Economics, London, as Post-Doctoral Researcher


• Shantanu Biswas.   Design of Iterative Mechanisms for Combinatorial Auctions and Exchanges. March 2004.
Recipient of IBM-India Research Labs Research Fellowship, 2001-04.
Recipient of Bell Labs Research Internship, 2002.
Currently Research Staff Member, Infosys Technologies, Bangalore.


• S. Kameshwaran.   Non-Linear Knapsack Problems with Applications in Electronic Commerce.  August 2004.
Recipient of IBM-India Research Labs Research Fellowship, 2001-04.
Recipient of Best Research Presentation award in IISc-IIT Research Students Symposium, March 2002.
Post-Doctoral Fellow, INRIA, France, 2005 - 2006
Post-Doctoral Researcher, ISB, Hyderabad, 2007-2009
Currently, Member, Technical Staff, IBM Research, Bangalore


• T.S. Chandrashekar.  Procurement Network Formation: A Cooperative Game Theoretic Approach. October 2006.   
Recipient of General Motors Research Internship, April-May 2003.
Currently Senior Researcher, GM India Science Lab, Bangalore


• Dinesh Garg.   Design of Contemporary Game Theoretic Problems in Electronic Commerce. May 2006.   
Recipient of General Motors Research Internship, April-May 2003.
Recipient of Best Presentation Award in CSA Perspectives Seminars, January-April 2003
Best Paper and Presentation Prize at IISc-IIT Research Students Symposium, IRISS-2005, IIT-Kanpur, March 2005.
Awarded Microsoft Research Internship for 2005 (May-July 2005)
Awarded IBM India Research Lab Doctoral Fellowship, 2006
Recipient of the INAE Young Engineer Award, 2007
Recipient of the 2008 Best Application Paper Award, IEEE Transactions in Automation Science and Engineering.
Currently Research Staff Member, IBM Research, New Delhi


• Ramasuri Narayanam.   Game Theoretic Models for Social Network Analysis, January 2011
Recipient of Microsoft Research (MSR), India Doctoral Fellowship
Awarded IBM IRL Internship for 2007 (May-July 2007)
Recipient of Yahoo! Key Scientific Challenges Student Award, 2010
Currently, Post-Doc Researcher, IBM Research, Bangalore


• Sujit P Gujar  Novel Mechanisms for Allocation of Heterogeneous Objects to Strategic Agents. (About to submit thesis)
Recipient of Infosys Research Fellowship (2007-2010)
Recipient of Best Presentation Award in CSA Perspectives Seminars, January-April 2007
Summer Intern at the Harvard University, May-July 2009.
Currently, Researcher, Xerox Innovation Labs, Bangalore


• Swaprava Nath  (In Progress)
Recipient of TCS Doctoral Fellowship (2010-)
Reicipent of Internship at the Harvard University, Sept-Nov 2011.


• Rohith Vallam  (In Progress)
• Pankaj Dayama   (In Progress)
External Registrant from General Motors India Science Lab, Bangalore
Reicipent of Best Presentation Award in Perspective Seminars (Aug-Dec 2011), Department of CSA


• Satyanath Bhat  (In Progress)
• Swapnil Dhamal  (In Progress)
• Shweta Jain  (In Progress)

MASTER'S STUDENTS (RESEARCH)

• C. R. M. Sundaram,   Integrated Analytical Models for Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems,  October 1990.
Currently Research Staff Engineer, Intel Technologies, Arizona, USA


• K. Sooryanarayana Aithal,   Modeling and Analysis of Industrial Design and Fabrication Processes,  July 1998.
  Currently, Senior Engineer, Central Manufacturing Technology Institute, Bangalore.


• Shantanu Biswas ,   Object-Oriented Modeling  for decision  support in Supply Chains,  September 1999.
The paper "Object Oriented Modeling and Decision Support for Supply Chains" (authored by Shantanu Biswas and Y. Narahari) is ranked 12th among the most requested papers of the Journal: European Journal of Operational Research (Number of requests in 2004: 1362)


• A. Rajagopal.   IMAGINE: An Intelligent Electronic Marketplace,  June 2001.
Currently, Senior Software Engineer, Intel India Development Center, Bangalore


• Sourav Sen.   Scaling the Performance of Web Servers with a Greedy Data Buffering and Caching Strategy,  May 2002.
Currently, Senior Software Engineer, HP India Development Center, Bangalore


• Dinesh Garg.   Design of Six Sigma Supply Chains,  August 2002.
Recipient of Best Research Presentation award in All India Management Research Students Symposium
Recipient of F. Moudawala Medal for Best M.Sc. (Engineering) Dissertation in the Division of Electrical Sciences, 2003
The 2004 Googol Best New Application Paper Award for the paper "Design of Six Sigma Supply Chains" (selected as the best Paper exploring a new application among all papers published in the IEEE Transactions in Automation Science and Engineering during 2004)


• K. Rajanikanth.   Object Oriented Analysis, Design, and Implementation of Radar Simulation Software.  July 2003.
Currently Senior Engineer, Honeywell, Bangalore


• Pankaj Dayama Satyanarayana.    Design of Electronic Exchanges through Decomposition,  October 2003.
Currently Research Researcher, General Motors India Science Lab, Bangalore.
Recipient of F. Moudawala Medal for Best M.Sc. (Engineering) Dissertation in the Division of Electrical Sciences, 2003.
Recipient of Charles L. McCuen Award for his work in "Revenue Management and Capacity Planning Decision Support Application." at General Motors R&D, Warren, MI, USA (Youngest Recipient of this prestigious annual prize)
Co-Recipient of the Charles L. McCuen Outstanding Innovation Award (2006) in General Motors R& D for developing an e-procurement tool for strategic sourcing at General Motors Research, Warren, MI, USA.
Co-Recipient of the Charles L. McCuen Outstanding Innovation Award (2009) in General Motors R&D


• Ramasuri Narayanam. Design of Incentive Compatible Mechanisms for Broadcast in Wireless Ad-hoc Networks: A Game Theoretic Approach. May 2006.
Currently, Doctoral Student, Department of CSA, IISc


• Hastagiri Prakash. A Mechanism Design Approach for Resource Procurement in Computational Grids with Rational Resource Providers. October 2006.
Currently with Yahoo!Labs, Bangalore


• Karthik Subbian. Design of Incentive Compatible Mechanisms for Software Services, April 2008.
Currently Doctoral student in the University of Minnesota, USA


• Ramakrishnan Kannan . A Nash Bargaining Model for Bid Optimization in Sponsored Search Auctions, November 2008.
Currently Doctoral student at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA


• Sunil Kumar Shelke . A Novel Game Theoretic and Voting Mechanism Based Approach for Carbon Emissions Reduction, April 2011


• Udaya Lakshmi Mechanism Design Problems in Carbon Economics (In Progress).

M.E. PROJECT STUDENTS

• M. Nita Ingewar, Performance Modelling and Evaluation of Dataflow Computer Architectures Using Stochastic Petri Nets, January 1989.

 
• N. V. Subba Reddy, Discrete Event Simulation Using Petri Nets, April 1989.

 
• P. Venkateswaran, Performance Modelling and Evaluation Using Deterministic and Stochastic Petri Nets, June 1989 (Integrated M.E.).

 
• A. Regunathan, Performance Evaluation Using Closed Queueing Networks, June 1989 (Integrated M.E.).

 
• N. R. Ramesh, Integrated Performance Modelling Using Queueing Networks and Stochastic Petri Nets, January 1990.

 
• R. B. Kohad, Performability Computation Using Stochastic Petri Nets, January 1990.

 
• K. Ramakrishna, Algorithms and Distributed Implementation for Petri Net-Based Simulation, January 1990.

 
• N. Nithya, Closed Queueing Networks with Blocking, January 1990.

 
• B. Vijaykumar, Modelling and Performance Analysis of Kanban Systems, January 1991.

 
• P. Hanumantha Rao, Integrated Analytical Models for Automated Manufacturing Systems, January 1991.

 
• M. S. Manjunath, Transient Analysis of Automated Manufacturing Systems, January 1991.

 
• Ajaykumar, Object-Oriented Simulation of Automated Manufacturing Systems, January 1991.

 
• Abhijit Rashingkar, Object-Oriented Simulation of Versatile Machine Centres, January 1991.

 
• Hemant Shah, Quantitative Analysis of Deadlocks, January 1991.

 
• Mohanasundaram, Object-Oriented Modelling and Simulation of Flexible Manufacturing Systems, January 1992.

 
• Ch. Srinivasan, Simualation Analysis of Kanban Systems, January 1992.

 
• S. Naresh Babu, Performability Evaluation of Failure-Prone Manufacturing Systems, January 1992.

 
• P. Sundararajan, Performability Analysis of Fork-Join Queueing Systems, June 1992 (Integrated ME).

 
• R. Anandha, An Advanced Simualation Package for Automated Manufacturing Systems, June 1992 (Integrated ME).

 
• Manoj Singh Gaur, Transient Analysis of Markovian Queueing Models, January 1994.

 
• Venkateswara Sastry, Performance Analysis of Brownian Scheduling Policies, January 1994.

 
• R. Srigopal, Scheduling Multiclass Production Systems Using Lagrangian Relaxation, January 1994.

 
• C. Sridhar, Analysis of Scheduling Policies in Re-Entrant Manufacturing Systems, June 1994 (Integrated ME).

 
• Raja Mahesh, A Software Package for Simulation of Non-Stationary Models. June 1995 (Integrated ME).

 
• V. Kiran Kumar, Queueing Network Models of New Product Development, January 1996.

 
• G. Suthindran, Object Oriented Process Models for New Product Development. June 1996 (Integrated ME).

 
• P. Nagaraju, Analytical and Object Oriented Process Models for Software Product Development. January 1997.

 
• K. Chandra Mohan, An Object Oriented Project Management System. January 1997.

 
• Devendra Garg. Design of a Business Process Performance Measurement System using IBM San Fransisco Framework. March 1999.

 
• B.Madhusudhan Rao. Implementation of Amazon.com Transactions using IBM SanFrancisco Framework. March 1999. (In Progress).

 
• Manuguri Subrahmanyam. PERFECT: An Object Oriented Framework for Business Process Performance Measurement. January 2000.

 
• P. Sudheer Kumar Reddy. SC-PROMISE: Supply Chain Process Modeling and Simulation Environment. January 2000.

 
• Y. Hari Krishna. Object Oriented Building Blocks for Supply Chain Simulation, January 2000.

 
• Jeevan Kumar Rathod. A Graphical User Interface for SC-PROMISE. January 2000.

 
• Rajarshi Bhattacharya. Design of Synchronized Supply Chains: A Six Sigma Tolerancing Approach. January 2000.

 
• Rajni Kant Lal. AHA: An Internet Auction House Application Server. January 2000.

 
• Ravi U. Koti. SIMHA: A Simulation Environment for Internet Auctions. January 2000.

 
• Chandrasekhar Singh. Optimal Planning of Auction Based Inventory Management. January 2001.

 
• P. Shobhit. ACF: Agent Communication Framework. January 2001.

 
• V. Diwakara Rao. Load Testing of Web Servers. January 2001.

 
• Sanjay Kumar Linda. Simulation Based Design Optimization of Supply Chains. March 2001.

 
• Maria Praveen Kumar. Design and Implementation of a Private Marketplace for Electronic Procurement. January 2002.

 
• Abhijit Chowdhury. An Object Oriented Framework for Multi-Agent Systems. January 2002.

 
• Satyendra Bhaisare. A Testbed for Rosettanet. January 2002.

 
• Amit Kamboj. Design of Six Sigma Supply Chains using Motorola Six Sigma Approach. May 2002.

 
• Ch. Kalyan. EPSILON: A New Generation E-Procurement Tool. June 2004

 
• G.S.S.S.Gopinath. MCMC Based Algorithms for Combinatorial Auctions and Exchanges. June 2004.

 
• M.D. Srinivasulu. SEMPA: A Simulation Environment for Markets and Pricing Algorithms. June 2005.

 
• Mukti Jain. Implementation of Algorithms for Computing Nash Equilibria in Noncooperative Games. June 2005.

 
• Durgesh Kumar Verma. Optimization Models for Multiattribute Auctions and Exchanges. June 2005.

 
• Madhuri Sakhare. Software Design and Implementation of Electronic Logistics Exchanges. June 2005.

 
• R. Radhanikanth. Auction Based Mechanisms for Resource Selection in Computational Grids. June 2006.

 
• V. Sowjanya Lakshmi. NICE: Novel Iterative Combinatorial Exchanges. June 2006.

 
• S. Sivasankar Reddy. Design of an Optimal Mechanism and Learning Optimal Bid Prices in Sponsored Search Auctions. June 2006.

 
• M. Kalyan Chakravarthi. NECTAR: Nash Equilibria Computation Resource. June 2006.



• Megha Mohabey. A Combinatorial Auction Approach to QOS-Aware and Interface-Aware Web Services Composition. July 2007.



• Nikesh Kumar Shrivastava. Incentive Compatible Mechanisms for Decentralized Supply Chain Formation. July 2007.



• Raghavkumar Gautam. Optimal Auctions for Multi-Unit and Combinatorial Procurement. July 2007.



• Santosh Srinivas. A Core and Shapley Value Analysis of Cooperative Bidding in Sponsored Search Auctions. July 2007.



• S.S.V. Ravi Sriram. A Novel Cooperative Bid Optimizer for Sponsored Search Auctions. July 2008.



• Kota Nagaraj. Threshold Behavior in Query Incentive Power Law Networks. July 2008.



• B. Prashanth. Efficient Algorithms for Web Service Composition. July 2008.



• Bellur Ashwin. Cost Sharing Mechanisms for Business Clusters with Strategic Firms. July 2008.



• Devansh Dikshit. Quality Conscious and Truthful Query Incentive Networks. July 2009.



• N. Chaitanya. Optimal Equilibrium Bidding Strategies for Budget Constrained Bidders in Sponsored Search Auctions. July 2009.



• Mayur Mohite. Incentive Compatible Information Diffusion in Social Networks. July 2010.



• Alfiya Tezabwala. Dynamic Mechanism Design for Sponsored Search Auctions. July 2011.



• H. Premm Raj. Influence Limitation in Multi-Campaign Social Networks: A Shapley Value Based Approach, July 2011.



• D. Venkata Satya Kiran. Two Sided Matching Algorithms with Strategic Agents. July 2011.



• S. Jyothika. Computation of Shapley Value in Monotone Convex Games and Application to Clustering, July 2011.



• Ashotosh Verma. Mechanism Design for LOcation Based Crowdsourcing. (In Progress)



• Ratul Roy Anomalay Detection in Dynamic Networks. (In Progress).



• Sourav Medya. Analysis and Mechanism Design for Virus Inoculation Networks.

PROJECT ASSOCIATES

• Y. Ravishankar (2000-2001). Currently with Mercedes-Benz Research Center, Bangalore as Software Architect.

 
• Visva Visvanathan (2004-05). Currently a Free Lance Software Architect in Florida, USA.

 
• Y. N. Chetan (2003-05). Currently a Doctoral candidate at the Department of Computer Science, Technical University of Delft (TUDelft), Netherlands. in Florida, USA.

 
• Ananth Vadholasa (2005-06). Currently a Software Engineer with the Target Corporation, Bangalore.

 
• M. Rajesh (2005-06). Currently a Software Consultant, USA.

 
• Lavanya (2005-06). Currently a Software Engineer, Mysore.

 
• P. Subrahmanya Kumar (2006-07). Currently a Software Engineer, Accenture.

 
• P.N. Ravi (2006-07). Currently a Software Engineer, Infosys Technologies, Bangalore
   
• A.T. Sharvani (2006-07). Currently a Software Engineer, Orcale Corporation, Bangalore

 
• Vishwanath Palagummi (2006-07). Currently a Graduate Student, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

 
• Vidya Shankar (2006-07). Currently a Software Engineer, Bangalore

 
• Radhika Arava (2009). Project Associate.

 
• Kumar Sastry (2009). Project Assistant.

 
• Chidanand Sridhar (2011-). Project Assistant.
  
  

  B.E. PROJECT STUDENTS

  
  
• R. Kamalakannan, A Software Package for Performance Analysis of Stochastic Petri Net Models, April 1988.

 
• Sanjay Kumar, A Translator for Symbolic Expressions in Performance Analysis, April 1989.

 
• K. Suriyanarayanan, Petri Net-Based Algorithms for Discrete Event Simulation, April 1989.

 
• Harish R. Iyer, Performability Analysis Using Stochastic Petri Nets, April 1989.

 
• Shounak Roy Chowdhury, Markov and Semi-Markov Models of Automated Manufacturing Systems, April 1990.

 
• B. C. V. Satya Chaitanya, Performance Analysis of Parallel Processing Systems, April 1990.

 
• K. R. Krishna Prasad, Performance Evaluation of Automated Manufacturing Systems with Deadlocks, April 1990.