Deepak Nadig, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor and Director, CYAN Lab

nadig@purdue.edu

765-496-0873

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KNOY 213

401 N Grant St

West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-2021

Office Hours:

Location: KNOY 213,

CNIT 62300-023 - M 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm, or by appointment.

CNIT 48101-019 - W 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm, or by appointment.

Deepak Nadig is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Technology (CIT) at Purdue University. He is also the Director of the Cloud-native, Cyberinfrastructure and Networks (CYAN) Lab at Purdue CIT. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) in 2021. Deepak was the Director of Technology and Research at SOLUTT Corporation, India, from 2009 to 2015. At SOLUTT, he was instrumental in leading the networking and wireless operations and responsible for the design, development, consulting and training services in 4G/LTE and multi-gigabit wireless technologies. He was an IEEE-certified Wireless Communications Professional (IEEE WCP®) from 2014 to 2019.

He has served on the technical program committees of several conferences and as a reviewer for leading journals such as IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (IEEE JSAC), Computer Networks, IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE Globecom, IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS), IEEE International Symposium on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks (LANMAN) and IEEE Sarnoff Symposium. He has published in several leading IEEE/ACM conferences and journals. He is a member of the IEEE, IEEE Communication Society and ACM.

Prof. Nadig was the recipient of the 2017 IEEE ANTS best paper award, the 2019 Milton E. Mohr Fellowship, two outstanding doctoral dissertation awards, and is a fellow of the Preparing Future Faculty (PFF) program at UNL. His research interests include computer networks, cloud-native infrastructure, software-defined and programmable networks, network virtualization, AI/ML applications for networking, and network security. National Science Foundation (NSF) has supported his research.

Education:

Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2021.

Certifications:

IEEE WCP® (May 2014 − May 2019), IEEE Certified Wireless Communications Professional with a demonstrated expertise in Network & Service Architectures; Wireless Technologies; RF & Antenna Engineering; Standards, Policies & Regulations.

2022 FABRIC KNIT5 Workshop Grant, To participate in the FABRIC KNIT5 Work- shop, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award, School of Computing, University of Nebraska- Lincoln, May 2022.
2022 Outstanding Dissertation Award, College of Engineering, University of Nebraska- Lincoln, April 2022.
Purdue Bravo Award, Purdue University, December 2021.
2021 IEEE LANMAN Conference Travel Grant.
Best-In-Session Paper Award, 2019 IEEE INFOCOM Conference, Paris, France, 2019.
Fellow, 2019 Milton E. Mohr Awards Program, College of Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Nebraska, USA, 2019.
Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award (2018 - 2019), Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Nebraska, USA, 2019.
2019 College of Engineering Graduate Student Conference Travel Grant Recipient, College of Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA, 2019.
Fellow, Preparing Future Faculty (PFF) Program, Graduate Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA, 2018 − 2019.
NSF Student Travel Grant Recipient (2017 − 2019), To participate in the ACM SDN-NFV Sec Workshop.
Best Paper Award, Received the best paper award at the 2017 IEEE ANTS, Conference (Acceptance rate: 30%), Odisha, India, 2017.
NSF GENI/GEC24 Travel Grant Recipient, March 8−9, 2016, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA.

Journal Articles

D. Nadig, B. Ramamurthy and B. Bockelman, "SNAG: SDN-Managed Network Architecture for GridFTP Transfers Using Application-Awareness," in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 30, no. 4, pp. 1585-1598, Aug. 2022, doi: 10.1109/TNET.2022.3150000.
M. Alhowaidi, D. Nadig, B. Hu, B. Ramamurthy, and B. Bockelman, "Cache management for large data transfers and multipath forwarding strategies in Named Data Networking," Computer Networks,
Vol. 199, 2021, 108437, ISSN 1389-1286, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comnet.2021.108437.

Conference Proceedings (Peer-Reviewed)

A. Shridhar and D. Nadig, "Heuristic-based Resource Allocation for Cloud-native Machine Learning Workloads," 2022 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS), 2022, pp. 1-4.
B. Hu, D. Nadig and B. Ramamurthy, "Improving Service Performance through Multilayer Routing and Service Intelligence in a Network Service Mesh," 2021 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS), 2021, pp. 420-425, doi: https://doi.org/10.1109/ANTS52808.2021.9936995
M. Alhowaidi, D. Nadig, and B. Ramamurthy, “Cache Management for Large Data Transfers in Named Data Networking using SDN,” 2019 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS), Goa, India, 2019, pp. 1-4, doi: 10.1109/ANTS47819.2019.9118137.
S. Nayak, D. Nadig and B. Ramamurthy, “Analyzing Malicious URLs using a Threat Intelligence System,” 2019 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS), Goa, India, 2019, pp. 1-4, doi: 10.1109/ANTS47819.2019.9118051.
D. Nadig, B. Ramamurthy, B. Bockelman, and D. Swanson, “APRIL: An Application-Aware, Predictive and Intelligent Load Balancing Solution for Data-Intensive Science,” in IEEE INFOCOM 2019 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications, Apr. 2019, pp. 1909–1917, doi: 10.1109/INFOCOM.2019.8737537.
D. Nadig, B. Ramamurthy, B. Bockelman, and D. Swanson, “Large Data Transfer Predictability and Forecasting using Application-Aware SDN,” in 2018 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS), Dec. 2018, pp. 1–6, doi: 10.1109/ANTS.2018.8710165.
D. Nadig, E. Jung, R. Kettimuthu, I. Foster, S. V. N. Rao, and B. Ramamurthy, “Comparative Performance Evaluation of High-performance Data Transfer Tools,” in 2018 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS), Dec. 2018, pp. 1–6, doi: 10.1109/ANTS.2018.8710071.
M. Alhowaidi, D. Nadig, B. Ramamurthy, B. Bockelman, and D. Swanson, “Multipath Forwarding Strategies and SDN Control for Named Data Networking,” in 2018 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS), Dec. 2018, pp. 1–6, doi: 10.1109/ANTS.2018.8710068.
D. Nadig, B. Ramamurthy, B. Bockelman, and D. Swanson, “Optimized Service Chain Mapping and reduced flow processing with Application-Awareness,” in 2018 4th IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization and Workshops (NetSoft), Jun. 2018, pp. 303–307, doi: 10.1109/NETSOFT.2018.8459912.
D. Nadig, B. Ramamurthy, B. Bockelman, and D. Swanson, “Differentiated Network Services for Data-Intensive Science using Application-aware SDN,” in 2017 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS), Dec. 2017, pp. 1–6, doi: 10.1109/ANTS.2017.8384105.

Workshops (Peer-Reviewed)

M.M.R. Lunar, J. Sun, J. Wensowitch, M. Fay, H.B. Tulay, V.S.S.L. Karanam, B. Qiu, D. Nadig, et al., "OneLNK: One Link to Rule Them All: Web-based Wireless Experimentation for Multi-vendor Remotely Accessible Indoor/Outdoor Testbeds," In Proceedings of the 15th ACM Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental evaluation & CHaracterization (WiNTECH'21). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 85–92. doi: 10.1145/3477086.3480835

D. Nadig, S. El Alaoui, B. Ramamurthy and S. Pitla, "ERGO: A Scalable Edge Computing Architecture for Infrastructureless Agricultural Internet of Things," 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks (LANMAN), 2021, pp. 1-2, doi: https://doi.org/10.1109/LANMAN52105.2021.9478811.
D. Nadig, Z. Zhang, B. Ramamurthy, B. Bockelman, G. Attebury, and D. Swanson, “SNAG: SDN-managed Network Architecture for GridFTP Transfers,” in Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Innovating the Network for Data-Intensive Science, INDIS, 2016, vol. 16.

Workshops (Invited)

D. Nadig and B. Ramamurthy, “Securing Large-scale Data Transfers in Campus Networks: Experiences, Issues, and Challenges,” in Proceedings of the ACM International Workshop on Security in Software Defined Networks & Network Function Virtualization, New York, NY, USA, 2019, pp. 29–32, doi: 10.1145/3309194.3309444.
D. Nadig, B. Ramamurthy, B. Bockelman, and D. Swanson, “Identifying Anomalies in GridFTP Transfers for Data-Intensive Science Through Application-Awareness,” in Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Workshop on Security in Software Defined Networks & Network Function Virtualization, New York, USA, 2018, pp. 7–12, doi: 10.1145/3180465.3180469.
D. Nadig and B. Ramamurthy, “ScienceSDS: A Novel Software Defined Security Framework for Large-scale Data-intensive Science,” in Proceedings of the ACM International Workshop on Security in Software Defined Networks & Network Function Virtualization, New York, NY, USA, 2017, pp. 13–18, doi: 10.1145/3040992.3040999.

Posters

D. Nadig, S. El Alaoui, and B. Ramamurthy, “ERGO: A Scalable Edge Computing Architecture for Ag-IoT,” in 3rd USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Edge Computing (HotEdge’20), New York, NY, USA, 2020.
D. Nadig and B. Ramamurthy, “Securing Data Intensive Science Projects Through Intelligent Networks,” in 2017 Midwest Big Data Hub (MBDH) All-Hands Meeting, Omaha, USA, Oct 2017.

Dissertation/Thesis

D. Nadig, “Application-awareness in Softwarized Networks: Building Intelligent Networks through Application and Network-layer Collaboration,” Doctoral Dissertation, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2021.
D. Nadig, “Design and Deployment of DTN Architectures and Protocols for Interplanetary Communication Systems,” Master’s Thesis, RV College of Engineering, Visveswaraya Technological University, India, 2007.

Professional Affiliations:

Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
Member, IEEE Communications Society (IEEE ComSoc).
Member, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
Member, IEEE Communication Society Technical Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC)
Member, IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Cloud Computing (TCCLD)
Member, IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Security and Privacy (TCSP)
Member, National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity (NCFDD), 2019 − Present.
Member, IEEE GOLD SIG EXE-COM Professional Activities Group, IEEE Bangalore Section, 2011−2014.

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