Prasad Calyam

Professor and CERI Center Director


Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,

University of Missouri-Columbia


Office Phone: (573)-882-9747

E-mail: calyamp AT missouri.edu 

RESEARCH

RESEARCH FOCUS

At VIMAN Lab, we investigate novel methods to model, measure, manage and secure distributed/cloud computing applications that have real-time resource allocation needs and require high-speed networks.

With broadband access and cloud computing becoming integral in our society, end-user applications (e.g., video-on-demand, videoconferencing, remote visualization, remote instrumentation, real-time data analytics) are increasingly becoming data-intensive, mobility-supported, and network-dependent. Consequently, we are motivated by the challenges in studying theoretical foundations as well as developing tools for designing/measuring/managing/securing networks and cloud platforms. We strive to deliver the Quality of Service (QoS) required for meeting the end-user Quality of Experience (QoE) expectations in applications (e.g., healthcare, advanced manufacturing, public safety, new media, bioinformatics).

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RESEARCH PROJECTS

- Cloud Computing and Internet of Things (IoT)-based Systems 

(Sponsors: NSF, Coulter Foundation, VMware)

(Related Publications: [tnsm23] [infocom22] [cnsm21] [tnsm20] [tcsvt16] [infocom19] [tsc18] [tmm18] [wiley19])


- Cyber Security for Critical Application Infrastructures

(Sponsors: NSF, NSA, DOE, DOS, Thomson Reuters)

(Related Publications: [gis23] [tdsc22] [tlt21] [tnsm20] [brains20] [fgcs19] [fgcs18] [tsc17])


- Artificial Intelligence and Cyberinfrastructure for Big Data Applications

(Sponsors: NSF, Cisco, Brocade)

(Related Publications: [dsaa23]  [tnsm22] [tkde21] [ccpe20] [bibm19] [fgcs19] [tcc16] [tcc18] [crc15])


- Social Virtual Reality for Special Education

(Sponsor: NSF)

(Related Publications: [iui23] [tsc22] [ficloud21] [mtap20] [ccnc20] [ccnc19] [icfc19] [ccnc18])


- Healthcare Data Analytics

(Sponsors: NSF, Coulter Foundation, UM System)

(Related Publications: [metrics23] [access21] [ppna21] [elsevier21] [jmo19] [ajdm19] [pmc15] [cloudele17])


- Simulation-as-a-Service for Advanced Manufacturing

(Sponsors: NSF, Mozilla, Raytheon-BBN, City of Dublin)

(Related Publications: [cvprw23] [npj21] [aipr19] [cf17] [im15] [tnsm18])


- Network Performance Measurement and Monitoring

(Sponsors: DOE, NSF, Verizon, Raytheon-BBN)

(Related Publications: [icnc23] [tnsm18] [tnsm16] [ccr15] [ccr15])


- Virtual Desktop Cloud Computing

(Sponsors: NSF, VMware, Dell, IBM)

(Related Publications: [ic2e15] [qcman15] [comnet14] [vtj12])


RESEARCH TEAM

2013

2016 

2017

2019

2020

2021

2022

PhD Students:

- Roland Oruche (PhD Student, Dean's Fellow, NSF GRFP Awardee, GEM Associate Fellow, 2019 – Present)

- Mauro Lemus Alarcon (PhD Student, 2020 – Present)

- Alicia Esquivel Morel (PhD Student - Fulbright Scholar, 2019 – Present)

- Roshan Neupane (PhD Student, 2021 – Present)

- Xiyao Cheng (PhD Student, 2021 – Present)

- Sai Shreya Nuguri (PhD Student, 2023 – Present)

MS Students:

- Sai Keerthana Goruganthu (MS Student, 2022 – Present)

- Anirudh Kambhampati (MS Student, 2022 – Present)

- Hemanth Yeddulapalli (MS Student, 2022 – Present)

- Saketh Poduvu (MS Student, 2023 – Present) 

- Lakshmi Srinivas Edara (MS Student, 2023 – Present)

- Rithika Akula (MS Student, 2023 – Present)

- Karan Karthik (MS Student, 2023 – Present) 

- Upasana Roy (MS Student, 2023 – Present)

- Vamsi Pusapati (MS Student, 2024 – Present)

- Trevontae Haughton (MS Student, 2024 - Present; NSF SFS Student)

UG Students:

- Andrew Hellman (BS Student, 2023 - Present)

- Zack Murry (BS Student, 2023 - Present)

- Spencer Henderson (BS Student, 2023 - Present)

- Matthew Robison (BS Student, 2024 - Present)

VIMAN Lab Alumni:

PhD Students:

- Chengyi Qu (PhD Student, 2018 – 2023; joined Floria Gulf Coast U. as Tenure-track Asst. Professor)

- Ashish Pandey (PhD Student, 2018 – 2022; joined LabSimply)

- Yuanxun Zhang (PhD, 2013 – 2020; joined Verisk Analytics)

- Samaikya Valluripally (PhD, 2015 – 2020; joined Intel)

- Ronny Antequera, PhD (PhD, 2013 – 2020, Fulbright Scholar; joined U. of Missouri as Prof. of Practice)

- Dmitrii Chemodanov (PhD, 2014 – 2019; joined Google)

- Matthew Dickinson (PhD, 2014 – 2018; joined Twitter)

PostDocs:

- Sayed Esfani (PostDoc, 2022 - 2023) 

- Songjie Wang (PostDoc, 2019-2022; Joined Curriculum Associates)

- Reshmi Mitra (PostDoc, 2017-2018; Joined Southeast Missouri State U. as Tenure-track Asst. Professor)

- Saptarshi Debroy (PostDoc, 2014-2016; Joined Central University of New York as Tenure-track Asst. Professor)

MS Students:

- Divya Mishra (MS Student, 2022 – 2023; joined Caterpillar) 

- Sruthi Routhu (MS Student, 2022 – 2023)

- Durbek Gafurov (MS Student, 2022 – 2023; joined Achorage Digital) 

- Harsh Joshi (MS Student, 2022 – 2023; joined Children's Mercy)

- Ashish Pandey (PhD Student, 2018 – 2022; joined LabSimply)

- Naga Ramya Bhamidipati (MS, 2019 – 2021; joined Amazon)

- Akashe Vaibhav (MS, 2020 – 2021; joined Paycom)

- Rounak Singh (MS, 2020 – 2021; joined Fannie Mae)

- Varsha Vakkavanthula (MS, 2020 – 2021; joined Eurofins Scientific)

- Soumya Purohit (MS, 2018 – 2020; joined AllianceBernstein)

- Komal Vekaria (MS, 2019 – 2020; joined TCS)

- Aniket Gulhane (MS, 2018 – 2019; joined Paycom)

- Travis Neeley (MS, 2017 – 2018; joined Microsoft)

- Osunkoya Opeoluwa (MS, 2018 – 2019; joined Zillow)

- Sai Swathi Sivarathri (MS, 2018 – 2019; joined Cerner)

- Arjun Chandrashekara (MS, 2016 – 2018; joined AmericanEagle)

- Jon Patman (MS, 2016 – 2018; joined Veterans United Home Loans)

- Songjie Wang (MS, 2016 – 2018; joined University of Missouri)

- Radha Krishna Talluri (MS, 2017 – 2018; joined LenderClose)

- Ramya Payyavula (MS, 2018; joined CarFax)

- Sai Shreya Nuguri (MS, 2016 – 2018; joined Informatica)

- Abhinay Jangati (MS, 2016 – 2017; joined CarFax)

- Bidyut Mukherjee (MS, 2016 – 2017; joined Cerner)

- Huy Trinh (MS, 2016 – 2017; joined Columbia College)

- Rui Huang (MS, 2015 – 2016; joined WestMatrix)

- Duo Jiang (MS, 2015 – 2016; joined Amazon)

- Shirish Gajul (MS, 2016; joined Evalueserve)

- Minh Nguyen (MS, 2015 – 2016; joined PhD at CUNY)

- Longhai Cui (MS, 2013 – 2015; joined Dish Networks)

- Amit Kumar Akula (MS, 2014 – 2015; joined IBM)

- Ravi Akella (MS, 2013 – 2015; joined Cisco Systems)

- Eliot Prokop (MS, 2014; joined Lockheed Martin)

- Trung Nguyuen (MS, 2014; joined AT&T)

- Shravya Ramisetty (MS, 2013 – 2014; joined IBM)

- Abdulrahman Althobaiti (MS, 2014)

- Manav Singhal (MS, 2013 – 2014; joined Facebook)

- Sripriya Seetharam (MS, 2013 – 2014; joined Brocade)

BS Students:

- Zian Zeng (2023 Summer NSF REU Student)

- Audrey Vazzana (2023 Summer NSF REU Student)

- Tam Dinh (2023 Summer NSF REU Student)

- Lilliana Marrero Solis (2023 Summer NSF REU Student)  

- Robby Criswell (BS Student, 2022 Summer/Fall NSF REU Student)

- Osama Elsaid (BS Student, 2022 Summer/Fall NSF REU Student)

- Gian Zignago (BS Student, 2022 Fall NSF REU Student)

- Trevontae Haughton (BS Student, 2022 Fall NSF REU Student)

- Anvitha Ramachandran (BS Student, 2022 Summer NSF REU Student)

- Michael Miller (BS Student, 2022 Summer NSF REU Student)

- Benjamin Philip Hall (BS Student, 2022 Summer NSF REU Student)

- Joseph Kessler (BS Student, 2022 Summer NSF REU Student)

- Osay Edo-Ohonba (BS Student, 2022 Summer NSF REU Student)

- Shaynoah Bedford (BS Student, 2022 Summer NSF REU Student)

- Shreyas Prabhudev (BS Student, 2022 Summer NSF REU Student)

- Trevor Zobrist (BS Student, 2022 Summer NSF REU Student)

- George Stafford (BS Student, 2021 Spring/Summner NSF REU Student)

- Cameron Grant (BS Student, 2021 Summer NSF REU Student)

- Masrik Dahir (BS Student, 2021 Summer NSF REU Student)

- Calvin Davis (BS Student, 2021 Summer NSF REU Student)

- Emily Lattanzio (BS Student, 2021 Summer NSF REU Student)

- Samuel Elfrink (BS Student, 2021 Summer NSF REU Student)

- Matthew Rockey (BS, 2020 NSF REU Student)

- Alexander Riddle (BS, 2020 Summer NSF REU Student)

- David Falana (BS, 2020 Summer NSF REU Student)

- Boonakij Palipatana (BS, 2020 Summer NSF REU Student)

- Robert Ignatowicz (BS, 2020 Summer NSF REU Student)

- Micheal Fisher (BS, 2020 Summer NSF REU Student)

- Drew Dahlquist (BS, 2020)

- Benjamin Frailey (BS, 2019 Summer NSF REU Student)

- Aditya Vandanapu (BS, 2019 Summer NSF REU Student)

- Boonakij Palipatana (BS, 2019 Summer NSF REU Student)

- Brady Kruse (BS, 2019 Summer NSF REU Student)

- Jeromy Yu (BS, 2019 Summer NSF REU Student)

- Andrew Krall (BS, 2018; joined Wipro Infocrossing)

- Akhil Vyas (BS, 2018 Summer Research Student)

- Roland Oruche (BS, 2018 Summer NSF REU Student, 2018 - 2019)

- Annie Barnett (BS, 2018 Summer NSF REU Student)

- Gabriela Hoefer (BS, 2018 Summer NSF REU Student)

- Peter Lovett (BS, 2018 Summer NSF REU Student)

- Andrew Banning (BS, 2018 Summer NSF REU Student)

- Weston Verhulst (BS, 2018, Joined MasterCard)

- Aidan Verhulst (BS, 2018, Joined SAIC)

- Chiara Zizza (BS, 2017 Summer NSF REU Student)

- Andrew Crutcher (BS, 2017 Summer NSF REU Student)

- Adam Starr (BS, 2017 Summer NSF REU Student)

- Kyle Coleman (BS, 2017 Summer NSF REU Student)

- Devin Hudson (BS, 2017 Summer NSF REU Student)

- Caleb Koch (BS, 2017 Summer NSF REU Student)

- Matthew Chisholm (BS, 2016 – 2017; joined Netsmart)

- John Gillis (BS, 2014 – 2016; joined/founded Recordly)

- Amy "Ev" Cheng (BS, 2016 Summer NSF REU Student)

- Kourtney Meiss (BS, 2016 Summer NSF REU Student)

- Josiah Burchard (BS, 2016 Summer NSF REU Student)

- Luke Guerdan (BS, 2016 Summer NSF REU Student)

- Anjay Patel (BS, 2014 - 2015 MU Discovery Fellow)

- Olivia Apperson (BS, 2015 Summer NSF REU Student, 2015 - 2016)

- Patrick Smith (BS, 2015 – 2016)

- Mark Vassell (BS, 2015 Summer NSF REU Student)

- Allen Stage (BS, 2015 Summer NSF REU Student)

- Vladimir Georgiev (BS, 2015 Summer NSF REU Student)

- Samuel Jonesi (BS, 2013 – 2015; joined AT&T)

- Jerry Adams (BS, 2014 Summer NSF REU Student)

- Chris Fulton (BS, 2013 – 2014)

- Chris Dopuch (BS, 2013 NSF REU Student)

NSF REU SITE ON CONSUMER NETWORKING

(Sponsor: NSF)

The REU (Research Experiences for Undergraduates) Site on Consumer Networking Technologies will investigate some important issues related to software-defined networking/virtualization, visual computing at the network edge, social health networking for eldercare, body-area sensing, and environment recognition.

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"HACKER TRACKERS" HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS SUMMER CAMP

(Organizer: Summers@Mizzou)

Do you like playing detective for investigating cyber attacks? Are you interested in learning tools and coding for detecting cyber attacks and developing cool visualizations to track cyber attacks? In this summer camp, you will assume the role of expert witnesses by conducting a network forensics investigation to catch cyber-criminals who were attacking a “Good online gaming” company. You will learn coding with a database and analyze attacks with a public cloud platform. You will also collect evidence to demonstrate to the jury the geographical location of the “cyber-criminal mafia” and the extent of damage caused for compensation.

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