Internships / Fellowships

This page covers my previous internship/fellowships projects and related documents.

03/2009 - 06/2009: NASA, Ames Research Center, NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Division

• Manager: Jerry C. Yan

• Description:

  • Gathered requirements for future computational requirements in the building of space vehicles, such as Ares 5

   

10/2008 - 03/2009: NASA, Ames Research Center, Graduate Student Research Program

• Manager: Jerry C. Yan

• Ioan Raicu, Ian Foster. "Harnessing Grid Resources to Enable the Dynamic Analysis of Large Astronomy Datasets: Year 1 Status and Year 2 Proposal”, NASA GSRP Year 2 Progress Report and Year 3 Proposal, Ames Research Center, NASA, February 2008 -- Award funded 10/1/08 - 9/30/09.

10/2007 - 09/2008: NASA, Ames Research Center, Graduate Student Research Program

• Manager: Jerry C. Yan

• Ioan Raicu, Ian Foster. "Harnessing Grid Resources to Enable the Dynamic Analysis of Large Astronomy Datasets: Year 1 Status and Year 2 Proposal”, NASA GSRP Year 1 Progress Report and Year 2 Proposal, Ames Research Center, NASA, February 2007 -- Award funded 10/1/07 - 9/30/08.

10/2006 - 09/2007: NASA, Ames Research Center, Graduate Student Research Program

• Manager: Jerry C. Yan

• I. Raicu, I. Foster. "Harnessing Grid Resources to Enable the Dynamic Analysis of Large Astronomy Datasets”, NASA GSRP Proposal, Ames Research Center, NASA, February 2006 -- Award funded 10/1/06 - 9/30/07.

Summer 2006: Argonne National Laboratory, Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne, IL

• Manager: Ian Foster

• Description:

  • Designed and built a large scale science portal (an astronomy application having 100K+ users accessing 10TB+ of data) into the TeraGrid.

  • The summer work resulted in the system called AstroPortal.

Summer 2005: Argonne National Laboratory, Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne, IL

• Manager: Ian Foster

• Description:

  • Built performance models in order to aid the design of a large scale science portal (an astronomy application having 100K+ users accessing 10TB+ of data) into the TeraGrid. 

  • Final report [PDF]

Summer 2003: Sun Microsystems, Sun Labs & Solaris Networking Technologies, Menlo Park, CA

• Manager: Samita Chakrabarti

• Description:

  • Mobile IPv6 support in Solaris 10

    • Added mobile IPv6 support in Snoop

    • Contributed to a traffic generator capable of Mobile IPv6 traffic

    • Configured a Mobile IPv6 testbed

    • Mobile IPv6 project final report [PDF]

  • Neon Project (a system architecture that defines network data flow management and enforcement over high bandwidth networks)

    • Built a framework to validate the system functionally and performance

    • Neon project final report [PDF]

Summer 2001: Accenture Technology Labs (Formerly known as CSTAR), Palo Alto, CA

• Manager: Owen Richter

• Description:

  • Extensively used the University of California, Berkeley designed TinyOS and Rene Motes (wireless sensors nodes)

  • Advisor to the design of an abstraction layer for general purpose wireless sensor networks.

  • Using the Rene Motes infrastructure, developed a proximity detector for indoor localization to append to an outdoor GPS tracking system; the end product was a complete end-to-end solution for indoor tracking; this work was published in "Using Wireless Sensor Networks to Narrow the Gap between Low-Level Information and Context-Awareness” [PDF]

  • Internship final report [PDF]

Summer 1999: Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, MI

• Manager: Phillip Roberts

• Description:

  • Assisted in fixing a Year 2000 (Y2K) problem within the Ford Computer Communication System

  • Client/server programming in C, C++, and Java under UNIX and Windows NT 4.0 to link supplier end stations to the main head end servers