RAJAT GARG 


348D IST Building Voice: (919) 760-0154 
Department of Computer Science & Engineering Fax: (814) 865-3176 
Pennsylvania State University Email: rgarg@cse.psu.edu 

OBJECTIVE 

To work full time with a leading technological group contributing to the current and future technology. 

EDUCATION 

Masters Student, Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering Aug, 2006 – Present 

Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA 

GPA: 3.45 

Bachelor of Engineering, Instrumentation & Control Engineering Aug, 2002 – May, 2006 
Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology, Delhi University, Delhi, India. 

RESEARCH SUMMARY 

Computer systems are evolving everyday in the number of tasks they handle simultaneously and also in their 
speed. Sometimes there is a conflict of interest between the user and the administrator in how these 
computing resources should be handled. An end user is interested solely with his/her performance, whereas 
an administrator might think holistically and seek to minimize overall power or ensure some level of 
performance for other users sharing the resource. My research work has focused on meeting these conflicting 
goals using software based techniques. 

PUBLICATIONS 

Ramya Prabhakar, Shekhar Srikantaiah, Rajat Garg, Mahmut Kandemir. “Adaptive QoS Decomposition and 

Control for Storage Cache Management in Multi-Server Environments.”. In Proceedings of International 

Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing, Newport Beach, California, May 2011. 

Ramya Prabhakar, Shekhar Srikantaiah, Rajat Garg, Mahmut Kandemir. “QoS Aware Storage Cache 
Management in Multi-Server Environments.”. In Proceedings of Symposium on Principles and Practice of 
Parallel Programming, San Antonio, Texas, February 2011. 

Rajat Garg, Christina Patrick, Mahmut Kandemir. “Dynamic Storage Cache Partitioning Using Feedback 
Control Theory.”. In Proceedings of International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and 
Communication Systems, Louisville, September 2009. 

Rajat Garg, Ramya Prabhakar, Mahmut Kandemir. “Power Aware Disk Allocation.”. In Proceedings of 
International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Communication Systems, Louisville, 
September 2009. 

Seung Woo Son, Mahmut Kandemir, Yuan Ray Zhang, Rajat Garg. “Topology-Aware I/O Caching for 
Shared Storage Systems.”. In Proceedings of International Conference on Parallel and Distributed 
Computing and Communication Systems, Louisville, September 2009. 

Christina Patrick, Rajat Garg, Seung woo Son, Mahmut Kandemir. “Improving I/O Performance using 
Soft-QoS Based Dynamic Storage Cache Partitioning.”. In Proceedings of International Conference on 
Cluster Computing, New Orleans, September 2009. 

Rajat Garg, Seung Woo Son, Mahmut Kandemir, Padma Raghavan, Ramya Prabhakar. “Markov Model 
Based Disk Power Management for Data Intensive Workloads.”. In Proceedings of International Symposium 
on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing, Shanghai, China, May 2009. 

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RELEVANT COURSEWORK 
Computer architecture Computer networks Operating System Design 
Control Systems Data structure & algorithms Self-*networks 
Compiler construction Approximation algorithms Multicasting 

EXPERIENCE 
Givens Associate, Argonne National Lab, Chicago, June 2010 – August 2010 

The project involved investigating the I/O performance characteristics of a checkpointing application used 
for oceanic studies. The code was originally developed in Fortran. I was required to study the I/O behavior 
when the application uses MPI-I/O on top of a parallel file system. 

Teaching Assistant, Pennsylvania State University, September 2009 – Present 

Duties consist of conducting lab sessions, grading exams and assignments, holding office hours for 
undergraduate programming courses. 

Research Assistant, Pennsylvania State University, May 2007 – August 2009 

Worked on methods to reduce/ or manage power in storage systems, ensuring/ or improving performance of 
applications in a shared storage system, using feedback control theory and other software based techniques. 

Internship, National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi, India, Dec – Feb 2006 

Developed a clock generator on the 8051 microcontroller kit. The generated time was sent over the telephone 
line in IRIG-B format, providing a better standard to the subscriber. This work was done under Dr. P. 
Banerjee at National Physical Laboratory (NPL), New Delhi, India. 

Internship, Siemens India Ltd, Jun-Jul 2005 

Developed a data management tool for PACS (Picture Archiving and Communications System) in Microsoft 
Office Access. 

COMPUTER SKILLS 

Operating Systems: Unix/Linux, Windows, Mac OS X. 

Programming Languages: C/C++, Fortran 90, Assembly (8085, 8051, Atmel AVR Mega8 microcontroller) 

Applications: Visual Basic and Presentation Softwares 

Engineering Packages: Matlab, Pspice, Labview, Disksim, Accusim 

AWARDS 

Best Paper Award, 2009, “Topology-Aware I/O Caching for Shared Storage Systems” was selected the best 

paper at the International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Communication Systems 

(PDCCS-2009). 

Mathematics Talent Examination, 2000, Secured IIIrd position. Organized by the Ramanujan Mathematical 
Society, India. 

Regional Mathematics Olympiad, 2000, Secured 84th rank. Organized by the National Board for Higher 
Mathematics, Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India. 

Junior Science Talent Search Examination, 2000. Selected for Open Merit Scheme. Conducted by the 
Directorate of Education, Delhi, India. 

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