Suchit Agarwal

Education Ph.D., Computer Science, in progress (expected Fall 2012)

University of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA
Research Interests: Databases, Distributed Information Networks, Social Networks.
M.S., Computer Science, in progress (expected Spring 2009)
University of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA
MS Project: History Management in Database Systems
Advisor: Prof. Wang-Chiew Tan; Current GPA: 4.0/4.0
B.Tech., Computer Science / IT, August 2006
Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad, U.P., India
Thesis: WebMine: A tool to uncover the Web
Advisor: Dr. Sudip Sanyal; GPA: 3.63/4.0

Publications Journal Papers

Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, Suchit Agarwal, and Karl Aberer. Gridvine: An infrastructure
for peer information management. IEEE Internet Computing, 11(5):36–44, 2007.
Conference Papers
Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, Suchit Agarwal, Adriana Budura, Parisa Haghani, and Karl
Aberer. Self-organizing schema mappings in the gridvine peer data management sys-
tem. In VLDB, pages 1334–1337, 2007.
Ashish Virmani, Suchit Agarwal, Rahul Thathoo, Shekhar Suman, and Sudip Sanyal. A
fast xpath evaluation technique with the facility of updates. In WWW (Special interest
tracks and posters), pages 886–887, 2005.
Shekhar Suman, Suchit Agarwal, Ashish Virmani, Rahul Thathoo, and Sudip Sanyal.
Mobimule: An on-demand mule mobility model for wireless sensor networks. In WCSN,
2005.
Suchit Agarwal. Routing and switching algorithms for optical wdm networks: A review.
In WCSN, 2005.
Shekhar Suman, Suchit Agarwal, Ashish Virmani, Rahul Thathoo, and Sudip Sanyal.
Mobimule: An on-demand mule mobility model for wireless sensor networks. Accepted
at IASTED NCS 2005.
Ashish Virmani, Suchit Agarwal, Rahul Thathoo, Shekhar Suman, and Sudip Sanyal. A
fast xpath evaluation technique with the facility of updates. Accepted at ICOMP 2005.
Technical Reports
Suchit Agarwal and Shekhar Suman. Webmine: A tool to uncover the web (v1.0).
Technical report, Indian Institue of Information Technology, Allahabad, 2005.
Suchit Agarwal. Adnet: A first step towards a viral advertising network for facebook.
Technical report, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2008.
Suchit Agarwal. Optimizing conjunctive queries over rdf triple patterns. Technical
report, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2008.

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Employment
01/2009–Present Graduate Student Researcher
Computer Communications Research Group, UCSC, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
02/2008–12/2008 Visiting Student Researcher
IBM, Silicon Valley Labs, San Jose, CA, USA
06/2008–09/2008 Advanced Database Technology Intern
IBM, Silicon Valley Labs, San Jose, CA, USA
01/2008–12/2008 Graduate Student Researcher
Database Systems Laboratory, UCSC, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
09/2006–07/2007 Research Assistant
Distributed Information Systems Laboratory, EPFL, Lausanne, CH, Switzerland
01/2005–05/2006 Research Assistant
Computer Networks Research Group, IIIT Allahabad, Allahabad, India
05/2005–07/2005 Visiting Researcher
Agile All-Photonic Networks, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
07/2004–12/2004 Research Assistant
Database Systems Research Group, IIIT Allahabad, Allahabad, India
05/2004–07/2004 Summer Intern
SAV Networks, IIT Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India

Research Experience
IBM Silicon Valley Labs
– Storage and Compression of History in Databases (Ongoing)
LSIR, EPFL
– GridVine: An infraastrucuture for Peer Information Management (2006-2007)
Graduate Class Projects
– Evalution of Conjunctive Triple Pattern Queries over a P2P RDF Store
Individual project in Spring 2008 (Finished). Used multi-dimensional suffix trees for substring
selectivity estimation for optimizing conjunctive queries by storing statistics about the data on the
network on various nodes.
– Mining Facebook for Viral Marketing
Individual project in Winter 2008 (Finished). Investigating techniques to identify marketing /
advertising hotspots in social networks like Facebook.
– Mashup integrating Weather API, Google Calendar and Google Maps
Individual project in Fall 2007 (Finished). mashup implemented using Google Mashup Editor that
shows a user his calendar events on a map and also displays the weather forecast for the day of the
event.
Undergraduate Work
– GRAMS: A keyword-keyword relationship based paradigm for Web Search (Spring 2006)
– WebMine: A tool to uncover the Web (Fall 2005)
– LibSync: Clock Synchronization Protocol for Optical Networks (Summer 2005)
– MoBiMule: An energy-efficient on-demand mobility model for MULEs in sensor networks (Spring
2005)

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 – VATSS: A Fast XPath Evaluation technique with the facility of updates (Fall 2004)

Technical Skills
Proficient
C, C++, Java, LaTeX, PHP, Bash Scripting
Familiar
C#, MATLAB, Perl

Extracurricular
Positions of Responsibility
– President of the Music Society, IIIT Allahabad (Jan 2004–Dec 2004)
– Student Placement Representative for IIIT, Allahabad. (Nov 2004 Nov 2005)
– Event Coordinator of “Dhoom”: Concert by Euphoria at IIIT, Allahabad. (April 2004)
– Member of the Cultural Committee for the 80th Annual Vice-Chancellors Conference at IIIT, Alla-
habad. (November, 2005)

Honors and Awards

Regents Fellowship
Awarded in 2007, 2008, UCSC
Graduate Division Tuition Fellowship
Awarded in 2007, 2008, UCSC
Research Assistantship
Awarded in 2006-2007, LSIR, EPFL
Student Assistantship
Awarded in 2005, AAPN, uOttawa
Student Assistantship
Awarded in 2004, IIT Kharagpur
Best Paper
Awarded in 2005, Anvesha (Paper-presentation Contest), IIIT Allahabad
Certificate of Honor
Awarded in 2000, Top 1% students in Mathematics in High School

Contact
Department of Computer Science, School of Engineering
University of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060
Cell: 831-332-9001, Office: 831-459-5277, Home: 831-426-6540
agarwal@soe.ucsc.edu
http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/∼agarwal/

January 28, 2009