Bimal Viswanath

                                                            Email:      bviswana {AT} mpi-sws {DOT} org
                                                            Phone:     +49 681 9303-653

I am a 2nd year PhD student at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems. My advisor is Krishna Gummadi. I received my M.S degree in Computer Science & Engineering from IIT Madras where I was advised by Prof. C. Siva Ram Murthy. I completed my BTech from Govt. Model Engineering College, Kochi, Kerala.

I am currently doing an internship at Microsoft Research, Redmond, working with Emre Kiciman and Stefan Saroiu.

Research:

My research interests broadly lie in the area of networked and distributed systems. At a high level, my current work focuses on understanding how large scale online social networks (OSNs) work, and leveraging OSNs to build better systems.

Publications:

An Analysis of Social Network-based Sybil Defenses
Bimal Viswanath, Ansley Post, Krishna P. Gummadi, and Alan Mislove
In Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM'10), New Delhi, India, August 2010. To Appear.
[PDF] [BibTeX]

You are who you know: Inferring user profiles in Online Social Networks
Alan Mislove, Bimal Viswanath, Krishna P. Gummadi, and Peter Druschel
In Proceedings of the 3rd ACM International Conference of Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM'10), New York, NY, February 2010.
[PDF] [BibTeX]

On the Evolution of User Interaction in Facebook
Bimal Viswanath, Alan Mislove, Meeyoung Cha, and Krishna Gummadi
In Proc. of ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Online Social Networks (WOSN), August 2009.
Note: The original version contained a few inaccurate statistics on the size of the data set, this has been corrected in the updated paper below.
[PDF] [Original PDF (with errata)] [Errata Note] [BibTeX] [Measurement Data]

From my Master's thesis:

Bimal Viswanath, T. Venkatesh and C. Siva Ram Murthy, "A Markov Chain Model for TCP NewReno over
Optical Burst Switching Networks", accepted in 50th IEEE Global Communications Conference ,November 2007 Washington D.C.

I enjoy photography a lot. See my snaps here!. My work appeared in the October'09 edition of Better Photography magazine in India.

Family on the web:
* Kamal Viswanath