Bimal Viswanath

                                                                                                                        Address: Max Planck Institute for Software Systems
                                                                                                                                  Wartburg, Martin-Luther-Strasse 12
                                                                                                                                        661

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

I am a 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.

Research:

My current research interest is in studying large-scale online social networks.

Publications:

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. To appear.
[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 Masters 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!

Family on the web:
* Kamal Viswanath