Charles Darwin's backyardKrish Pillai, Ph.D

Assistant Professor
Computer Science
Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania
Lock Haven, PA 17745


[IEEE Member]Member IEEE
[FSF Associate Member]Associate Member FSF
[GNU Darwin]Darwinian


Education and Degrees:
 B.Tech., Applied Electronics and Instrumentation,(1986), CET, University of Kerala, India.
M.S. (1993) & Ph.D. (1998) Computer Engineering, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas.

Courses taught:
 CISC 150 Introduction to Computers
 COMP 160 Programming I

Office hours:
 M-T-W-Th-F ::: 2:30 to 3:30 p.m or by appointment
Room 234A Akeley Hall
Phone: 570 484 2346

Research Interests:

Computer Networks, Network performance under overload, Wide Area Networks

The Internet Traffic Report monitors the flow of data around the world. It then displays a value between zero and 100. Higher values indicate faster and more reliable connections.

Industry Experience:

bullet Scientist/Engineer SC (1986-1991) - Indian Space Research Organization
bullet M.S.S/Advisor Tech/System Design Authority (1997-2006) - Nortel Networks

Teaching Experience:

bullet Adjunct Faculty (2001-2006) - Computer Science and Engineering, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas
bullet Assistant Professor (2006-2007) - Computer Science and Information Technology, Pennsylvania College of Technology, Williamsport, PA
bullet Assistant Professor (2007--) - Computer Science and Information Technology, Lock Haven University, Lock Haven, PA

Inventions:

bullet U.S. Patent 6,618,398 (Sept 9, 2003) - " Address Resolution for Asymmetrical Wireless Networks"
bullet U.S. Patent 6,574,214 (June 3, 2003) - " Tunneling Techniques in IP Mobility"

Publications And Presentations:

bullet "Protocol Sensitive Dynamic Packet Classification Using Differentiated Services Code Points" - K. Pillai & S. Nesargi
Proceedings of the IEEE Emerging Technology Symposium 2004, Dallas - Oct 8-9, 2004;
bullet "Architecture for IP Mobility" - K. Pillai & M. Khalil
Proceedings of the IEEE Emerging Technology Symposium 2000, Dallas.
bullet "AAA Interface for IPv6 Handoff" - M. Khalil, H. Akthar, K. Pillai and E. Qaddoura
Draft version, Internet Engineering Task Force, 2000.
bullet "Software Development Management" -K. Pillai and V.S.S. Nair
Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 2000. pp:617-627; John Wiley and Sons
bullet "Distributed Hub Architecture for IP Networks over Satellites" - K. Pillai, M. Marchetti
Proceedings of the Fifth Ka Band Utilization Conference 1999. pp. 369 - 376, Sardinia, Italy
bullet "Security and Authentication for IP Networks over Satellite"- K. Pillai, F. Jahani
Proceedings of the Fifth Ka Band Utilization Conference 1999. pp. 329 - 336, Sardinia, Italy
bullet "Early Prediction of Project Schedule Slippage" - K. Pillai and V. S. S. Nair
Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Application Specific Software Engineering and Technology, 1998 (pp: 40-45)
IEEE Computer Society, CA 90720-1314
bullet "A Model for Software Development Effort and Cost Estimation" - K. Pillai and V. S. S. Nair
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, August 1997, Volume 23, Number 8, pp: 485-497
bullet "Statistical Analysis of Non-Stationary Software Metrics" - K. Pillai and V. S. S. Nair
The Journal of Information and Software Technology; Elsevier Publications, May 1997, Volume 39, Number 5
bullet "Configuration Management System with Evolutionary Prototyping" - K. Pillai, V. S. S. Nair, H. Cropper, and R. Zajac
Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Applied Corporate Computing.
ITESM, Monterrey, Mexico, 1996
bullet "The Fountain Model and its Impact on Project Schedule" - K. Pillai
Software Engineering Notes, SIGSOFT, Association for Computing Machinery, U.S.A
March 1996, Volume 21, Number 2, pp:32-36

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