Ankur Jain
Graduate Student
Computer Science and Engineering
University of California San Diego
9500, Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA - 92093-0404
E-mail:
ajain@ucsd.edu
About me
I am a second year masters
student in the CSE department at UCSD. I received my B.S. in computer science
also at UCSD in 2009.
Currently, I work
under Professor Joe Pasquale on
a project involving network and infrastructure latency in cloud computing. A
brief description is given below.
Project
My MS thesis is titled
"Internet Distance Prediction Using Node-Pair Geography". Here is the abstract and link
to the paper:
Predictive methods for learning network distances are often more desirable than direct performance measurements between end hosts. Yet, predicting network distances remains an open and difficult problem, as the results from a number of comparative and analytical studies have shown. From an application requirements perspective, existing solutions, all based on off-line, direct measurements of small subsets of network paths, are far from achieving prediction accuracies at a satisfactory level. In this paper, we develop and analyze a new, machine learning-based approach to distance prediction that seeks to capture and generalize geographical characteristics between Internet node pairs, instead of relying on direct and ongoing measurements of partial paths. We apply a basic algorithm in machine learning to demonstrate this idea and highlight the potential benefits that this method may offer over other popular methods that exist today.
Teaching
I have enjoyed
being a TA for the following classes at UCSD:
Compiler
Construction - CSE 131 (Spring 2009, Winter 2010,
Spring 2010, Winter 2011, Spring 2011)
Intro
to CS & OOP: Java - CSE 11(Fall 2009, Fall 2010)
Computer
Organization and Systems Programming - CSE 30 (Spring
2010, Spring 20110)
Software
Engineering - CSE 70 (Fall 2009)