Berk Birand, Ph.D. |
I am currently a cofounder of Fero Labs, an automated machine learning platform for the industrial sector. In a previous life, I was an academic, and my somewhat outdated academic bio follows (written, of course, in the third person..).
Berk recently finished his Ph.D. under the expert guidance of Prof. Gil Zussman. His research focus was on developing efficient cross-layer algorithms in wireless and optical networks. His latest work was on proving the performance bounds on distributed scheduling algorithms and on identifying energy-efficient resource allocation problems in optical access networks.
He was an IBM PhD Fellow for the 2011-2012 academic year. His work on using graph theory to prove throughput-bounds on greedy scheduling algorithms was nominated for the “Best Paper Award” in INFOCOM’10. He was an invited speaker at the ACM S3 2010 workshop in Chicago, IL and received the “Best Theory Session Talk” award. He was the TPC co-chair of the ACM S3 2011 workshop in Las Vegas, NV. In Spring 2011, he was a Teaching Fellow for the Computer Science department. He was awarded the “Harold S. Black Award for outstanding EE senior” from WPI and the “Millman Award for outstanding EE TA of the year” from Columbia University. In the summer of 2010 and the fall of 2011, he was a research intern at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY.
Some of the conferences he is interested in are listed here. His resume, contact information, and public PGP key are also available.
P. Samadi, V. Gupta, B. Birand, H. Wang, R. Jensen, G. Zussman, K. Bergman, “Software-Addressable Optical Accelerators for Data-Intensive Applications in Cluster-Computing Platforms,” European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC) 0601, Sept 2014
P. Samadi, V. Gupta, B. Birand, H. Wang, G. Zussman, K. Bergman, “Accelerating Incast and Multicast Traffic Delivery for Data-intensive Applications using Physical Layer Optics,” SIGCOMM Poster 89, Aug. 2014
B. Birand, H. Wang, K. Bergman, D. Kilper, T. Nandagopal, and G. Zussman, “Real-Time Power Control for Dynamic Optical Networks,” Proc. IEEE ICNP’13, Oct. 2013
B. Birand, H. Wang, K. Bergman, D. Kilper, T. Nandagopal, and G. Zussman, “Measurements-based Power Control - A Cross-layered Framework,” Proc. OSA OFC’13, Mar. 2013 PDF
B. Birand, M. Zafer, G. Zussman, and K-W. Lee, “Dynamic Graph Properties of Mobile Networks under Levy Walk Mobility,” Proc. IEEE MASS’11, Oct. 2011 PDF
B. Birand, M. Chudnovsky, B. Ries, P. Seymour, G. Zussman and Y. Zwols, “Analyzing the Performance of Greedy Maximal Scheduling via Local Pooling and Graph Theory,” Proc. ACM MobiHoc S3 Workshop’10, Sep. 2010 [Invited Speaker, Best Theory Session Talk Award]
B. Birand, M. Chudnovsky, B. Ries, P. Seymour, G. Zussman and Y. Zwols, “Analyzing the Performance of Greedy Maximal Scheduling via Local Pooling and Graph Theory,” Proc. IEEE INFOCOM’10, Mar. 2010, PDF [Nominated for Best Paper Award]
G. Hammouri, E. Öztürk, B. Birand, and B. Sunar. Unclonable Lightweight Authentication Scheme. In Proc. ICICS’08, Oct. 2008, in Springer LNCS, DOI= http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-88625-9_3
B. Birand, H. Wang, K. Bergman, D. Kilper, T. Nandagopal, and G. Zussman, “Real-Time Power Control for Dynamic Optical Networks - Algorithms and Experimentations,” to appear, IEEE JSAC Special Issue on Energy Efficient Optical Networks
B. Birand, M. Zafer, G. Zussman, and K-W. Lee, “Dynamic Graph Properties of Mobile Networks,” under submission, Ad-Hoc Networks
B. Birand, M. Chudnovsky, B. Ries, P. Seymour, G. Zussman and Y. Zwols, “Analyzing the Performance of Greedy Maximal Scheduling via Local Pooling and Graph Theory,” IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 163–176, Feb. 2012 PDF
S-H. Yoo, D. Karakoyunlu, B. Birand, and B. Sunar. A Robust and Practical Random Number Generator. ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems, Vol. 3, No. 2, May 2010
B. Birand, M. Chudnovsky, B. Ries, P. Seymour, G. Zussman and Y. Zwols, Analyzing the Performance of Greedy Maximal Scheduling via Local Pooling and Graph Theory, Columbia University Electrical Engineering Technical Report 2009-07-30, PDF
Instructor for:
CSEE 4140 Networking Lab (Spring 2014)
CSEE 4140 Networking Lab (Spring 2011)
Teaching assistant for:
COMS 4119 Computer Networks (Spring 2010)
COMS 4119 Computer Networks (Spring 2009)
ELEN 3801 Continuous Time Systems and Signals (Fall 2008)