RAVINDRA R. KURAMKOTE

email: kuramkot@cs.utah.edu                   5508 Red Fox CT
http://www.cs.utah.edu/~kuramkot              Mason, OH 45040
VISA Status: Permanent resident               (513) 398-6120

EDUCATION
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Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Utah, Expected Graduation: Spring 2002.
M.S., Computer Science, Arizona State University, 1992.
B.E., Electronics and Communication, University of Mysore, 1984.


EXPERIENCE
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Aug 2000-Present, Software Design Engineer, Enterprise Systems
Technology Lab, Hewlett-Packard.

Sep 1998-Jul 2000, Research Associate/Assistant, Impulse Project,
University of Utah. Evaluation of the architectural simulators and
consulting on the design of the memory controller.

Oct 1994-Aug 1998, Research Associate, Avalanche Project,
University of Utah. Designed, verified, and simulated a directory
based shared memory controller.

Jun 1994-Sep 1994, Research intern, VLIW Architecture Group, 
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories. Simulated and tested HP's VLIW processor
architecture, which was the precursor to the Intel Merced.

January 1993-May 1994, Research Assistant, Mach Shared Object Project,
University of Utah. Implemented mechanisms to add flexibility at run
time to the Mach operating system. Developed a transaction manager
server to handle distributed transactions, an object server to manage
small persistent objects, and a name server using the NFS XDR
protocol interface on the UNIX platform.

September 1992-December 1992, Teaching Assistant, Department
of Computer Science, University of Utah. Assisted in projects and
graded project and homework assignments for a graduate course in
Operating System.

January 1990-August 1992, Graduate Assistant, Graduate College,
Arizona State University. Developed and maintained database software
using FOCUS.

August 1989-December 1989, Computer Laboratory Assistant,
Department of Computer Science, Arizona State University. Graded
homework for an undergraduate course in Computer Literacy.

September 1985-June 1989, Field Engineer, DCM Data Products,
India. Maintained hardware and developed diagnostic software for
mini/micro computers.

August 1984-August 1985, Computer Engineer, Indian Express
Pvt. Ltd., India. Developed and maintained hardware/software at the
computer division.


COMPUTER SKILLS
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Simulation and performance analysis of computer hardware systems.

Languages and tools such as C, C++, Perl, Make, and assembly
languages(PA-RISC, Sparc, and X86). 

Internals of operating systems such as BSD 4.4 and Mach.

Cache and bus protocols of modern processors (e.g., HP PA-7200/PA-8000
and MIPS R10000).


MISCELLANEOUS
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Invited Talk:  "Distributed Shared Memory in Avalanche" at
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA.

Awards: National Merit Scholarship from the Government of India,
Academic Scholarship from the Arizona State University for academic
excellence, Certificate from Upsilon Pi Epsilon, Arizona State
University.