Geetha Jagannathan

Citizenship:

USA

Contact:

Department of Computer Science
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
110 Frelinghuysen Road
Piscataway, NJ 08854-8019
USA
Phone: +1-516-582-9878
Email: geetha@cs.rutgers.edu

Education

Current

Ph.D. in Computer Science, Rutgers University, NJ Topic: Cryptography (Secure Multiparty Computation, Privacy-preserving Data Mining) Advisor: Prof. Rebecca Wright

2003

M.S. in Computer Science, SUNY at Stony Brook Thesis: A Study of the Sum of Squares Algorithm for Variations of the Bin-Packing Problem Advisor: Prof. Michael Bender

1994

Ph.D. in Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India Dissertation: A study of the singularity method for steady and unsteady linearized viscous flows Advisor: Prof. A. Avudainayagam

1990

M.Sc. in Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India Dissertation: Solitons Theory Advisor: Prof. A. Avudainayagam

1988

B.Sc. in Mathematics, University of Madras, India

Experience

09/’07-

Graduate Assistant, Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University, NJ. I work in distributed computing under the direction of Prof. Rebecca Wright. The work is funded by NSF through the PORTIA project.

01/’04-08/’07

Research Assistant, Department of Computer Science, Stevens Tech., NJ. I worked in Cryptography under the direction of Prof. Rebecca Wright. The work was funded by NSF through the PORTIA project.

09/’01-12/’02

Teaching Assistant, Department of Computer Science, Stony Brook, NY. I was a lab coordinator for the first course in programming. Also, I taught the course independently over a summer session.

11/’00-06/’01

Web developer, RightFreight, Inc., New York, NY. My core project involved the creation of the software infrastructure for this startup company. I single-handedly wrote the kernel for the first version of the system in Java, which has since undergone revision.

08/’99-11/’00

Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Physics, Hofstra University, NY. I worked at the Center for Arrhythmia on computational models for cardiac phenomena. Using differential equations we modeled the behavior of cardiac tissue prior to and during fibrillation. Models were programmed and analyzed in Java, C++ and in Microsoft Excel.

08/’98-03/’99

Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India. I taught undergraduate students who majored in various disciplines of engineering, and graduate students in mathematics. In addition, I performed preliminary research on the modeling of some fluid dynamics problems using hybrid finite element methods. This involved modeling and computationally solving differential equations.

08/'97-08/'98

Research Scholar, Chennai Mathematical Institute, Chennai, India. I studied Lie algebras and other related topics in preparation for doing research in quantum groups. In addition, I studied elliptic curves in connection with the congruent number problem. I have an interest in algebraic number theory in general.

08/'94-08/'97

Lecturer, Venkateswara College of Engineering, Madras, India. I taught undergraduate computer, electrical and mechanical engineering students, and graduate students in the Masters in Computer Applications program. I performed research in analyzing and solving differential equations using techniques such as wavelet and Fourier transforms.

Research Interests

Cryptography, Privacy-preserving computations, hardness of approximations, Number Theory, Elliptic Curves

Teaching Interests

Cryptography, Algorithm Analysis and Design, Automata Theory, Discrete Mathematics.

Publications

1. New Privacy-Preserving Clustering Algorithms, with K. Pillaipakkamnatt, D. Umano and R.N. Wright (in preparation).
2. A Secure Clustering Algorithm for Distributed Data Streams, with K.Pillaipakkamnatt and D.Umano, Proceedings of the ICDM International Workshop on Privacy Aspects of Data Mining, 2007.
3. Private Inference Control For Aggregate Database Queries, with R. N. Wright, Proceedings of the ICDM International Workshop on Privacy Aspects of Data Mining, 2007.
4. Privacy-Preserving DataImputation, with R.N.Wright, to appear in the Journal of Data and Knowledge Engineering.
5. Privacy-Preserving Data Imputation, with R.N.Wright, Proceedings of the ICDM International Workshop on Privacy Aspects of Data Mining, 2006.
6. A New Privacy-Preserving Distributed k-Clustering Algorithm, with K. Pillaipakkamnatt and R. N. Wright, Proceedings of the 2006 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, 2006.
7. Privacy-Preserving Distributed k-Means Clustering over Arbitrarily Partitioned Data, with R. N. Wright, Proceedings of the 11th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2005.
8. The Robustness of the Sum-of-Squares Algorithm for Bin Packing, with M. Bender, et al. (Journal of Experimental Algorithms).
9. The Robustness of the Sum-of-Squares Algorithm for Bin Packing, with M.Bender,et al. ALENEX04.
10. Alternans and the onset of ventricular fibrillation, with Harold M. Hastings, et al. Physical Review E. Volume 62, 2000,pp 4043-4048.
11. One the Image System of Certain Line Singularities in the Vicinity of a Circular Cylinder, with A. Avudainayagam. MechanicsResearchCommunications. Volume25,1998,pp 25-32.
12. A Boundary Integral Equation Formulation for the Two Dimensional Oscillating Stokes Flow Past an Arbitrary Body, with A. Avudainayagam. Journal of Engineering Mathematics. Volume 33, 1998, pp 251-258.
13. A Necessary Condition for the Existence of Plane Stokes Flows Around An Ellipse, with A. Avudainayagam. Canadian Applied MathematicsQuarterly. Volume 3, 1995,pp 237-251.
14. Oscillating Line Singularities of Stokes Flows, with A. Avudainayagam. International Journal of Engineering Science. Volume31,1995,pp 1295-1299
15. Unsteady Singularities of Stokes Flows in Two Dimensions, with A. Avudainayagam. International Journal ofEngineering Science. Volume33,1995,pp 1713-1724.
16. Oscillating Stokes Flows in Two Dimensions, with A. Avudainayagam. Mechanics Research Communications. Volume21,1994,pp 617-628.

References

1. Rebecca N. Wright
2. Michael Bender
3. ?Mario Szegedy