Rohan Fernandes's Homepage

This page is under construction as of the 16th of October, 2006. It will be updated constantly in the next few days.

About Me

I am a Doctoral candidate in the
Computer Science Department,
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey,
Hill Center for the Mathematical Sciences,
110, Frelinghuysen Road,
Piscataway, NJ 08854-8019.

Voicemail: (732) 445-6450 ext 9620
Fax No: (732) 445-0537
Office: Hill 414

For more information about me, you can peruse my resume in ps, pdf, txt, rtf or doc format.

Research

My current research with advisor Dr. Martín Farach-Colton is in the area of algorithmic upper and lower bounds in radio networks. My recent work focusses more on the latter.

Previously, with Dr. Steven Skiena, I have worked on the problem of Multiple-use PCR Primer Design for Microarrays. This work is detailed in my Master's thesis (ps, pdf).

Publications

• Lower Bounds for Clear Transmissions in Radio Networks. With Martín Farach-Colton and Miguel A. Mosteiro in Proc. of LATIN' 06, LNCS Vol. 3887, pp. 447-54, © Springer-Verlag (pdf).
• Bootstrapping a Hop-Optimal Network in the Weak Sensor Model. With Martín Farach-Colton and Miguel A. Mosteiro in Proc. of ESA' 05, LNCS Vol. 3669, pp. 827-38, © Springer-Verlag (pdf).
• Microarray Synthesis through Multiple-use PCR Primer Design. With Steven Skiena in Bioinformatics Vol. 18 Suppl. 1, pp. S128-35, 2002, © Oxford University Press (pdf).

Teaching Experience

Rutgers University

• TA for Discrete Mathematics II, CS206 in Fall '06 with Prof. Michael Fredman.
• TA for Graduate Algorithms I, CS513 in Spring '06 with Prof. Muthukrishnan.
• TA for Graduate Algorithms I, CS513 in Fall '05 with Prof. Endre Szemerédi.
• TA for Undergraduate Algorithms, CS344 in Spring '05 with Prof. Muthukrishnan.
• TA for Discrete Mathematics I, CS205 in Fall '04 with Prof. Ahmed Elgammal.

Stony Brook University

• TA for Undergraduate Analysis of Algorithms, CSE 373 in Spring '01 with Prof. Michael Bender.
• TA for Undergraduate Analysis of Algorithms, CSE 373 in Fall '00 with Prof. Steven Skiena.

Class Projects

• Project report for CS553, Internet Services, Energy Analysis of RFID Arbitration Protocols (ps, pdf).
• Project report for CS552, Computer Networks, Multipath Routing in Sensor Networks (ps, pdf).
• Project report for CS514, Design and Analysis of Data Structures and Algorithms II, Succinct Balanced Binary Tree and Packed Memory Structure (ps, pdf).
• Scribe notes for lecture 4 of CS514, Design and Analysis of Data Structures and Algorithms II, in ps and pdf formats.