Dr. Manish Parashar

 Professor I
 Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 

Co-Director
NSF Center for Autonomic Computing (CAC)
University of Florida, University of Arizona & Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Director
 The Applied Software Systems Laboratory (TASSL)
The Center for Advanced Information Processing (CAIP)
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 

 Research Associate
Center for Subsurface Modeling
 Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences
The University of Texas at Austin

 

 

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Manish Parashar is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rutgers University, and is also co-director of the NSF Center for Autonomic Computing. He is affiliated with CAIP, WINLAB, CBIM and IMCS, and holds a joint research appointment with the Center for Subsurface Modeling,  The University of Texas at Austin. He has been a visiting fellow at the Department of Computer Science and DOE ASCI/ASAP  Center, California Institute of Technology, at the DOE ASCI/ASAP FLASH Center, University of Chicago, and at the Max-Plank Institute in Potsdam, Germany. His research interests are in the broad area of parallel and distributed computing and include pervasive computational systems, autonomic computing, Grid peer-to-peer computing, scientific computing and software engineering. A key focus of his current research is on solving scientific and engineering problems on very large systems and the integration of physical and computational systems.

Manish received the Rutgers Board of Trustees Award for Excellence in Research (The Award) (2004-2005), the NSF CAREER Award (1999),  TICAM (University of Texas at Austin)  Distinguished Fellowship (1999-2001), Enrico Fermi Scholarship, Argonne National Laboratory (1996), is a senior member of IEEE/IEEE Computer Society,  and a senior member of ACM. He is also the Vice Chair of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) and a member of the executive committee of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP) and part of the IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitor Program (2004-2007).

Manish is the co-founder of the IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC), member of the editorial board for "IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems" (IEEE Computer Society Press), "Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience" (John Wiley & Sons), "Cluster Computing, The Journal of Networks, Software Tools and Applications" (Kluwer Academic Publishers),  "Multiagent and Grid Systems" (IOS Press), the "International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing" (Inderscience Publishers)  and the "International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems" (Inderscience Publishers), and is a member of the steering committees for the IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC), International Conference on Grid Computing (ICGC/GridXY) (Chair), IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC), IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Services (ICPS), IEEE Workshop on Challenges of Large Applications in Distributed Environments (CLADE), the SCS High Performance Computing Symposium (HPC), the International Conference on Self-Organization and Autonomic Systems in Computing and Communications, and Autonomic Computing Workshop (International Workshop on Active Middleware Services). He is on the program committees of over 125 international conference and workshops (13 as General Chair, 11 as Program Chair/Vice Chair). He has also served as a panelist for NSF, DoE and other funding agencies, and regularly reviews technical articles for journals and conferences.

Manish has co-authored over 150 technical papers in international journals and conferences, over 75 invited papers and presentations, has co-authored 5 books and 18 book chapters, has edited 12 conference proceeding and has edited 7 journal special issues. He has also developed and deployed several software systems including AutoMate (Accord, Rudder/Comet, Meteor, Squid,  Topos, Pawn, DAIS, SESAME), Seine, GrACE/DAGH, MACE, Discover, Pragma/ARMaDA and the CORBA CoG Kit. His research and software was recently part of the Help Defeat Cancer Project on the IBM World Community Grid.

Manish received a BE degree in Electronics and Telecommunications from Bombay University, India, and MS and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University.

Research

Current research projects:

  • Pervasive Computational Ecosystems
  • Autonomic Computing
  • Adaptive Computation Engines for Very Large Scale Dynamic Scientific Applications
  • Decentralized Data-sharing for Bioinformatics Research
  • Interactive Computational Collaboratories and Pervasive Computational Portals
  • Middleware Infrastructure for Pervasive Environments
  • Proactive & Reactive Runtime Application Management
  • Software Engineering for Computational Infrastructures and Scientific Computing

For more information on all research projects, please see the TASSL Research Page.

Current funded projects:

  1. "Center for Autonomic Computing," NSF I/UCRC, 01/08 - 01-13.
  2. "Center for Plasma Edge Simulation," DOE SciDAC FSP, 07/05 - 06/09.
  3. "Data Driven Simulation of the Subsurface: Optimization and Uncertainty Estimation," NSF ITR, 09/04 - 08/07.
  4. "Adaptive Fusion of Stochastic Information for Imaging Fractured Vadose Zones," NSF SEIII, 09/04 - 08/07.
  5. "An Autonomic Component Framework for Grid Applications," NSF NGS, 02/04 - 01/07.
  6. "Development of Systems for Distributed Scientific Data Management using Automated Workflows Applied to Plasma Physics Simulations," DOE/PPPL, 01/05 - 09/07.
  7. "ORBIT: Open-Access Research Testbed for Next-Generation Wireless Networks," NSF NRT, 10/03 - 09/07.

For a complete list of funded projects, please see Research Grants.

Teaching

Recent courses taught:

  • ECE 572  Advanced Parallel & Distributed Computing - Spring 2008
  • ECE 438 Software Engineering Capstone Design - Spring 2008
  • ECE 454 Software Engineering Capstone Design - Spring 2006
  • ECE 451/ECE 566 Introduction to Parallel and Distributed Programming - Fall 2006
  • ECE 572  Advanced Parallel & Distributed Computing - Spring 2006
  • ECE 452 Introduction to Software Engineering - Spring 2006
  • ECE 451/ECE 566 Introduction to Parallel and Distributed Programming - Fall 2005
  • ECE 572  Advanced Parallel & Distributed Computing - Spring 2005
  • ECE 452 Introduction to Software Engineering - Spring 2005

For a complete teaching profile, please see Teaching Profile.

Recent Publications/Presentations
(a complete list of publication available here)

Books:

Selected Papers:

Introductions/Position Papers

  • "Pervasive Computational Ecosystem: Enabling Dynamic Data/Information Driven Science," Research Position Paper, 2007.  (PDF)

  • "When the Grid becomes Pervasive: A Vision for Pervasive Grids," M. Parashar and J-M. Pierson, Research Position Paper, 2007.  (PDF)

  • “Autonomic Grid Computing – Concepts, Requirements, Infrastructures,” M. Parashar, “Autonomic Computing: Concepts, Infrastructure and Applications,” Editors: M. Parashar and S. Hariri, CRC Press, 2006.

  • “The Autonomic Computing Paradigm,” S. Hariri, B. Khargharia, H. Chen, J. Yang, Y. Zhang, M. Parashar and H. Liu, Cluster Computing: The Journal of Networks, Software Tools, and Applications, Springer Science+Business Media B.V. (Kluwer Academic Publishers), Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 5 – 17, 2006. (PDF)
  • “Conceptual and Implementation Models for the Grid,” M. Parashar and J.C. Browne, Proceedings of the IEEE, Special Issue on Grid Computing, IEEE Press, Vol. 93, No. 3, pp 653 – 668, March 2005.  (PDF)
  • "A Concise Introduction to Autonomic Computing," R. Sterritt, M. Parashar, H. Tianfield and R. Unland, Journal of Advanced Engineering Informatics, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Special Issue on Autonomic Computing and Automation, Elsevier Publishers, 2005.(PDF)
  • "Autonomic Computing: An Overview," M. Parashar, and S. Hariri, UPP 2004, Mont Saint-Michel, France, Editors: J.-P. Banātre et al. LNCS, Springer Verlag, Vol. 3566, pp. 247 – 259, 2005. (PDF)

 

Asynchronous and Adaptive Computational Engines

  • "Asynchronous Replica Exchange for Molecular Simulations,” E. Gallicchio, R. M. Levy, M. Parashar, Journal of Computational Chemistry, Wiley Interscience (To Appear). (PDF)
  • "Grid-based Asynchronous Replica Exchange,” Z. Li and M. Parashar, Proceedings of the 8th IEEE/ACM  International Conference on Grid Computing (Grid 2007), Austin, TX, USA, , IEEE Computer Society Press, September 2007. (PDF)
  • "A Computational Infrastructure for Grid-based Asynchronous Parallel Applications,” Z. Li and M. Parashar, Poster, Proceedings of the 16th International Symposium on High-Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC), Monterey, CA, USA, , IEEE Computer Society Press, June 2007. (PDF)
  • “Hybrid Runtime Management of Space-Time Heterogeneity for Dynamic SAMR Applications,” X. Li and M. Parashar, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE Computer Society Press. Volume 18, Number 8, August 2007. (PDF)
  • “A Decentralized Computational Infrastructure for Grid-Based Parallel Asynchronous Iterative Applications,” Z. Li and M. Parashar, Journal of Grid Computing, pp. 1 - 18, DOI 10.1007/s10723-006-9033-9, URL http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10723-006-9033-9, May 2006. (PDF)
  • “Salsa: Scalable Asynchronous Replica Exchange for Parallel Molecular Dynamics Simulations,” L. Zhang, M. Parashar, E. Gallicchio, R. Levy, Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP 2006), Columbus, OH, USA, IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 127 - 134, August 2006. (PDF)
  • “Experiments with Wide Area Data Coupling Using the Seine Framework,” L. Zhang and M. Parashar, Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC 2006), Bangalore, India, Editors: Y. Roberts, M. Parashar, R. Badrinath, and V.K. Prasanna, LNCS, Springer-Verlag, Volume 4297, pp. 229 – 241, December 2006. (PDF)
  • “Seine: A Dynamic Geometry-based Shared Space Interaction Framework for Parallel Scientific Applications,” L. Zhang and M. Parashar, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, John Wiley and Sons, online Volume 18, Issue 15, pp. 1951 – 1973, 2006, (preprint, DOI: 10.1002/cpe.1039, April 2006). (PDF)
  • "Enabling Efficient and Flexible Coupling of Parallel Scientific Applications," L. Zhang and M. Parashar, Proceedings of the 20th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2006), IEEE Computer Society Press, Rhodes Island, Greece, April 2006. (PDF)
  • “Dynamic Structured Partitioning for Parallel Scientific Applications with Pointwise Varying Workloads,” S. Chandra, M. Parashar and J. Ray, Proceedings of the 20th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2006), IEEE Computer Society Press, Rhodes Island, Greece, April 2006. (PDF)
  • “Addressing Spatiotemporal and Computational Heterogeneity for Structured Adaptive Mesh Refinement,” S. Chandra and M. Parashar, Computing and Visualization in Science, Springer-Verlag, preprint, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00791-006-0028-7, DOI 10.1007/s00791-006-0028-7. (PDF)
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  • “Enabling Scalable Parallel Implementations of Structured Adaptive Mesh Refinement Applications,” S. Chandra, X. Li, T. Saif and M. Parashar, Journal of Supercomputing, Kluwer Academic Publishers. (Online: DOI 10.1007/s11227-007-0110-z), March 2007. (PDF)

 

Project AutoMate

  • “AutoMate: Enabling Autonomic Grid Applications,” M. Parashar, H. Liu, Z. Li, V. Matossian, C. Schmidt, G. Zhang and S. Hariri, Cluster Computing: The Journal of Networks, Software Tools, and Applications, Special Issue on Autonomic Computing, Springer Science+Business Media B.V. (Kluwer Academic Publishers), Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 161 – 174, 2006. (PDF)
  • "Accord: A Programming Framework for Autonomic Applications,” H. Liu and M. Parashar, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Special Issue on Engineering Autonomic Systems, Editors: R. Sterritt and T. Bapty, IEEE Press, Vol. 36, No 3, pp. 341 – 352, 2006. (PDF)
  • “Enabling Dynamic Composition and Coordination of Autonomic Applications using the Rudder Agent Framework,” Z. Li and M. Parashar, The Knowledge Engineering Review, Cambridge University Press The Knowledge Engineering Review, Cambridge University Press, Volume 21, Issue 03, pp. 221-230, (Online: DOI 10.1017/S0269888906000907). (PDF)
  • “Rudder: An Agent-based Infrastructure for Autonomic Composition of Grid Applications,” Z. Li and M. Parashar, Multiagent and Grid System – An International Journal, IOS Press, Vol. 1, No. 4, pp. 183 - 195, 2005. (PDF)
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  • “An Infrastructure for the Dynamic Composition of Grid Service,” Z. Li and M. Parashar, Technical Report, Center for Advanced Information Processing, Rutgers University, April 2007. (PDF)

 

Content-based Middleware Services

  • "Decentralized Data Sharing of Tissue Microarrays for Investigative Research in Oncology,” W. Chen, C. Schmidt, M. Parashar, M. Reiss, D. Foran, Cancer Informatics, Libertas Academica, Volume 2, pp. 373 – 388, 2006. (PDF)
  • “Design and implementation of a Distributed Content-based Notification Broker for WS-Notification,” A. Quiroz and M. Parashar, Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Grid Computing (Grid 2006), Barcelona, Spain, IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 207 – 214, September 2006. (PDF)
  • “A Decentralized Content-Based Aggregation Service for Pervasive Environments,” N. Jiang, C. Schmidt, and M. Parashar, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Services (ICPS 2006), Lyon, France, IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 203 – 212, June 2006. (PDF)
  • "Comet: A Scalable Coordination Space in Decentralized Distributed Environments," Z. Li and M. Parashar, Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Hot Topics in Peer-to-Peer Systems (HOT-P2P 2005), San Diego, CA, USA, IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 104 – 111, July 2005. (PDF) 
  • "Enabling Flexible Queries with Guarantees in P2P Systems,"  C. Schmidt and M. Parashar, IEEE Internet Computing, Special issue on Data Dissemination on the Web, IEEE Computer Society Press, Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 19-26, May/June 2004. (HTML)

     

Autonomic Grid Computing

  • "An Autonomic Data Streaming Service,” V. Bhat*, M. Parashar, H. Liu*, M. Khandekar*, N. Kandasamy, S. Abdelwahed, and S. Klasky, Cluster Computing: The Journal of Networks, Software Tools, and Applications, Special Issue on Autonomic Computing, Kluwer Academic Publishers, (Online: DOI 10.1017/S10586-007-0023-x), October 2007. (PDF)
  • "Experiments with In-Transit Processing for Data Intensive Grid Workflows,” V. Bhat, M. Parashar and S. Klasky, Proceedings of the 8th IEEE/ACM  International Conference on Grid Computing (Grid 2007), Austin, TX, USA, , IEEE Computer Society Press, September 2007. (PDF)
  • “A Self-Managing Wide-Area Data Streaming Service using Model-based Online Control,” V. Bhat, M. Parashar, M. Khandekar, N. Kandasamy, and S. Klasky, Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Grid Computing (Grid 2006), Barcelona, Spain, IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 176 – 183, September 2006. (PDF)
  • “Enabling Self-Managing Applications using Model-based Online Control Strategies,” V. Bhat, M. Parashar, M. Khandekar, N. Kandasamy, and S. Abdelwahed, Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2006), Dublin, Ireland, IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 15 – 24, June 2006. (PDF)
  • "Enabling Self-Management of Component Based High-Performance Scientific Applications," H. Liu and M. Parashar, Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC 2005), Research Triangle Park, NC, USA, IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 59 – 68. July 2005. (PDF)
  • “A Component-based Programming Framework for Autonomic Applications,” H. Liu, M. Parashar and S. Hariri, Proceedings of the 1st IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC-04), IEEE Computer Society Press, New York, NY, USA, pp. 278 - 279, May 2004. (PDF)
  • “An Infrastructure for Dynamic Composition of Grid Service,” Z. Li and M. Parashar, Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Grid Computing (Grid 2006), Barcelona, Spain, IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 315 – 316, September 2006. (PDF) 

 

Autonomic Applications

  • “Models, Methods and Middleware for Grid-enabled Multiphysics Oil Reservoir Management,” H. Klie, W. Bangerth, X. Gai, M. F. Wheeler, P. L. Stoffa, M. Sen, M. Parashar, U. Catalyurek, J. Saltz, T. Kurc, Engineering with Computers, Springer-Verlag, online preprint, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00366-006-0035-9, DOI 10.1007/s00366-006-0035-9, September 2006. (PDF)
  • “Towards Dynamic Data-Driven Management of the Ruby Gulch Waste Repository,” M. Parashar, V. Matossian, H. Klie, S. G. Thomas, M. F. Wheeler, T. Kurc, J. Saltz, and R. Versteeg, Proceedings of the Workshop on Distributed Data Driven Applications and Systems, International Conference on Computational Science 2006 (ICCS 2006), Editors: V.N. Alexandrov et al., Reading, UK, LNCS, Springer Verlag, Vol. 3993, pp. 384 – 392, May 2006. (PDF)
  • “Autonomic Oil Reservoir Optimization on the Grid,” V. Matossian, V. Bhat, M. Parashar, M. Peszynska, M. Sen, P. Stoffa and M. F. Wheeler, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, John Wiley and Sons, Vol. 17, Issue 1, pp. 1 – 26, 2005.(PDF)

  • "An Autonomic Reservoir Framework for the Stochastic Optimization of Well Placement," W. Bangerth, H. Klie, V. Matossian, M. Parashar, M.F. Wheeler, Cluster Computing: The Journal of Networks, Software Tools, and Applications, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Vol. 8, No. 4, pp. 255 – 269, 2005. (PDF)

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Computational Collaboratories

  • “Rule-Based Monitoring and Steering of Distributed Scientific Applications,” H. Liu and M. Parashar, International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking (IJHPCN), Inderscience Publishers, Vol. 3, No. 4, pp. 272 – 282, 2005. (PDF)
  • "Rule-Based Visualization in the Discover Computational Steering Collaboratory," H. Liu, L. Jiang, M. Parashar and D. Silver, FGCS – The International Journal of Grid Computing: Theory, Methods and Applications (FGCS), Elsevier Science Publishers, Vol. 21, Issue 1, pp 53– 59, 2005. (PDF)
  • “Enabling Interactive Oil Reservoir Simulations on the Grid,” M. Parashar, R. Muralidhar, W. Lee, M. Wheeler, D. Arnold, and J. Dongarra, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, John Wiley and Sons, Vol. 17, Issue 11, pp. 1387– 1414, 2005. (PDF)

 

Security and Access Control

  • “SESAME: Scalable, Environment Sensitive Access Management Engine,” G. Zhang and M. Parashar, Cluster Computing: The Journal of Networks, Software Tools, and Applications, Springer Science+Business Media B.V. (Kluwer Academic Publishers), Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 19 – 27, 2006. (PDF)
  • “Coorporative Defense against DDoS Attacks,” G. Zhang and M. Parashar, Journal of Research and Practice in Information Technology (JRPIT), Australian Computer Society Inc., Vol. 38, No. 1, pp. 66 – 84, February 2006. (PDF)

Selected Recent Presentations:

  • "Addressing Challenges of Adaptivity and Scale in Parallel Scientific Applications,” HPC Seminar Series, Computational Science & Engineering, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA, January 2007. (PDF)
  • "Experiments with Wide Area Data Coupling using the Seine Framework," IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Bangalore, India, December 2006.  (PDF)
  • "Autonomic Grid Computing: Concepts, Infrastructure and Applications,” Seminar, CSSE Seminar Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, November, 2006. (PDF)
  • "Middleware Service for Sensor Systems in Dynamic Data-Driven Oil Applications,” Industry Affiliates Meeting, Center for Subsurface Modeling, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, October 2006. (PDF)
  • “Autonomic Grid Computing: Concepts, Infrastructure and Applications, Seminar,” IEEE Distinguished Speaker, IEEE Richmond Section, Richmond, VA, October 2006. (PDF)
  • “Data-Management in Pervasive Grid Environments – An Applications Perspective,” 2nd VLDB Workshop on Data Management in Grids, The 32nd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2006), Seoul, Korea, September 2006. (PDF)
  • Autonomic Grid Computing: Concepts, Infrastructure and Applications, Seminar, Department of Computer Science, Sogang University, Seoul, Korea, September 2006. (PDF)
  • “Autonomic Grid Computing and Computational Science,” IEEE Distinguished Speaker, IEEE Computer Society – Western Puerto Rico Section & CIAPR – Capitulo de Aguadilla, Aguadilla, PR, August 2006.  (PDF)
  • "Computational Support for Dynamic Parallel/Distributed Applications,” IEEE Distinguished Speaker, IEEE Computer Society – Western Puerto Rico Section & CIAPR – Capitulo de Aguadilla, Aguadilla, PR, August 2006.  (PDF)
  • “Salsa: Scalable Asynchronous Replica Exchange for Parallel Molecular Dynamics Simulations,” The 35th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP 2006), Columbus, OH, USA, August 2006. (PDF)
  • “Information-driven Science in Pervasive Grid Environments,”  Keynote, The IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Services (ICPS 2006), Lyon, France, June 2006. (PDF)
  • “Grid and Utility Computing: Do they really mean Pervasive Services?” Panel, The International Conference on Pervasive Services (ICPS 2006), Lyon, France, June 26, 2006. (PDF)
  • “A Decentralized Content-based Aggregation Service for Pervasive Environments” The International Conference on Pervasive Services (ICPS 2006), Lyon, France, June 26, 2006. (PDF)
  • “Towards Dynamic Data-Driven Management of the Ruby Gulch Waste Repository,” Workshop on Distributed Data Driven Applications and Systems, International Conference on Computational Science 2006 (ICCS 2006),  Reading, UK, LNCS, May 2006. (PDF)
  • “Information-driven Science and the CyberInfrastructure: Opportunities for Collaboration at Rutgers,” Symposium on Information Technology for Research: The Impact of the National Cyberinfrastructure, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, April 2006. (PDF)
  • "Distributed Adaptive and Interactive Simulations using Structured Adaptive Mesh Refinement,” 13th SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing and Scientific Computing (PP06), San Francisco, CA, February 2006. (PDF)
  • “Enabling Self-Management of Component-based High-Performance Scientific Applications,” Technical Presentation, CCA Meeting, Saratoga Springs, NY, October 2005. (PDF)

 

Contact Information

Office: 628 CoRE
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
94 Brett Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8058

Voice: (732) 445-5388
Fax: (732) 445-0593

Email: parashar-AT-rutgers-DOT-edu