Biography

Viraj Bhat is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering working under the guidance of Professor, Dr. Manish Parashar. He has also been a visiting researcher at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) in Princeton, New Jersey working with Scott Klasky. His research interests include Parallel and Distributed Computing, Autonomic Computing, Grid Computing, Software Engineering, and Model based Control and Optimization.

Viraj has been involved in several research projects, including CORBACoG, AutoMate/Accord and DISCOVER at CAIP (Rutgers University) and Development of Systems for Distributed Scientific Data Management using Automated Workflows Applied to Plasma Physics Simulations. Prior to this he was a Software Engineer at Satyam Computer Services Ltd. in Bangalore with 2 years of industry experience in information technology, specifically in the engineering sector.

He has co-authored over 10 technical papers in international journals and conferences, and has co-authored/edited 2 book chapters/proceedings. Viraj was the Cyber Chair for HiPC Conference (2005-2007) and a reviewer for several journals and conferences. He is a student member of the IEEE Computer Society.

Viraj received his B.E. degree (May 1998) in Electrical Engineering from NIT/REC Bhopal India, and a M.S. degree (May 2003) in Computer Engineering from Rutgers University.