Arvind Narayanan
PhD Candidate
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
University of Minnesota

Office: Digital Technology Center Suite 488

Email: <first_name> (at) cs (dot) umn (dot) edu  ||  naray111 (at) umn (dot) edu
Skype: arvind__ (two underscores)
LinkedIn: http://bit.ly/arvindn

Research

Arvind's research interests cover the broad areas of emerging scalable network architectures (such as NFVs), 5G mobile networking, content distribution networks (CDNs) and network data science. More specifically, his research involves tackling challenges in understanding and improving the performance of emerging 5G networks and developing novel techniques based on network (and edge) function virtualization to support future 5G network architectures and services. Last but not the least, another dimension of Arvind's research is to harness the power of data to address challenges in computer networks (e.g. content caching, improving commercial 5G application's QoE) using applied machine and deep learning. He is advised by Professor Zhi-Li Zhang and Associate Professor Feng Qian.

Publications

1. A First Look at Commercial 5G Performance on Smartphones -- (to appear)
   Arvind Narayanan, Eman Ramadan, Jason Carpenter, Qingxu Liu, Yu Liu, Feng Qian, Zhi-Li Zhang
   WWW 2020, Taiwan, Taipei, April, 2020
   
   
2. A Closer Look at NFV Execution Models
   Peng Zheng, Arvind Narayanan, Zhi-Li Zhang
   APNET 2019, Beijing, China, August, 2019
   
   
3. Mining Latent Patterns in geoMobile Data via EPIC
   Arvind Narayanan, Saurabh Verma, Zhi-Li Zhang
   Springer, WWWJ, July, 2019
   
   
4. Making Content Caching Policies 'Smart' using the DeepCache Framework
   Arvind Narayanan, Saurabh Verma, Eman Ramadan, Pariya Babaie, Zhi-Li Zhang
   ACM SIGCOMM'18 CCR, October, 2018
   
   
5. Web-based perceived present control intervention for voice disorders: A pilot study
   Viann N. Nguyen-Feng, Patricia A. Frazier, Ali Stockness, Arvind Narayanan, Addie N. Merians, Stephanie Misono
   (in press) Journal of Voice, September, 2018
   
   
6. DeepCache: A Deep Learning Based Framework For Content Caching
   Arvind Narayanan, Saurabh Verma, Eman Ramadan, Pariya Babaie, Zhi-Li Zhang
   In Proc. of ACM SIGCOMM'18 Workshops (NetAI), Budapest, Hungary, August, 2018 -- (Best Paper Award)
   
   
7. OpenCDN: An ICN-Based Open Content Distribution System using Distributed Actor Model
   Arvind Narayanan, Eman Ramadan, Zhi-Li Zhang
   In Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM'18 Workshops (IECCO), Honolulu, HI, USA, April, 2018
   
   
8. Multi-Low-Rank Approximation for Traffic Matrices
   Saurabh Verma, Arvind Narayanan, Zhi-Li Zhang
   In Proc. the International Teletraffic Congress 29 (ITC'29), Genoa, Italy, September, 2017
   
   
9. BIG Cache Abstraction for Cache Networks
   Eman Ramadan, Arvind Narayanan, Zhi-Li Zhang, Runhui Li and Gong Zhang
   The 37th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'17), Atlanta, GA, USA, June, 2017
   
   
10. Most Calls are Local (but Some are Regional): Dissecting Cellular Communication Patterns
    Arvind Narayanan, Saurabh Verma and Zhi-Li Zhang
    In Proc. the IEEE Global Communication Conference 2016 (IEEE Globecom'16), Washington, DC, December, 2016
    
    
11. Mining Spatial-Temporal geoMobile Data via Feature Distributional Similarity Graph
    Arvind Narayanan, Saurabh Verma and Zhi-Li Zhang
    In Proc. of ACM MobiSys'16 Workshops (MobiData'16), Singapore, June, 2016
    
    
12. Position Estimation of Robotic Mobile Nodes in Wireless Testbed using GENI
    A. Abdelhadi, F. Rechia, A. Narayanan, T. Teixeira, R. Lent, D. Benhaddou, H. Lee, T. Clancy
    In IEEE Systems Conference (SysCon'16), Orlando, FL, 2016
    
    
13. Voice, distress, and perceived control: Technology-based intervention
    S. Misono, A. Merians, C.B. Peterson, A. Narayanan, K.O. Lim, P.A. Frazier
    ISRII 8th Scientific Meeting, Seattle, WA, April, 2016 (Poster)
    
    
14. CONIA: Content (Provider)-Oriented, Namespace-Independent Architecture for Multimedia Information Delivery
    Eman Ramadan, Arvind Narayanan, Zhi-Li Zhang
    In ICME Workshops (MuSIC), 2015 IEEE International Conference, Torino, Italy, July, 2015
    

Work Experience

1. Network Data Scientist Intern, AI & Cognitive Systems, Cisco, San Jose, CA, July 2017 - May 2018
2. Research Intern, IP Lab, FutureWei Technologies (Huawei Research Center), Santa Clara, CA, October 2016 - January 2017
3. Research Intern, Future Network Theory Lab, Huawei Technologies, Hong Kong, August 2016 - September 2016
4. Engineering Intern, HAMR Team, Seagate Technologies, Bloomington, MN, May 2013 - August 2013
5. Intern, Center of Excellence, WIPRO, Bangalore, India, August 2011
   
6. Freelancer, Desi Hosting, Mumbai, India, 2006 - 2012
   

Education

1. Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, University of Minnesota, 2014 - present
2. Masters of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, University of Minnesota, 2014
3. Bachelors of Engineering, Computer Engineering, University of Mumbai, 2011

Awards

• Won getdnsapi Challenge at TNW Europe, Amsterdam, April 2014
• 1st Prize (INR 7000), Innovation Cube @ CResCEndo, Mumbai, October 2011
• 3rd place (INR 10000), National Young IT Professional Award R6, Computer Society of India (CSI), August 2011
• Best Overall Student Award, BE Computer Engineering 2011 Batch, Mumbai, India, August 2011
• 1st Prize (INR 8000) Project Competition, APOGEE'11, BITS Pilani, March 2011
• 1st Prize, Project Demo & Poster Competition, ICTSM'11, Mumbai, February 2011

Travel Grants & Scholarships

1. USD 850 by The Linux Foundation to attend ONAP Academic Summit 2018, New York City
2. USD 250 to attend GENI Regional Workshop 2015, Chicago
3. ~USD 2100 to attend FGRE 2015 Research Summit, Ghent, Belgium
4. ~USD 2000 by Verisign Labs to participate in the Hackathon @ TNW Europe'14, Amsterdam
5. USD 1000 to attend IEEE SPS IoT/M2M Summer School, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
6. USD 450 to attend GENI Summer Camp, Iowa State University
7. INR 50000 scholarship from Tatachem Golden Jubilee Foundation to travel abroad for higher education.

Selected Endeavors

1. VIDYALANKARLIVE, Mumbai, India
   Founder, Core developer, and Mentor
   Created an academic oriented social networking website which started as a 50 member online community but now acts as a 6500+ member official intra-portal of my undergraduate college receiving over 150 thousand hits a day. This project has won many international awards, gained appreciations from eminent citizens and received media coverage.
   
   
2. Sana Mobile, Mumbai, India
   Developer
   Member of Sana-VIT technical team that collaborated with members of Sana Mobile, a volunteer research group at CSAIL, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, USA, in establishing an emergency medical referral system for maternal and new born health in 3 pilot hospitals in Mumbai.
   

Press & Media

• News article titled "Graduate Student Narayanan and team win getdnsapi Challenge" published on the Computer Science & Engineering departmental website, University of Minnesota, May 2014
• Wrote an article "Winds of Change" in Education Times, The Times of India, India, June 2011
• An article about my under-grad. project titled "VIOLA! VIT's Young Guns Make A Mark" published in DNA, India, March 2011
• Front page article about my under-grad. project titled "City college students create their own social network" published in Hindustan Times, India, January 2011
• An article about my under-grad. project titled "VIT Students engineer portal" published in DNA, India, January 2011

Hobbies

Skiing, Photography, Travel