Arvind's research interests include network functions (both traditional L2/L3/L4-based and modern day application-level NFs), volumetric content delivery, and applied machine learning and deep learning in computer networking and distributed applications. Arvind is advised by Professor Zhi-Li Zhang and Professor Feng Qian.
Mining Latent Patterns in geoMobile Data via EPIC Arvind Narayanan, Saurabh Verma, Zhi-Li Zhang Springer, WWWJ, July, 2019
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
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
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)
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
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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
Network Data Scientist Intern, AI & Cognitive Systems, Cisco, San Jose, CA, July 2017 - May 2018
Research Intern, IP Lab, FutureWei Technologies (Huawei Research Center), Santa Clara, CA, October 2016 - January 2017
Research Intern, Future Network Theory Lab, Huawei Technologies, Hong Kong, August 2016 - September 2016
Engineering Intern, HAMR Team, Seagate Technologies, Bloomington, MN, May 2013 - August 2013
Intern, Center of Excellence, WIPRO, Bangalore, India, August 2011
Freelancer, Desi Hosting, Mumbai, India, 2006 - 2012
Education
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, University of Minnesota, 2014 - present
Masters of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, University of Minnesota, 2014
Bachelors of Engineering, Computer Engineering, University of Mumbai, 2011
Awards
Won getdnsapi Challenge at TNW Europe, Amsterdam, April 2014
USD 850 by The Linux Foundation to attend ONAP Academic Summit 2018, New York City
USD 250 to attend GENI Regional Workshop 2015, Chicago
~USD 2100 to attend FGRE 2015 Research Summit, Ghent, Belgium
~USD 2000 by Verisign Labs to participate in the Hackathon @ TNW Europe'14, Amsterdam
USD 1000 to attend IEEE SPS IoT/M2M Summer School, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
USD 450 to attend GENI Summer Camp, Iowa State University
INR 50000 scholarship from Tatachem Golden Jubilee Foundation to travel abroad for higher education.
Selected Endeavors
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.
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
