I am a PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles. I am part of the Computing In Cloud(CiC) and the Smart Grid projects under the guidance of Prof. Viktor K. Prasanna and Dr. Yogesh Simmhan. I completed B.Tech in Computer Science, in 2008, from Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India.
Research Interests
My primary research interests include optimizing Workflow and Stream Processing engines on IaaS Clouds for high-performance scientific computing with focus on application resiliency and reliability. I am also interested in addressing data privacy issues arising in public clouds due to data outsourcing.
Projects
- Cryptonite: A secure data repository on public cloud for data storage and secure data sharing with fine grained access control.
- FLOE: An adaptive framework for dynamic, continuous data flow (streaming) applications on IaaS clouds.
Publications
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A. Kumbhare, Y. Simmhan and V. K. Prasanna,
Cryptonite: A Secure and Performant Data Repository on Public Clouds
, International Cloud Computing Conference (CLOUD)
, 2012
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Yogesh Simmhan, Litao Den, Alok Kumbhare, Mark Redekopp and Viktor Prasanna,
Scalable, Secure Analysis of Social Sciences Data on the Azure Platform
, Cloud Futures Workshop
, 2012
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Y. Simmhan, V. Agarwal, S. Aman, A. Kumbhare, S. Natarajan, N. Rajguru, I. Robinson, S. Stevens, W. Yin, Q. Zhou and V. Prasanna,
Adaptive Energy Forecasting and Information Diffusion for Smart Power Grids
, IEEE International Scalable Computing Challenge (SCALE 2012)
, 2012
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A. Kumbhare, Y. Simmhan and V. Prasanna,
Designing a Secure Storage Repository for Sharing Scientific Datasets using Public Clouds
, International Workshop on Data Intensive Computing in the Clouds (DataCloud-SC11)
, 2011
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Y. Simmhan, A. Kumbhare, B. Cao and V. K. Prasanna,
An Analysis of Security and Privacy Issues in Smart Grid Software Architectures on Clouds
, International Cloud Computing Conference (CLOUD)
, 2011
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Y. Simmhan, S. Aman, B. Cao, M. Giakkoupis, A. Kumbhare, Q. Zhou, D. Paul, C. Fern, A. Sharma and V. K. Prasanna,
An Informatics Approach to Demand Response Optimization in Smart Grids
, 2011
, University of Southern California.
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Posters
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A. Kumbhare, K. Gomadam, V. Prasanna and K. Verma,
A Self-Adaptive Approach to Demand Response Optimizations
, Southern California Smart Grid Research Symposium (SoCalSGS)
, 2010
(Poster)
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Y. Simmhan, S. Aman, B. Cao, M. Giakkoupis, A. Kumbhare, Q. Zhou, K. Gomadam and V. K. Prasanna,
Scalable, Secure Energy Information Management for DR Analysis
, Southern California Smart Grid Research Symposium (SoCalSGS)
, 2010
(Poster)
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