Dr. Pallickara is a researcher at the Community Grids Lab at Indiana University. He received his PhD and MS in Computer Engineering from the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at Syracuse University. His research, in the area of distributed systems, is partly funded through his grants from the National Science Foundation and the United Kingdom.

He leads the NaradaBrokering project, which is an enabling infrastructure for building large-scale distributed systems that are secure and resilient to failures. The NaradaBrokering project has been harnessed by systems in domains such as earthquake science, high energy physics, environmental and ecological monitoring, geosciences, GIS, and commercial internet conferencing systems. 

His research interests are in the broad area of large-scale distributed systems. Here, he is interested in issues related to content dissemination networks, security and trust, fault tolerance and resiliency, redundancy and consistency, computational economics, and load-balancing. Other areas of his research interests include cloud computing, grid computing, web services and peer-to-peer computing.

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