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

His research interests are in the areas of streaming and cloud-computing. He is the architect of the NaradaBrokering system for the scalable dissemination  of voluminous streams, and Granules which is a lightweight runtime for cloud computing.  

NaradaBrokering and Granules have been harnessed by systems in domains such as earthquake science, high energy physics, environmental and ecological monitoring, geosciences, GIS, and commercial internet conferencing systems.

Contact:

Community Grids Lab, Indiana University

501 N Morton St, Suite 224

Bloomington, IN 47404    USA