Ashvin Goel

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Biography

Ashvin Goel joined University of Toronto in 2003 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Dr. Goel obtained his Bachelors and Masters degree in computer science from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur and from UCLA. He completed his PhD in computer science and engineering from Oregon Graduate Institute, Portland in 2003. Dr. Goel's research interests span the areas of operating systems, security and mobile computing. His PhD research focused on providing system support for interactive media streaming applications. Dr. Goel has published in prestigious systems and real-time conferences such as SOSP, OSDI, RTAS and IWQoS. Dr. Goel's current research focuses on the design of software systems to improve security. He is investigating the design of systems and tools that simplify analysis and recovery from computer intrusions.

Dr. Goel has diverse interests and has worked at HP Labs on middleware for seamless computing and at Oracle Corporation where he was involved in the development of Oracle's replication server. Dr. Goel is a member of ACM, USENIX and IEEE.

Past Affiliations

OGI, Oregon Health & Sciences University, Portland

I obtained my PhD degree from the computer science and engineering department at OGI (Oregon Graduate Institue), OHSU in Portland in 2003. I was part of the Sysl (pronounced sizzle) group at OGI. This entire group has now become the SYstems and Networking (SYN) group in the computer science department at Portland State University. While at Sysl, I worked on the Time-Sensitive Linux (TSL), Forensix, TCPivo, Quasar and SWiFT projects. These projects are also available under SYN projects. My thesis adviser was Professor Jonathan Walpole.

University of California, Los Angeles

I obtained my masters degree from the computer science department at UCLA. I worked with the Ficus project at UCLA from 1993 to the end of 1995.

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur

I got my bachelor's degree in computer science from IIT, Kanpur. I studied in Kanpur from 1988 to 1992.

Loyola High School, Jamshedpur

I lived in Jamshedpur most of my life until I went to college. My parents still live in this lovely city. Here is interesting information about my alma mater Loyola High School.