Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science (Fall 2003 - ongoing)
Institution: University of Southern California
Advisor: Prof. Ramesh Govindan (co-advised by Prof. Todd Millstein, UCLA)

B. Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering (1998 - 2002)
Institution: Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

Research Interests

Wireless Sensor Networks - Programming Paradigms, Program Analysis, Applications
General Distributed Systems and Networks

Publications

  1. Nupur Kothari, Todd Millstein and Ramesh Govindan, "Deriving State Machines from TinyOS programs using Symbolic Execution", Accepted for publication in IPSN 2008
  2. Nupur Kothari, Kiran Nagaraja, Vijay Raghunathan, Florin Sultan and Srimat Chakradhar,"HERMES: A Software Architecture for Visibility and Control in Sensor Network Deployments ", Accepted for publication in IPSN/SPOTS 2008
  3. Nupur Kothari, Ramakrishma Gummadi, Todd Millstein and Ramesh Govindan, "Reliable and Efficient Programming Abstractions for Wireless Sensor Networks", In Proceedings of the SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI), 2007
  4. Ramakrishma Gummadi, Nupur Kothari, Todd Millstein, and Ramesh Govindan "Declarative Failure Recovery for Sensor Networks", In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOSD), 2007
  5. Krishna Chintalapudi, Jeongyeup Paek, Nupur Kothari, Sumit Rangwala, John Caffrey, Ramesh Govindan, Erik Johnson, and Sami Masri, "Monitoring Civil Structus with a Wireless Sensor Network", IEEE Internet Computing, March/April 2006
  6. Ramakrishma Gummadi, Nupur Kothari, Ramesh Govindan and Todd Millstein, "Kairos: A macro-programming system for wireless sensor networks", In Proceedings of the Twentieth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles (SOSP), 2005 (Poster)
  7. Krishna Chintalapudi, Jeongyeup Paek, Nupur Kothari, Sumit Rangwala, Ramesh Govindan and Erik Johnson, "Embedded Sensing of Structures: A Reality Check", In Proceedings of the 11th IEEE Internatioal Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA), 2005
  8. Ramakrishma Gummadi, Nupur Kothari, Young J. Kim, Ramesh Govindan, Brad Karp and Scott Shenker, "Reduced State Routing in the Internet", In Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets), 2004
  9. Nupur Kothari, Vartika Bhandari and Dheeraj Sanghi, "On Reciprocal Altruism and its Application to QoS", In Proceedings of the 6th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia Networks and Services (MMNS), 2003
  10. Vartika Bhandari, Nupur Kothari and Dheeraj Sanghi, "Reliability based Query Restriction: Discovering Stable Routes", In Proceedings of International Conference On Information Networking (ICOIN), 2003

Work Experience

Research Assistant, Department of Computer Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles (Summer 2004 - current)

Intern, Networked Embedded Computing Group, Microsoft Research, Redmond (Summer 2008)

Research Intern, NEC Laboratories America, Princeton (Summer 2006)

Teaching Assistant, Department of Computer Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles (Fall 2003, Spring 2004)

Research Associate, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, India (Aug 2002 - June 2003)

Summer Intern, Fraunhofer IPSI, Darmstadt, Germany (Summer 2001, Summer 2002)

Awards and Honors

Awarded the USC Annenberg Graduate Fellowship for the year 2007-08

Awarded the NSF Student Travel Grant to attend SenSys 2007

Awarded the Sangeeta Pradhan Memorial Prize at IIT Kanpur for securing the highest rank among women (65th) in the IIT Joint Entrance Exam in 1998

Rewarded the NTSE Scholarship in India in 1996 (Approximately 200 recipients nationwide)

References

Available upon request