Sreeram Vuppala
svuppa1@lsu.edu, sreeram3@hotmail.com
Department of Computer Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge.
Current Address:
5285 Brightside View Dr., #4
Baton Rouge, LA-70820
Mobile: (225)772-2130
Website: http://www.csc.lsu.edu/~sreeram
OBJECTIVE
To obtain a challenging Engineering position at a cutting edge Technology Company in order to apply my
knowledge and experience of Computer Systems, programming, test, network security, and design.
EDUCATION
LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY, BATON ROUGE
Computer Science – GPA 3.632
 Pursuing a PhD majoring in Computer Science – (2003 – 2008?).
Areas of Interest – Network Security and Data Mining
 Master of Science in Systems Science at LSU – (July 2000 - Spring 2003)
Project – GIS web. To develop a GIS Web Application using ESRI ArcIMS software for displaying the
projects done by the Facility of Planning and Control, State of Louisiana.
PUBLISHED PAPERS
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Online Fabric Database with Intelligent Search and Fuzzy Clustering -- J. Chen, Y. Chen, B. Zhang, S.
Vuppala, A. Gider (USA), and W. Gao (PRC)
Parent response to a body mass index report. -- Silverman, L., Lakkakula, P., Tuuri, G., Solmon, M.A.,
Chen, J., Laird, R., Kosma, M., & Vuppala, S. (2005, July). Presentation at the Society for Nutrition
Education Annual conference, Orlando, FL.
Development and pilot testing of a body mass index-for-age percentile report card. -- Tuuri, G., Solmon,
M., Chen, J., Laird, R., Kosma, M., & Vuppala S. (2005, June). Paper presented at the annual meeting
of the American College of Sports Medicine convention, Nashville, TN.
Aryabhata Algorithm using least absolute remainders – Sreeram Vuppala. Paper published on
Arxiv.org
PROJECTS:
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Data Mining Study – Security Research Assistant: A study on the Integration of Data Mining
algorithms in an Intrusion Detection System (IDS) to detect new cyber attacks. The study involved the
performance of Decision Tree Learning on the KDD Intrusion Detection Dataset for DARPA 1998 set
and studied that learning systems performed good on Denial of Service attacks and probing attacks and
poorly on U2R and R2L attacks. The later two attacks need detailed application layer protocol analysis
to detect these attacks at the network gateway.
Technologies: C, Pcap Programming
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Data Mining Principles – Research Assistant - Implemented K-Means clustering, OCAT, and Support
Vector Machines (using Quadratic Programming Principles) on Wisconsin Breast Cancer Datasets. The
goal of this project was to compare the performance of these methods on a given dataset.
Technologies: C
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Research Study – A study on the problem of dimensionality in datasets and used Fuzzy Linear
Clustering and PCA to decrease the number of dimensions in the dataset.
Technologies: C, SPSS (Statistical Package)
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Network Test bed – A test bed with 3 Cisco 7600 series and 3 Cisco 2600 series routers simulating
with a total of 7 subnets with different combination of routing protocols (RIP, OSPF, IBGP). This test
bed will be used to simulate network attacks and Distributed Denial of Attacks with one subnet as the
attack subnet, some compromised and one as the victim. It will be also be a part on my study of Denial
of Service attacks as a traffic pattern.
SKILLS
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Languages: C/C++ (Good), C#.NET, ASP.NET, PERL, PHP, XML.
Windows NT/2000, XP, 2003 Server
Linux Security Administration experience
DBMS: SQL Server 2000, Oracle8.0, Sybase and MS-Access
Data Mining – Clustering (Fuzzy, K-Means, Hierarchical), Neural Networks, Decision Trees, Association
Rule Mining, Mining on Boolean Data, SVM, Bayesian Networks, Text Mining
Statistical Software – SAS, SPSS
Mathematical Software – Mathematica and Matlab (used wavelet toolbox, neural network toolbox),
Linear Programming – Lingo, GAMS
Parallel Programming – MPI
A thorough knowledge in the TCP/IP protocol
Network Programming on UNIX and Windows platforms -- Pcap programming
Network Security -- Ethereal, Snort, NMAP, Tripwire.
GIS Applications: ArcIMS
Tools & Applications: Macromedia Suite, Microsoft Office Suite
Cryptography, Number Theory
JOB EXPERIENCE
Department of Computer Science, Louisiana State University (Fall 2003 – Present)
Research Assistant – Multiple Projects and Roles
 Student Health Monitor (desktop application) - Application Developer – Successfully coordinated
with a Doctor of Nutrition to design, develop, distribute, and maintain a software package using .NET
technologies. This application calculates the Body Mass Index of children and graphically plots a growth
trend in an easy-to-understand manner. You can print the progress reports for the parents and
calculates graphs that displays class-wise or school-wide trends. As an indication of the application’s
usefulness, the program has been utilized in research studies that analyze the trends of child obesity in
Louisiana; additionally, the software has been copyrighted by Louisiana State University.
Technologies: C#, ADO.NET, MS-Access
Roles:
1. Involved in all the phases of the development lifecycles for Major enhancements
(Requirements, Design, Construction, System Testing etc)
2. Implementation and support
3. Participated in User communication
Duration: Design & Development & Testing (6 months), Testing & Feedback – (3 months)
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Intelligent Search Engine – Application Developer (Algorithm Designer) – The goal is to develop an
intelligent search to predict the value of the drape coefficient of a fabric from a given set of 32
mechanical attributes. The fuzzy clustering data mining approach was implemented to predict the drape
co-efficient of a fabric. This method for prediction achieved an accuracy of 96.4% on new data. This
project was implemented as an intelligent search technique on a website along with other search
techniques.
Technologies: ASP.NET(C#), MS-Access
Roles:
1. Involved in all the phases of the development lifecycles for Major enhancements
(Requirements, Design, Construction, System Testing etc)
2. Implementation and support
3. Participated in User Feedback and User testing
Duration: Design & Testing – (4 months), Implementation in C# - (1 month)
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A website for Hurricane Studies - Web Designer – An ongoing project to implement a community
website which collects information from the scientific community. The site is used to share information
about hurricanes. This is the initial effort to gather data and model it in a way that the general public can
understand the effects of hurricanes or other disasters.
Technologies: ASP.NET(C#) and SQL Server 2000.
Roles:
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Involved in developing by modification and addition to the ASP.NET starter kit to
achieve the goal.
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Implementation and support
September 2001 – August 2002
Co-op position at Facility Planning and Control, State of Louisiana.
1. Web Designer – http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/fpc/fpc.htm. HTML, Macromedia Suite, Javascript
2. Web Developer - Implemented a GIS application on the Web using ESRI ArcIMS. This involves
compiling the data with their geographic co-ordinates and feeding it to a website designed by the
ArcIMS software and then later customizing the JSP pages for customized presentation.
ShadowNetworks Inc. – (Summer 2001)
Internship as Development Engineer
The goal was to design, implement and maintain shopping carts for business clients in Baton
Rouge. The clients were restaurants, apparels businesses, and furniture businesses.
Technologies: Perl & flat files, PHP and MySQL on Linux Webservers.
Security: Maintenance of Windows 2000 Server and Linux Server.
Department of Chemical Engineering (Sept 2000 – Aug 2002)
Research Assistant - Research headed by Dr. Ralph W. Pike.
Chemical Complex Analysis System – The System has been developed and used to demonstrate
optimization of a chemical production complex. The System incorporates economic, environmental and
sustainable costs and solves a MINLP for the best configuration of plants.
Technologies: Visual Basic 5.0, MS-Access
REFERENCES:
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Dr. Jianhua Chen, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, LSU
Dr. Subash Kak, Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, LSU
Dr. Suresh Rai, Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, LSU
Dr. Georgianna Tuuri, Assistant Professor, School of Human Ecology, LSU