SUMMARY

§   A goal-oriented, driven professional with combined experience in software industry and academic research.

§   3+ years of experience in software industry on projects related to Telecom Industry and Web-services.

§   Academic experience includes research work in the fields of Multimedia and Information Security with focus on 3D Content Protection and related applications, Reliable Streaming, 3D Compression, Denial of Service attacks and Collision-Detection prediction in 3D interactive media.

EDUCATION      

 The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas

PhD in Computer Science, Current GPA: 3.53/4.0

Dissertation Title: 3D Content Protection Techniques (PDF)

Advisor: Dr. Balakrishnan Prabhakaran

Fall 2007

The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas

Masters in Computer Science (Networking Track), Current GPA: 3.44/ 4.0

Fall 2002

National Institute of Technology Calicut, INDIA (formerly known as REC CALICUT)

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Engineering, First Class (71%)

Aug 1999

TECHNOLOGY SKILLS

Operating Systems: UNIX, Windows XP, 2003, 2000.

Languages: C, C++, Basic SQL, Core Java, Shell Script, Perl Script, JSP, HTML, XML

Software: Eclipse, MATLAB, Maya, Motion Builder, MySQL, Apache Tomcat, ANT, Clear Case.

Networking: TCP/IP, DHCP, HTTP, HTTPS.

Security:  RSA, SSL, PKS, Watermarking.

RESEARCH INTERESTS    

Network security protocols, trust building in machines, error correction-detection and copyright protection using data

hiding, signature based error detection, collision detection and prediction in 3D interactive media, animation, semantic

search algorithms for 3D Data.

RESEARCH CONTRIBUTIONS

• Robust Blind Watermarking Scheme for Copyright protection of 3D Motion Capture data and 3D models.
• Signature and watermarking based authentication mechanisms for 3D Motion Capture data.
• Application of data hiding to improve 3D mesh compression (compressed progressive meshes).
• Application of data hiding to improve reliability of audio streams sent over lossy channels.
• Framework to protect denial of service attacks on unauthorized traffic based service.
• Spatial Data structure to improve time complexity of collision detection and prediction in animation authoring toolkits.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Motorola India Electronic Pvt. Ltd, Bangalore, INDIA

Software Engineer (April 2003 to Nov 2003)

Project: Java Network Simulator

Client: Motorola (USA) - April 2003 to Nov 2003

Technology: Java, Perl, shell script and Irix

 - Developed and tested tools in Perl, shell script, IRIX to track test cases from a given bug fix and to compare configuration files   

   across releases.

 - Automated and managed regression testing and build activities for JNS. 

 - Discovered and corrected a security flaw in merge scripts in clear case.

 - Performance enhancement of JNS by changing the design of JNS debugging and class loading mechanism

Nuntius Systems India Pvt. Ltd, Bangalore, INDIA

Software Engineer (March 2001 to July 2001)

Project: Mobile Station side GPRS protocol stack

Client: Nunitus Systems (USA) March 2001 – July 2001

Technology: C, Perl, Shell script and Linux

- Implemented and tested a prototype GPRS stack layer (LLC – ETSI, at the Mobile Station side).

-  Designed templates for requirements, black box, and white box and testing strategy.

 -  Developed and tested timers in C.

Cognizant Technology Solutions, Chennai, INDIA

Programmer Analyst (Aug 1999 to Feb 2001)

Project: Location Services

Client: Nokia Neteworks (FINLAND) Nov 2000 - Feb 2001

Technology: C, HTML, SSL, XML, Java, JNI, Servlets, Apache web Server, web-logic

- Designed and tested the server side web/HTTPS based interface

- Added an interface in JNI that interacts with Client’s algorithms written in C.

Project: ETOOL – Customer Care System

Client: Online South Pacific, Oct 1999 – Oct 2000

Technology: Visual Basic, C, IIS 4.0, Solaris, Windows NT, MS Access, ASP, HTML

- Designed and implemented the database and querying interface at the server side

- Enhanced the client side web-interface and webpage design

- Developed an email client and backtracking system

RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS  

Journals

1) Parag Agarwal, S. Rajagopalan and B.Prabhakaran, "Minimizing Probable Collision Pairs Searched in Interactive

    Animation Authoring", Accepted in The Visual Computer

Conference

1) Parag Agarwal, and B.Prabhakaran, “Robust Blind Watermarking Mechanisms for Point Sampled Geometry", 

   Proceedings of ACM Multimedia and Security Workshop 2007(PDF)

2) Puneet Maheshwari, Parag Agarwal, and B.Prabhakaran, “Progressive Compression invariant Semi-Fragile Watermarks for 3D meshes”,

    Proceedings of ACM Multimedia and Security Workshop 2007(PDF)

3) Hui Li, Parag Agarwal, Balakrishnan Prabhakaran, “Data Hiding based Compression Mechanism for 3D Models”,

    Proc. of IEEE Data Compression Conference 2007, pg – 391 (POSTER) (PDF)

4) Parag Agarwal, Balakrishnan Prabhakaran, “Tamper Proofing 3D Motion Data streams”, Proc.of Multimedia

    Modeling Conference, Jan 2007, pp – 731 740 (PDF)

5) Parag Agarwal, Ketaki Adi and B.Prabhakaran, "Robust blind watermarking mechanism for motion data streams"   

    Proceedings of ACM Multimedia and Security Workshop, Geneva, Switzerland, September 26-27, 2006.pp – 230 –235 (PDF)

6) Parag Agarwal, Ketaki Adi and B.Prabhakaran, "SVD-Based Tamper Proofing Of Multi-Attribute Motion Data" ,

    Proc. of The 12th International conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems (DMS) ’06, pp-46-52 (PDF)

7) Parag Agarwal and B.Prabhakaran Bhavani Thuraisingham, "Uncertainty: An extra layer of security for

    Unauthorized traffic based Web Services",   Proc. of The 12th International conference on Distributed Multimedia

    Systems (DMS) ’06, pp – 53-58 (PDF)

ACADEMIC PROJECTS

Motion Data Online Repository (multimedia.utdallas.edu/MDB/search.jsp)

Technology: TOMCAT, JSP, Java, HTML, AJAX

The project involves an online repository of motion capture data which is available to the public. This will also act as a

means to test motion data search. Designed and developed the e-tool.

Reducing Search Space for Collision Detection and Prediction in 3D interactive media

Technology: C#, MS WINDOWS

This research projects aimed to develop data structures and algorithms to reduce the search space for detection of

collisions between given N objects in a scene. Developed algorithms to solve the problem.

Optimizing Overlay Networks for Unauthorized Traffic           

Technology: MATLAB

            The research project aimed to develop robust architecture for unauthorized traffic service. The architecture optimizes Overlay Networks in order to build defense against denial of

service attacks. Designed the system model and tested the proof of concept.

Survey Paper: A survey on Unicast routing protocols for mobile ad hoc networks

Written with Avinash Kashyap and Hitendra Nishar in fall 2001

 Listed in Research Index.http://citeseer.csail.mit.edu/481660.html 

Ad Hoc Network Visualization Tool for ns2

Technology: ns2, java, C++

Developed a tool to graphically visualize topology changes and packet flows in an ns2-based simulation. The tool is able to trace the flow of specified packets through the network.  

E-commerce Protocol (BS project) 

Technology: Java, UNIX, RSA, SSL

Developed and implemented a new e-commerce protocol to support transaction between client, merchant and the bank (acting as the central authority). The RSA algorithm was used to improvise encryption/digital signature. Did research and designed and implemented the system.

HONORS & MERITS           

1. “3D Watermarking”, Co-PI: Research Grant ($33,000), AT & T Foundation, Dec 04 to June 06

2.   Honorable Mention at DMS 06 for Animation Movie “Groucho and Chaplin Dance:  Multimedia Arts   

       Competition” (http://media.ksi.edu/video10.html)

3.   Proficiency Award for Academic Excellence during under-graduation

4.  Joint Secretary of Literary and Debating club at REC Calicut (1997-1998)

AVAILABILITY  Fall 2007

 VISA STATUS      F1

 REFERENCES           Available upon requ