• Ph.D. Electrical and Computer Engineering (Communication Networks)
  University of California, Santa Barbara December 1994
  Advisor: Professor Louise E. Moser
  Dissertation Title: Totem: A Reliable Ordered Delivery Protocol
  for Interconnected Local-Area Networks
• M.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering
  University of California, Santa Barbara April 1991
• B.S. Mechanical Engineering
  Purdue University May 1985

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Visiting Researcher
University of California, Berkeley - Berkeley Water Center (BWC) December 2005 - Present

Lead designer and project participant on cyberinfrastructure and cybersecurity projects in support of environmental science. Currently leading a project to develop a common data organization and browsing portal for the Berkeley Water Center. For more information on this effort, please see http://bwc.berkeley.edu\DataServerdefault.htm

Staff Scientist
THE LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY October 1994 - Present
Advanced Computing for Science Department.

Management Responsibilities include: Department Head of the Advanced Computing for Science Department and Group Lead of the Data Intensive Systems Group.

Principal investigator on a project studying the feasibility and research issues associated with use of overlay networks to provide new capabilities on the science data network.

Principal investigator on a project developing workflow capabilities for the KDD BLACKBOOK.

Designated Computing Sciences Directorate liason to Department of Homeland Security. Developing relationships and funding opportunities with DHS.

Past projects include

Principal investigator responsible for design and development of software to enhance collaboration between sites connected by a wide-area network. ( http://dsd.lbl.gov/Collaboratories/pcce.html)

Served as the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty Organization ( CTBTO) as an expert in the field of reliable multicast communication. (http://dsd.lbl.gov/~deba/CTBTO/)

Secure and reliable group communication protocols, Self-Configuring Network Monitor, SpectroMicroscopy Collaboratory, the Collaboratory Interoperability Framework, and the Advanced Visualization Communication Toolkit.

Helped develop WWW pages to aid people learning how to use the Internet Multicast Backbone and the videoconferencing tools vic, vat, and sdr. (http://dsd.lbl.gov/OldMisc/mbone)

Staff Scientist
THE LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY July 1993 - August 1993
Network Research Group.

Designed and developed an analysis tool for Internet multicast routing. The ability to multicast was new to the Internet and still experimental. The debugging tool aided in network configuration and diagnosis of problems.

Project Engineer
THE GENERAL MOTORS TECHNICAL CENTER July 1985 - August 1988
Robotics Department.

Developed a knowledge-based diagnostic expert system for robotic workcells. Specific development issues included integration of cell controller, robot, visi on system, and expert system to provide error diagnosis and recovery. This project addressed the problems of excessive downtime and slow start-ups associated with complex manufacturing cells.
Project leader for development of off-line robot processing capabilities. Responsibilities included application of the McDonnell Douglas (McAuto) system for computer graphic simulations. Instrumental in laying out and verifying advanced robot workcell concepts for departmental and divisional applications. Developed software to decode/encode program source code to permit off-line modification and simulation for robots. Supervised technician and students assigned to the project. Initiated and chaired corporate Off-Line Robot Processing task force.

ACADEMIC RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Thesis Committee/Advisor, Campinas 2001 - 2003
Supervised the research and thesis writing of one State University of Campinas, Brazil Masters student (Evandro deSouza).

Thesis Committee/Advisor, UCL 1998 - 2002
Supervised the research, thesis writing, and defense of one Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium PhD student (Olivier Chevassut).

Thesis Committee/Advisor, UCSB 1998 - 2000
Supervised the research, thesis writing, and defense of one University of California, Santa Barbara PhD student (Karlo Berket).

Thesis Committee/Advisor, SFSU Spring 1995 - 1998
Supervised the research, thesis writing, and defense of two San Francisco State University masters students (Keith Beattie and Marcia Perry).

Communication Protocols, UCSB Summer 1991 - Fall 1994
Developed a communication protocol called Totem for fault-tolerant wide-area networks. This protocol is used by asynchronous distributed systems that require reliable ordered delivery of messages. Our implementation of the protocol showed significant performance advantages over other protocols. Topics of interest included protocol services, routing, flow control, failure recovery and membership. This work included supervision of several Masters students.

Visualization of Communication Protocols, UCSB Summer 1990 - Spring 1992
Built a graphical display for a communication protocol simulator. Used to display Trans, Tracks and Total protocols in X windows. This interface was used in debugging the protocol implementation and studying protocol performance.

Multiversion Software, UCSB Fall 1989 - Spring 1990
Designed and built automated testing utilities for a multiversion software experiment.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Instructor, Technical Research Associates Fall 1993 - Fall 1998
Introduction to C++ and Introduction to Unix
Responsible for course material, tests, and labs for courses that lasted one week.

Lecturer, UCSB Summer 1992
ECE 152A: Logic Design and Switching Theory
5 quarter units - 28 students
Had sole responsibility for the course content, homeworks, labs, tests, grading and assignment of grades. This course introduced the student to synchronous and asynchronous digital circuit design.

Teaching Assistant, UCSB Fall 1988 - Spring 1990

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

"Publication and Curation of Large-Scale Shared Environmental Scientific Data",
M. Humphrey, D. Agarwal, and C. van Ingen, Publication and Curation of Large-Scale Shared Environmental Scientific Data," Microsoft Technical Report, MSR-TR-2008-93, August 2008.

"Synthesis of Hydrologic Data Reveals Rainfall-Runoff Relationships and Examines Watershed-Scale Changes,"
J. Hunt, D. Agarwal, and C. van Ingen, Computational Methods in Water Resources, Ecoinformatics Session, San Francisco, CA, July 2008.

"The Fluxdata Data and Collaboration Server (http://www.fluxdata.org),"
D. Agarwal, M. Humphrey, C. van Ingen, N. Beekwilder, M. Goode, K. Jackson, M. Rodriguez, and R. Weber, Berkeley Laboratory Technical Report, May, 2008. In preparation.

"An Evolving La Thuile Fluxnet Dataset and Support Infrastructure",
Agarwal, D; Baldocchi, D; Goode, M; Humphreys, M; van Ingen, C; Papale, D; Reichstein, M; Rodriguez, M; Ryu, Y; Vargas, R, European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2008, Vienna, Austria.

"Creating and Accessing the Global Fluxnet Data Set",
Marty Humphrey, Norm Beekwilder, Deb Agarwal, Dennis Baldocchi, Monte Goode, Jayant Gupchup, Catharine van Ingen, Dario Papale, Markus Reichstein, Matthew Rodriguez, Youngryel Ryu, Rodrigo Vargas and Nolan Li Presented at Microsoft eScience All Hands Meeting 2008, Redmond, Washington.

"Fluxnet Synthesis Dataset Collaboration Infrastructure",
Deb Agarwal, Marty Humphrey, Catharine van Ingen, Norm Beekwilder, Monte Goode, Keith Jackson, Matt Rodriguez, and Robin Weber, FluxLetter, Vol 1, Issue 1, 2008, pp. 5-7.

"Unifying Diverse Watershed Data to Enable Analysis ,"
Deb Agarwal, Monte Goode, Jayant Gupchup, Jim Hunt, Catharine van Ingen, Rebecca Leonardson, Matt Rodriguez, and Nolan Li, American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, Session H11K, San Francisco, CA (Dec 10, 2007)(pptx) (pdf).

"Creating and Accessing the Global Fluxnet Data Set,"
Deb Agarwal, Dennis Baldocchi, Tom Boden, Bob Cook, Dorothea Frank, Monte Goode, Jayant Gupchup, Susan Holladay, Marty Humphreys, Catharine van Ingen, Barbara Jackson, Dario Papale, Markus Reichstein, Matthew Rodriguez, Youngryel Ryu, Rodrigo Vargas, Bruce Wilson, and Nolan Li, American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, Session B33E-1657, San Francisco, CA (Dec 12, 2007).

"ENVIRONMENT: Environmental Monitoring Network for India,"
P. V. Sundareshwar, R. Murtugudde, G. Srinivasan, S. Singh, K. J. Ramesh, R. Ramesh, S. B. Verma, D. A garwal, D. Baldocchi, C. K. Baru, K. K. Baruah, G. R. Chowdhury, V. K. Dadhwal, C. B. S. Dutt, J. Fuentes, Pra bhat K. Gupta, W. W. Hargrove, M. Howard, C. S. Jha, S. Lal, W. K. Michener, A. P. Mitra, J. T. Morris, R. R. Myneni, M. Naja, R. Nemani, R. Purvaja, S. Raha, S. K. Santhana Vanan, M. Sharma, A. Subramaniam, R. Sukumar, R. R. Twilley, and P. R. Zimmerman (13 April 2007) Science 316 (5822), 204. [DOI: 10.1126/science.1137417]. PDF, Supporting Material

"DOE Cyber Security Research and Development Program," D. Agarwal and others, White paper describing a proposed new program (2005).

"Deep Scientific Computing Requires Deep Data," W. T. C. Kramer, A. Shoshani, D. A. Agarwal, B. R. Draney, G. Jin, G. F. Butler, and J. A. Hules, IBM Research and Development, 48(2), 2004. LBNL-55724

Supporting Dynamic Ad hoc Collaboration Capabilities,"
D. A. Agarwal and K. Berket, Proceedings of the Conference for Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics, La Jolla, CA, 2003. LBNL-53355

An Infrastructure for Passive Network Monitoring of Application Data Streams,"
D. Agarwal, J. M. Gonzalez, G. Jin, and B. Tierney, Proceedings of the Passive and Active Measurement Workshop, La Jolla, CA, April 6-8, 2003. LBNL-51846.

"A New Security Model for Collaborative Environments,"
D. Agarwal, M. Lorch, M. Thompson, and M. Perry, Proceedings of the Workshop on Advanced Collaborative Environments, Seattle, WA, June 22, 2003. LBNL-52894.

"Enabling Secure Ad-hoc Collaboration,"
K. Berket and D. Agarwal, Proceedings of the Workshop on Advanced Collaborative Environments, Seattle, WA, June 22, 2003. LBNL-52895.

"A Highspeed TCP Study: Characteristics and Deployment Issues," E. d. Souza and D. Agarwal, LBNL-53215.

"Remote Operations in a Global Accelerator Network,"
S. Peggs, T. Satogata, D. Agarwal, and D. Rice, Proceedings of the Particle Accelerator Conference, Portland, OR, May 12-16, 2003. LBNL-52947.

"Collaboration Tools for the Global Accelerator Network,"
D. Agarwal, G. Olson, and J. Olson, Final Report of the Collaboration Tools for the Global Accelerator Network Workshop, Berkeley, CA, August 26, 2002. LBNL-53253.

"A Practical Approach to the InterGroup Protocols,"
K. Berket, D. A. Agarwal, O.Chevassut, Future Generation Computer Systems, volume 18, number 5 (April 2002), pp. 709-719. Also, LBNL report number LBNL-49126.

"An Integrated Solution for Secure Group Communication in Wide-Area Networks",
D.A. Agarwal, O. Chevassut, M.R. Thompson and G. Tsudik, Proceedings of the 6th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, 3-5 July, 2001, Hammamet, Tunisia. Also, LBNL report number LBNL-47158.

"Overview of the InterGroup Protocols",
K. Berket, D. A. Agarwal, P. M. Melliar-Smith, and L. E. Moser, Proceedings of the 2001 International Conference on Computational Science as part of the 1st International Workshop on Collaborative Computing Frameworks. San Francisco, May 2001. Also, LBNL report number LBNL-47567.

``Network Aware High-Performance Distributed Applications,''
D. Agarwal, B. Tierney, D. Gunter, J. Lee, and W. Johnston, Proceedings of the Workshop on New Visions for Large-Scale Networks: Research and Applications,
Vienna, VA (March 2001). (LBNL Technical Report Number LBNL-47518). (PDF)

"Initial Results of the CD-1 Reliable Multicast Experiment,"
D. Agarwal, R. Stead, B. Coan, J. E. Burns, N. Shah, N. Kyriakopoulos, Proceedings of the Global Communications Infrastructure (GCI) Workshop, Vienna, Austria, 2-4 October 2000.

``Collaborating Across the Miles'',
in the Proceedings of the INMM/ESARDA Workshop on Science and Modern Technology for Safeguards, Albuquerque, NM, September 22, 1998 ( compressed postscript).

`` The Totem Multiple-Ring Ordering and Topology Maintenance Protocol,''
with P. M. Melliar-Smith, L. E. Moser, and R. Budhia, Transactions on Computer Systems, vol. 16, no. 2 (May 1998). (PDF file)

``Totem: A Fault-Tolerant Multicast Group Communication System,''
with L. E. Moser, P. M. Melliar-Smith, R. K. Budhia, and C. A. Lingley-Papadopoulos, Communications of the ACM, April 1996. (compressed postscript)

`` Extended Virtual Synchrony,''
with L. E. Moser, Y. Amir and P. M. Melliar-Smith, Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, Poznan, Poland (June 1994), 56-65.

`` Debugging Internet Multicast,''
with S. Floyd, Proceedings of the 22nd ACM Computer Science Conference,
Phoenix, AZ (March 1994), 22-29. (Compressed postscript)

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