Personal Information

I was born in Anoopshahar (U.P.), India, but spent most of my first 21 years in Bhopal , India, the city of lakes. Did B.E. in Electronics Engineering from Maulana Azad College of Technology (R.E.C.), Bhopal.

Came to U.S. of A in August of 91, Completed M.S. in Computer Science from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Since September of 1993, I have been a Ph.D. student at Duke.

Research Interests

Software Fault Tolerance, Software Reliability and Performance and Dependability Evaluation of Computer Systems have been the foci of my Ph.D. research. Distributed Checkpointing was what I looked at during my M.S. Dependable computing through reliable software is a solution I am trying to evaluate. Stochastic Petri net is a handy specification tool that we often use. Network Centric Computing aka Java is something I shall soon get to :)...to learn the issues involved (or for making a flashy home page)

Here is the pointer to Center for Advanced Computing and Communications, to which I currently belong.

Here's my publication list.

I shall be graduating in April, 1997 (Phew). If you are hiring, or know someone who is, please take a moment to look at the HTML version of my Resume and pass it along.

sgarg@ee.duke.edu