Consulting

CONSULTING ACTIVITIES, PROFESSIONAL SERVICES TO GOVERN- MENTAL, PROFESSIONAL AND INDUSTRIAL ASSOCIATIONS, EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTES, GRANTING AGENCIES, ETC.

CONSULTING TO INDUSTRIES AND GOVERNMENTAL AGENCIES

1974-77 - Lasers Electronics and Controls, Pvt. Ltd.,

Nasik ,Maharashtra State, 422 005, India.

Products: Electronic Timers, Sequence Control Systems, Digital Brightness

Measuring Instrument.

1982-83 - S.S. Industries, MIDC Andheri (East)

Bombay 400 093, India

Products: Microcomputer-based temperature measurement and process

control systems.

1983 - Natel Chromatographs,

Manpada, Thane 400 601, India

Product: Microcomputer-based Gas Chromatograph

Taxation, Revenue Canada, Audit Department, Oct. 1985.

(Research evaluation of a company in Halifax.)

Taxation, Revenue Canada, Audit Dept., Aug. 1986.

(Research evaluation of a company in Toronto.)

Founded and President of ‘SAI: Super and Intelligent Computer Systems', Fredericton, N.B., Canada, 1988 to date. This proprietary firm was incorporated in New Brunswick in 1994. Now it is involved in the research, development and training in the field of high performance computing, multimedia and artificial intelligence.

REFEREEING OF ARTICLES/BOOKS

• Acted as a referee for International Conference on 'Parallel Processing', IEEE, ACM, Bellaire, Michigan, U.S.A., Aug. 1984 and Aug. 1988.
• Acted as a referee for National Computer Conferences, sponsored by AFIPS Inc., ACM, IEEE and SCS, Las Vegas, U.S.A., June 9-12, 1984 and in Chicago, July 15-18, 1985.
• Acting as a referee for the International Journal of Microcomputer Applications, 1984 to date (refereed 5 papers).
• Reviewer of the book 'Network Architectures for Distributed Computing' by E.A. Yakubaitis (Allerton Press, 1983) for IEEE Computer Magazine; review published in Computer, Vol. 18, No. 1, p. 140, Jan. 1985.
• Acted as a referee for Canadian Information Processing Society's CIPS'85 Conference, 1985.
• Acted as a referee for SIAM J. Scientific and Statistical Computing, Aug.-Sept. 1987.
• Acted as a referee for IEEE Trans. on Computers, Aug.-Sept. 1987.
• Acted as a referee for Int. J. Parallel and Distributed Computing, Aug. 1988.
• Acted as a reviewer for grant proposals for the Division of Advanced Scientific Computing, National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C., 20550, U.S.A., Dec. 1988.
• Acted as a referee for SIAM J. of Scientific and Statistical Computing, March 1989.
• Acted as a referee for the Int. J. of Parallel and Distributed Computing, April 1989.
• Acted as a referee for the Canadian VLSI Conference, CCVLSI'89, June 1989.
• Acted as a reviewer of three papers submitted to CONPAR'90 Conference, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland, Sept. 10-13, 1990, March 1990.
• Reviewed six papers submitted for the PARCOM-90 Conference, Center for Development of Advanced Computing, Pune, India, Dec. 9-11, 1990, July-August 1990.
• External examiner for B. Engg. (Computer Science) projects at Pune Institute of Computer Technology, Pune, India, June 1990.
• Reviewed six papers for the International Conference on 'Parallel Processing' St. Charles, IL, U.S.A., Aug. 1991.
• Reviewed 11 papers for Supercomputing Symposium'91, Fredericton, NB, June 1991.
• Reviewed a paper for ACM 'Supercomputing' Conference, July 1992.
• Reviewed four papers for "SS'93: High Performance Computing New Horizons".
• conference, Calgary, AL, Canada, June 1993.
• Reviewed a paper for IEEE Trans. on 'Parallel and Distributed Systems", June 1993.
• Refereed two papers for 5th UNB AI Symposium, August 1993.
• Reviewed three papers for the World Transputer Congress'94, 1994.
• Reviewed three papers for the World Transputer Congress ‘95, Harrogate International Centre, Harrogate, West Yorkshire, U.K., Sept. 4-6, 1995.
• Reviewed 10 papers for the 10th Annual High Performance Computing Symposium (HPCS'96), Ottawa, June 5-7, 1996.
• Reviewed one paper for International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'96), Sunnyvale, CA, USA.
• Reviewed a paper for the International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'96) New Horizons, Sunnyvale, CA, Aug. 9-11, 1996.
•  Reviewed a number of abstracts and papers for the 10th Annual International Symposium on High Performance Computers (HPCS'96), Ottawa, June 5-7, 1996.
• Reviewed 9 summaries/short papers for 1997 IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, May 25-28, 1997, St. John's, NF, Canada.
• Reviewed 5 papers for the 11th Annual International Symposium on High Performance Computing Systems (HPCS'97), Winnipeg, MN, Canada, July 10-12, 1997.
• Reviewed 5 papers for the 12th Annual International Symposium on High Performance Computing Systems and Applications (HPCS''8), Edmonton, AL, Canada, May 20-22, 998.

 EXTERNAL REFEREEING FOR PROMOTION CASES

• Dept. of Computer Science, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, USA, 1992.
• Computer Science Lab., Research School of Physical Sciences & Eng., Australian National University, G.P.O. Box 4, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia (Dec. 1992 and June 1995).
• Computer Science Dept., Division of Electrical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Banglore, 560 012, India (May 1993).
• Arabnia, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Georgia, 415, Graduate Studies Research Center, Athens, GA, USA 30602 (1994).
• Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, ON, 1997.

 REFEREEING FOR GRANTING AGENCIES

• Review of a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant proposal, Nov. 1988.
• Review of an NSERC Operating Grant application, Jan.1993.
• Reviewed one NSERC Strategic Grant and one Equipment Grant Application, 1993.
• Review of an NSERC Research Grant proposal, Jan. 1996.
• Reviewed one NSERC Computer Science Research Grant Application, 1997.

 MASTER'S/Ph.D. THESIS EXAMINING COMMITTEES

Masters Thesis Committees

• Served on numerous thesis examining committees at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (for Departments of Computer Science & Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautical Engineering).
• Served on numerous Masters thesis examining committees at U.N.B. for the School of Computer Science, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering.

Ph.D. Thesis Committees

• Examiner for Alina Sen, 'Part I: A Simple and Efficient Synthesis of Bufalin and Part II: Cardiac Glycosides: Synthesis of the Digitoxigenin Itomer Aminasugar Glycoside', (Supervisor: Dr. Wiesner, Chemistry), Dec. 1984.
• Examiner for K. Natarajan, 'Design of Linear Multirate Feedback Control Systems', (Supervisor: Dr. Doraiswami, Electrical Engineering), Oct. 1986.
• Examiner for C.P. Diduch, 'Optimal Digital Control Systems: Analysis and Design', (Supervisor: Dr. Doraiswami, Electrical Engineering), March 1987.
• Chairman for G.V. Hadjisophocleous, 'Numerical Modelling of LPG Horizontal Cylindrical Tanks Subjected to Heating Environments' (Supervisor: Dr. Sousa, Mechanical Engineering), Feb. 1989.
• Examiner for J. Zhang, 'Simulation of Continuum Transport using the Monte Carlo Method' (Supervisor: Dr. Hussein, Mechanical Engg.), Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Oct. 9, 1992.
• Examiner for Wei Liu, 'Model Based Signal Feature Extraction and Its Applications', Dept. of Electrical Engineering, July 1993.
• External Examiner for Peter Frempong-Mireku, ‘Symbolic Solution and Microcanonical Simulation of the Potts Model', Dept. of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, 1994.
•   Chairperson for M.E.A. Abdelbaky, ‘Photon-Electron Transport Simulation in CANDU Reactor Channels', Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, UNB, September 1994.
• Chairperson for Xiubin Xu, ‘The Generating Function Method and Nonlinear Approximation', Dept. of Mathematics, UNB, May 1995.
• External Examiner for P.M. Hatkanagalekar, ‘Concurrency Issues in Operating System Kernels for Shared-Memory Multiprocessor Architectures', Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India, 1995.
• Prasad Gokhale, ‘Detection of Explosives Using Isotopic Fast-Neutron Transmission Spectroscopy', Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, UNB, Oct. 26, 1995.
•   External Examiner for Ramaswami Sammynaiken, ‘Electron Paramagnetic Resonance and Theoretical Studies of Transient Matrix Isolated 6-Arene Vanadium Complexes', Dept. of Chemistry, UNB, Feb. 1996.
• Yahia Fadlalla, ‘Approaches to Resolving Storage Covert Channels in Relational Database Systems', Member, Advisory Committee, Faculty of Computer Science, UNB, 1995-1996.
•   External Examiner for Pin Chen, ‘Parallelism Revelation Model. Application to Parallel Programming', Dept. of Computer Science & Technology, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, July 1996.
• External Examiner for Mingwang An, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, UNB, July 1995.