2906 Auburn Court

Mt. Laurel, NJ 08054

Phone: 732-805-9950

Fax: 732-805-0095

Email: shirish@phatak.name

Web: http://www.phatak.org/

Shirish Hemant Phatak

Education

Expected 2002                     Rutgers, The State University          New Brunswick, NJ

PhD Candidate, Computer Science

February 1995                      Indian Institute of Technology                    Bombay, India

Master of Technology, Computer Science and Engineering

CMC Gold medal for placing first in class

August 1993                         S.G.S. Inst. Of Tech. And Sc.                       Indore, India

Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science

Gold medal for placing first in B. E.

Awards received

Excellence Fellowship at Rutgers University (1995-1997).

National Talent Search Scholarship (1987-1993).

Work Experience

Co-Founder, CTO and VP Engineering, Tacit Networks Inc., Somerset, NJ, 2000-present. Responsible for architecture, design and development of the Tacit’s wide area storage caching technology and storage caching product lines.

IT Licensing and Patent Consultant, Office of Corporate Liaison and Technology Transfer, Rutgers University, 2000. Provided services to Rutgers for interpretation, validation and commercial potential of inventions; filing of patent applications; identification of potential partners and licensees for various technologies; and negotiation of licensing contracts. The only student ever to provide such services to Rutgers.

System Administrator, CCL Labs, EOHSI, Rutgers University 1996-2000. Installed, configured and administered 20+ Solaris and NT systems as well as UNIX/NT internetworking.

Research Assistant, Dataman Lab, Rutgers University 1997- 2000.  Linux and NT System administration and research functions including hacking the Linux kernel and providing support for various demos and research projects.

Project Engineer, ADA Labs, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India 1995. Responsible for adding multimedia components to the simulator prototype written in C and C++, which is now in use by the Indian Air Force. Also managed a team of students working on the prototype.

 

Recent Projects

InterMezzo File System (Principle Developer), 2000-2001. Designed, implemented and tested kernel and user space components of the InterMezzo file system, which is now a part of the Linux 2.4/2.5 kernel.

Mobile Databases (PhD Thesis):  (DARPA funded project) 1995-present. Study of mobile disconnected client-server databases. Involves simulation of advanced concurrency control and consistency policies and options for physical database organization. Also involved prototyping in C and JAVA.

“Web&”: An Architecture for Non-Interactive Web Transactions (part of PhD Thesis) 1999-present: The implementation using JAVA, JDBC, network servers/clients and web clients, servlets, dynamic class re-loading, XML and DOM manipulation and JNI.

Opportunistic Protocols 1995-1996: Prototype implementation for DARPA using C, Tcl/Tk and Motif on a Linux based Mobile-IP platform. The system is capable of vertically handing off FTP and E-Mail sessions between CDPD, Wireless LAN (WaveLAN 802.11) and Ethernet.

Computer Skills

Languages: C, C++, JAVA, XML and HTML, Pascal, Fortran, Basic, Haskell

Platforms:   Solaris/SunOS, Windows 2000/NT/95/98, Linux, FreeBSD

Publications

A list of publications is available on the web page. These include publications on mobile databases and web/e-commerce.

References

References are available on request.