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Vullikanti, Anil , Ph.D.
Faculty - Vullikanti, Anil

Associate Professor, Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Laboratory
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science

Phone: (540) 231-3968
Email: akumar@vbi.vt.edu
Fax: 540-231-2891

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Professional Preparation

  • Indian Institute of Science, Computer Science, Ph.D., 1999
  • Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India, Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor, 1993
  • Postdoctoral Associate, Max-Planck Institute for Computer Science, Saarbrucken, Germany, 2001
  • Postdoctoral Associate, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 2003

Research Interests

  • Modeling and simulation of social and infrastructure systems
  • Epidemiology
  • Distributed and mobile computing
  • Combinatorial optimization
  • Combinatorial algorithms

Biography

Anil Vullikanti is Senior Research Associate in the Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Laboratory at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, and Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Science in 1999 and was a postdoctoral associate at the Max-Planck Institute and at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he became a technical staff member in 2003. His current interests are at the interface of theoretical computer science and modeling and simulation of social and infrastructure systems, epidemiology, and mobile computing.

Selected Publications


Chafekar D, Kumar A, Marathe M, Parthasarathy S, Srinivasan A. Approximation Algorithms for Computing Capacity of Wireless Networks with SINR Constraints. Phoenix, Arizona; 2008:1166–1174. Proceedings of the 27th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM).