Dhananjay S. Phatak

Associate Professor
Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department
University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250

Office: 319 Information Technology and Engineering (ITE) Building
Phone: (410) 455-3624
Fax: (410) 455-3969
Email: phatak@umbc.edu

(not so) New Computer Engineering Graduate Program (MS/PhD) web site

• Research
• Current Research Interests and Activities (My "Eigenvalues" currently span the following areas)
  • Computer Arithmetic Algorithms, Architectures, and their VLSI Implementations
  • Cyber Security (wide range of topics in security at-large )
    On-going and recent-past Projects (a small sampling. also see the "Publications" and "Patents" links below)
    
    • "SMartER" Power Grid
    • The Spread Identity (SI) Paradigm for the Internet and Beyond
    • Oblivious Data Processing for security in Cloud Computing.
    • Virtualization (DRM, s/w licensing, security attributes of and mechanisms for virtual machines ....)
  
  
• Past Research areas
• Mobile and High Performance Computing and Networks
• Neural Networks: Theory, Applications and Implementations



• Funding Grants


• Publications
  
  
• Software/Tools
  

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Top 10+ Quotes (David Letterman-esque)

• $$$ (is) >> GOD



• But; it depends on what the meaning of   "is"   is.
  (arguably the most hil(l)ary-ous and memorable quote of the decade of the 1990s...)



• Quiz : What is the second oldest profession?



• Being correct is a virtue in and of itself.



• Folk Theorem : If (time = money) and (knowledge = power) then
  Earnings are inversely proportional to knowledge
  (hint: power = work/time )



• Quiz : In an "e"-mergency, what is one's net worth?
  Ans : Many times one's net worth = sum of free "e"-lectrons (i.e. electronic-charges) left on all mobile devices
  



• claim : Creator of life was extremely angry while creating life.
  proof : The code book of life is itself written in a "4 letter" alphabet  

(genomes are sequences of "A", "C", "T", "G")


• Graduate school = wider perspective that includes Budweiser as well as Adviser.
  
  
• ... deliberately left blank, you can fill-in whatever you want




• You know that I know what you know (Richard Feynman-esque...).

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