Padma Mundur
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering

Brief Bio
Padma Mundur has been on the faculty of UMBC since August 2000. She got her Ph.D. from George Mason University (GMU), Fairfax in May 2000.  Prior to GMU, Padma worked at Georgetown University Medical Center as a Management Engineer. She received an M.E. in Systems Engineering from University of Virginia, Charlottesville in 1990. She also has a Masters in Industrial Management (Specialization: Operations Research) from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. Detailed CV

Dr. Mundur directs the Multimedia and Networks Research Laboratory (M2NET for short) at UMBC. Her research interest in the last few years has focused on finding end-to-end solutions to multimedia data management; from servers and end-systems architecture to quality-of-service issues on the networks. She supervises several students working on design and analysis of streaming applications on the Internet, video summarization and indexing using clustering techniques, and text and audio analysis in video. Recently, she has expanded her research focus to include Delay Tolerant Networks (DTNs). Her professional activities include

  • Member of the editorial board for IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials
  • Session Organizer for Communication Networks Simulation in WSC 2006
  • Program Committee member for ICDCS 2006, ICME 2005, WirelessCom05, ICDCS 2004, ICME 2004,  Trusted Internet Workshop '03,'04 (in conjunction with HiPC)
  • Guest Editor of Journal of High Speed Networks(JHSN) Special Issue on Wired and Wireless Multimedia 2002
  • NSF panel reviewer; reviewer for Research Council of Norway
  • Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Multimedia,TPDS, TKDE, Journal of Systems and Software, Journal of Information Systems, IEEE Multimedia, JHSN
  • Session chair and presenter at IPCCC'98, ICMCS'99, CNDS'99, IMSA'00, PCM'02, ICME'03, DMS'03, ICC'04

    • Research
    Primary research interests include multimedia networking & video server design, mobile multimedia, distributed systems, and analytical resource allocation and performance models.

    M2NET
    Students
    Publications


    Teaching
    Courses taught include graduate and undergraduate Database Systems, Computer Networks, Multimedia Networking, Modeling and Simulation of Computer Systems.

    Teaching in Spring 2006
    CMSC461 Database Management Systems

    Teaching in Fall 2005
    CMSC661 -- Principles of Database Systems

    Teaching in Spring 2005
    CMSC461 Database Management Systems

    Teaching in Fall 2004
    CMSC 691M -- Multimedia Networking and Data Management
    CMSC 661 -- Principles of Database Systems

    Teaching in Other Semesters


    Contact Information

    Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
    University of Maryland Baltimore County
    1000 Hilltop Circle
    Baltimore, Maryland 21250
    Email:     pmundur@cs.umbc.edu
    Tel:        (410) 455-3019
    Fax:        (410) 455-3969
    Office:     Room 350, Information Technology and Engineering (ITE) Building


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