Balaji Palanisamy

Associate Professor & Director of Graduate Studies

Department of Informatics & Networked Systems

School of Computing and Information

Office: 135 N. Bellefield Avenue, Room 704

Pittsburgh, PA 15260

Email: bpalan@pitt(-dot--edu)

Phone: 412.624.0232

I am an Associate Professor in the School of Computing and Information at the University of Pittsburgh. My research broadly spans the areas of Distributed Systems and Data Privacy. At Pitt, I carry out research in the Laboratory for Education and Research on Security Assured Information Systems (LERSAIS). I am also an Affiliate Scholar at the Institute for Cyber Law, Policy, and Security. Prior to joining the University of Pittsburgh, I received my Ph. D. degree in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology.

PhD positions: We�re always looking for self-motivated and dedicated Ph.D students. If you are interested in joining our research group, please apply to our graduate program here.

Research�� Publications �� Teaching � Contact

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

My research interest lies in the areas of Blockchains, Data Privacy, Privacy-aware Computing, Distributed Computer Systems, Edge Computing and Cloud Computing. I am especially interested in tackling problems related to scalable and privacy-conscious computing and data sharing in untrusted and outsourced computing environments.

TEACHING:

� INFSCI 2750 �Cloud Computing (Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024)

� INFSCI 3350 - Doctoral Seminar - Blockchains (Spring 2022)

� INFSCI 2150 � Information Security & Privacy (Spring 2014, Fall 2014, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2022, Summer 2024)

� INFSCI 1690 - Cloud Computing (Fall 2021)

� INFSCI 1620 - Advanced Information Security & Privacy (Spring 2021, Fall 2022)

� INFSCI 2955 � Special Topics Systems - Cloud Computing (Spring 2015)

� INFSCI 1074 � Computer Security (Fall 2013, Fall 2014, Fall 2015, Fall 2016, Fall 2019)

PUBLICATIONS:

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JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS:

� T-Watch: Towards Timed Execution of Private Transaction in

Blockchains

�Chao Li and Balaji Palanisamy

� IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (IEEE TSC 2024)

� Blockchain Takeovers in Web 3.0: An Empirical Study on the TRON-Steem Incident

�Chao Li, Runhua Xu, Balaji Palanisamy, Li Duan, Meng Shen, Jiqiang Liu, Wei Wang

in ACM Transactions on the WEB (ACM TWEB 2024)

� Network Connectivity Resilience in Next Generation Backhaul Networks: Challenges and Future Opportunities

�David Tipper, Amy Babay, Balaji Palanisamy, Prashant Krishnamurthy

� IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (IEEE TNSM 2024)

� Securing Blockchain-based Timed Data Release against Adversarial Attacks

�Jingzhe Wang, Balaji Palanisamy

� Journal of Computer Security (JCS 2023)

� Amnis: Optimized stream processing for edge computing

�Jinlai Xu, Balaji Palanisamy, Qingyang Wang, Heiko Ludwig, Sandeep Gopisetty

� Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC 2022)

� SilentDelivery: Practical Timed-Delivery of Private Information Using Smart Contracts

� Chao Li and Balaji Palanisamy

� IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (IEEE TSC 2022)

� Optimized Contract-based Model for Resource Allocation in Federated Geo-distributed Clouds

� Jinlai Xu and Balaji Palanisamy

� IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (IEEE TSC 2021)

� Improving Collaborative Filtering with Social Influence over Heterogeneous Information Networks

�Yang Zhou, Ling Liu, Kisung Lee, Balaji Palanisamy, Qi Zhang

ACM Transactions on InternetTechnology (ACM TOIT 2020)

� Optimizing N-Tier Application Scalability in the Cloud: A Study of Soft Resource Allocation

�Qingyang Wang, Shungeng Zhang, Yashuhiko Kanemasa, Calton Pu, Balaji Palanisamy, Lilian Harada and Motoyuki Kawaba� ��

�ACM Transactions on Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Computing Systems (ACM TOMPECS 2019)

� Reversible Location Perturbation Mechanisms for Protecting Multi-level Location Privacy

� Chao Li and Balaji Palanisamy

� Elsevier Computer Communications 2018

� Integrating Concurrency Control in n-Tier Application Scaling Management in the Cloud

� Qingyang Wang, Hui Chen, Shungeng Zhang,, Liting Hu, Balaji Palanisamy

� �IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (IEEE TPDS 2018)

� Privacy in Internet of Things: from Principles to Technologies

� Chao Li and Balaji Palanisamy

� IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IEEE IoT-J 2018)

� k-Trustee: Location injection attack-resilient anonymization for location privacy

� Lei Jin, Chao Li, Balaji Palanisamy and James Joshi

� Elsevier Computers & Security (Computers & Security 2018)

� Privacy-preserving Publishing of Multi-level Utility Controlled Graph Datasets

� Balaji Palanisamy, Ling Liu, Yang Zhou and Qingyang Wang

� ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (ACM TOIT 2018)

� G-SIR: An Insider Attack Resilient Geo-Social Access Control Framework

�� Nathalie Baracaldo, Balaji Palanisamy, James Joshi

�� IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (IEEE TDSC 2017)

� Distributed Algorithms for Spatial Retrieval Queries in Geospatial Analysis

�� Qiulei Guo, Balaji Palanisamy, Hassan A. Karimi and Liming Zhang

�� Services Transactions on Cloud Computing (STCC 2016).

� Road Network-Aware Spatial Alarms

�� Kisung Lee, Ling Liu, Balaji Palanisamy and Emre Yigitoglu

�� IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (IEEE TMC 2016)

� Attack-resilient Mix-zones over Road Networks: Architecture and Algorithms

�� Balaji Palanisamy and Ling Liu

�� IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (IEEE TMC 2015)

� Cost-effective Resource Provisioning for MapReduce in a Cloud

�� Balaji Palanisamy, Aameek Singh and Ling Liu

�� IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (IEEE TPDS 2015)

� Anonymizing Continuous Queries with Delay-tolerant Mix-zones on Road Networks

�� Balaji Palanisamy, Ling Liu, Kisung Lee, Shicong Meng, Yuzhe Tang and Yang Zhou,

�� Distributed and Parallel Databases (DAPD 2014)

� Effective Mix-zone Anonymization for Mobile Travelers

�� Balaji Palanisamy and Ling Liu

�� Geoinformatica 2014.

CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS:

� PR-TDR: Privacy-preserving and Reliable Timed Data Release

�� Jingzhe Wang and Balaji Palanisamy

� �� Proc. of the 43rd International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2024)

� Timed Data Release using Smart Contracts

�� Jingzhe Wang, Haocheng Wang, Chao Li and Balaji Palanisamy

� �� Proc. of 44th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2024) (System Demonstration)

� Received Best Demo Award

� How Hard is Takeover in DPoS Blockchains? Understanding the Security of Coin-based Voting Governance

�� Chao Li, Balaji Palanisamy, Runhua Xu, Li Duan, Jiqiang Liu, Wei Wang

� �� Proc. of� The 30th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2023)

�� Received Distinguished Paper Award

� Cross-Consensus Measurement of Individual-level Decentralization in Blockchain

�� Chao Li, Balaji Palanisamy, Runhua Xu, Li Duan

� �� Proc. of� The 9th International Conference on Big Data Security on Cloud, BigDataSecurity (BigDataSecurity 2023)

� CTDRB: Controllable Timed Data Release Using Blockchains

�� Jingzhe Wang and Balaji Palanisamy

� �� Proc. of� the 18th EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm 2022)

� Decentralized Allocation of Geo-distributed Edge Resources using Smart Contracts

�� Jinlai Xu, Balaji Palanisamy, Qingyang Wang, Heiko Ludwig, Sandeep Gopisetty

� �� Proc. of� the 22nd IEEE/ACM international Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2022)

� Efficient Blockchain Enabled Attribute-based Access Control as a Service

�� Ritik Kumar, Balaji Palanisamy, Shamik Sural

� �� Proc. of� the 4th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Privacy and Security in Intelligent Systems, and Applications, (IEEE TPS-ISA 2022)

� BECT: Beacon-based Contact Tracing for Detecting Direct & Indirect Contacts

�� Akshay Madan, David Tipper, Balaji Palanisamy, Mai Abdelhakim and Prashant Krishnamurthy

�� Proc. of� The 19th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Smart Systems, (IEEE MASS 2022)

� Attack-Resilient Blockchain-Based Decentralized Timed Data Release

�� Jingzhe Wang, Balaji Palanisamy

� �� Proc. of 36th Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy (DBSec 2022)

�� Received Best Paper Award

� Decentralized Authorization using Hyperledger Fabric

�� Muthukur Venkata Akhil Vasishta, Balaji Palanisamy, Shamik Sural

� �� Proc. of 2022 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain, (IEEE Blockchain 2022)

� Mitigating Frontrunning Attacks in Ethereum

�� Maddipati Varun, Balaji Palanisamy, Shamik Sural

� �� Proc. of the 4th ACM International Symposium on Blockchain and Secure Critical Infrastructure (BSCI 2022)

� Credit-based Peer-to-Peer Ride Sharing using Smart Contracts (poster)

�� Somay Chopra, Balaji Palanisamy, Shamik Sural

�� Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (IEEE ICBC 2022)

� Protecting Blockchain-based Decentralized Timed release of Data from Malicious Adversaries (poster)

�� Jingzhe Wang, Balaji Palanisamy

�� Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (IEEE ICBC 2022)

� Cost-aware & Fault-tolerant Geo-distributed Edge Computing for Low-latency Stream Processing

�� Jinlai Xu and Balaji Palanisamy

�� Proc. of The 7th IEEE International Conference on Collaboration and Internet Computing (IEEE CIC 2021)

� Model-based Reinforcement Learning for Elastic Stream Processing in Edge Computing

�� Jinlai Xu and Balaji Palanisamy

�� Proc. of 29th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (HiPC 2021)�

�� Best Paper Award Nominee

� Decentralized Authorization in Web Services Using Public Blockchain

�� Maddipati Varun, Muthukur Venkata Akhil Vasishta, Balaji Palanisamy and Shamik Sural

�� in Proc. of 2021 International Conference on Blockchain (ICBC 2021)

� BEAAS: Blockchain Enabled Attribute-Based Access Control as a Service

�� Ritik Kumar, Balaji Palanisamy and Shamik Sural

�� Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (IEEE ICBC 2021)

� Resilient Stream Processing in Edge Computing

�� Jinlai Xu, Balaji Palanisamy and Qingyang Wang

�� Proc. of the 21st IEEE/ACM international Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2021)

� SteemOps: Extracting and Analyzing Key Operations in Steemit Blockchain based Social Media Platform

�� Chao Li, Balaji Palanisamy, Runhua Xu, Jinlai Xu and Jingzhe Wang

�� Proc. of ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY 2021)

� Comparison of Decentralization in DPoS and PoW Blockchains

�� Chao Li, Balaji Palanisamy

�� Proc. of 2020 International Conference on Blockchain (ICBC 2020)

� EventWarden: A Decentralized Event-driven Proxy Service for Outsourcing Arbitrary Transactions in Ethereum-like Blockchains

�� Chao Li, Balaji Palanisamy

�� Proc. of 2020 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (IEEE ICWS 2020)

� Sustainability-aware Resource Provisioning in Data Centers

�� Jingzhe Wang, Balaji Palanisamy and Jinlai Xu

�� Proc. of The 6th IEEE International Conference on Collaboration and Internet Computing (IEEE CIC 2020)

� �NF-Crowd: Nearly-free Blockchain-based Crowdsourcing

�� Chao Li, Balaji Palanisamy, Runhua Xu, Jian Wang and Jiqiang Liu

�� Proc. of The 39th International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems, (SRDS 2020)

� �Self-emerging Data Infrastructures

�� Balaji Palanisamy and Chao Li

�� Proc. of 5th IEEE International Conference on Collaboration and Internet Computing (IEEE CIC 2019)

� �Enhancing Collaborative Filtering with Multi-label Classification

�� Yang Zhou, Ling Liu, Qi Zhang, Kisung Lee, Balaji Palanisamy

�� Proc. of 8th International Conference on Computational Data and Social Networks (CSoNet 2019)

� �Incentivized Blockchain-based Social Media Platforms: A Case Study of Steemit

�� Chao Li and Balaji Palanisamy

�� Proc. of 11^th ACM International Web Science Conference 2019 (ACM WebSci 2019)

� �Decentralized Privacy-preserving Timed Execution in Blockchain-based Smart Contract Platforms

�� Chao Li and Balaji Palanisamy

�� Proc. of 25th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (HiPC 2018)

� �Decentralized Release of Self-emerging Data using Smart Contracts

�� Chao Li and Balaji Palanisamy

�� Proc. of 37th IEEE International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems. (IEEE SRDS 2018)

� �Reversible Data Perturbation Techniques for Multi-level Privacy-preserving Data Publication

�� Chao Li, Balaji Palanisamy and Prashant Krishnamurthy

�� Proc. of 2018 International Congress on Big Data. (BigData Congress 2018)

�� Received Best Paper Award

� �QueryGuard: Privacy-preserving Latency-aware Query Optimization for Edge Computing

�� Runhua Xu, Balaji Palanisamy and James Joshi

�� Proc. of he 17th IEEE International Conference On Trust, Security And Privacy In Computing And Communications. (IEEE TrustCom-18)

� �Secure and Efficient Multi-Party Directory Publication for Privacy-Preserving Data Sharing

�� K. Areekijseree, Yuzhe Tang, Ju Chen, Shuang Wang, Arun Iyengar and Balaji Palanisamy

�� Proc. of 14th EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks. (SecureComm 2018)

� �Group Privacy-aware Disclosure of Association Graph Data

�� Balaji Palanisamy, Chao Li and Prashant Krishnamurthy

�� Proc. of 2017 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, Boston, USA. (IEEE BigData 2017)

� �PADS: Privacy-preserving Auction Design for Allocating Dynamically Priced Cloud Resources

�� Jinlai Xu, Balaji Palanisamy, Yuzhe Tang, S.D. Madhu Kumar

�� Proc. of 3^rd International Conference on Collaboration and Internet Computing, San Jose, USA. (IEEE CIC 2017)

� Emerge: Self-emerging Data Release using Cloud Data Storage

�� Chao Li and Balaji Palanisamy

�� Proc. of 10th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing, Honolulu, USA. (IEEE CLOUD 2017)

� Cost-aware Resource Management for Federated Clouds using Resource Sharing Contracts

�� Jinlai Xu and Balaji Palanisamy

�� Proc. of 10th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing, Honolulu, USA. (IEEE CLOUD 2017)

� Zenith: Utility-aware Resource Allocation for Edge Computing

�� Jinlai Xu and Balaji Palanisamy, Heiko Ludwig, and Qingyang Wang�

�� Proc. of 1st IEEE International Conference on Edge Computing, Honolulu, USA. (IEEE EDGE 2017)

� Differentially Private Trajectory Analysis for Points-of-Interest Recommendation

�� Chao Li, Balaji Palanisamy and James Joshi�

�� Proc. of 6th IEEE International Congress on Big Data , Honolulu, USA. (IEEE BigData Congress 2017)

�� Received Best Paper Award

� Timed-release of Self-emerging Data using Distributed Hash Tables

� Chao Li and Balaji Palanisamy

� Proc. of 37th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, Atlanta, USA. (ICDCS 2017)

� DCM: Dynamic Concurrency Management for Scaling n-Tier Applications in Cloud

� Hui Chen, Qingyang Wang, Balaji Palanisamy, and Pengcheng Xiong

� Proc. of the 37th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, Atlanta, GA, USA. (ICDCS 2017)

� ReverseCloak: A Reversible Multi-level Location Privacy Protection System (System Demonstration)

� Chao Li, Balaji Palanisamy, Aravind Kalaivanan and Sriram Raghunathan

� Proc. of 37th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, Atlanta, USA. (ICDCS 2017)

� Group Differential Privacy-preserving Disclosure of Multi-level Association Graphs (poster)

� Balaji Palanisamy, Chao Li and Prashant Krishnamurthy

� Proc. of 37th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, Atlanta, USA. (ICDCS 2017)

� SocialMix: Privacy-aware Communication in Online Social Networks

� Chao Li, Balaji Palanisamy and James Joshi

� Proc. of 23rd IEEE International Conference on Web Services, San Francisco, USA. (ICWS �16)�

� ReverseCloak: Protecting Multi-level Location Privacy over Road Networks

� Chao Li and Balaji Palanisamy

� Proc. of 24th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Melbourne, Australia. (CIKM �15)

� De-anonymizable Location Cloaking for Privacy-controlled Mobile Systems

� Chao Li and Balaji Palanisamy

� Proc. of 9th International Conference on Network and System Security, New York, USA (NSS 2015)

� A Distributed Polygon Retrieval Algorithm using MapReduce

� Qiulei Quo, Balaji Palanisamy and Hassan Karimi

� Proc. of International Symposium on Spatio-temporal Computing, Fairfax, Virginia, USA (ISSC 2015)

� Privacy-preserving Data Publishing in the Cloud: A Multi-level Utility Controlled Approach

� Balaji Palanisamy and Ling Liu

� Proc. of 8th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing, New York, USA. (IEEE CLOUD 2015)

� A MapReduce Algorithm for Polygon Retrieval in Geospatial Analysis

� Qiulei Quo, �Balaji Palanisamy and Hassan Karimi

� Proc. of 8th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing, New York, USA. (IEEE CLOUD 2015)

� Clustering Service Networks with� Entity, Attribute and Link Heterogeneity

� Yang Zhou, Ling Liu, Xianqiang Bao, Kisung Lee, Calton Pu, Balaji Palanisamy, Emre Yigitoglu, Qi Zhang

� Proc. of� 22^nd IEEE International Conference on Web Services, New York, USA. (IEEE ICWS 2015)

� Lightweight Indexing for Log-Structured Key-Value Stores

� Yuzhe Tang, Arun Iyengar, Wei Tan, Liana Fong, Ling Liu and Balaji Palanisamy

� Proc. of 15th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2015)

��  Received Best Paper Award�

� Part of this work has been included in IBM InfoSphere BigInsights

� A Distributed Polygon Retrieval Algorithm using MapReduce (Poster)

� Qiulei Quo, �Balaji Palanisamy and Hassan Karimi

� Proc. of 10th IEEE International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing, Miami, Florida, USA (Collaboratecom 2014)

� LEAF: A Privacy-conscious Social Network-based Intervention Tool for IPV Survivors

� Balaji Palanisamy,� Sheldon Sensenig, James Joshi and Rose Constantino

� Proc. of 15th IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, San Franscisco, USA (IRI 2014) �

� Compromising Cloaking-based Location Privacy Preserving Mechanisms with Location Injection Attacks (Poster)

� Lei Jin, �Balaji Palanisamy and James Joshi

� Proc. of 21st ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA� (CCS 2014)

� Geo-Social-RBAC: A Location-based Socially Aware Access Control Framework

�� Nathalie Baracaldo, Balaji Palanisamy and James Joshi

�� Proc. of 8th International Conference on Network and System Security, Xi�an, China (NSS 2014)

� VNCache: Map Reduce Analysis for Cloud-archived Data

� Balaji Palanisamy, Aameek Singh, Nagapramod Mandagere, Gabriel Alatore and Ling Liu

� Proc. of 14th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing, Chicago, USA (IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2014)

� Cura: A Cost-Optimized Model for MapReduce in a Cloud

� Balaji Palanisamy, Aameek Singh, Ling Liu and Bryan Langston

� Proc. of 27th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2013)

� Road Network Mix-zones for Anonymous Location Based Services (System Demonstration)

� Balaji Palanisamy, Sindhuja Ravichandran, Ling Liu, Binh Han and Kisung Lee

� Proc. of 28^th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2013)

� ROADALARM: a Spatial Alarm System on Road Networks (System Demonstration)

� Kisung Lee, Ling Liu, Binh Han, Balaji Palanisamy

� Proc. of 28^th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2013)

� Location Privacy with Road Network Mix-zones

� Balaji Palanisamy, Ling Liu, Kisung Lee, Aameek Singh and Yuzhe Tang

� Proc. of 8th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks (IEEE MSN 2012)

� Reliable State Monitoring with Messaging Quality Awareness

� Shicong Meng, Arun Iyengar, Isabelle Rouvellou, Ling Liu, Kisung Lee, Balaji Palanisamy and Yuzhe Tang

� Proc. of 5^th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (IEEE CLOUD 2012)

� Received Best Paper Award�

� Road Network Aware Spatial Alarm Processing

� Kisung Lee, Ling Liu, Shicong Meng, Balaji Palanisamy

� Proc. of 19^th IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2012)

� MobiMix: Protecting Location Privacy with Mix-zones over Road Networks

� Balaji Palanisamy and Ling Liu

� Proc. of 27^th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2011)

� Purlieus: Locality-aware Resource Allocation for MapReduce in a Cloud

� Balaji Palanisamy, Aameek Singh, Ling Liu and Bhushan Jain

� Proc. of IEEE/ACM Supercomputing (SC 2011)

� Privacy Preserving Indexing for eHealth Information Networks

� Yuzhe Tang, Ting Wang, Ling Liu, Shicong Meng, Balaji Palanisamy

� Proc. of 20^th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2011)

� MedVault: Health Professional Access to Source-Verifiable Patient-Centric PHR Repository (Poster)

� Mustaque Ahamad, Douglas Blough, Ling Liu, David Bauer, Apurva Mohan, Daisuke Mashima, Bhuvan Bamba, Balaji Palanisamy, Ramkumar Krishnan, Italo Dacosta, and Ketan Kalgaonkar

� Poster presentation at the 19th Usenix Security Symposium, (USENIX Security 2010)

� Dynamic Routing of Reliability-Differentiated Connections in Optical Burst Switched Networks

� N.Sreenath, N. Devendra and Balaji Palanisamy

� Proc. Managing Complexity in a Distributed World, IISc Centenary Conference, (MCDES 2008)

� Traffic Adaptive Wavelength Routing in IP-Over-WDM Networks

� Balaji Palanisamy, T.Siva Prasad, and N.Sreenath

� Proc. 14th International conference on Advanced Computing and Communications, (ADCOM 2006)

� Received Best Paper Award�

� An Online Distributed Protocol for the Restoration of Connectivity in the Virtual topology after Link failure in IP over WDM networks

�� N.Sreenath and Balaji Palanisamy

�� Proc. International conference on Networking and Services, Santa Clara, USA (ICNS 2006)

� Grooming of Multicast Sessions in Sparse Splitting WDM Mesh Networks using Virtual Source Based Trees

�� N.Sreenath, Balaji Palanisamy, and S.R.Nadarajan

�� Proc. International Conference on Systems and Networks Communication, (ICSNC 2006)

� A Two-Phase Distributed Reconfiguration Algorithm for Node Failures in IP-Over-WDM Networks

� N.Sreenath and Balaji Palanisamy

� Proc. International Conference on Systems and Networks Communication, (ICSNC 2006)

WORKSHOP PUBLICATIONS:

� �Scalable and Privacy-preserving Design of On/Off-chain Smart Contracts

�� Chao Li, Balaji Palanisamy and Runhua Xu

�� Proc. of� 1^st International Workshop on Blockchain and Data Management (BlockDM 2019), in Conjunction with ICDE 2019

� A Dynamic Privacy Aware Access Control Model for Location Based Services

� Leila Karimi, Balaji Palanisamy, James Joshi

� Proc. of 1^st International Workshop on Privacy in Collaborative & Social Computing, Pittsburgh, USA. (PiCSoC 2016)

� Link Analysis of Wikipedia Documents using MapReduce

� Hardik Vasa, Anirudh Vasudevan and Balaji Palanisamy

� Proc. of 4th IEEE International Workshop on Data Integration and Mining, San Franscisco, USA (DIM 2015)

� LITSEEK: Public health literature search by metadata enhancement with External knowledge bases

� Priyanka Prabhu, Shamkant B. Navathe, Stephen Tyler, Venu Dasigi, Neha Narkhede, Balaji Palanisamy

� Proc. of the 3rd International Workshop on Data and Text Mining in Bioinformatics (DTMBIO 2009)

BOOK CHAPTERS:

� Protecting Privacy in Indoor Positioning Systems

� Balaji Palanisamy, James Joshi

� Indoor Wayfinding and Navigation, 2015.

CONTACT

Balaji Palanisamy,

School of Computing and Information

University of Pittsburgh

135 N. Bellefield Avenue,

Pittsburgh, PA 15260

Email: bpalan@pitt(-dot--edu)

Phone: 412.624.0232