Muthucumaru Maheswaran

Biography

Welcome to my world-wide web site! I am an associate professor at the School of Computer Science and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of McGill University, Canada. I joined McGill on January 2003. Before joining McGill, I was working at the University of Manitoba for four years from 1998 to 2002. I was an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science of the University of Manitoba. I received my BSc degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka in 1990. In 1994, I received a MSEE degree in Electrical Engineering from School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA. From the same school I also received a PhD in Computer Engineering in December 1998. I was a Fulbright Scholar from 1992 to 1994 while I was pursuing my MSEE at Purdue University.

Research Interest

My research interests are in the general areas of Computer Networking, Information Security, and Distributed Systems. More specifically, I am working on the following topics: Leveraging Social Factors for Securing Networked Systems: Game theoretic modeling of social interactions in networked systems; implicit authentication using social factors for mobile computing scenarios; developing unconventional approaches for digital rights management using social factors; social accountable networking on the Internet. Utility and Grid Computing: Resource management for Grid platforms with dedicated and nondedicated resources; resource discovery substrates for distributed Grid computing systems; trust management and incorporating user-contributed resources into a utility. Computer Networking Toolkits: Design and implementation of user-level networking toolkits for teaching and learning networks.