Sireesha Muppala

Education

• Bachelors Degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering( Nagarjuna University, India)
• Honors Diploma in Systems Management (National Institue of Information Technology, India)
• Pursuing Ph.D in Computer Science (University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, Colorado)



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Research Interests

• Internet Services
• Self-Organizing and Adaptive Autonomic Systems
• Machine Learning Techiques.

My current focus is on gaining better understanding of the Machine Learning Techniques and experiment with improving the performance of Autonomic Computing systems by incorporating the statistical learning strategies.

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Ph.D Program Status

I am working on my Ph.D program under the guidance of Dr.Xiaobo Zhou.
Along with Dr.Zhou, I spent the Summer and early Fall of 2008 working on a novel admission Control strategy for Multi-tier Internet systems, which resulted in the paper "CoSAC : Coordinated Session-based Admission Control for Multi-tier Internet Applications". This paper is accepted for publication by the 18th IEEE ICCCN program for August 2009.
Currently researching Machine learning strategies and their applicability in developing an autonomic computing system.

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Publications

• CoSAC: Coordinated Session-based Admission Control for Multi-tier Internet Applications Proc. of the 18th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), August 2009.


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Profession

I have been working in Computer Software, IT field for the past 11 years and worked for both small startups and large, well established companies. I have been involved in various phases (Business Analysis, Design, Development, Documentation) of software application lifecycle. I worked on a wide variety of applications, including Payroll Systems, Insurance Underwriting, Online Insurance Quotes and Case handling, Remote System Update Manager. Currenlty I am involved in a Virtualization Product, that remotely manages several thousands of connected systems and provides facilities like Discovery, Automatic and Scheduled OS and Agent provisioning, Mangement of Updates and Application/Email/Pager Notifications.

Companies I worked for :
• MCI, Colorado Springs
• QWEST, Denver
• ChannelPoint, Colorado Springs
• Trizetto, Colorado Springs
• Sun Microsystems, Colorado Springs (CURRENT)

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Personal

I was born and raised in a Southern state of India, called Andhra Pradesh. I spent all my childhood and attended schools/colleges upto my Undergraduate degree in several cities of this state.
Currently I live in Colorodo Springs, CO, USA with my husband and two wonderful kids, a boy Anu (11) and a girl Amri (2).
Besides my family, school and work, I enjoy listening to old hindi/telugu (Indian languages) songs, cooking, reading a variety of books. I also have a slight but growing interest in understanding the stock market and its reaction to the changing global economics.

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