Hemant Kumar Mehta

Experience:

I have over 21 years’ experience of software development, research (Edge, Cloud & Distributed Computing) and university teaching (Computer Science) as:

A. Software Development: (Oct-2001 to Dec-2004 and Apr 2021 to Jun 2022):

1. Freelance Developer- Worked Remotely (Apr-2021 to Jun-2022), Worked as a freelancer on documentation, development, support, maintenance and enhancement of an Open-Source Authorization Server (“AS”) Gluu Server and Janssen.

2. Associate Consultant, Kanbay Software, Pvt. Ltd. Pune (MAR-2004 to DEC-2004)

I have worked in the business intelligence group for building a data warehouse of logs of Household bank’s credit card website using UNIX shell script and Oracle 10g.

3. Programmer Analyst, Surtel Technologies Pvt. Ltd., Indore (OCT-2003 to MAR-2004)

I have worked remotely on the maintenance and enhancement of ERP Suite Oracle Application 11i (HRMS and Payroll Module) for Gevity HR Inc., USA.

4. Programmer, IT Centre, Devi Ahilya University, Indore (OCT-2001 to OCT-2003)

I have worked on the development and maintenance of university websites (Servlets, JSP and Oracle database, ASP and MS SQL Server), maintenance of network and servers (Web Server, LDAP server, Proxy Server etc.) and in-house software (Visual Basic and Java, Oracle).

B. Research and Teaching: (Dec-2004—till Apr-2023)

Research in High performance Distributed Computing/ Systems (Cloud Computing, Blockchain):

1. Research Support Officer, School of Computer Science and Information Technology, University College Cork, Ireland, Nov-21 to Apr-2023: My role is to work on BRAINE (Big data pRocessing and Artificial Intelligence at the Network Edge) project. My role is to design and develop a constraint-based optimization algorithm for Edge computing Storage solution (Apache Ozone).

Senior Post Doctoral Researcher, School of Computer Science and Information Technology, University College Cork, Ireland,

2. Sep-2019 to Apr-2021: My role was to develop prediction-based resource management algorithms for multi-access edge computing.

3. Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering at The LNM Institute of Information Technology (LNM IIT), Jaipur, India, May-2017 – March-2019.

4. Research Fellow, Scalable Computing group, School of EEECS, Queen’s University, Belfast, UK, Oct-2015 – April-2017: My role was to develop energy accounting techniques for virtual machines and containers deployed on heterogeneous systems, including CPUs, GPUs, APUs.

5. Post Doctorate Fellow, Department of Computing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, Sep-2014 – April-2015: I have worked as a member IEEE Intercloud Standard P2302 to design and develop IEEE Intercloud Gateway Testbed.

6. Post Doctorate Fellow, INRIA/ Ecole Des Mines De Nantes, France, Feb-2013—Jan-2014 (on leave from Devi Ahilya University): I have worked on Virtual machine energy consumption estimation for large-scale cloud data centers.

7. Senior Lecturer, School of Computer Science and IT, Devi Ahilya University, Indore, India, Dec-2004—August-2014. Besides the computer science teaching activities, I was also actively and voluntarily involved in software development activities.

Education

1. Ph.D. in Computer Science-November 2011

Institution: School of Computer Science and IT, Devi Ahilya University, Indore, India

Thesis Title: Performance Enhancements of Scheduling Algorithms in Clusters and Grids using Improved Dynamic Load Balancing Techniques

2. Masters of Computer Applications, Aug 2001

Institution: Devi Ahilya University, Indore, India

3. Bachelors of Science (Computer Science-Honors), Jun 1998

Institution: Devi Ahilya University, Indore, India