Shiva Sastry

Assistant Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering

B.S. (Electrical Engineering), Bangalore University, 1984.
M.S. (Electrical Engineering), Indian Institute of Science, 1987.
M.S. (Computer Science), University of Central Florida, 1992.
Ph.D. (Computer Engineering & Science), Case Western Reserve, 1998.

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ssastry@uakron.edu

Vita

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Courses Taught

4450-330 Computer Systems
4450-420/520 Object Oriented Design

Research Interests

Sensor-Actuator Networks, Graph Algorithms, Distributed and Pervasive Computing, 
Software Systems Architectures, Modeling and Simulation, and Software Verification.

Professional Activities

Member Next Generation SERCOS core team
IEEE Computer Society, Member

Honors and Accomplishments

Rockwell Automation Innovation Awards, 2001
Rockwell Software Outstanding Contribution Award, 2000
Rockwell Automation Business Impact Award, 1997, 1998
Rockwell Automation Customer Satisfaction Award, 1997
Xerox Outstanding Cooperation Award, 1993
Invited member, Phi Kappa Phi, 1990

Published Works

From Structure To Performance: Algorithms and Heuristics for Graph Bandwidth Minimization, Ph.D. Dissertation, Case Western Reserve University, May 1998.
Trends in Distributed Real-time Control Systems, 1996, Rockwell Science Center Report. (with Dr. Jon Agre and Dr. Loren Clare)
HDC Node Execution Model, Rockwell Automation report, 1995 -ACS Paper.
Temporal Constraint Satisfaction, M.S. Thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Central Florida, December 1992.
Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Protection Systems Using Petri Nets, TR#73, Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, 1987. (with Dr. Jenkins and Dr. Khincha)
Computer Aided Quarry Scheduling, TR#K-103-QS, Macmet India Pvt. Ltd., 1987.
An Expert System for Quarry Scheduling and Operations Planning, TR#K-103-ES, Macmet India Pvt. Ltd., 1987.
XLOCKS: A Rule based system for monitoring interlocks in a Switchyard Simulator, TR#-T-001-AI, Macmet India Pvt. Ltd., 1987.
Coordination and Performance Evaluation of Protection Systems – A Formal Approach, M.S. Thesis, Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, March 1987.
A Novel 8-Node Parallel Processing System, IEEE Vincent Bendix Award Report, IEEE Student Branch, Indian Institute of Science, 1987.
A Blood Cell Counting System, Final Project for B.E., BMS College of Engineering, Bangalore University, September 1984.

Patents

U.S. Patent Number: 6,104,963, August 15, 2000, “System For and Method of Allocating Processing Tasks of a Control Program Configured to Control a Distributed Control System”
U.S. Patent Number: 6,161,051, December 12, 2000, “System, Method, and Article of Manufacture for Utilizing External Models for Enterprise Wide Control” (with D.R. Haffeman, J.C. Hoskins, and R.E. Brooks, 2 Claims)

Other Interests

Accomplished Indian classical musician