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Hi, Welcome to my little corner on the World Wide Web. Currently, I'm working as a Software Engineering Associate at Brocade Communications Systems, Santa Clara (CA).

I've completed MS in Computer Science from the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles. During my Master's studies, I've worked as a Research Programmer with Teamcore Research Group at USC under guidance of Prof. Milind Tambe.

I've worked on two AI & security research projects at Teamcore Research Group, named ARMOR and IRIS. These projects are aimed to improve the security at the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) and to randomize the scheduling of Federal Air Marshals in international flights, respectively. Please refer to projects links and news articles for more information.

[Award by Los Angeles Airport (LAX) Police Division and City of Los Angeles (2nd from left)]

Recent News about projects

Co-authored publication selected as a finalist at EURO 2010 OR Conference, July 11-14 2010, Lisbon
Viterbi News Article, May 2009: Still Another Honor for CS/CREATE Air Security Randomization Program
[view award]

Viterbi News Article, Feb 2009: LAX Police Division Bestows LA Honors on Viterbi School Security System Builders
[view award]
Viterbi News Article, Oct 2008: USC Security Randomization Application, The ARMOR System, Studied for Use by Air Marshals
Daily Trojan Article, Oct 2008: Viterbi presents plan for air marshals
Polish news website 'Gazeta', Nov 2008: The ARMOR system appears on the Web Site
[Google Translation in English]

Projects

ARMOR: ARMOR (Assistant for Randomized Monitoring Over Routes) has been successfully deployed since August 2007 at the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) to randomize checkpoints on the roadways entering the airport and canine patrol routes within the airport terminals. The LAX Police Division has awarded us on behalf of City of Los Angeles for the success of this project. Please refer to this news article for more details.

IRIS: IRIS (Intelligent Randomness In Scheduling) is a scheduling assistant for Federal Air Marshals, USA. It is currently in development phase. With approximately 29,000 commercial flights per day in United States airspace, the Federal Air Marshal Service (FAMS) prioritizes allocation of resources based on risk. The current process follows the FAMS Concept of Operations and the DHS risk methodology by assigning FAM deployments based on consequence, vulnerability and threat. This application could aid FAMS in applying randomness in selection of a set of high risk flights to increase terrorist uncertainty of FAMS deployments. Please refer to this news article for more details.

These projects are funded by the USC Homeland Security Center, CREATE (Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events).

Publications

Title: IRIS - A Tool for Strategic Security Allocation in Transportation Networks
Authors: Jason Tsai, Shyamsunder Rathi, Christopher Kiekintveld, Fernando Ordóñez, Milind Tambe
Published At: The Eight International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Industry Track, 2009
Publication link: [PDF] Click here
More Information: http://www.conferences.hu/AAMAS2009/accepted_papers_for_IT.html
Award: Best paper award at AAMAS 2009 in Industry Track [view award]
Others: Finalist in the EURO 2010 OR Conference, July 11-14 2010, Lisbon [More Information]

Title: Software Assistants for Randomized Patrol Planning for The LAX Airport Police and The Federal Air Marshals Service
Authors: Manish Jain, Jason Tsai, James Pita, Christopher Kiekintveld, Shyamsunder Rathi, Fernando Ordonez, Milind Tambe
Published At: Interfaces (to appear), 2010
Publication link: [PDF] Click here

Resume

Shyamsunder Rathi

Software Engineering Associate
Brocade Communications Systems
Santa Clara, CA
srathi@brocade.com

[With Teamcore Reseach Group members and Federal Air Marshals, 2nd from right]

SHYAMSUNDER RATHI