theoretical and practical computing expertise.
PhD candidates together at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
headed in separate directions--Sundaram
toward industry and Aslam toward academia.
This year, both have returned to Boston's aca-
demic community as the newest members of
the CCIS faculty.
talented researchers and practitioners to its
faculty roster.
science at Akamai Technologies, Inc., where
he held posts as a research scientist, director
of engineering, and product manager. While
researching performance issues in distributed
networks, he teamed up with Northeastern
Professor Rajmohan Rajaraman, with whom
he published a paper in the proceedings
of the ACM Symposium on Theory of
that work, he was attracted back to academia.
says. "One of the harder things is that it's not
easy to renew yourself. In academic publish-
ing, every now and then you can change."
students and faculty. "There are a lot of
young, bright people coming through. If
you can attract them, get them interested,
you get a smart group of colleagues. It's very
satisfying."
ity of service, and security. He also plans to
maintain ties to industry. "I like to keep a
foot in both camps, theoretical and practical,"
he says.
with a postdoc at Harvard University and a
College of Computer and
Information Science at
Northeastern University