nus supported research at CCIS
this spring while boosting
from the prestigious Indian Institute of
Technology (IIT) on a research intern-
ship to CCIS, where they collaborated
with faculty and prepared papers for
submission to competitive conferences.
They returned home two months later
with a new appreciation for the college
which, supporters hope, will generate
increased interest in CCIS graduate
programs among IIT students.
fessor Ravi Sundaram, who hosted the
visit and supervised the students' research.
IIT has one of the most rigorous entrance
examinations in the world. It is widely
held that it is harder to get into IIT than
it is to get into Harvard or Princeton.
Manokaran, and Ravichandra Chakinala--
found a way to embed information in
computer communications. The discovery
can be applied to increasing effective
bandwidth as well as circumventing cen-
sorship, such as restrictions on commu-
nication by certain foreign governments,
Sundaram says. They have submitted a
paper titled "Steganographic communi-
cation in ordered channels" to Infocom,
a premier communications conference.
pull strategies for information dissemi-
nation and gathering," is being submitted
to the Association for Computing
Machinery Symposium on Theory
of Computing (STOC), a leading
conference in computer science.
uted to the students' research.
fund a project that would benefit both
Northeastern and India, and I was look-
ing to improve the quality of graduate
school applications," Sundaram says.
"Dean Finkelstein brought us together."
nus Yannis Doganis, MS '89. The company
merged with Razorfish in 1999.
fledgling program as well. "This was a
relatively low-cost program that offered
a huge return," Sundaram says. "We
got some important research done, the
students got valuable experience, and
we got good exposure for our program."
deductible gift, please contact Diann
Siegel, senior development officer, at
617-373-2190 or d.siegel@neu.edu.
and Abishek Kumarasubramanian visited Northeastern this spring on a research internship.
(bottom, l-r) Visiting Professor Mayur Thakur and Associate Professor Ravi Sundaram were
among the faculty who worked with them.