Umakant Kulkarni
Graduate Student
Graduate Research Assistant
Joined department: Spring 2021
Education
An ECE/CS Engineer, with Master’s in Computer Systems Networking & Telecommunications from Northeastern University, Boston, MA USA. Earlier, I worked as a Software Engineer at Microsoft, with primary focus on software development, architecture designing and building automation infrastructure for Affirmed Networks' Cloud Native 5G Mobile Core solution.
Currently, I am pursuing PhD in the department of Computer Science at Purdue University. My research focuses on two key problems: (1) designing an efficient and secure control plane for 5G networks, and (2) supporting emerging applications such as virtual reality and video streaming and conferencing through routing and scheduling that is aware of application quality of experience.
Selected Publications
Umakant Kulkarni, Khaled Diab, Shivang Aggarwal, Lianjie Cao, Faraz Ahmed, Puneet Sharma, Sonia Fahmy, "Understanding the Impact of Wi-Fi Configuration on Volumetric Video Streaming Applications," In Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Emerging Multimedia Systems (EMS), 6 pp., September 2023. [PDF]
Umakant Kulkarni, Yufeng Chen, Patrick Melampy, Sonia Fahmy, "Toward QoE-based Routing Path Selection," In Proceedings of the 2023 IEEE 24th International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR), pp. 114-119, June 2023 [PDF]
Umakant Kulkarni, Amit Sheoran, Sonia Fahmy, "The Cost of Stateless Network Functions in 5G", In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems 2021 (ANCS '21), 7 pp., December 2021 [PDF]
Umakant Kulkarni, Amit Sheoran, Sonia Fahmy, "Towards a low-cost stateless 5G core," poster, IEEE LANMAN, 2 pp., July 2022 [PDF]
Umakant Kulkarni, Sonia Fahmy, "Slicure5G: Secure Slicing for 5G," poster, USENIX NSDI, April 2023 [PDF]