Email: cabdur at ir dot iit dot edu Dr. Chowdhury has over 12 years of research and development experience in computer science. He has worked as both a researcher and a developer, which has given him a great perspective on balancing software design with innovation. During this time he has fifteen patent applications filed and over 70 publications in magazines, scientific conferences, journals and book chapters covering many computer science topics like networking, operating systems, system scaling, and information retrieval.