Krishnendu Roy

Assistant Professor Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Valdosta State University, 1500 N. Patterson St., Valdosta, GA 31698 Ph: (229) 259-2041 E-mail: kroy@valdosta.edu

Education
Ph. D. M. S. B. Tech. B. Sc. Electrical and Computer Engineering, Louisiana State University, 2009 Electrical and Computer Engineering, Louisiana State University, 2005 Information Technology, University of Calcutta, India, 2003 Computer Science, University of Calcutta, India, 2000

Experience
Aug 2009 - present Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Valdosta State University, Valdosta, GA.

Refereed Publications
1. K. Roy, W. C. Rousse, and D. B. DeMerritt, Comparing the Mobile Novice Programming Environments: App Inventor for Android Vs. GameSalad, in Proceedings of 42nd IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, October 2012. 2. A.Wang and K. Roy, On the Fairness of the Georgia Official Spelling Bee Rules, in Proceedings of 2012 Southeastern INFORMS Conference, October 2012. 3. S. Chakraborty and K. Roy, An SLA-based Framework for Estimating Trustworthiness of a Cloud, in Proceedings of The 4th IEEE International Symposium on UbiSafe Computing (UbiSafe-12), Liverpool, UK, June 25-27, 2012. 4. K. Roy. App Inventor for Android Report from a Summer Camp, in Proceeding of the 42nd SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, February 2012. 5. K. Roy, R. Vaidyanathan, and J. L. Trahan, "Input-Queued Switches with Logarithmic Delay: Necessary Conditions and a Reconfigurable Scheduling Algorithm," in Proceedings of ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems (ANCS - 2008), San Jose, USA, Nov-2008.

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6. K. Roy, R. Vaidyanathan, and J. L. Trahan, "Routing Multiple Width Communications on the Circuit Switched Tree," in International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science (IJFCS), vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 271-285, 2006. 7. K. Roy, R. Vaidyanathan, and J. L. Trahan, "Configuring the Circuit Switched Tree for Multiple Width Communications," in Proceedings of Workshop on Advances in Parallel and Distributed Computational Models (APDCM 2005), Denver, USA, April-2005. 8. K. Roy, J. L. Trahan, and R. Vaidyanathan, "Configuring the Circuit Switched Tree for Point-to-Point and Multicast Communication," in Proceedings of the IASTED Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems (PDCS 2004), Cambridge, USA, Nov2004. 9. S. Dhar, K. Roy, and R. Kannan, "NEC: Node Energy Based Clustering Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks with Guaranteed Connectivity," in Proceedings of 1st International Conference on Distributed Computing & Internet Technology (ICDCIT 2004), Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 3347, pp. 75-84, December 2004.

Workshops
1. B. Ericson, C. Michaud, X. Xu, and K. Roy. Projects for Computing Summer Camps for 4th-12th grade Students, to be presented in 44th ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Atlanta, March 5-8, 2014. 2. B. Ericson, C. Michaud, N. Napier, and K. Roy. How to Plan and Run Computing Summer Camps for 4th-12th Grade Students, 43rd ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Denver, March 8, 2013.

Grants
1. Source: Google CS4HS: Title: Valdosta Computes v2.0. Amount: $12,500. Period: 5/1/2013 5/31/2014. Role: PI. 2. Source: Google CS4HS: Title: Valdosta Computes. Amount: $12,000. Period: 6/1/2012 5/31/2013. Role: PI. 3. Source: Google: Title Android Devices for Research/Education. Amount: In-kind (9 Motorola Droid cell phones). Period 2012. Role: PI. 4. Source: NVIDIA: Title: CUDA Teaching Center. Amount: In-kind. Period: 2011. Role: CoPI.

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5. Source: Georgia Computes NSF BPC Grant, Georgia Institute of Technology: Title: Computing Adventures @ VSU. Amount: $4,999.99. Period: 5/1/2011 4/31/2012. Role: PI. 6. Source: VSU-FRSG 2011: Title: An Analytical Model for Estimating the Trustworthiness of a Cloud. Amount: $7,500. Period: 6/1/2011-5/31/2012. Role: Co-PI. 7. Source: VSU Strategic Focus Initiative 2011: Title: Computing Summer Camps for Middle and High Schools Students. Amount: $13,659. Period: 6/1/2011-5/31/2012. Role: PI. 8. Source: Georgia Computes NSF BPC Grant, Georgia Institute of Technology: Title: Computing Adventures @ VSU. Amount: $4,999.99. Period: 5/1/2010 4/31/2011. Role: PI.

Invited Talk
App Inventor for Android in VSU Computing Summer Camps, presented at App Inventor Summit at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, July 2012.

Courses Taught
CS 1000 - Intro. to Comp. Applications CS 1010 - Algorithmic Problem Solving CS 1301 - Principles of Programming I CS 1302 - Principles of Programming II CS 2620 - Discrete Structures CS 3410 - Data Structures CS 3300 - Unix Programming CS 3335 - C Programming CS 3520 - Algorithms CS 4330 - Theory of Prog. Languages CS 4500 - Formal Lang. and Automata

Outreach Activities
Advisor: Valdosta School District Robotics Program, September 2013-present Organized monthly after-school workshop for 15 teachers from 5 local schools Advisor/Trainer: First All-India Android Mobile App Design Competition, September 2013 Trained several national winners of the competition (http://gdacompetition.wix.com/gdamobileappdesign) in App Inventor and advised them during the implementation of their idea.

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Camp Director: Computing Adventures @ VSU 2013, July 2013 Week-long summer camp for middle school students. Students introduced to computing through innovative activities like App Inventor for Android, and Lego Mindstorms NXT robots. Demos of artifacts created by campers: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyuKH7s9CEHqxHHskP-bHTHlAH4bbb6m_ Director: Valdosta Computes v 2.0 CS4HS Workshop, June 2013 Four days long workshop for local in-service teachers. Participants exposed to various computing and programming activities involving Lego Mindstorms NXT robots, App Inventor for Android, and Scratch. 15 teachers from 13 different schools participated in the workshop. Member: MIT App Inventor Training Corps, March 2013-present Trained one of the national winners of Verizon Innovative App Challenge (http://appchallenge.tsaweb.org/) in App Inventor and advised them during the implementation of their idea. Advisor: Lanier County 4H Robotics Team, Feb 2013-present Coach the 4H robotics team for the First Lego League robotics competition. Co-Organizer: Adventures in Mathematics and Computer Science, Science Saturday Program, April 2013 Organized a Science Saturday for local school students. Various Math/CS related activities showcased to 70 participants. Director: Valdosta Computes CS4HS Workshop, July 2012 One week long workshop for local in-service teachers. Participants exposed to various computing and programming activities involving Lego Mindstorms NXT robots, App Inventor for Android, and Scratch. Camp Director: Computing Adventures @ VSU 2012, July 2012 Two one-week-long summer camps for middle and high school students. Students introduced to computing through innovative activities like Scratch, App Inventor for Android, and Lego Mindstorms NXT robots. Demos of artifacts created by campers: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1E5CD9674EE4058E Co-Organizer: Adventures in Mathematics and Computer Science, Science Saturday Program, March 2012 Organized a Science Saturday for local school students. Various Math/CS related activities showcased to 110 participants.

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Camp Director: Computing Adventures @ VSU 2011, June-July 2011 Four one-week-long summer camps for middle and high school students. Students introduced to computing through innovative activities like Scratch, App Inventor for Android, and Lego Mindstorms NXT robots. Demos of artifacts created by campers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wY9ySDWBCys&list=SP5839497321B21E24 Camp Director: Computing Adventures @ VSU 2010, June-July 2010 Three one-week-long summer camps for middle and high school students. Students introduced to computing through innovative activities like Scratch, Alice, and Lego Mindstorms NXT robots. Team Coach: ACM Regional Programming Contest, November 2009 Coach for three teams that participated in the contest in Savannah, GA. Co-Organized local programming contest.

Media Coverage of Outreach Activities

Print: 1. Camp encourages students to consider careers in computer science, by Malynda Dorsey, Valdosta Daily Times, August 4, 2013. 2. VSU wraps up computer science workshop, by Malynda Dorsey, Valdosta Daily Times, July 30, 2013. 3. Use Google, Work for Google, Create New Google. The Evolution of Teen Tech Trend, by Brittany McClure, Valdosta Daily Times, July 29, 2012. 4. VSU hosts summer computer camp by David. S. Rodock, Valdosta Daily Times, May 4, 2012. 5. VSU hosts Computing Summer Camp by David. S. Rodock, Valdosta Daily Times, April 14, 2011. 6. VSU computer science Summer Camp by Paul Leavy, Valdosta Daily Times, June 29, 2010. 7. VSU aims to lure middle, high schoolers this summer, by Johnna Pinholster, Valdosta Daily Times, June 10, 2010.

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Television: 1. Camp Teaches Kids to Build Smartphone Apps, WCTV Channel 6 (CBS) Evening News at 5, June 21, 2011. Archived version: http://www.wctv.tv/news/georgianews/headlines/Kids_Build_Smartphone_Apps_1243 12939.html YouTube link to the news clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QarnWgdx10&feature=share&list=PLC81EDA0134 3ED4D4 2. VSU Host Hi-Tech Week for Kids, WCTV Channel 6 (CBS) Evening News at 5, June 16, 2011. Archived version: http://www.wctv.tv/news/georgianews/headlines/VSU_Host_Co_124031724.html YouTube link to the news clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suieWBp5p8k&feature=share&list=PLC81EDA01343 ED4D4 Radio: 1. Science Saturday @ VSU, on Morning Drive with Chris Beckham, 105.9 FM (WVGA), March 22, 2012. 2. Computing Summer Camps @ VSU, on Morning Drive with Chris Beckham, 105.9 FM (WVGA), May 13, 2011.

Awards and Honors

1. George Reymond Scholarship awarded by the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, LSU, in 2008 for excellence in graduate studies. 2. Presented a poster at the PhD-Forum organized by International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), Miami, April 2008. 3. Certificate of Merit from University of Calcutta, Calcutta, India for securing the first Rank in B.Tech course. 4. National Scholarship from Ministry of HRD., Govt. of India, for securing the sixth position in B.Sc course.

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Recent Professional Development Activities

1. ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Denver, CO, Mar 2013. 2. IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Seattle, WA, Oct 2012. 3. NSF CISE CAREER Workshop, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, March 2012. 4. ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Raleigh, NC, Feb 2012. 5. NSF-NCWIT CE-21 Meeting, Washington DC, Feb 2012. 6. How to Run a Summer Camp, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, Dec 2011. 7. Undergraduate Research Symposium, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, Sep 2011. 8. How to Run a Summer Camp, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, Dec 2010. 9. IEEE Computer Society Digital Library online training, Sep 2010. 10. NSF Day at Fort Valley State University, Fort Valley, GA, Feb 2010. 11. How to Run a Summer Camp, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, Nov 2009.

References
Available on request.

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