Farhana Ashraf 201 S Wright St Apt # 106 Champaign, IL 61820, USA.

Phone: (217)-355-2838, (217)-721-1442 E-mail: [email protected]

EDUCATION Jan 07 - present

Aug 01 – Nov 06

• Second year Ph.D. student Computer Science, University of Illinois Specialization in power management for wireless sensor and ad hoc networks Advisor: Professor Robin Kravets, Dept. of CS, UIUC. • B. Sc. Computer Science and Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka, Bangladesh CGPA: 3.98 / 4.0, Ranked 1st in the class of 124 students.

RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Aug 07 – present Jan 08 - present Aug 07 – Dec 07

Jun 07 - Aug 07

Jan 07 – May 07

Sep 05 – Nov 06

• Working as a Graduate Research Assistant in the Mobius group, UIUC with Professor Robin Kravets. Analyzing energy efficient approaches for wireless sensor and ad hoc networks. • Working with Professor Tarek Abdelzaher in designing a collaborative recommender system for optimized power usage in a smart home environment. • Worked with Professor Robin Kravets on designing receiver regulated transmission scheduling for idle time energy minimization in wireless sensor networks. • Worked with Professor Jennifer Hou on adaptive rate control for broadcast messages in vehicular ad hoc networks (VANET). • Worked as a full-time summer intern in the project ‘Identity based Message Key Distribution (IBMKD)’ with Professor Himanshu Khurana in National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), UIUC. Developed a mail-proxy that supports IB-MKD and can work with Microsoft Outlook Express and Thunderbird. • Worked as a Teaching Assistant of the course: Communication Networks (CS 438) with Professor Robin Kravets, Dept of CS, UIUC. • Worked in the development project of Attribute Based Secure File Sharing (ABSFS) system. Incorporated policy-based encryption for access control mechanism and security enforcement. • Constructed an optimal condition for reliability by pre-reservation of resources on alternate paths in an SLA-based admission controller for MPLS networks. Undergraduate thesis advisor: Dr. Md. Mostofa Akbar.

COMPUTING SKILLS • Extensive knowledge in variants of Linux and Windows Operating Systems. • Proficiency in C/C++, C#, VC++, Java, JSP, PHP, HTML, PL/SQL, 80x86 Assembly Language, UML, Prolog, Lex and YACC, Verilog. • Experience in J2EE Web service development and Jakarta Struts framework. • Experience with OpenGL, Network Programming, Shell Scripting, DOS programming, .NET programming. • Worked in all major database platforms - Oracle, MS SQL, MS Access, MySQL, DB2, PostgreSQL. AWARDS AND HONORS ACADEMIC • • • •

Dean’s List Scholarship, BUET, 2001 – 20046 University Merit Scholarship, BUET, 2003 - 2006 Award for Excellent Academic Performance – Women’s Hall, BUET, 2006 Scholarship of Education Board of Bangladesh Government, 1998 - 2006

PROGRAMMING Mar 03, 05 Dec 04, 04 Oct 08, 04 Nov 13, 03 Nov 10, 01

• 7th position in IT Festival 2005, organized by Dhaka University • 5th position and Best Female Team award in National Computer Programming Contest (NCPC) 2004 • 16th position and Best Female Team award in ACM Asia Programming Contest, Dhaka Site 2004 • 10th position and Best Female Team award in the 28th ACM ICPC Asia regional 2003 • 12th position in the 26th ACM ICPC Asia regional 2001

SYNERGIC ACTIVITIES • • • • •

Member, Mobius Group, UIUC Member, Women in Computer Science, UIUC Student Member, ACM Member, BUET programming contest team for ACM ICPC, 2001 – 05 Member, BUET Design Group, 2003 - 2006