Dr. Diwakar Krishnamurthy, PhD, PEng.
Positions
Professor
Schulich School of Engineering, Department of Electrical and Software Engineering
Child Health & Wellness Researcher
Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute
Parex Resources Innovation Fellow (2023-25)
Schulich School of Engineering, Department of Electrical and Software Engineering
Contact information
I'm looking for...
Learning opportunities
I am looking for graduate students interested in exploring how AR/VR/wearable technologies can be used to help neurodiverse individuals. Excellent programming skills and HCI experience will be assets.
Background
Educational Background
Bachelor of Eng Electrical Engineering, Madurai Kamaraj University, 1995
Doctor of Philosophy Electrical Engineering, Carleton University, 2004
Master of Engineering Electrical Engineering, Carleton University, 1998
Research
Areas of Research
News
Talks
Community support and cognitive science help flourish non-speaking autistics (talk by Dr. Vikram Jaswal at the Rethinking Autism for the 21st Century Symposium, April , 2023)
Interactive AR Applications for Nonspeaking Autistic People? - A Usability Study (talk at ACM CHI, April 2023)
Selected demos
Augmented Reality and Autism - Overview Video
HoloBoard - Holographic Typing Training System for Nonspeaking Autistic People
HoloType (version 1) - Lived Experience Based Communication Training System for Nonspeaking Autistic People
Participation in university strategic initiatives
Courses
| Course number | Course title | Semester |
|---|---|---|
| ENSF 603 LEC 01 01 | Model & Measure Software Perf | 2022 |
| SENG 550 LAB 01 B01 | Scalable Data Analytics | 2022 |
| SENG 550 LEC 01 01 | Scalable Data Analytics | 2022 |
Projects
Funded by SSHRC, NSERC, and Alberta Innovates. Joint work with Dr. V. K. Jaswal (University of Virginia) and Dr. Mea Wang (University of Calgary)
co-PI of project funded by NSERC and Alberta Innovates. (PI - Dr. Abraham Fapojuwo)
PI of research program funded by NSERC.
co-PI of project funded by MITACS and Telus (PI - Dr. Frank Maurer; co-PIs - Dr. Hatem Abou-Zeid; Dr. Mea Wang; Dr. Richard Zhao)
Publications
- Trace-Driven Scaling of Microservice Applications. Vahid Mostofi; Evan Krul; Diwakar Krishnamurthy; Martin Arlitt. IEEE Access. (2023)
- PERIDOT: Modeling Execution Time of Spark Applications. Sarah Shah; Yasaman Amannejad; Diwakar Krishnamurthy. IEEE Open Journal of the Computer Society. (2021)
- Diaspore: Diagnosing Performance Interference in Apache Spark. Sarah Shah; Yasaman Amannejad; Diwakar Krishnamurthy. IEEE Access. (2021)
- Decentralized LPV-MPC Controller with Heuristic Load Balancing for a Private Cloud Hosted Application. Durgesh Sing; PS Saikrishna; Ramkrishna Pasumarthy; Diwakar Krishnamurthy. Elsevier Control Engineering Practice. (2020)
- PRIMA: Subscriber-Driven Interference Mitigation for Cloud Services. Joydeep Mukherjee; Diwakar Krishnamurthy. IEEE TNSM. (2020)
- AMIR: Analytic Method for Improving Responsiveness by Reducing Burstiness. Amir Kalbasi; Diwakar Krishnamurthy; Jerry Rolia. ACM TOMPECS. (2019)
- Prospective: A Data-Driven Technique to Predict Web Service Response Time Percentiles. Yasaman Amannejad; Diwakar Krishnamurthy; Behrouz H. Far. IEEE Access. (2021)
- Predicting the Performance of DNNs to Support Efficient Resource Allocation. Sarah Shah; Yasaman Amannejad; Diwakar Krishnamurthy. 19th International Conference on Network and Service Management (mini conference). 1-7. (2023)
- AR-Based Educational Software for Nonspeaking Autistic People - A Feasibility Study. Ali Shahidi; Lorans Alabood; Kate M. Kaufman; Vikram K. Jaswal; Diwakar Krishnamurthy; Mea Wang. 22nd IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR 2023). 1-9. (2023)
- Transfer Learning for Online Prediction of Virtual Reality Cloud Gaming Traffic. Sampreet Vaidya; Hatem Abou-Zeid; Diwakar Krishnamurthy. IEEE Global Communications Conference: Next-Generation Networking and Internet (IEEE GLOBECOM). (2023)
- Antifreeze: High-Quality Adaptive Live Streaming with Real-time Transcoder. Asif Mehmuda; Mea Wang; Reza Hedayati Majdabadi; Diwakar Krishnamurthy. The 48th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN). (2023)
- Can Cross-Reality Help Nonspeaking Autistic People Transition to AR Typing?. Lorans Alabood; Travis Dow; Kate M. Kaufman; Vikram K. Jaswal; Diwakar Krishnamurthy. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (ACM CHI 2023 - Late Breaking Work (LBW) Track). 1-6. (2023)
- Interactive AR Applications for Nonspeaking Autistic People? A Usability Study. Ahmadreza Nazari; Ali Shahidi; Kate M. Kaufman; Julia E. Bondi; Lorans Alabood; Vikram K. Jaswal; Diwakar Krishnamurthy; Mea Wang. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (ACM CHI 2023). (2023)
- HoloType-CR: Cross Reality Communication Training for Nonspeaking Autistic Persons. Lorans Alabood; Evan Krul; Ali Shahidi; Vikram K. Jaswal; Diwakar Krishnamurthy; Mea Wang. IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR '22) (1st Workshop on Prototyping CR-Systems Track). (2022)
- HoloType: Lived Experience Based Communication Training for Nonspeaking Autistic People. Diwakar Krishnamurthy; Vikram K. Jaswal; Ahmadreza Nazari; Ali Shahidi; Pranav Subbaraman; Mea Wang. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (ACM CHI 2022) (Late Breaking Work Track). (2022)
- Oasis: Performance Matching IoT Emulation. Navid Alipour; Mea Wang; Diwakar Krishnamurthy. IEEE CLOUD 2021. (2021)
- Fast and Efficient Performance Tuning of Microservices. Vahid Mostofi; Diwakar Krishnamurthy; Martin Arlitt. IEEE CLOUD 2021. (2021)
- CONTRAST: Container-based Transcoding for Interactive Video Streaming. Sajad Sameti; Mea Wang; Diwakar Krishnamurthy. IEEE NOMS 2020. (2020)
- A Contention Aware Web of Things (WoT) Benchmarking Testbed. Raoufeh Hashemian, Niklas Carlsson; Diwakar Krishnamurthy; Martin Arlitt. ICPE 2020. (2020)
- RAD: Detecting Performance Anomalies in Cloud-based Web Services. Joydeep Mukherjee; Alex Baluta; Marin Litoiu; Diwakar Krishnamurthy. IEEE CLOUD 2020. (2020)
- Fast and Lightweight Execution Time Predictions for Spark Applications. Sarah Shah; Diwakar Krishnamurthy; Yasaman Amannejad; Mea Wang. IEEE CLOUD 2019. 1-4. (2019)
- WoTbench: A Benchmarking Framework for the Web of Things. Raoufeh Hashemian; Niklas Carlsson; Diwakar Krishnamurthy; Martin Arlitt. iOT 2019. (2019)
- Container-Based Real Time Video Transcoding. Sajad Sameti; Mea Wang; Diwakar Krishnamurthy. IEEE LCN 2019. 1-4. (2019)
- Quick Execution Time Predictions for Spark Applications. Sarah Shah; Yasaman Amannejad, Diwakar Krishnamurthy; Mea Wang. IEEE CNSM 2019. 1-10. (2019)
- Stride: Distributed Video Transcoding in Spark. Sajad Sameti; Mea Wang; Diwakar Krishnamurthy. IEEE IPCCC 2018. (2018)
- Subscriber-Driven Cloud Interference Mitigation for Network Services. Joydeep Mukherjee; Diwakar Krishnamurthy. IEEE IWQoS 2018. (2018)
- Performance management via MPC for Web services in cloud. Durgesh Sing; Joydeep Mukherjee; PS Saikrishna; Ramakrishna Pasumarthy; Diwakar Krishnamurthy. ACC 2018. (2018)
In the News
Postdocs
Dr. Lorans Alabood
Current students
PhD
Sarah Shah (co-supervisor: Dr. Yasaman Amannejad)
Niloofar Sharifi (co-supervisor: Dr. Yasaman Amannejad)
Kyle Otto Jorgensen (co-supervised, supervisor: Dr. Mea Wang)
MSc
Quinn Cooper (co-supervisor: Dr. Yasaman Amannejad
Ali Shahidi (co-supervisor: Dr. Mea Wang)
Sujesh Padhi (co-supervisor: Dr. Abraham Fapojuwo)
Travis Dow
Hadi Heidarirad (co-supervised, supervisor: Dr. Mea Wang)
Reet Ghosh (co-supervised, supervisor: Dr. Mea Wang)
Sampreet Vaidya (co-supervised, supervisor: Dr. Hatem Abou-Zeid)
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