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(650) 857-5907 (650) 857-5100 sharad.singhal@hp.com 1501 Page Mill Road, M/S 1125 Palo Alto, CA 94002

Sharad Singhal is a Distinguished Technologist at Hewlett Packard Laboratories. He has been involved in industrial research for over 22 years, including 2 years at Bell Laboratories where he worked on speech coding, and 12 years at Bellcore (now Telecordia) where he conducted and managed research in a number of areas including speech and video processing, neural networks, middleware and personal communications services. Since 1997, he has been at HP Laboratories, where he has led teams that have developed techniques for monitoring and managing service level agreements; methods for controlling service quality in multi-tier applications, resource allocation and assignment algorithms; as well as architectures for management of large-scale data centers.

His current research interests include application of control theory to systems management, policy-based system management, and large-scale management architectures. He received the 2003 Joel S. Birnbaum prize for innovation at HP, and the Harding Bliss prize for his graduate work at Yale University. He obtained his B. Tech degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, and his MS. and PhD degrees from Yale University. He is a member of the IEEE and the Acoustical Society of America.

• Optimal Multivariate Control for Differentiated Services on a Shared Hosting Platform, Proceedings of the 46th IEEE Conference, New Orleans, LA, Dec 12-14, 2007.
• Capacity and Performance Overhead in Dynamic Resource Allocation to Virtual Containers, Proceedings of the 10th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Management, Munich, Germany, May 21-25, 2007
• A Measurement Centric Emulation Environment for Adaptive Internet Servers, Proceedings of the 10^th Communications and Networking Symposium (CNS'07), Norfolk, VA, March 25-29, 2007.
• Utilization and SLO-Based Control for Dynamic Sizing of Resource Partitions, Proceedings of the 16^th IFIP/IEEE Distributed Systems: Operations and Management, Barcelona, Spain, Oct. 24-26, 2005
• Adaptive Entitlement Control of Resource Containers on Shared Servers, Proceedings of the 9^th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management, Nice, France, May 15-19, 2005.
• Online Web Cluster Capacity Estimation and its Application to Energy Conservation,  Proceedings of the 9^th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management, Nice, France, May 15-19, 2005.
• Quartermaster—A Resource Utility System, Proceedings of the 9^th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management, Nice, France, May 15-19, 2005
• Policy-Based Resource Assignment in Utility Computing Environments, Proceedings of the 15^th IFIP/IEEE Distributed Systems: Operations and Management, Davis, CA, Nov. 15-17, 2004.
• Using Object-Oriented Constraint Satisfaction for Automated Configuration Generation, Proceedings of the 15^th IFIP/IEEE Distributed Systems: Operations and Management, Davis, CA, Nov. 15-17, 2004.
• Automated Generation of Resource Configurations through Policy, Policy-2004, New York, June 7-9, 2004
• Automated Policy-Based Resource Construction in Utility Environments Proceedings of the IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium, Seoul, Korea, Apr. 19-23, 2004.
• Web2K: Bringing QoS to Web Servers, HP Labs Technical Report
• SLA Management in Federated Environments, Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE/IFIP International Symposium on Integrated Network Management, Boston, MA, May 24-28, 1999. Also in "Computer Networks" special issue on Network Management, Volume 35, No. 1, 2001.
• Optimal Resource Assignment in Internet Data Centers, Proceedings of the Ninth International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS 2001), pp. 61-69, Cincinnati, OH, August 15-18, 2001.

• Adaptation of the MPEG Video Coding Algorithm to Network Applications, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 3, No. 4, pp. 261-269, Aug, 1993.
• Interframe Video Coding using Overlapped Motion Compensation and Perfect Reconstruction Filter Banks, Proc. Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, San Francisco, CA March 23-26, 1992, Vol IV, pp. 649-652.
• Source Coding of Speech and Video Signals, Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol 78, no. 7, pp. 1233-1249, July 1990.
• Training Feedforward Networks with the Extended Kalman Algorithm, Proc. Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Glasgow, Scotland, May 23-26, 1989, pp. 1187-1190.
• Amplitude Optimization and Pitch Prediction in Multi-pulse Coders, IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Volume 37 no 3, March 1989

1. U.S. Patent 7,426,502: “Assessing Health of a Subsystem or Service Within a Networked System,” Sept. 16, 2008
2. U.S. Patent 7,350,206: “Method to Reduce Provisioning Time in Shared Storage Systems by Pre-Emptive Copying of Images,” March 25, 2008.
3. U.S. Patent 7,313,101: “Need-based Filtering for Rapid Selection of Devices in a Tree Topology Network,” Dec. 25, 2007
4. U.S. Patent 7,310,673:  “Network Resource Assignment System and Method,” December 18, 2007
5. U.S. Patent 7,310,343: “System and Methods for Rapid Selection of Devices in a Tree Topology Network,” December 18, 2007
6. U.S. Patent 7,197,564: “An Adaptive Admission Control System for a Server Application System,” March 27, 2007
7. U.S. Patent 7,117,263: “Apparatus and Method for Processing Requests from an External Queue in a TCP/IP-based Application System” Oct. 3, 2006
8. U.S. Patent 7,117,169: “Method for Coupling an Order System to the Management System in a Data Center Environment”, Oct. 3, 2006
9. U.S. Patent 7,020,145: “Network Topology Manager,” March 28, 2006
10. U.S. Patent 7,013,462: “Method to Map an Inventory Management System to a Configuration Management System”, March 14, 2006
11. U.S. Patent 6,842,749: Method to use the Internet for the Assembly of Parts, Jan 11, 2005
12. U.S. Patent 6,742,016: Request Acceptor for a Network Application System and a Method Thereof, May 2004.
13. U.S. Patent 6,701,342: Method and apparatus for processing quality of service measurement data to assess a degree of compliance of internet services with service level agreements March 3, 2004.
14. US Patent 6,304,892: A Management System for Selective Data Exchanges across Federated Environments Oct. 16, 2001.
15. U.S. Patent 5,930,700: System and Method for Automatically Screening and Directing Incoming Calls, July 27, 1999 (With D. J. Pepper and E. S. Soper).
16. U.S. Patent 5,333,012: Motion Compensating Coder Employing an Image Coding Control Method, July 1994.
17. U.S. Patent 5,311,310: High Efficiency Coder and Method Employing Overlapped Motion Compensation and Perfect Reconstruction Filter Banks, May 1994.
18. U.S. Patent 4,603,408: Synthesis of Arbitrary Broadband Signals for a Parametric Array, July 1986.