My PhD Project and research interests

PhD Project

PhD project completed. Details of my PhD project can be found here.

Research Interests

Trust and reputation management

Web Services selection, composition, quality of service

Explanations, reasoning and rationale

Service oriented architectures, services computing

Data and knowledge provenance

Awards

Google 2006 Australia Anita Borg Scholarship

PhD Scholarships: MIPRS (Monash International Postgraduate Research Scholarship) and FITRS (Faculty of Information Technology Research Scholarship), Monash University, Australia.

National academic excellence awards for outstanding academic achievement in Bachelor of Computer Engineering:

The Mahendra Vidhya Bhushan from His Majesty the King of Nepal in February 2005, and

The Aishwarya Vidhya Padak from Her Majesty the Queen of Nepal in November 2004   

Professional Activities

Journal Peer Reviewer: Service Oriented Computing and Applications, Springer-Verlag, 2008.

Conference Program Committee Member:

ACM SAC 2009, ACM SAC 2007 : Trust, Recommendations, Evidence and other Collaboration Know-how (TRECK) track , March 2009, March 2007

External Reviewer: HICSS-42, Decision Technologies and Service Sciences - The Service Oriented Enterprise track, January 2009

Teaching Assistantships

Mobile Software Agents (CPE5010), semester 2, 2008.

Distributed Database Systems (CSE5200), semester 2, 2008.

Database (FIT1004), semester 2, 2008.

Intelligent Software Systems (CSE5610), semester 1, 2006.

Object-Oriented Software Engineering (CSE2305), semester 2, 2005.

Short Projects

UMS Capabilities Demonstration- CoolCampus Summer Project 2004-2005.

Memberships

Associate member of ARC Research Network on Enterprise Information Infrastructure (EII)