Sumit Roy

I am currently a Lead Software Engineer at Rhythm NewMedia. I have contributed to the video streaming platform, performance testing infrastructure, automated functional testing, and most recently, iPhone client development for the vSNAX app.

From 2000 - mid 2005 I worked at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, initially as a Research Scientist in the Workstation Performance Group and later on as a Senior Research Scientist in the Streaming Media Systems Group. Prior to that, I was an Assistant Professor (Research) with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Wayne State University, affiliated with the Parallel and Distributed Computing Laboratory.

I also spent a couple of exciting years as a wireline engineer for Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.. I was the Field Engineer on the Ed Holt. More details are available in my resume.

I received my B.Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in 1991, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Engineering from Wayne State University, in 1996 and 1998 respectively.

I have explored different technological areas, including (in reverse chronological order):

• Streaming Media Servers
• Media Distribution and Caching Systems
• Handheld Devices
• Microprocessor Performance Measurement Tools
• Memory Compression
• Distributed Shared Memory Systems
• Parallelizing Compilers and Runtime Systems
• High Performance Networking
• Resource Allocation in Multiprocessor Systems

I am a co-inventor on the following patents (pending):

1. 7,266,099 Method for hand-off of a data session.
2. 7,200,402 Method for handing off streaming media sessions between wireless base stations in a mobile streaming media system.
3. 7,003,646 Efficiency in a memory management system.
4. 6,996,618 Method for handing off multiple description streaming media sessions between servers in fixed and mobile streaming media systems.
5. 6,941,378 Method for assigning a streaming media session to a server in fixed and mobile streaming media systems.
6. 6,857,047 Memory compression for computer systems.
7. 6,757,735 Method for distributing multiple description streams on servers in fixed and mobile streaming media systems.
8. 6,654,867 Method and system to pre-fetch compressed memory blocks using pointers.
9. 6,516,397 Virtual memory system utilizing data compression implemented through a device.

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