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Sachin Kadloor
507 East White Street
Apt. No. 7
Champaign, IL 61820
Ph.: +1 (217) 418 9041
Email: kadloor1@illinois.edu
http://www.ifp.illinois.edu/~kadloor1
Education
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, USA
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering
Advisor: Prof. Negar Kiyavash
September 2009 - August 2013(expected)
Major CGPA: 4.0/4.0, 3.84/4.0 Overall
University of Toronto, Canada
Master of Applied Science, Electrical Engineering September 2007 - August 2009
Advisor: Prof. Raviraj Adve CGPA: 4.0/4.0
Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India
BTech., Electrical Engineering August 2003 - July 2007
Major CGPA: 8.77/10.0, 8.56/10.0 Overall
Experience Research assistant September 2009 - present
Coordinated Sciences Lab (CSL), UIUC.
Advisor: Prof. Negar Kiyavash
Worked on the design of scheduling policies with privacy constraints. Traditionally, a
scheduling policy is evaluated on the metrics of throughput, delay and fairness. When
used in a multi-user environment, one also has to consider the associated privacy.
Research intern May-August 2010
CCS-3 Information Sciences group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM.
Mentor: Dr. Nandakishore Santhi
Used tools from percolation theory to study the cascading failure effect in power grids.
Research assistant September 2007 - August 2009
Mobile Computing Lab, University of Toronto.
Advisor: Prof. Raviraj Adve
Worked on relay selection and power allocation for cellular networks. Solved an NP hard
integer programming problem approximately by a convex relaxation.
Teaching assistant
• GE424: State Space Design for Control, UIUC. Fall 2010
Duties included grading and occasional teaching.
• ECE110: Electrical Fundamentals, UofT. Spring 2008, 2009
Lab demonstration, supervision, assisting students with debugging their circuits
and grading.
Summer intern May - July 2006
Ittiam Systems, Bangalore, India.
Designed and implemented a multimedia caching scheme for a network media player.
Book Chapter
Journal
publications
S. Kadloor and N. Kiyavash, “Exploiting Timing Side Channels in Shared Schedulers,” High Performance
Semantic Cloud Auditing, Springer (under publication).
S. Kadloor and N. Kiyavash, “Quantifying the Privacy Associated with Delay-Optimal Scheduling Policies,”
in preparation for submission to IEEE Transactions on Networking.
S. Kadloor, N. Kiyavash, and P. Venkitasubramaniam, “Mitigating Side Channels in Shared Schedulers,”
under review, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Networking, 2012.

S. Kadloor, X. Gong, N. Kiyavash and P. Venkitasubramaniam, “Designing Router Scheduling Policies:
A Privacy Perspective,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2011.
S. K. Gorantla, S. Kadloor, N. Kiyavash, T. P. Coleman, I. S. Moskowitz, and M. H. Kang, “Characterizing
the Efficacy of the NRL Network Pump in Mitigating Covert Timing Channels,” Transactions
on Information Forensics and Security, 2011.
S. Kadloor, R. Adve and A. W. Eckford, “Molecular Communication Using Brownian Motion with
Drift,” IEEE Transactions on Nano-Bio Science, 2011.
S. Kadloor and R. Adve, “Relay assignment and power allocation in selection based cooperative cellular
networks,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2010.
Conference
publications
Honors and
awards
Coursework
S. Kadloor and N. Kiyavash, “Remote correlation based network flow linking,” submitted to ACM
Workshop on Information Hiding and Multimedia Security (IHMMSEC) 2013.
S. Kadloor and N. Kiyavash, “Delay Optimal Policies Offer Very Little Privacy,” accepted for publication
in IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (Infocom) 2013.
S. Kadloor, P. Venkitasubramaniam, N. Kiyavash and A. Mishra, “A Statistical Inference Perspective
on Preventing Timing Analysis in Networks,” accepted for publication in IEEE Signal Processing
Magazine - Special Issue on Signal Processing for Cyber-security and Privacy 2012.
S. Kadloor, N. Kiyavash, and P. Venkitasubramaniam, “Quantifying the Delay-Privacy Trade-off in
the Design of Scheduling Policies,” Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers 2012
(invited).
S. Kadloor, N. Kiyavash, and P. Venkitasubramaniam, “Scheduling with Privacy Constraints,” Information
Theory Workshop (ITW) 2012 (invited).
S. Kadloor, N. Kiyavash, and P. Venkitasubramaniam, “Mitigating Timing based Information Leakage
in Shared Schedulers,” IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (Infocom) 2012.
S. Kadloor, X. Gong, N. Kiyavash and P. Venkitasubramaniam, “Designing Privacy Preserving Router
Scheduling Policies,” Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS) 2011.
S. K. Gorantla, S. Kadloor, T. P. Coleman, N. Kiyavash, I. S. Moskowitz, and M. H. Kang, “Directed
Information and the NRL Network Pump,” International Symposium on Information Theory and Applications,
2010.
S. Kadloor, X. Gong, N. Kiyavash, T. Tezcan and N. Borisov, “A Low-Cost Side Channel Traffic Analysis
Attack in Packet Networks,” International Conference on Communication 2010, Communication
and Information System Security Symposium.
S. Kadloor and R. Adve, “A Framework to Study the Molecular Communication System,” ICCCN
2009, Workshop on Nano, Molecular, and Quantum Communications.
S. Kadloor and R. Adve, “Optimal relay assignment and power allocation in selection based cooperative
cellular networks,” International Conference on Communication 2009, Wireless Communications
Symposium.
University of Toronto fellowship for graduate studies, 2007-09.
Pratibha scholarship awarded by the government of Andhra Pradesh for the entire duration of
undergraduate studies, 2003-07.
Information Trust Institutes travel scholarship awarded by UIUC to attend CCS 2010.
Student Travel Grant awarded by National Science Foundation (NSF) to attend INFOCOM 2013.
ECE courses: Stochastic Processes, Information Theory, Communication Network Analysis, Queuing
Theory, Game Theory, Stochastic Control, Analysis and Control of Stochastic Systems, Wireless
Communication, Error Control Coding, Convex Optimization, Digital Communication, Adaptive Systems
for Signal Processing and Communication, Information Theory for Operations Research, Digital
Signal Processing

CS courses: Computer Networks, Advanced Computer Networks, Introduction to Artificial Intelligence,
Computer Security 1, Data Structures, Fundamental Algorithms
Math courses: Real Analysis 1, Probability Theory 1, Probability Theory 2
Software skills
C, C++, Python, Matlab, ns-2
Projects TCP Pacing October-December 2010
An alternative to the TCP congestion control mechanism, an adaptive TCP pacing mechanism,
was proposed and was shown to outperform the former in a data-center setting by
speeding up the slowest flows.
Quantifying Information Leakage in a Multi-Layer-Security System September 2010-April
2011
Modeled the working of the NRL Network Pump, a standard for mitigating covert channels
that arise in a multi-level secure (MLS) system, as a communication system with feedback
and used then this novel perspective to derive an upper bound on the rate of the covert
channel created therein.
Molecular Communication December 2008 - June 2009
Modeled a molecular communication channel and studied the information-theoretic limits
of the achievable rates. Molecular communication is the communication between nanomachines
wherein messages are transmitted by releasing a pattern of molecules at a
transmitter, which propagate through a fluid medium towards a receiver.
Projects related to machine learning February - April 2010
Used Naive Bayes classifier, decision tree and perceptron to predict the grades of students
of a class based on their performance in a subset of exams. A Supervised learning
algorithm using hidden Markov models (HMMs), and an unsupervised one using Baunm-Welsch
forward-backward algorithm were used for part-of-speech tagging. Designed a bot capable
of playing the game Othello.
Study of face recognition algorithms October - December 2007
Four dimentionality reduction and clustering algorithms, PCA, D-LDA, F-LDA and R-LDA,
were implemented to be used for face recognition.
B.Tech project January 2007 - May 2007
A FDE-DFE (Frequency Domain Equalizer - Decision Feedback Equalizer) was implemented and
its effectiveness in combating multi-path fading when used in EDGE systems was studied
through simulations.
Implemented a speech independent speaker recognition system September - October 2006
Demonstrated the construction and working of a speaker recognition system at a workshop
conducted at IIT Madras. Mel-frequency cepstral coefficients were extracted from the
speech signal and were used as features in a HMM.
Designed and built an electronic accounting machine May - July 2005
Interfaced a micro-controller (8051) with a keypad, LCD, RAM, and programmed it to store
students’ accounts in the library. The circuit was fabricated on a custom built PCB.
Other Activities
Reviewer for journals: IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics, IEEE Transactions on Wireless
Communications, IEEE Journal on Special Topics in Communications, Elsevier System and Control
Letters
Reviewer for conferences: IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing
(ICASSP), IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), IEEE International Conference
on Communications (ICC)
Dog socializer at Champaign County Humane Society (CCHS)