Pramod Kulkarni is currently an undergraduate student (Class of 2010) in The Applied Software Systems Laboratory in the Center for Autonomic Computing at the Rutgers University Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He received the Rutgers Academic Excellence Award for being in the top 10% of Rutgers undergraduates, and is a recipient of the Department of Defense SMART Scholarship.
Pramod has worked on application and middleware layer power management in parallel computing environments for high performance computing workloads. His research interests are in the field of autonomic computing and include parallel and distributed systems, networks, and cloud computing. He is also interested in agent-based biologically inspired autonomic computing techniques, such as swarm intelligence.