Pratyush Agnihotri

Short Introduction

Pratyush Agnihotri joined the Master's course in Computer Science at TU Darmstadt in 2013. In his master's thesis work, he proposed and developed a decentralized crowd-sensing data collection framework using Information-Centric Networking (ICN) concepts to deal with post-disaster challenges in communication. The thesis was done in joint collaboration with Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael Zink, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA. After his graduation, he worked as a software developer at Axxessio GmbH, Darmstadt, in the application and research areas of the Internet of Things (IoT), Smart City, and Voice assistant. Since June 2021, he has been working as a Research Scientist at the Multimedia Communication Lab and primarily associated with the  C2 subproject of DFG MAKI.

Research Interests

• Distributed Parallel Stream Processing
• Distributed Machine Learning 
• Autonomous Resource Management
• Information-centric networking
• Software-defined networking

Current Projects

DFG: Collaborative Research Center 1053 MAKI: I am working as a Researcher for MAKI Subproject C2, which explores transitions in communication systems from an information-centric view. A central paradigm for information processing is event-based systems (EBS), which model the information flow as streams of events and help recognize certain patterns over the event streams at runtime. The goal of C2 is to explore methods for transition-based adaptation of event-processing systems and thereby achieve a significant increase in the quality of service under dynamically varying conditions.

Parrot:  Privacy Engineering for Real-Time Analytics in Human-Centered Internet of Things: I am working as an Associated Researcher for the Parrot project, which is a collaborative research between the University of Oslo (Norway) and the Technical University of Darmstadt (Germany) funded by the Research Council of Norway (2020 – 2023). The aim of this project is to find user-centric methods for real-time privacy protection for stream processing applications.

Open Thesis/HiWi

I am looking for motivated students who are interested in working on cutting-edge technologies and IoT applications. If you are interested in writing a Bachelor's or Master's Thesis or gaining experience in a MAKI project as a HiWi, please feel free to contact me. Send your CV and Transcript or TUCaN grade list to my email address. Check open theses here. 

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