P. Oscar Boykin
Assistant Professor

 

Education:

PhD, Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, 2002
MS, Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, 1998
BS, Math, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1996
BS, Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1996

Contact Information:

Email: boykin@ece.ufl.edu
Phone: 352-392-9752
Office: 337 Larsen
Homepage: www.pobox.com/~boykin

Program Affiliation:

Area:  Computer Engineering
Lab:  Advanced Computing and Information Systems

Fields of Interest:

• Nanocomputing
• Quantum Computing
• Quantum Communication
• Quantum Cryptography
• Neural Coding
• Peer-to-peer Networking
• Large Scale Networks

Employment:

2004 - Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Florida
2002 - Postdoctoral Fellow, Electrical Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles

Refereed Journals in the Last 3 Years:

2008
Wolfgang Mueller, P. Oscar Boykin, Vwani P. Roychowdhury, Nima Sarshar, \Comparison Of Image Similarity Queries In P2P Systems", Computer Communications, Vol. 31, No. 2, pages 375{386, 2008.

2007
P. O. Boykin, M. Sitharam, P. H. Tiep, P. Wocjan, \Mutually Unbiased Bases And Orthogonal De-compositions Of Lie Algebras", Quantum Information and Computation, Vol. 7, No. 4, pages 371{382, 2007. arxiv.org:quant-ph/0506089

A. Ganguly, A. Agrawal, P. O. Boykin, R. J. Figueiredo, “Wow: Self-Organizing Wide Area Overlay Networks Of Virtual Workstations”, Journal of Grid Computing 2007.

Behnam A. Rezaei, Nima Sarshar, Vwani P. Roychowdhury, P. Oscar Boykin, “Disaster Management In Power-Law Networks: Recovery From And Protection Against Intentional Attacks”, Physica A 2007. arxiv.org:cond-mat/0504185

Contracts and Grants:

• SURA/ONR, "The SURA Coastal Ocean Observing and Prediction Program"

Honors and Awards:

2008 - Best Paper Award: HPDC '08: \Improving Peer Connectivity In Wide-Area Overlays Of Virtual Workstations". Joint work with Arijit Ganguly, David I. Wolinsky, Renato J. Figueiredo
2008 - Best Paper Award: WETICE-COPS '08: \Social VPNS: Integrating Overlay And Social Networks For Seamless P2P Networking". Joint work with Renato J. Figueiredo, Pierre St. Juste, David Wolinsky
2004 - Best Paper Award, The Fourth IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computating

Patents

• US Patent # 7,020,284 - "Perceptual encryption and decryption of movies", with Riccardo Boscolo
• Patent Application #20030079222 - "System and method for distributing perceptually encrypted encoded files of music and movies", with Riccardo Boscolo and Jesse Bridgewater, July 2001
• US Patent Application #20020078461 - "Incasting for downloading files on distributed networks", December 2000
• US Patent Application #20020076049 - "Method for distributing perceptually encrypted videos and decrypting them", with Riccardo Boscolo and Walter Edward Johansen III, December 2000