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Esam A. Sharafuddin, Ph.D.
Science Advisor
easharafuddin@rkmc.com
612.349.8500
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Minneapolis
800 LaSalle Avenue
2800 LaSalle Plaza
Minneapolis, MN 55402-2015
Practice Areas
Science Advisors
Intellectual Property Litigation
Education
University of Minnesota, Ph.D. in Computer Science (2011)
University of Minnesota, M.S. in Computer Science (2001)
Grinnell College, B.A. in Computer Science (1995)
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Arabic
German
Professional Associations
The Internet Society
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE)
Experience
Assists attorneys in patent litigation involving computing technologies and a variety of other scientific and engineering fields.
Conducts infringement, validity, and claim construction analysis for patent litigation.
Experienced in the areas of computer system design and implementation; computer programming, Internet technologies and computer networking.
Research Assistant at the University of Minnesota (2006-2011)
Senior Software Architect, SeTech LLC (2005-2006)
Software Developer, Veritas Software (now Symantec) (2001-2005)
Technology Assistant, University of Minnesota, Computational Biology Centers (2000-2001)
Information Manager and System Analyst, United Nations in Yemen (1997-1999)
Publications and Speeches
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Publications
Block-Level Network Behavior Profiling and Tracking
Technical Report, University of Minnesota (June 6, 2011)
Sifting through Network Data to Cull Activity Patterns with HEAPs
in Proc. of the 30th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems - ICDCS2010, Genoa, Italy (June 21-25, 2010)
HOSPITAL: Host and NetwOrk System Profiler and Internet Traffic AnaLyzer
IEEE Global Communication Conference (Globecom ’10) Workshop on Complex and Communication Networks (CCNet 2010), Miami, Florida
Know Your Enemy, Know Yourself: Block-Level Network Behavior Profiling and Tracking
IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom '10), Miami, Florida
Unveiling Core Network-Wide Communication Patterns through Application Traffic Activity Graph Decomposition
SIGMETRICS 2009, Seattle, Washington (June 15-19, 2009)
Identifying Dynamic IP Address Blocks Serendipitously Through Background Scanning
in Proceedings of the 3rd Annual CoNEXT Conference, New York, New York
Speeches
IEE Globecom 2010
Florida (December 6-10, 2010)
ACM SIGMETRICS 2010
New York (June 14-18, 2010)
ACM SIGMETRICS 2009
Seattle, Washington (June 15-19, 2009)
Digital Technology Initiative (DTI)
University of Minnesota (2008)
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) on Data Mining
University of Minnesota (2007)
Global Environment on Network Innovations (GENI)
University of Minnesota (2007)
Protection from Practice Perils (Security and Backup Issues)
Wisconsin Law & Technology Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (November 2005)