Manish Kumar Mohanlal Email: manish@cs.ucsb.

edu
6689 El Colegio Road Contact: +1 512-994-9516
Apt. 121, Goleta, CA 93117 http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~manish
Education
University of California, Santa Barbara September 2011 – December 2012
MS in Computer Science (expected)
CGPA: 3.97/4
PES Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India August 2007 – May 2011
BE in Computer Science
CGPA: 9.49/10
Relevant Coursework: Scalable Internet Services, Advanced Database Systems, Advanced Computer Networks, Advanced Operating
Systems, Cryptography, Data Structures and Algorithms, Modern Programming Language Implementations.
Technical Skills
 Programming Languages: Java, Python, Ruby, C, C++
 Web Technologies: Ruby on Rails, JavaServer Faces, JavaScript, Backbone.js, Ajax
 Databases: MongoDB, LevelDB, Berkeley DB, MySQL, Oracle
 Testing Frameworks: Mocha, Selenium
 Big Data: Hadoop MapReduce
Research Publications
 Gang Wang, Manish Mohanlal, Christo Wilson, Xiao Wang, Miriam Metzger, Haitao Zheng and Ben Y. Zhao, Social Turing Tests:
Crowdsourcing Sybil Detection, In Proceeding of The 20th Annual Network & Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), San Diego,
CA, February 2013 (18% acceptance rate).
 Gang Wang, Christo Wilson, Xiaohan Zhao, Yibo Zhu, Manish Mohanlal, Haitao Zheng and Ben Y. Zhao, Serf and Turf:
Crowdturfing for Fun and Profit. In Proceedings of The 21st International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), Lyon, France, April 2012
(12% acceptance rate).
Research Projects
Sybil Detection using Crowd-sourcing January 2012 to May 2012
 Worked on Sybil (fake accounts in social networks) detection system using crowdsourcing.
 Conducted large user-study to evaluate human ability to identify fake accounts.
 Proposed an accurate and scalable system that combines human intelligence with automated tools for Sybil detection.
Uncover the Evil Online Crowd-sourcing Systems September 2011 to December 2011
 Study and measure evil crowd-sourcing systems where internet users are organized to perform malicious tasks such as creating and
spreading spam in social networks, posting fake reviews, fake account registration, etc.
 In the proceedings of WWW2012 Conference.
Academic Projects
Mixed Consistency Model in NoSQL Datastore
 Idea is to execute strong consistent writes in an environment where majority follows eventual consistency.
 Developed a wrapper on top of LevelDB that allows consistency level(strong or eventual) to be determined on a per request basis.
 Learnt and used RabbitMQ messaging service and Zookeeper’s distributed locking service.
Scalable Web Application: BookSmart
 Developed a platform to buy/sell/rent book on peer-to-peer model, with live comparison of Amazon price for the same.
 Learnt various scalability and optimization techniques for web based application.
 Allowing a provision to refine book search based on the proximity to book owner using Google Maps API.
All Pair Document Similarity Search
 Learnt Hadoop MapReduce framework to process large scale data.
 Computed all pair document similarity score using scoring models used by search engine and evaluated using clustering techniques.
Encrypted File System on Key-value store
 Developed an encrypted file system in user space on top of Berkeley DB – embedded database for key-value data.
 Learnt about file system design and implementation, encryption techniques.
Search and Archival Service for Online Social Networks
 Web service that allows users to backup and search their content from various social networks like Twitter, Facebook, Google+.
 Learnt about working with different social network API’s and using Sphinx – an open source search engine.
Work Experience
Software Engineering Intern, Appfolio Inc., Goleta, California June 2012 to September 2012
 Part of the development team of Appfolio SecureDocs: Secure virtual data rooms for corporate archiving.
 Implemented support for two factor authentication for international users with Telesign as carrier.
 Technologies learnt include Ruby on Rails, MongoDB, Test driven development with unit, functional and selenium testing.
Software Intern, Goldman Sachs, Bangalore, India February 2011 to July 2011
 Developed an application to keep track of the server orders placed across organization using JavsServerFaces.