Shrideep Pallickara is one of the very best PhD students that I met at
Syracuse and he has the promise to be one of the leading researchers on an
international scale. He has several good achievements under his belt including
a intenship at IBM where he did work at a high level according to his
supervisor, Dan Sturman who reports Shrideep to be a very strong system
builder. Several of his early Syracuse projects including the image toolkit and his
masters thesis are extremely impressive.

I consider his thesis topic extremely interesting as it studies the message
data and delivery architecture to support world-wide communities. His
network of servers create the "illusion of peer to peer networks". I see
this (and other work in this area) as developing the ideas to be incorporated
into a next generation JMS (Java Message Service).
Shrideep combines several imporant strengths -- he has an excellent mathematical
background and can program skilfully. He is ambitious and wants to work
on important areas. He is thoughtful and hardworking.
I strongly recmmend Shrideep to IBM. I think he fits your interests well
-- both in research area and research style -- combining good ideas with
projects that could be products

Geoffrey Fox
Eppes Professor of Computer Science