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Kirill Kogan
E-Mail:kirill.kogan@gmail.com
Date of Birth: 8 July 1973
Place of Birth: Zhitomir, USSR
Citizenship: Israeli
Marital Status: Married
Languages: English, Hebrew, Russian
Military Service: 1996 - 1998, IDF


Interests:
Swiitch/Roter Architecture, Packet classification, QoS, Load Balancing and Scheduling,
services.


Interested Position:
Researcher, System Architect, Manager SW development

Education:
Now Ph.D in CSE department, Ben Gurion University,
Under supervision of Dr. Michael Segal
Thesis topic:
“Scheduling in Network Elements”.

2002
M.Sc. in Computer Science,
Ben Gurion University, under the supervision of Prof.
Yefim Dinitz.
Thesis topic: "Efficient listing of cuts with bounded cardinality, based on the
3-component representation."

1998 Army Service in IDF

1996
B.Sc.
Mathematics and Computer Science, Ben Gurion University.



Industrial Experience:
Cisco Systems 2000-now:

Position: Senior Software Eng II.
2007-now Cisco Systems Israel
Security and Services Group:
Design and Implementation of SSL Gateway on CISCO c12000 platform.

Position: Senior Sowtware Eng II.
2006 - 2007  Cisco Systems Israel,
Firewall group:
Design and Implementation of Firewall on CISCO c12000
platform.

Position: Senior Sowtware Eng.
2004 - 2005  Cisco Systems Israel,
Security group:
design and implementation of IPsec support on CISCO c12000
platform.

2002 - 2004 Cisco Systems Israel,
QoS Group:
Position: Senior Sowtware Software Engineer. 
Data path and QoS implementation on MOD48 E3 LC and
E5 LC.

2000 - 2002 Cisco Systems Israel,
QoS Group:
Position: Sowtware Engineer. 
Data path and QoS implementation on ATM E3 LC for c1200 platform.

As the technology leader of the group, I led most aspects of the development
cycle including design/analysis of the various SW elements.
Planning of the system architecture, design of algorithms
and their implementation to production.
Some of them were patented by CISCO.
 
My responsibilities cover:
(1) An integrated functional and SW architecture/design.
(3) Lead design of different models and services.
(4) Participate in SW design/Architecture and implementation of three LCs on C1200:
ATM E3 LC, OC48 (Pinnacle) and modular service edge E3 LC, OC48 (mod48)
and E5, OC192. Currently architect of SSL gateway on cisco c12000 router.
(5) I was also involved in the design
of the next generation CISCO network processor.
(6) Participated/Initiated writing of System and Software designs specs.
(7) Participate in patent process.
(8) Publications in journal and conferences.



1999 - 2000: Allot Communication,
Position: Software Engineer.
I took part in the design and implementation
fast classifications scheme for the corresponding products.
One of them was patented by Allot.

Skills and Tools:

Operating Systems: Windows 2000/XP, Unix, Linux.
Programming Languages:
C, C++, Shell scripts, Matlab, Scheme, Pascal, Prolog.

Development: GNU Tools
Version Control: Clear Case.
Traffic Generators: Ixia, Agilent.

Network Technologies: Routing, Switching, QoS,
VPNs, Firewalls, LANs, WANs.

Network Protocols:
TCP, UDP, ICMP, IGMP;
IPv4/v6, NAT;
RIP, OSPF, EIGRP, IS-IS, BGP, PIM;
MPLS, RSVP, LDP;
RTP, SIP, H.323;
DNS, FTP, HTTP;
IPsec/IKE, SSH, SSL, HTTPS;
DHCP, VLAN, Ethernet; ATM.
Structured/Unstructured Peer to Peer;
Chord, CAN, Tapestry, Pastry, etc.


Patents:

1. "Method for Filter Selection and Array Matching,"
Patent App. No.20040177150
(filed December 24, 2003, Allot Communications Ltd.).

2. "Combined interface and non-interface specific associative memory 
lookup operations for processing of packets,"
Patent App. No. 20060239258
(filed October 26, 2006, Cisco Systems)

3. "Non-Preemptive Scheduling in Network Elements"
Patent App. No. 20060115267
(filed June 1, 2006, Cisco Systems)



Publications:

Conference Papers:

Alexander Kesselman and Kirill Kogan,
"Non-Preemptive Scheduling of Optical Switches",
Proceedings of The 2004 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference
(Globecom'04).

Alex Kesselman, Kirill Kogan, Sergey Nemzer and Michael Segal,
"Space and Speed Tradeoffs in TCAM Hierarchical Classifications",
accepted to IEEE Sarnoff Symposium 2008.

Alex Kesselman, Kirill Kogan and Michael Segal,
"Best Effort and Priority Queuing Policies for Buffered Crossbar Switches",
accepted to SIROCCO 2008

Alex Kesselman, Kirill Kogan and Michael Segal,
"Packet Mode and QoS Algorithms for Buffered Crossbar Switches with FIFO Queueing",
accepted to ACM PODC 2008

Alex Kesselman, Kirill Kogan and Michael Segal,
"Improved Competitive Performance Bounds for CIOQ Switches"
submitted to ESA 2008


Journal Papers:

Alexander Kesselman and Kirill Kogan,
"Non-Preemptive Scheduling for Optical Switches",
published in June 2007, IEEE Transactions on Communications.

References:
Could be provided upon request.